Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1898-01-12

JOINT DdllOU To-Day.
The warfare against Hanna is not
over. Z is having at least one more day
of charges and counter-charges. The
fight has never been more bitter than it
is today. Senator Hanna received 10
votes yesterday, a majority of one over
all III total membership Of 145. The
senate voted 10 for McKisson and II for
Hanna.
The house vote stood: Hanna, So;
McKisson, 10; Wiley, /; Warner, /;
Lentz, /, and one absent.
The only absentee was Representa-
tive CTamer, the Democratic Populist
member frem Paulding county, who is
seriotsly *. He was not in his seat
today E1sar the We was received and
recorded yesterday in each branch of
the legislature separately, a majority of
a quorum or Of those present is all that
is necessary ia the joint balloting to-
day, SO that the serious illness of Rep
resentative CrSmer might become an
important factor.
The scattering vote yesterday for
Lentz, Wiley and Warner was cast by
Representatives Wiley, Hazlett and
Hess, all Democrats. Ii Cramer had
been present and all other Democrats in
line, MckiSson's vote III the house
would have been 50 or still three short
of Il majority in that branch of the leg
islature. With Hanna having ma
jority of three i'll the house, Mckisson
having a majority of two in the senate,
the chair announced today that there
was no election yesterday and that a
Joint ballot was i'll order. AS soon as
at noon, their respective journals of
yesterday were read and the lieutenant
governor made the usual official declara-
ton.
If all the senators and representatives
are recorded on the joint ballot today as
they were recorded on their respective
ballots, Senator Hanna will have ma
jority of only one over all. But i'll the
absence of Representative Cramer and
by some of the Democrats refusing to
vote for Mayor McKisson, he is likely to
have larger majority on record on the
the journal of the joint convention.
With the result apparently hanging on
the change of only one vote, the con-
test has continued the same as it has
I been going ON here for the past two
weeks.
The seven Republicans who refused to
vote for Senator Hanna have since
signed statements that burn the bridges
behind them Senator Burke, Repre-
sentatives Scott, Mason, Jones and
Rutan say they will vote for Hanna if
the Otis charges are proven to be untrue.
Representatives Otis and Brainley, how
ever, simply signed codicil to the state
ment of the other five dissenters, in
which they concur in asking for an in
vestigation, but they state that they will
not vote for Senator Hanna under any
circumstances.
While the bureaus of claims and of
charges are in full operation on both
sides as usual there are also reports
about the bribery charges being pre-
rented to TIE grand jury of Hamilton
county and Of Franklin county The
grand jurors are in session in both of
/ these counties, and there are current re-
ports of efforts to secure indictments to-
day
AS Representative Otis claims to have
been offered bride at his home in Gin
cinnati, that case could be brought only
| before the grand jury of Hamilton
/ county, and it would be necessary for
Representative Otis to be there as wit
ness If the vote is cast today as it was
cast yesterday, the absence of Mr.. Otis
and others opposed to Hanna would
! have no effect ON the result.
There was talk of filibustering but
! the opposition could not break joint
quorum if all their members should re-
main away.
1 The other case of alleged bribery
comes from the other side Reprerenta-
tive Snider of Green county, who has
been stopping at the Neil House during
i the past week, voted for Hanna, for
Bowel for speaker last Monday week
and attended the Republican house eau
Gus one week ago last Saturday. The
opponents of Senator Hanna have been
after him closely and constantly 1t is
alleged that Mr.. Maddey came to the
Neil House last week to see Mr.. Snider
and that he claimed to represent Kurtz
and Bliss Representative Snider had
been anticipating the visit and stenog-
rapher was concealed in the bathroom
adjoining his apartments.
! 1t is charged that Mr.. Snider was Of
fered $4,000 for his vote and that the
names OF his hackers were given by the
caller. The stenographit report of the
conversation between Snider and Mad
dey is i'll the hands of Hon. E. f. Rath.
bone, who was assistant postmaster gen
eral under Harrison and is here as one
of the managers for Hanna. 1t has
been reported for several DAYS that this
case was before the grand Jury of Frank
lin county, but when that body closed
its work last evening it was unofficiallv
stated that neither the Maddey case nor
any other case connected with the SEN
ttorial contest was before that body.
While it is not likely that any indict.