The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-01-12
IN RAnpA'S HANDS
MAJORITY OF ALL MEMBERS
ELECT GIVE HIM THEIR
VOTES
OPPOSITION IS DEFIANT.
kURTZ AND HIS ALLIES WILL, NOT
ADMIT THAT FHEY1ARE
BEATEN.
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the senators and representatives are
then recorded on thesJoint ballot, as
they were recorded today 'en their re-
spective ballots, Senator Hanna Will
have a majority Of only one over all.
But, IN the absence of Representative
Cramer and by some of the Democrats
refusing to, vote for Mayor McKisson.
ne is likely to have larger majority
Oh record on the journal Of the Joint
convention JIM
win the result apparently hanging
on the change of only one vote the
contest has continued all night, the
same as it has been going on othyr
lighls Tor the past two weeks. Tha
f fo,. et S RepupiIGans who refused to vote
signed statements that burn The bride,o
es behind them. Senator Burke ana
iteP[ssentattYes Scott, Mason, Jones
md Rutan say they will vote for Han
ma II the Otis charges are proven IN
be untrue. Representatives Otis and
Bramley. simply sign a codiciI to the
statement OF the other five, which thew
concur H. asking for an Investigation
s ul tNey state that they will not vote
Tor senator Hanna under any circum
stances. 0-- = = III
oh w ME the bureaus of claims ana
charges are in f..i operation on h~
-c-os tonight, as usual th~ra ~ I'm In
reports about the h-,,oery cbarees I us
~ Rresente6 to the grand i1I,,, oe
haInliton county and of Erap1,,t,,
county. The grand jurors are IN Sas1
@'op N both of these counties. and tbera
are current Seports tonight of efforts
to secure indictments before tornorroyv
morning. If Representative Otis claims
10 have been offered a bride at his
be brought only before the grand Jury
OIL Hamilton county, and it would be
necessary for Representative Otis to
be there as witness Mr.. Otis and
others, who would be wanted as wit
hesses in that case, are here tonight
ana 1t Is not thought to be probable
that MI Otis would be absent tomor
Wv. II the vote Is cast tomorrow az
IL was cast today, the absence of Mr.
OTIS and others opposed to Hanna
would have no effect on the result
Olhers talk Of filibustering, but the
opposition could not break a Joint quo
rum II all their members should re-
man away. The other case of alleged
bribery comes from the other side
representative Snyder Of Green coun-
~ VINO mad been stopping at the Neil
mousse during the past week, voted to-
Gay Tor Hanna, for BoxWell for sneak
er last Monday 81 week ago and AZ
tended the Republican house caucus
one week ago last Saturday. The on
ponentS of Senator Hanna have been
after him closely and constantly. II
Is alleged that Mr. Madkey came tn
the Neil house last week to see Mr.
snyder ana that he claimed to repre-
sent hurtZ and Bliss. Representative
snyder had anticipated the visit and a
stenographer was concealed in the
Dath room adjoining his apartments.
1T is charged that Mr.. Snyder was Of
lered $4,000 for his vote and that the
names of his hackers were given bv
the caller. The stenographic renort nf
the conversation between Snyder and
Madkey is In the hands of Hon. G.. G.
Rathbone, who was assistant post
master general under Harrison, and
VINO is here as one of the managers
for Hanna. 1t has been reported for
several days that this case was be-
fore the grand jury Of Franklin coun-
W, Dut when that body closed its
work this evening it was unoficiaIlv
stated that neither the Madkey case
nor any other case connected with the
senatorial contest was before that
body. While it is not likely that any
Indictment will be made yet, it is quite
probable that there will be an attempt
IN the legislature tomorrow for a dra-
matte scene on the charges of bribery.
The opposition is charging the Hanna
men tonight with voting down the mo-,
lions and the resolutions today for an
investigation Of the bribery charges
made by Representative Otis. The
Hanna men say they will give the full
est consideration to this investigation
at the proper time, but that the pur
pose OF these charges nowsis to stanv
pede the legislature on the balloting
for senator and that such a scheme
cannot be carried through Some Of
the Hanna men also state that at the
proper time they will reorganize the
house as the vote Of today showed that
they had majority of three over all
in that body.
Speaker Mason. OF the house, tonight
gave out the following:
To the Public: The principal reason wbv
l have been opposed to Mr.. Hanna is because
OF the fact that two years ago. when the
ffty-year franchise bill was before the legis-
lature, I was approached byIa man from
Cleveland who was lobbying in the interest of
that bill. He offered bribe of 81 900 IL I
would vote for that measure.
AT my conference with Mr.. Hanna last Sat
urday told him that this reason would pre-
vent me from supporting him, because l be-
lieved he knew the street railway of which
he was president was behind the man who
offered the bride, and he himself was on the
ground lobbying in the interest of the bill
Harry C. Mason
The Democratic steering committee of the
fusionists tonight issued the following mani
festo To the Public: Marcus A. Hanna will
not be elected by this legislature.
Col. Jeptha Gerard, of Cincinnati,
who has been spoken of as the candi-
date of the free silver Republicans for
senator, when Informed that Hanna
had received enough votes to elect him.
did not appear surprised, and spoke as
he expected such a result He said:
eft was imDOSSible TO secure tho vote
of the Cincinnati delegation for Nc
Kisson, as his sympathy for silver was
doubted"
Gov Bushnell tonight said: 81 sim
ply desire to repeat the statement
which ] made a day or two since. the
result rests with the members of the
legislature. Whoever they may elect
will receive my cordial support" The
governor again repeated that he had
been misrepresented and misquoted by
certain newspapers He declared that,
in some instances, absolute malicious
ness had been reached
Mayor McKisson, of Cleveland, was
In conference during the evening with
the opposition, and 1t was declared very
emphatically by the leaders that the
fight had not by any means been lost,
and that they would again rally their
forces in the joint ballot tomorrow to
a sufficient degree to WIN the battle.
The Democratic members of the leg
islature held anothems conference to-
night at which Judge Ditty, a member
of the fusion steering committee re-
ported that Kurtz had promised two
more Republican votes on the joint
ballot tomorrow. Notwithstanding this
report, 1t was impossible Ito get the
three Democrats who voted against
McKisson today to PLEDGE themselves