The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-01-13
TIE JOINT SESSION

LIE JUlNl StSSlUN
oftlie Senate and IEonse--hn n Attempt In
the Senate 10 Delay! Preceding, " hich
tFstied-at Trick OF the con,bins-The
Soic In Detail.
COLUMBUS, Ohio. Jan, 1a.--soon, ,at-
ter the senate assembled this morning,
Senator Burke, OF Cleveland, offered
resolution, demanding an investigation
into the charges that .l,75o had been
offered BIZ alleged agents IN the inter-
est OF Senator Hanna for the vote OF
Representative Otis. The resolution
provides for commission OF five, con-
sist!ng CT Senators Burke, Robinson,
Fink. Garfield and Long. Senator Burke
afterward requested to have his name
stricken out and that OF Senator. Sulli-
van was substituted. The committee
thus constituted consisted OF three
Democrats and two Republicans. A
long and bitter discussion followed, led
by Senator Burke for immediate con-
sideration and by Senator Sullivan for
deliberaton and full consideration at
the proper time. During the discussion
1t was charged that consideration of
this resolution had been postponed by
a vote OF So to 80, and that # was q
matter that concerned the house and
not the senate, but that 1t had been
precipitated In the senate where II was
thought It might be adopted byia vote
OF l9.to II. and interfere with the elec-l
tion Of United States senator atG the
hour fixed for that action. ss7
Senator Sullivan raised the point Of
order that the house having passed up
on q similar resolution and defeated It,
the senate had no right 10 take up the
matter. The president refused to en-
Itertain the point and held the; senate
had the right 10 pass upon the resolu-
tion.
Before the vote upon the resolution
could be taken a message was received,
from the. House Of representatives, stat,
ing that that body, was ready 70 vote
upon the question OF electing A. United
States senator. The president held that
further discussion was out Of order, and
the matter was laid over. Il
When the house convened at 10 a. m,
Representative Otis was promptly rec-
osnizcd on question OF privilege. He
made q long statement regarding the
Boyce bribery charges. He said It was
due the house and himself to have an
investigation before proceeding further
IN the election OF United States senator
| and offered a resolution accordingly
y notion to suspend the rules for
| Immediate consideration of the resoiu-
tion the vote, stood So ayes, Sc nays. On
| the motion being declared lost there
were cheers on the Republican side and
| in the galleries. The vote was precisely
the same as all the votes yesterday and
| the two ballots for the short and long
terms for senator. There are 100 mem-
bers OF the house. The fifty-siX Hanna
men always voted solidly. Representa-
| tive ,Cramer was absent and Is still
very sick. The other forty-slT Demo-
cratic members ard the six boiling Re-
| publican representatives voted togeth-
er for an investigation before eiecting
! a senator. Representative Stewart, one
| Of the Eannc. leaders, said there would
come 4 proper time So. the fullest In
vestisation, but this was the time for
| electing senator. He moved to take
Il ~ lCACSo Will ANVIL oUDO5lllUII
moved to amend by recessing for five
minutes. There were calls OF the house,
| demands for ayes and nays on every
| thing, and other dilatory motions, ~tn
which the vote stood &c TO 52, with Cra-
mer absent. The motion for a recess
OF five minutes was defeated, ayes 52,
nays Sc Bramlcy, Mason, Jones, Otis,
Rutaa and Scott always voting with,
the Democrats.
At noon Lieutenant Governor Jones
and the senator's arrived at the bar OF
the house and the hot bribery discus
sion was shut Off. The two bodies went
into Joint convention 10: the election of
4 senator. Lieutenant Governor Jones
warned the crowds that order must be
preserved. or the galleries would be
cleared. The senate Journal of yester-
| day was read, showing nineteen votes
| for Robert e. Mckisson, and seventeen
for Marcus A. Hanna. for both terms.
The house journap OF yesterday was
next read, showing the following vote
for both the short and the long terms:
Hanna &c; McKisson 40; 4. J. Warner
!; 7Aquilla Wiley1; John J..Lentz /. Mr..
Cramer was absent.
Lieutenant Governor Jones then an
nounceds that McKisson was the choice
OF the senate and Hanna OF tho house,
and there being no concurrent election
the two houses should proceed Jointly
| to ballot for senator. Senator Garfield
presented the name Of Marcus A. Han-
ma IN an eloquent speech. and others
seconded the nomination. e ss5'siE
senator Burke, the only dissenting
Republican senntor,prese the name
OF Robert J.. McKisson. the Republican n
mayor OF Cleveland. in very forc!ble
ara inllhmmable speech that COM
manded the closest attention. In one OF
nls elimaxes hc said: James A. GAR
heid would have voted for McKlsson &c
nc were alive and a senator here to-
Representative Roberts, OF Cleveland,
seconded the nomination of Hanna and
| Ttf.t las,