The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1898-01-13

From Both sides.
COLUMBUS, Jan. 12.-The legislature
is voting for United States senator ON
joint ballot today.
The warfare against Hanna is not
over. It 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 73
votes yesterday, a majority of one over
all in total membership of 145. The
senate voted 10 for McKisson and II for
Hanna.
The house vote stood: Hanna, So;
McKisson, 40; Wiley, 1; Warner, 1;
Lent2, /, and one absent.
The only absentee was Representa-
tive Cismer. the Democratic Populist
member from Paulding county, who is
seriously sick. He was not in his seat
today. After the vote was received and
recorded yesterday in each branch of
the legislature separat'A majority of
Il quorum or of those pN sent is all that
day, so that the serious illness of Rep.
NlUllltl ubNOiilS I'LL
important factor.
The scattering vote yesterday for
Lentz, Wiley and Warner was cast by
Hess, all Democrats. If Cramer had
been present and all other Democrats in
line, McKisson's vote in the house
would have been 50 or still three short
of majority in that branch of the leg
Ill NN,tlx hn..,,,,,
jOrity of three in the house, McKisson
having majority of two in the senate,
the chair announced today that there
was no election yesterday and that a
joint ballot was in order. AS soon as
the two bodies met in joint convention
ut noon, their respective journals of
yesterday were read and the lieutenant
governor made the usual official declara-
tion.
III all the senator's and representatives
are recorded on the joint ballot today as
they were pcorded on their respective
ballots, Senator Hanna will have q ma
jority of only one over all. But in the
absence of Representative Cramer and
by some of the Democrats refusing to
vote for Mayor McKisson, he is likely to
have Il 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
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-
,A.A 4
Rutan say they will vote for Hanna if
the Otis charges are proven to be untrue.
Representatives Otis and Bramley, how
ever, simply signed codicil to the state
ment of the other five dissenters, in
which they concur i'll 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 the 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 bribe at his home in Gin
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.
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
the past week, voted for Hanna, for
Boxwell for speaker last Monday a week
and attended the Republican house eau
Gus one week ago last Saturday. The
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
his apartments.
1t is charged that Mr.. Snider was Of
fercd 5000 for his vote and that the
names of his hackers were given by the
caller. The stenographic report of the
between Snider and Mad
dey is in the hands of Hon. Il. Il. 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 unofficially
stated that neither the Maddey case nor
any other case connected with the SEN
atorial contest was before that body.
While it is not likely that any indict-
ment will be made, yet it is quite prob
able that there will be an attempt in the
today for dramatic scene
on the charges of bribery.
The opposition is charging the Hanna
men with voting down the motions and
the resolutions for an investigation of
the bribery charges made by Represent
ative Otis. The Hanna men say they
will give the fullest consideration to this
investigation ut the proper time, but
that the purpose of these charges now is
to stampede the Legislature ON the bal
loting 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 yesterday
showed that they had majority Of
three over all in that body.
The success of Senator III Va was not
settled until o'clock yest9d day morn
ing, when Representative Droste of Gin
clniiHtI alnrcd his signature 20 an agree
ment to support Hanna yesterday and
today. THIS was the outcome of the