The San Francisco call., 1898-01-13
HANNA THE VICTOR BY
 ONE VOTE Close Ofthe Bitter Sen atOrial Fight in
 Ohio. Both the Long and Short Terms Fall to the Lot Ot the Incum bent. Will Represent His State in the Upper House for Over
 Seven Years. THE UPHILL BATTLE WON Combine of Powerful Politicians De- feated Through Brilliant
 Generalship.
Will Represent His State in the Upper House for Over
 Seven Years.
THE UPHILL BATTLE WON
Combine of Powerful Politicians De- feated Through Brilliant
 Generalship.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Jan. 12.-Marcus A Hanna was elected to-day to repre- sent Ohio in the Senate for seven years and two months. If Mckinley should be reelected Hanna would still be there to the end of the Presidents second term. Including both the short and the long terms, Hanna's time as Senator will expire in March, 1905.
 Less than two years ago Senator Hanna entered politics in advocating William McKinley's candidacy for the Presidency. He was successful as the leader of the Mckinley forces at the St. Louis convention and afterWard as chairman of the Republican National Committee. For almost year he has been in the Senate as successor of Sec retary John sherman. During his short service in public life Senator Hanna has participated in hard fighting, but he never before won such a victory as that of to-day.
 Although MT. Hanna was duly de- clared Senator at noon to-day for both the long and short terms, yet the oppo- sition continued it's fight in the after noon and is still fighting tonight. Just previous to the separate balloting yes terday the opposition was disappointed by the withdrawal of Jeptha Gerard, the silver Republican candidate for Senator It was thought that Gerard would get the votes of Representatives Droste and Lane, who voted for Hanna Gerrard's friends say he withdrew be- cause he was being used as a means for creating a deadlock for the benefit of others.
 Previous to the joint balloting to- day the opposition offered to support Senator Dodge of Cleveland for the short term, with McklSSOn Tor the long term Senator Dodge is a neighbor of Senator Hanna in Cleveland and was nominated and elected on pledges for Hanna. Senator Dodge stated that the Senators and Representatives rom Cleveland were instructed for Hanna and indignantly rejected the proposal.
 The opposition to-day knew it was defeated before the joint balloting be- gan, but fought to the last on the charges of bribery and coercion. In the joint balloting to-day there were no changes whatever by the Senators over their two ballots of yesterday, for the long and short terms. McKissOn received nineteen votes and Hanna seventeen. When the roll of the House was called 1t resulted in the ballots for both terms as follows: Hanna, 56; Me Kisson, 51; Lentz, l; Gone absent, Cramer.
 The joint ballots for both terms re-
 
 son, 70; Lentz, |; Gone absent Cramer).
 The official declarations showed that Hanna had a plurality of three over McKisson, a majority of two over all voting, and of one over all the members in the general assembly. The demon stratiOns in the hall were unusually enthusiastic
 Colonel J. L. Rogers, the secretary to the Governor, came to the Neil House at p. m. bearing the cOmmis- e4n- r.P Cor, IIn,, +I,- 1c,- the short term. Senator Hanna, ac- companied by Judge A. C. Thompson, Hon. John Little, Major F. C. Rath- bone, Hon. Charles Kinney, Judge George K. Nash, Congressmen North way, Grosvenor and Burton and Hon. J Warren Keller. repaired to the ladies parlor, where Colonel Rogers, in presenting the commission to Senator Hanna, said:
 Senator Hanna, I have the honor to present to you your commission as United States Senator for the short term, a copy of which has been sent to the President to-day. Your com mission for the long term will be sent to you within a few days, and a copy also forwarded to the President of the Senate"
 Senator Hanna, in reply, said:
 Colonel Rogers, l thank you and appreciate this, and I give back to the State my pledge that l will execute the power given to me to the fullest extent of my ability, and will do my best to serve the interests of all the people of my State"
 Previous to the two houses of the Legislature going into joint convention at noon for the election of Senator, res olutions were offered in both houses for an investigation of the bribery charges made by Representative Otis of Ham ilton County. After the election of Hanna the HOuse adiOurned until to- morrow with its resolution still under consideration. Consideration of this resolution was resumed in the Senate this afternoon and adopted by a vote of p to 6. The dissenting votes were Senators Blake, Carpenter, Garfield. May, Sullivan and Voight who ex- plained that they regarded the matter as huncombe. The Republicans vot- ing with the Democrats for the adop- tion of the resolutions were Senators Burke, Cable, Crandall, Lutz, Riley, Weightman and Wolcott There were eight Senators absent or not voting. After the adoption of the resolution to investigate all bribery charges, the Bramley bill to repeal the fifty-year street-railway franchise law was dis cussed at length with many passages on the recent Senatorial contest The bill was amended and passed
 Among the Representatives during the afternoon there was a considerable agitation of proposition to reorgan- ize the House by busting Speaker Ma son and all other officers of that body that had been elected by the fusion ten days ago It was claimed that the hfty-slX Representatives who voted for Hanna to-day and constituted a ma jority of three in the House would stand together for that purpose.
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