The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1898-01-12
VICTORY FOR HANNA.
The Ohio Senator Secures Enough
Votes to Elect Him.
ANOTHER DAY OF BALLOTING

The senator Must Carry the Joint
Convention ofthe Legislature Before
He Is Sure of His Seat-Dcmocrats
say He Cannot DO It.
Columbus o., Jan. 12.-The factional
warfare against Senator Hanna is not
over 1t will have at least one more
day of charges and countercharEes.
The fight has never been more bitter
than it is this morning. Senator Han
ma received 73 votes yesterday. a ma
jority Of one over all in a total mem
beiship of lO9 Mayor McKissou, of
Cleveland, receiving 6S votes. The sem
ate voted 19 for McI[isson and Il for
Hanna. The house stood: Hanna, So;
McKisson, d9; Wiley, i; Warner, j,
Lentz, /, and one absent.
The only absentee was Representative
Cramer the Democratic-Populist mem
Der from Paulding county who is seri-
ously sick. His physician stated last
night that he could not possibly be I'm
his seat today. After the vote was
recorded yesterday in each branch of
the legislature separately a majority of
a quorum of those present is all that
is necessary in the joint balloting to-
day, so that the serious illness of Mr.
Cramer might become an important
factor.
The scattering vote yesterday for
Lentz, Wiley and Warner was cast by
Representatives Wiley, Hazlett and
Hess, all Democrats. If Cramer had
been present and all other Democrats
in line McKissons vote in the house
would have been So, or still three short
of a majority i'm that branch of the
Legislature. With Hanna having a ma
jOrity Of three in the house, MCKissOn
having a majority of two in the sem
ate, the chair will announce today that
there was no election yesterday, and
that a Joint ballot will be in order. if
all the senators and representatives are
recorded on the joint ballot today as
they were recorded yesterday on their
respective ballots Senator Hanna will
have a majority of only one over all.
But in the absence of Representative
Cramer, and in event of some of the
Democrats refusing to vote for Mayor
McKissOn, he is likely to have a larger
majority. with the result apparently
hanging on the change of only one vote
the contest continued all night as it has
for the past two weeks.
Inc seven lNtIuDlltdIlS VINO IeluS6u
to vote for Senator Hanna yesterday
signed statements that they have burn
ed their bridges behind them. Senator
Burke, Representatives. Scott, Mason,
Jones and Rutan say they will vote for
Hanna if the Otis charges Of attempted
bribery are proven to be untrue. Rep
resentatives Otis and Bramey, how
ever, simply signed a codicil to the
70 Of 10
in which they concur in asking for an
investigation, but they state that they
will not vote for Senator Hanna under
any circumstances
While the bureaus of claims and
charges are in full operation on both
sides, as usual, there are also reports
about the bribery charges being pre-
sented to the grand jury of Hamilton
| county and Franklin county The grand
jurors are in session in both of these
counties, and there are current reports
of efforts to secure indictments before
noon today. AS Representative Otis
! claims to have been offered a blibe at
his home in Cincinnati, that case would
be brought only before the grand jury
of Hamilton county, and 1t will be
necessary for Representative Otis to be
| there as a witness. Mr.. Otis and others
who would be wanted as witnesses i'm
that case are here this morning and it
| is not thought probable that he would
! absent himself today.
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 results There
was talk of flibustering but the oppo-
| sition could not break a joint quorum
| if all their members should remain
! away.
The other case of alleged bribery
comes from the other side Represents
| ative Snider, of Green county, who has
| been stopping at the Neil House during
| the past week, voted yesterday for
| Hanna, for BoXwell for speaker last
Monday a week, and attended the Re
| publican house caucus one week ago
last Saturday. The opponents of Sen
ator Hanna have been after him close
ly and constantly. 1t is alleged that
Mr.. Maddey came to the Neil House
last week to see Mr.. Snider, and that
lie claimed to represent Kurtz and
Bliss. 1t is charged that Mr.. Snider
was offered $1,000 for his vote, and that
the names of his hackers We're given by
the caller. A report of the conversation
between Snider and Maddey, secured
by hidden stenOgrapher, is in the
hands of Hon. f. G. Rathbone.
While it is not likely that any in
dictment viii be made, yet it is quite
probable that there will be an attempt
in the Legislature today to make a
dramatic scene on the bribery charges
The opposition is charging the Hanna
| men with voting down the motions anG
the resolutions yesterday for an inves.
tigation of the bribery charges made
by Representative Otis The Hanna
men say they viii give the fullest con.
sideration to this investigation at the
proper time, but that the purpose OF
these charges now is to stampede the
legislature on the balloting for senator
and that such a scheme cannot be car.
ried through. Some of the Hanna mer
also state that at the proper time they
will reorganize the house, as the vote
of yesterday showed that they had q
majority of three over all in that body
The Democratic steering committee
gave out a signed statement declariul
that Hanna viii not be elected by this
legislature" Mayor McKisson was il
conference during the evening with the
opposition, and it was declared very
emphatically by the leaders that the
fight had not by any means been lost
and that they would again rally theil
} forces in the Joint ballot today to 6