The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1898-01-13
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RE WAS WILD
SLASH.
hANEA AND HIS CLARION VOICE
Joined In the Fervcnt Gnyety-JOInt
Session to Canvass the Vote To-
day-ResoIutiOn to Investi-
gate the Charges of Bribery.
Democratic Candidate.

Columbus o., Jan. 1.-THE factiOna
warfare against Senator Hanna is not
over. He will have AZ least one NOR,
day of charges and counter charges
The fight has never been more bitter
than tonight. Senator Hanna received
IL votes today, Il ma jOrity Of one over
all in total membership or 100. The
senate voted 10 for McKisson and II
for Hanna. The house vote stood
Hanna. SO; McKisson, 40; Wiley, ]
Lcntz, /, and one absent. The only alb
sentce was Representative Cramcr the
democratic populist member from Pauld
ing county. who is seriously sick. His
physicians stated tonight that he would
not possibly be in his seat tomorrow.
After the vote Was recorded today in
each branch of the legislature separately
n ma jOrity of n quorum, or of those
present. is all that is necessary in the
joint balloting tomorrow, so that the
serious illness of Representative Cramer
might become an important factor.
The scattering vote today for Lcntz,
Wiley and WarHer was cast by Repre-
scntativcs Wiley, Hazlett and Hass, all
democrats. If Cramcr had been present
and all other democrats in line, Mckis-
sons vote In the house would have been
l3 or still short of majority in that
branch of the legislature. With Hanna
having n majority in the house, Mckis-
son having n majority of two in the
.h.,,,,
that there was no election today and
that joint ballot will be in order. As
soon Ms the two bodies meet in joint CON
vcntion NJ noon tOmorrDw their rcspec-
tive journals of today will Dc read and
the lieutenant governor will make the
-''n""' 'nnri"l 1"c,nrntion.
If all the senator's and representatives
are recorded on the joint ballot tomor-
row Ms they were recorded on their re-
spcctivc ballots today, Senator Hanna
will have majority of one over all.
But in the absence of Representative
crnmcr and by some of the democrats
refusing to vote for Mayor McKisson,
he is likely TO have II larger majority of
record of the journal of the joint CON
vcntion. With the result apparently
hanging on the change of only one vote,
the contest has continued all night the
same MS il has been going on on other
nights for the past two weeks. The
seven republicans who refused to vote
for Senator Hanna today have since
Signed statement that burned bridges
behind them. Senator Burke, Rcprescn-
tntivcs Scott, Mason, Jones and Rutan
say they will vote for Hanna is the Otis
charges are proven to be untrue. Rep
rcscntativcs Otis and Bramlcy. however,
simply signed II codicil to the statement
of the other five disscntcrs, in which
they concur in asking for an invcstiga-
ton. but they state they will not vote
for Senator Hanna under any circum-
stances.
While the bureaus of claims and of
charges are in fun operation on both
sides tonight rs usual, there are also re-
ports about the bribery charges being
presented to the grand iurirs of llamil-
ton county and of Franklin county. The
EINlNl lUINS ul' III NtSNlhl III b'lli VI
these counties and there are current re-
ports tonight of efforts to secure indict-
mcntS before tomorrow noon As Repre-
sentative Otis claims to have been of
fcrcd bride ut his home in Cincinnati,
that ease could be brought only before
the grand jury of Hamilton county, and
it would hc necessary for Mr. OTIS Ia
h. there as witness. Mr.. Otis and
others who would he wanted rs wit
ncSscs in that ease are here tonight, and
il is not thought to he probable that Mr.
Otis would be Sbscnt tomorrow. If the
vote is cast tomorrow as it was east
today. the absence of Mr.. Otis and others
opposed TO Hanna would have no effect
on the result. There was talk of fill