The record-union., 1898-01-12
Both Houses Of the Legislature Bal
lot for Senator.
Hanna Receives Seventeen Votes In Senate
and Fifty-Si1 In House.
Should He Receive the Same Vote
on the Joint Ballot To-day He
Will Have a Majority of One in
the Total Membership for Both
the Short and Long Term Sena-
tor.

COLUMBUS (O), Jan. 1.-THE fac
tional warfare against Senator Hanna
is not over. 1t will have at least one
more day of changes and counter
changes. The fight has never been more
bitter than to-day.
Senator Hanna received IS votes to-
day, a majority of l over all in u total
membership of 100. The Senate voted
| 10 for McKiSSon and II for Hanna.
The House stood: Hanna SO. Mckisson
40, Wiley /, Warner /, Lentz l and l
absent.
The only absentee was Representa-
tive Cramer, the Democratic-P opulist
member from Paulding County, who is
seriously sick. His physician stated
tonight that he could not possibly be
in his seat tomorrow.
After the vote was recorded to-day in
each branch of the Legislature separ-
ately, Il majority of a quorum of those
present is all that is necessary in the
joint balloting tomorrow, SO that the
serious Illness of Representative Cra-
mer might become an important factor
If Cramer had been present, and all
other Democrats in line, McHisson's
vDte in the House would have been 53.
or still short of majority in that
branch Of the Legislature.
With Hanna having a majority Of
three in the House and McKisson hav-
ing a majority of two in the Senate,
the Chair Will announce tomorrow
that there was no election to-day. and
that q joint ballot will be in order. AS
soon as the two bodies meet on joint
convention at noon tomorrow their re-
spective journals of to-day will be
read, and the Lieutenant Governor
will make the usual official declaration.
If all the Senators and Representa-
tives are recorded on the joint ballot to-
morrow as they We're recorded to-day
on their respective ballots, Senator
Hanna will have a majority 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
larger majority of record on the
journal of the joint convention With
the result apparently hanging on the
change of only one vote, the contest
has continued all night the same as
it has been going on here other nights
for the past three weeks.
The seven Republicans who refused to-
vote for Senator Hanna to-day have
since signed statements that burnt
bridges behind them. Senator Burke,
Representatives Scott, Mason. Jones
and Rutan say they will vote for Han
ma if Otis charges are proven to be I'M
true. RepreSe natives Ots and Bramley,
however, simply signed a codicil to the
statement of the other five dissenters
in which they concur in asking for an
investigation, but they state that they
will not vote for Hanna under any
circumstances.
While the Bureaus of Claims and of
Charges are in full operation on both
sides tonight, as usual, there also are
reports about the bribery charges be-
ing presented to the Grand Jury of
Hamilton County and Of Franklin
County. The Grand Juries are in SEES
sion in both of these counties, and there
are current reports tonight of efforts
to secure indictments before tomorrow
noon.
While it is not likely that any in
dictment will be made, yet it is quite
probable that there will be an attempt
in the Legislature tomorrow for dra-
matte scene on the charges of bribery.
The opposition is charging the Hanna
men tonight with voting down the
motions and the resolutions to-day for
an investigation Of the bribery charges
made by Representative Otis. The Han
ma men say they will give the fullest
consideration 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 scheme cannot
he I'D ,, re
ma men also state that at the proper
time they will reorganize the House,
as the vote to-day showed that they
had a majority of three over all IN
that body.
The Democratic members held a con-
ference tonight, when the fusion Steer
ing Committee reported that Kurtz
had promised two more votes on joint
ballot tomorrow. but it was found inn
possible to pledge all the Democrats
to vote again for McKisson. 1t was
proposed to drop McKisson for Ger
rard tomorrow, but the latter's friends
said that while he could have been
elected by the coalition earlier in the
fight, they do not now propose to have
him sacrificed.
Failing to agree on any candidate,
the conference adjourned until a. m.
tom prov. The opposition workers to
Hanna will continue their labors all
night, and urtil the joint ballot is taken
at noon tomorrow.
HANNA LEADS IN THE HOUSE.
COLUMBUS (O.). Jan. 11.-Both
branches of the Legislature met at 10
a. m, and many regretted that admis-
sion by ticket had not been adopted.
The crowd pressed in on the floor of
both bodies, and as the visitors were
prominent constituents, they We're not
put out.
In the Senate the bill to repeal the
fifty-year street railway franchise bin
was postponed until tomorrow. This
bill has been used against Senator
Hanna in organization of the Legisla-
ture and the Senatorial fight.
Both houses voted to ballot at IL
O'Clock for Senator. At 1910 q. nj.
call Of the House was demanded, so
as to put all on record as being present.
The doors were locked. and the hall