The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-12
COMBINE" STILL BOOSTING
THEY SAY MARK HANNA WILL NOT
WIN HIS BATTLE TO-DAY.
Charges of Bribery Made i'm the Leg
isIature and individually by 'sBoI-
ters"-PrOpOsition to Hanna.

COLUMBUS, O.. Jan. 1.-THE factional
warfare against Senator Hanna is not over
1t will have at least one more day of
charges and counter-charges. The fight
has never been more bitter than tonight.
Senator Hanna received seyenty-three
votes to-day, a majority of one over all in
a total membership of 145. The Senate
voted nineteen for McKisson and seventeen
for Hanna. The House vote stood: Hanna,
fifty-six; Mskisson, forty~nine; Wiley, one;
Warner, one Lentz one and one absent.
The absentee was representative Cramer,
the Democratic-Populist 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 separately a ma
jority of a quorum or of those present is all
that is necessary in the joint balloting to-
morrow, so that the serious illness of Rep
resentative Cramer is not an important
factor.
The scattering votes to-day for Lentz,
Wiley and Warner were cast by Represent
atiyes Wiley, Hazlett and Hess, all Dem
ocrats If Cramer had been present and all
other Democrats in line McKisson's vote in
the House would have been fifty-three, or
still three short of a majority in that
branch of the Legislature. With Hanna
having a majority of three in the House,
McKisson having majority of two in the
Senate, the chair will announce to-mor-
row that there was no election to-day, and
that a joint ballot will be in order AS
soon as the two bodies meet in joint conven-
tion at noon tomorrow their respective
journals of to-day will be read, and the
lieutenant governor will make the usual Of
fetal declaration.
If all the senators and representatives
are recorded on the joint ballot tomorrow
as they were recorded to-day on their re-
spective ballots, Senator Hanna will have
a majority of only one over all. But in
the absence of Senator Cramer and by
some of the Democrats refusing to vote
for Mayor McKisson, he is likely to have
a 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 two weeks
The seven Republicans who refused to
vote for Senator Hanna to-day have since
signed statements that burn the bridges
behind them. Senator Burke Representa-
tives Scott, Mason, Jones and Rutan say
they will vote for Hanna il the Otis charges
are proven to be untrue Representatives
Otis and Bramley, however, simply signed
a codcil 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 Senator Hanna under
any circumstances.
BRIBERY CHARGES
While the bureaus of claims and of
charges are in full operation on both sides
70, ,frI,f
about the bribery charges being presented
to the grand jury of Hamilton county and
of Franklin county. The grand juries are
in session in both of these counties and
there are current reports tonight of efforts
to secure indictments before tomorrow
noon. AS Representative Otis claims to have
been offered a bribe at his home in Cincin-
natl, that case could be brought only before
the grand jury of Hamilton county and il
would be necessary for Representative Otis
to be there as a witness. Mr. Otis and
others who would be wanted as witnesses
in that case are here tonight and it is
not thought to be probable that Mr.. Otis
would be absent tomorrow. If the vote
is cast tomorrow as it was cast TODAY
the absence Of Mr.. Otis and others opposed
to Hanna would have no effect on the re-
suit There was talk Of flibustering but
the opposition could not break a ioint
quorum If all their members should remain
away.
The other case Of alleged bribery comes
from the other side. Representative Snider
OF Green county, who has been stopping at
the Neil House during the past week. voted
to-day 1or hanna, for Boxwell for speaker
last Monday week, and attended the Re-
pubhcan House caucus one week ago last
SafY1 1r5o na
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 an
ticipating the visit, and stenographer was
concealed in the bathroom adjoining his
apartments. 1t is charged that Mr. Snider
was offered 5000 for his vote, and that tbe
names of his hackers were given bv tha
caller. The stenographic report of the CON
versation between Snider and Maddev is in
the hands of Hon. Z. G.. Rathbone. who was
assistant postmaster general under Harri
son, 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 Franklin county, but when that
body closed its work this evening it was
unofficially stated that neither the Maddev
case nor any other case connected with the
senatorial contest was before that body.
While it is not likely that any indictment
will be made, yet it is quite probable that
there will be an attempt in the Legislature
tomorrow for a dramatic 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
Hanna men say they will give the fullest