Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1898-01-12
STILL IN THE Ring
Hanna Has a Majority on the
First Ballot.
HIS ELECTION ASSURED
In the Preliminary Vote the House Gives
Him SO and the Senate II. The
Fight No. Over. a Strange
Statement
GRY TeiepranhA

tRy Telegraph.)
| COLUMBUS, O., Jan. Il.-Tl
tlcDal warfare against Senator
IS not over. 1t Will have at lie.
more day of charges and counter
es. The fight has never peen m,
Ter than tonight. Senator HaY
ceiFed Seventy-u three votes today
Jor!ty of one over all in a tota
bership of 100. The Senate vote
teen FOR McKisson and seyent,
Hanna. The House vote stood .
ma So; Mckisson, 40: Wiley. 1: y
/; Lsntz, l, and one absent.
Ths only absentee was Repr
tive Crarner,. the Denocra ticlE
nns!nber from pouling county.
seriously sick. His physicians
tonight that ,he could not poss
IN his seat tomorrow.
Alter the vote was recorded t.
each branch of the Legislature
iately. a majority of a quorum o
present is all that is necessary
JOINT ,balloting tomorrow, so tt
serious illness of Representative
er might become an Important
The scattering vote today for
Wiley and Warner was cast by
sentatives Wiley. HaZleitt and 4
Democrats. II Cragmer had bee,
.ent and all other Democrats /,
lMciSisson's vote in the ,Eiouse
have been fifty three. or still
short of n mR jority in that bra
the Legislature. With Hanna
a majority of three In the it4ous
,kisson having a majority of two
SENATE. the chair will announce
row that there was no election
and that a Joint ballot would be
der.
lftheSemators and representati,
recorded on joint ballot ltp,nor,
they We're re.:orded today on th
spective ballots, Senator Ham.
have a majority of only one @,
But In the absence of Rapresel
craner. and lin the event of som.
Democrats refusing to vote for
Nick is'son, he is likely ito have a
majority.
With the result apparently h
on the change OF only one vote Il
test has continued all night as
been going on other nights for tt,
TWO weeks.
The seven Republicans who /.
to vote for Hanna today have
signed a statement that bur-
bridge behind them. Senator
Representatives Scott. Mason,
and Rutan say they will vote IL
ma III the Otis charges are prove !.
untrue. Representative 0th
l3ramley, however, simply signed
icfl to the statement or the OIL
dissentens in which they concur
ing for an Investigation, Otis
however, that he will not vote {,
ma under any circumstances.
While the bureaus of clatn
charges are in full operation q
sides tonight as usual, there o
reports about the bribery char
ing presented to the grand ju
Hamilton and F'ranklin counties,
The grand jurors are in SEES
both of these counties, and til,
turre mt reports tonight ofNsffart
>ure indictments before tonlerro
AS representative Otis claims \
been offered a bride at his Nh4i
the case could be s..
only before the grand jury of Hs
county, and III would be necessA
Representative Otis to be There
witness. Mr.. Otis and othe,
would be wanted ats witnesses
9ase sare here tonight and it
s,ht to be probable that "
would be absent tomorrow. If /
9 cast tomorrow as it was cas-
he absence of Mr.. Otis and 9th
,oSed TO Hanna would have NJ
IN the result. There was talk
clustering, but the opposition co
freak q Joint quorum j I all thei
pers should remain away. Tht
Nase of alleged bribery came fl
sther side. Representative Sni
ireen county, who has been s.,
1t the Neil House during the pas
,oted today for Hanna, for Box
Speaker last monday week, g.
ended rhe Republican House 4.
me week ago last Saturday. TIL
.ents Of Hanna have been aft
10 ely '2na constantly. 1t is alles
Ar. Maddy came to the Neil Ho' $
week TO see Mr.. Snider and t, X
.laimed to represent kurtz ars
representative Snidar had been
patIng the visit and a steno;
vas concealed in hhe bathroom
nS his apartments. Tt Is charg
Ma. Snider was offered five ,th y
rfafTes.fQr his vote and that the
OF his backersEasa ,si5Een Hy The
The s.tenographic report 0fsyEass,.
sation between Snider and Ms
in the hands of Hon. Il. G. Rat
who was assistant postmaster
under Harrison, and is here as
the managers for Hanna. It Ii:
reported for several days that II
was before the grand jury of r
county. but when that body clt
work .bhis evening it was urto
stated that neither the NIaddey 4
other case connected with the SCI
cor.retst was before IL.
While it is not likely that any
mAntS will be made. yet it is quit
able that .nere will be an atte
the Legislature tomorrow, for a {
tc scene on the bribery charge
opposition is charging the Han
toni CHIT With voting down the
and resolutions today for an in-
sion of 1.-THE bribery charges m
Representative Otis. The Han,
say they vii! give the fullest cor
tdon to- this Investigation at the
time, bNt that the purpose oil
charges now Is to stampede the
latNre on the halloting for SSena
that such q scheme cannot be
through. Some of the Hanna m
state THAT at the proper time hh
re"reaniZe, the House, as the
sodGy showed that they had N
OF three over all In that body
The ballot FIJI the Senate for tn
term was. tMcKisson, 10; Han
There was no changes in the ba
the full term.
The ballot for the short term
House was: iMcKiss'an. 80: II.an
Lentz, 1 Wiley. 1: Warner. y.
rot for the long term was the s.
for the short term.
A STElA'NGE STATEMENT
COLUMBUS, o., Jan. l.-Ef
NaEon, of Cleveland speaker
House, tonight gave out the fell
ITO the Public: The princip
son why / have been opposed
Hanna is because of she fact III
years ago, when the fifty year II
bill was before the Legislature, y