Omaha daily bee., 1899-03-07

LINCOLN. March 6.-Cspecial Tec-
Gram)-The withdrawal OF Thompson causel
the scattering of the votes which have
been cast for him. but none of them
went to the leader Anderson, Hark-
son and Rookie went TO Field.
Burns, McCarsar, Smith of Saline and Tai
bot to Lambertson; Chittenden TO Weston,
who also drew Prout ana HILBERT from
Hayward; Clark and Lane to Reese. who
also received the vote OF Thompson ot
Merrick. who has been voting for Hayward;
Fisher and Mann went to Webster, while
Israel remained with Thompson.
There were seventeen absentees. OF whom
Besner. Ditmar, Mccarthy, Rouse. Schaibe,
Steele and Tucker have voted for Hay
ward Conwel for Hainer, Detweler for
Webster, Grafton for Thompson, Jones for
Weston and Dobry, Dunn. Farrell Nc
Cracken, Vsndegrift and Wright are fusion
lists.
Just previous to taking the vote Fisher
moved that after one ballot the session take
a recess to o'clock this evening. On di-
ri iol th'5 MAS Carried by vote Of - TO -.
The populists and the former Thompson men
all voted for the motion, while the Hayward
men and part of the Field supporters voted
against. division on the question was de-
manded by Van Dusen. who voted against
the motion. Beverly, Olmsted and Burman
voted for the motion.
After the announcement of the senatorial
vote Grow moved that the session now ad-
journ. The chair held this out of order.
Noyes protested against the decision, hold
ing that motion to adjourn was always in
order. Without taking a further vote Sen
ator Talbot, who in the chair. declared
a recess to S o'clock.
stirs Up IiI-FeeIinG.
After the move made by part OF the re-
publlcans 20 join the fusionists In forcing
an evening session there was a good deal
of dissatisfaction and more i'll feeling was
exhibited than at any time during the con-
test. The Hayward men declared that an
unfair move had been made and that this
would only cement them closer together At
a hurried meeting held during the noon re-
cess they repeated their expressions of faith
in the Otoe candidate.
During the afternoon there was a feel
ing Of uneasiness among the other candi-
dates and they Joined in a meeting TO dis
Cuss the situation They agreed that the
action was ill-advised and sent a committee
TO the Hayward headquarters with the eK-
PLANTATION that the tie-up with the populists
had been made without consultation with
the candidates and that they wanted TO dis
avow any intention TO interfere with the
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members go 10 the joint session, cast one
ballot and then adjourn and go into the
| caucus.
This produced a better feeling all around
and it supposed that the members would
| readily fan into the idea, although there
wero few OF the anti Hayward men who
declared that they would go ahead and pro-
| long the joint session if they could get help
! from the fusionsts.
Thirty-EiRhth Ballot.
! The first vote cast at the evening sss-
! sion, the thirty-eighth of the series was as
/ follows:
Allen, "a; Hayward, 81; Webster, IL;
LambertsOn, 4; Field, s; Adams 2; Hainer.
! /; Reese, 3; Morton, l. Hampton, l.
! Absent; Detweiler, Grafton Smith Of
! Richardson, Vandegrift, Watson and Dunn
/ Changes Ditmar from Hayward to =
/ Sterling Morton; Israel from Thompson 10
/ Adams McCargar from Lanber,son 10
! Thompson Talbot from Lamber;eon 20
! Weston.
| 4 motion was made to adjourn bu: the
! noes seemed the loudest and the chair de-
/ cIded the motion lost although there were
! many calls for division, Van Dusen pro-
/ tested that there had not been fair chance
! given 10 obtain a division. The clerk called
! the name Of one member and in the pause
! tnat followed, before any one voted. Crow
moved to adjourn The motion was declared
out of order. and the roll was called for a
! second vote.
/ on the second ballot the only change was
| McCargar back to Lambertson.
After the resur, had been announced MIL
! Ter OF Buffalo moved that the rules be sus-
! pended and Allen be declared the unani-
nous choice This was declared out OF or
! der amid a storm OF laughter.
Grow renewed the motion 10 adjourn and
/ on this there was a demand for roll call.
! The fusionsts all voted against the motion
and the following republicans voted with
them Beverly, Burns, Chittenden, Ander-
SON. Ditmar, Fisher, HARRISON Israel, Lane,
Mann, Rookie, Smith Of Saline, Talbot
The motiou 20 adjourn was lost by vote
OF 90 10 6s.
The third ballot resulted in no change
! The absentees We're Detweler, Grafton
| Smith OF Richardson Dunn and Vandogri.t
Jansen moved 10 adjourn and a roll call
was taken on the question again, with ne
same result a. before, except that Burmsu