The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1899-03-04
A BREAK
FROM QUAY
Three of His Active Supporters
Vote For Other Candidates.
OBJECTIONS TO FAIRS RULING.


The Speaker, It Is Assorted, Forced an
Adjournment TO Prevent Additions TO
the Investigating Committee-Farr
Declares His Action strictly Legal,
Harrisburg, March 4.--The first ma
terial change in the senatorial contest
occurred on yesterdays joint ballot,
when three members who have been vot-
ing FOR Senator Quay shifted 10 the anti
Quay column. These are the only votes
Mr.. Quay has lost since the balloung
began, and his managers claim II will
not materially affect the situation. The
members who changed their votes are
Representatives Nathan @. Mackey OF
Lackawanna and Mcclellan Hersh and
Leslie Yates Of Philadelphia. Mr.. Mack
ey changed to to Superior Court Judge
Charles Il. Rice. OF Wilkesbarre; Mr.
Hersh went to Colonel George Il. Huff,
OF Greensburg, and Mr.. Yates voted for
Peter A. B. Widener. ~
The change came after the trouble In
the house over the rulings OF Speaker
Farr which created much excitement and
comment Mr.. Marshall, of Allegheny.
called for the order Of the day fixing II
O'Clock as the hour OF adjournment on
Friday. Mr. Bliss, OF Delaware, raised
the point Of order that the rule fixing
the hour Of Friday sessions had been
abrOgated at the beginning OF the ses-
sion. when the house adopted a resolu-
ton fixing new hours for Fridays ses
sion. The resolution adopted at the be
ginning Of the session fixing 1890 for the
hour OF meeting on Friday and IL o'clock
for adjournment was read by Speaker
Farr Mr.. Farr stated that this reso-
luton was in force. He then adjourned
the house. He left the chair and was
followed by many OF the members and
the clerks.
Mr.. McElhany. OF Allegheny, moved
that Mr.. Bliss, Of Delaware, be elected
speaker. The motion was adopted, and
| Mr.. Bliss took the chair and called the
house to order. He appointed temporary
clerks. No business was transacted by
| the house, the members who remained
! questioning the right to do so. The
course Of Mr. Farr, il is asserted, was
dictated by a desire to prevent the pass
| age Of q motion to increase the mem
bership Of the Kreps bribery investi
| eating committee by the addition Of two
| Democrats and two Republicans.
! Mr.. Hersh was the first to break, and
/ after him came Mr.. Mackey, and then
| Mr.. Yates. After the joint assembly ad'
| journed each OF these three members Is
| sued a public statement giving theil
reasons for changing their vote. Mr.
| Hersh says: Il have been voting 70
Senator Quay since the beginning Of tn,
contest, but decided to change my voti
because l believe l have more than full
filed my caucus obligation, and because
l am satisfied that Senator Quay canno
be reelected. The Republicans OF m!
district, / am satisfied, do not want mt
to longer continue my support Of Sena
tor Quay. II any other justification
were necessary it was furnished by tn,
action Of the friends OF Senator Qua!
during the past "a hours.
Mr.. Mackey says: Il have voted 10
Senator Quay for two months and fin,
now that there is absolutely no possibi
ity of his reelection, and deem it foil.
for any Republican to blindly follow tn
leadership of the Quay men now at Har
risburg, whose every move has been
stupendous blunder. My constituents, a
well as the leading Republican papers o
!
urging me TO vote as | did today. Their
are no Quay men left in Lackawanni
county except a few otiiceholders an,
| dependents"
Mr.. Yates said the events of the pas
As hours are sufficient explanation as L
why he changed his vote.
Speaker Farr says: Since my de
cision l have consulted Messrs. Weis
and Gilbert, of Harrisburg, two of tn
best constitutional lawyers in PennsyI
vania, who have advised that not onl
was the course pursued by me not onl
proper and legal, but that any Othe
course would have been contrary TO tn
rules OF the house and without autho
ity in law"
The bribery investigating committe
met yesterday afternoon TO take the tel
timony of witnesses. General Koont
of the committee in behalf Of these wi
nesses, demurred, stating that they weI
not ready TO proceed 1t was then pr,
posed that a session be held today an
again on Monday for the hearing {
these witnesses, but General Kooutz sti
! demurred, and upon his motion all fu
ther proceedings We're postponed unit
Tuesday evening next.