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shirt, and talked at some length o.
Scott's war record.

ScottS war record.
Speaker Mckinney seconded the
nomination of McGraw briefly, and
spoke of his work in the development
| of the of West Virginia, in
which he said Mr.. McGraw stood fore
| most among those who had helped to
develop the State.
Delegate H%aptonstall, in behalf of
the people of West Virginia and mill
ions of citizens of the nation, nomi-
mated Judge Golf, a man whose char
| acter, he said was unquestioned.
| From an intellectual standpoint, he
said Judge Golf has no peer in West
! Virginia or the United States. Some
thing besides wealth is needed in a
capacity and ability to make a fine
Senator and would not spend too
much Of his time in manufacturing
millionaries instead of attending to
public business. In naming his can
didate, he said by mistake, Nathan
! Scott" He intended to say Nathan
Goff," and when his attention was
called to the mistake, by the laughter
which it created, he added that the
names might sound alike, but the
qualifications of the two men were as
different as the sun and the noon.
Upon the calling of roll seventeen
Republican Senators voted for Scott,
and eight Democrats for McGraw. Of
the delegates, the thirty-eight Demo-
Gratis voted for McGraw, and thirty
Republicans for Scott. Mr.. Hapsten-
stall voted for Judge Golf, and Mr..
Hunt voted for Judge Blizzard, as on
yesterday. His vote was greeted with
applause from the Democratic side,
but
THEY LAUGHED TOO SOON,
for before the vote was announced, he
asked to change his vote, and voted
for Scott, making the total vote
stand Scott, 4S; McGraw, 46; Golf, l.
The president declared Mr.. Scott
having received a majority of all the
votes cast and a Quorum of both
houses being present, that he. was
elected Senator for the term begin
ming March 4th next.
AS the names of G-etzendanner and
Pierson were called, Senator Osenton
sent to the clerks desk and had read
protests against permitting their
votes to be cast and counted, upon the
grounds that they had forfeited their
seats in the Senate by entering the
army.
The protests will be printed in the
journal of the joint assembly.
The agreement reached last night,
providing a peaceful solution of all
questions relating to contests and
seating of members, was carried out
according to programme this morn
ing.
Before the House met a caucus of
the Democratic members was held at
which it was agreed, although not
unanimously, to endorse the agree
ment and adopt the resolution putting
its terms into effect. The resolution
was introduced into the House i'm
mediately after the opening of the
session. and was adopted with only a
few dissenting votes, which came
from the Democratic side of the
House. In the Senate the resolution
was unanimously adopted.
When seen tonight by the Register
correspondent, Mr.. Hunt said that he
had nothing whatever to say concern
ing his change of vote, except that he
had found it impossible to secure the
election of a nan from this end of
the State and had yielded to the in
evitable.
John B. Floyd is credited with hav-
ing caused Hunt to change his mind.
Hunt was in conference with Elkins
and Scott for a long time and was be-
sieged with kilograms from Mark
Hanna. Senator Foraker and other
Republicans of national reputation,
urging for the sake of the Republican
! party that he vote for Scott.
There have been all kinds of rumors
afloat concerning attempted bribery
in connection with the vote for SEN
ator, but none of them can be verified.
According to rumors, votes were val
ued at from 81, 800 to $4,000, and the
latter figure is said to have been re-
fused by one man for his vote.
Senator Elkins, Congressman Dow
ener and n. B. Scott left for Washing
ton tonight. McGraw will leave to-
morrow.
SUMMERS.
Routine Proceedings on Third Page.