The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-20

OiiD7l Oh OSStlI " ny carry coal
70 Newcastle, or salt to the dead Sc;
OF America? With q peerless orator il
me lower house, and a talented orato
anu lawyer IN the upper house, VIVA
- needed as their complement, to com
plete the magic circle, IS a clear-head
ca, blg-hearted, broad-minded bushes
man. friend TO Utah and her people
such {, one, in short. as I have alread.
named and voted for. Sir, 1 take pleas
ure IN again casting my ballot for tina
Nlue-awake, progressive, enterprisini
man Of affairs. that patriotic citizen
mat sound silver Democrat, that true
hearted friend to Utah and her PEG
plause.)
LLOYD FOR MCUNE.
Representative Lloyd for the frs
time answered the joint session rol
call His vote was for McCune.
Speaker Roylance completed Nc.
Cune's gain of three votes by leaving
the Powers column and joining the sec
ond candidate on the list.
Law voted for congressman Allen
while the other Republicans declared
Tor Arthur L. Thomas in preference tC
George Sutherland, the first days
choice.
Representative Richards Republican,
was marked absent, he being still de-
tanned at his home in Tooele with ILL
ness in his family.
This ballot gave the following re-
suit: King, 10; McCune. IA; Powers
Z; Nebeker, l; Thomas, 10; Allen. l;
Cannon, 4; total, g.
There was no change in the seventh
ballot, except that Peery voted for
8drs. Cannon instead of for Nebel1er,
returning to Nebeker, however, on the
next, and giving him his undivided
support
The eighth, ninth and tenth ballots
resulted the same as the sixth.
AT the end of the eighth, Representa-
tive Mansfield moved TO dissolve the
joint assembly, but the motion was
voted down by a large majority.
When the result of the tenth ballot
had been announced, Senator Evans
moved that when the joint assembly
dissolved. It be until $3.50 p. m. Speak
ing in support of his motion, he said:
1T seems there Will be no further
change until opportunity is given to
do more work. It may De advisable to
meet our friends and constituents and
talk over the situation. The people
desire the accomplishment of this i'm
portant work that is engaging our at
tantion, but our constituents do not
wish US to get unduly excited. 1t is
the part of wisdom that we should
move on the right lines"
Just then Mr.. Jackson sprung a
the rules such a motion is not debat-
able, except as to the time involved.
"All right" replied Senator Evans;
I have said what I wanted to, and
now l will be in order. l favor $3.50
O'Clock, $3.50 this afternoon, at half-past
today, $3.50 p. m. this afternoon at
$780," etc.
The laugh was on both Representa-
tive Jackson and Senator Evans, but
the president soon restored order.
Senator Evans motion carried with
out much opposition
The only changes in the eleventh,
twelfth and thirteenth ballots was that
Speaker Roylance, who voted for Nc
Cune on the five previous ballots, went
over to King, making his maximum Of
twenty votes.
At the end of the thirteenth, Parry
moved 20 dissolve the joint session.
representative O'Neil opposed the
motion on the plea that if another bal
lot were taken before recess, Bywater
would probably leave NcCune and go
te King.
1t was then nearly o'clock, and the
motion to dissolve carried by a vote of
SO to %.
RESUMED AFTER LUNCH.
On reconvening at $3.50 p. m, Sena-
tor Kiesel unwittingly perpetrated a
funny act, when the roll call TO record
the attendance was taken. So intent
was he upon the senatorial balloting
that he answered Frank ]. Cannon
instead of Here"
Senator Tanner did not return to the
reconvened session, and Kings vote
dropped one.
No candidate having received a ma
jority of all votes cast, President Neb-
eker directed the roll to be called for
another ballot, the fourteenth.
Whom his
fourteenth ballot, Representative By
water stood erect and proceeded to
speak in the clear tone of voice that
nature gave him. Every neck was
craned and all eyes and ears from the
large assembiage were turned toward
him. He said: In order that l might
set myself Alright: in the hope that Rep
reseEtative O'Neirs prophetic utter
anceS may receive a whitening blight
and 10 reassure the hopes of my con-
stitUency and of friends who may have
become over-agitated by the thought
expressed by my colleague on the
right, I announce again. without fear
or favor or hope Of reward, that I
again cast my vote for the Hon. A. w.
McCune."
There was nothing more to vary the
n1onOtOny of the fourteenth or fifteenth
ballots. except that Mrs. Horne said
William II. King" instead Of William
Henry King" as had been her custom. /
TWO MORE FOR MCUNE.
on the sixteenth, Mrs. Horne created
q mild surprise by having her vote re-
corded for y. W. AcCune.
With the seventeenth, Representative /
Fulmer of Piute county deserted King !
and gave his support TO AicCune, thus /
making sixteen votes each Tor both the |
leading candidates.
launched the name Of Judge c. c. |
Good Win ii lieu Of Arthur 1. Thomas.
and thereafter al the Republicans. in
Gliding Law, gave the venerable judge
their solid support of fourteen votes.
From the eighteenth ballot to the
last, Speaker Roylance gave to Neb-
eker what had been his support for
AicCune.
on this ballot Belts responded to his
name thusly: The peoples choice
Hon. W H. King"
Immediately following came from
Bywater's dramatic bassO voice; My
=. ". McCune."
ms Horne went back 10 King on
the nineteenth and over 10 McCune
again on the twentieth.
There was no change in the twenty
first and tTenty-second ballots. except
that Mrs. Horne voted for King on the
twenty-first and for McCune again on
the last.
The twenty-second ballot, the last Of
the day, resulted as noted in the be-
ginning OF this article
At APO. Senator Harden Bennion
moved that The joint assembly be dis
solved. The viva voce vote was I'M
certain and a roll-call was ordered.
Those voting in favor OF dissolution
were Senator's Alder. Bennion, Evans.
Kiesel, Robson, Shurtliff, Smoot,
Thomas, Wright, Representatives
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