The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-05
DEMOCRATS GOOD DRAWING.
SECURED MAJORITY ON CONTEST
ING COMMITTEES.

IN Out of Eleven Who VIII Hear
GoebePs Case Are Democrats
They Secured Nine ON the Other
COmmittee-Manipu of the
Boxes Was Charged by the RcDub-
ficans-DemOcrats still Drawn Out
After Boxes Were Shaken.
Frankfort, KY, Jan. 4-The Joint Leg
islatiVe Committee, which will sit in the
contests for governor and lieutenant gov
ernor, were drawn by lot to-day, as pro
yided by law
The Democrats We're lucky, as the draw
ing gave then ten out of the eleven mem
bers of the committee on the Governors
contest and nine out of eleven on the lieu
tenant governors cofitest The committee
70 hear the goyFnprship contest is as fol-
lows: .tNAa}ilFf& W.T.
Senators Frazier, Alien and Crenshaw.
and Representatives Hickman, Berry,
Finn, Rennick, sledge Lyon and Barton.
all Democrats and Yarberry, Republican.
In the lieutenant governors contest the
names drawn were Senators Harren, Cole
man and Watson and Representatives
Crawford, Alexander, Baird, Bell Hol-
land and Sharp, Democrats, and Repre-
sentatives Reed and Lilly, Republicans.
The House members of these two COM
mittees were sworn in tonight, and it is
probable that the joint committees will
organize and begin taking evidence to-
morrow.
In the drawing over the formation of
the legislative contested election com
mittees, the representatives were some
what more evenly divided. In the case of
the two senatorial contests the RepubI-
cans got only one member out of nine
on each committee, but in the House they
got majorities on ten out of the eighteen
committee which try contests.
The Senate completed its drawing at the
morning session and the only incident con-
nected with it was when Senator Howard.
Republican, objected to Senator Goebel's
name being placed in the box. Senator
Goebel rose from his seat and said:
Under the law the names Of all sena-
tors present must be placed in the box,
but beg to assure the Senator that if my
name should be drawn out,I, of course, VIII
not serve
The House was occupied until late in
the evening with the drawing of the leg
islative committees and there was moth
ing noteworthy in the proceedings until
after the Governorship Committee had
been announced and just before the draw
ing for the committee on the lieutenant
governors contest. Representative Has
we'll, leader of the Republican m,noiity,
,hargd Chief Clerk Ed o. Leigh with ma
nipulating the ballots so as to give the
Democrats the advantage.
Haswel and Representative Berry, rep
resenting the Republicans, stood at the
clerks desk as the names of the members
were placed in the box and when the last
name was placed in it, Haswell walked
to his seat and addressed the House,
charging that Leigh had, in placing the
names in the box, systematically thrown
the name of the Democratic members on
the right side of the box and in like man
ner had thrown the names of the Re
publicans to the left He said he did not
know how it happened that the Demo-
Gratis got such a majority on the Gov
ernor's Contest Committee drawn a few
minutes before, but he did know how the
ballots had been put in the box for the
drawing now on, and he asked that the
clerk be required to at least shake the
box thoroughly so as 20 mix the names,
as contemplated by law.
Speaker Trimble invited Haswell, or any
other Republican member to shake the
box, but they declined to do this, saying
tdis was the duty Of the clerk
Mr. Berry, Republican, asked the
Sneaker to allow members to inspect the
'ocX in order 20 verify the charge made
10y him and Haswell, mentioning the al
legged manner in which the names had
been placed in the box, but Mr. Cantrin
| Democrat, said that the charges made by
Haswell and Berry were serious, and that
as long as they had waited until the
drawing was practically completed, he
| thought they should be compelled TO file
. them in the proper way and not make
| them verbally, as they were doing.
Speaker Trimbe finally ordered the box
)roughly shaken, and this was done,
III the result that six Democrats and
Republican names were drawn out.