The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1901-02-16
ELECTORAL VOTE COUNTED
Important and Formal Ceremony
Takes Place Before Joint Ses-
sion of Senate and House.
M'KIHLEy DECLARED ELECTED PRESIDENT
President PRO Tenn. Frye Presides
During the Reading Of the State
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES of the House
Filled with Spectators Who Watch
the Proceedings.

nOuy Ol counting LIlc eleCIGfdl VOCo
for president and vice president cast
at the election last fall took place
in the hall of the house of represent
, atives at one o'clock Wednesday at a
joint session of the house and senate.
The method of counting the vote is
prescribed with great dcta by the
statute, and was followed literally
Wednesday. Great crowds thronged
(. the galleries to witness the interest
& ing spectacIe. Many distinguished
personages in political, soc al and pri-
vate life were present. The specta-
tors waited patiently through the
session Of the house which preceded
the great event of the day.
Proceedings In Detail.
At l2:45 proceedings in the house
were suspended and five rows of
seats upon the right of the hall were
vacated for the members of the SEN
ate.
At one minute of one o'clock Col.
Ransdell, sergcant-at-arms of the
senate, appeared at the main door
opposite the speakers desk and an
nounced the president pro tenn. and
members of the senate. The MEM
bers of the house rose to receive
them, while page boys carrying the
caskets i'm which the electoral re-
turns were deposited took them to
the clerks desk.
Senator Frye, president pro TEN.
of the senate, ascended the rostrum
and took his place at the right of
To
the Joint session. EX-Nice President
Adlai Il. Stevenson presided over the
ioin, session when the electoral vote
was counted four years ago. Imme-
diately below Speaker Hender-
son and Senator Frye at the
clerks desk were the tellers of
the two houses, Senators Chandler
of NewIIampshire and Cattery of LOU
isiana, and Representatives Grosve-
nor of Ohio, and Richardson of
Tennessee, thanked on either hand by
nett, and the clerk of the house, Mr..
Mcdowell. Still below them on the
floor the other officers of the house
and senate ranged themselves in
front of the marble rostrum.
Certificates Read.
Senator Frye raped loudly for or
der when all were seated. "The sen.
ate and the house of representatives
of the United States" he announced
fare in joint session pursuant to the
constitution and laws of the United
States for opening The certificates and
counting the votes of electors for presi
dent and vice president of the United
States. IF there is no objection. the
formal portions of the certificates will
be omitted. The certificate of the
state of Alabama will be read by the
telers. who will make a list of votes
therefrom." Thereupon Senator
Chandler read in extenso the certifi.
cate of the vote of Alabama, giving II
votes for William Jennings Bryan, oil
Nebraska. for president. and II votes
vice president. When Senator Caffery
was about TO read the certificate oil
the state of Arkansas Senator Cockrell
of Missouri. addressed the chair.
"Can we not dispense with the read.
ing of these certificates" he asked
''and have simply the result an.
nounced? 7 think we can trust the
tellers." This remark created gen.
eral laugh.
Declared Elected,
After the reading of the certifi-
Gates President Pro TEN. Frye de-
clared William Mckinley elected presi-
dent and Theodore Roosevelt vice
president of the United States, and
dissolved the joint meeting of the
house and senate.
The Senate.
Washington, Feb. 14.-At the open
ing of Wednesdays session of the
senate Senator Clark (Wyo.) present
ed the credentials Of his colleague,
Hon. Francis T.. Warren. reelected a
senator from Wyoming for a term of
six years beginning March 4, 1901.
Tn reporting favorably batch of
private pension bills. Senator Gal
linger, chairman of the committee on
pensions, gave notice to senators that
it would be useless for them to intro
ducc any more pension bills at this
session, as the committee on pen
sions could handle no more.
Senator Money (M:ss.) reported
from the foreign relations committee
bill to prevent the sale of firearms,
opium and Intoxicating liquors in GER
tain islands of the Pacific and asked
4or it's immediate consideration.
Senator Morgan (Ala.) remarked
that he dissentcd from the report,
and therefore objected to consider
alton of the bill
A house bill authorizing the ALTA,
Manatce g. Gulf Coast Railroad com.
nonv to buil1 bri1 unS nrrocc tho No.,