The age-herald., 1901-02-14
THE ELECTORAL
 VOTE IS COUNTED Great Crowds Thronged GaI- leries to See Ceremony FUNNY INCIDENTS OCCUR General Grosvenor Made Lapsus Linguae and Called Out Colorado's Vote Four for Bryan and Four
 For Roosevelt.
FUNNY INCIDENTS OCCUR


 mony of counting the electoral vote for President and Vice President cast at the election last fall took place in the hall of the House of Representatives at o'clock today at a joint session of the House and Senate. The method of count ing the vote is prescribed with great de- tail by the statute and was followed literally today. Great crowds thronged the galleries to witness the interesting spectacle.
 At 1928 o'clock proceedings in the House were suspended and five rows of seats on the right of the hall were va cated for the members of the Senate.
 At one minute of 1 o'clock Colonel Ransdall sergeant-at-arms of the House, appeared at the main door of the House and announced the president pro tenn and members of the Senate.
 The House arose to receive them, while page boys carrying the caskets in which the electoral returns were deposited took them to the clerks desk.
 Senator Frye, president pro tenn of the Senate, ascended the rostrum and took his place at the right of Speaker Hen derson to preside over the joint session. Ex-vice-President Adlai Stephenson pre- sided over the joint session when the electoral vote was counted four years ago.
 Immediately below Speaker Henderson and Senator Frye, at the clerks desk, were the teliers. of the two houses, Sena- tors Chandler of New Hampshire, Caf- frey of Louisiana, and Representatives Grosvenor of Ohio and Richardson of Tennessee, f1anked on either hand by the secretary of the Senate, MT. Bennett, and the clerk of the House. MT. Mcdowell. Still below them on the floor the other officers of the House and Senate ranged themselves in front of the marble ros- trum. Senator Frye rapped for order when all were seated.
 In Joint Session.
 "The Senate and House of Representa- tives of the United States" he said, ''are in joint session pursuant to the constitu- ton and laws of the United States, for opening the certificates and counting the votes of electors for President and Vice President of the United States. If there IS flO OOJeCtiOI tllt lOIIldl pOitiolo LII lhC certificates will be omitted. The certi1- cate of the State of Alabama will be read by the tellers, who will make list of votes therefrom'
 Thereupon Senator Chandler read in ex- tenso the certificate of the vote of Ala bama, giving ii votes for w. J. Bryan of Nebraska for President and Il votes for Adlai Stevenson of Illinois for Vice Pres ident. When Senator Caffrey was about fC hn of ha late of Arkansas, Senator Cockerill of Missouri addressed the chair.
 Some Fun Injected.
 Senator Frye said consent had been given to dispense with the formal reading of the certificates of Arkansas, owing to a slight irregularity. This showed that one of the electors had been absent and that the Governor had appointed a sub, stitute. The certificate was not challeng- ed, however and the tellers proceeded to announce the result in each state A lapsus lingure by General Grosvenor, when he announced the Colorado vote, created a general outburst of merriment. He announced that Colorado had cast four votes for William J. Bryan of Ne braska and four for Theodore Roosevelt of New York for Vice President. "Oh," shouted MT Richardson, one of the Dein- ocratic tellers, while the members of the Senate and House on the floor and the spectators in the galleries joined in the laughter which followed.
 MT. Grosvenor corrected the error and the announcement of the vote of the sev eral States then proceeded in alphabeti cal order
 The certificates were not uniform and the operation of opening the bulky pack ages and seeking out the result was at tended with many delays. When Mary lands eight votes were announced for slight ripple of applause and the same response was made to the announcement of Nebraska's vote.
 General Grosvenor announced the vote of the Presidents own state of Ohio, but it created no demonstration.
 Upon the conclusion of the announce ment of the vote of Wyoming, by direc tion of the presiding officer, the tellers formally ascertained the totals. :.
 The Announcement.
 Senator Chandler announced the total number of votes cast as AT, of which William Mckinley of Ohio received for President of the United States 292: Will liam J. Bryan of Nebraska 1855, and of which Theodore Roosevelt of New York received for Vice President 292 and Adlai E. Stevenson of Illinois 155. Thereupon, in accordance with the statue, Senator Frye proclaimed the state of the vote as delivered to him.
 This announcement of the state of the vote by the president of the Senate" said he, lis by law a sufficient declaration that William Mckinley of the State of Ohio is elected President of the United Saates and that Theodore Roosevelt of the State of New York is elected Vice President each for the term beginning March 4, 1901, and will be entered togeth- CT with list of the votes on the journals of the Senate and the House of Repre- sentatives. The count of electoral votes having been completed and the result de- clared, the joint meeting of the two Houses is dissolved and the Senate will now return to It's chamber"
 tremendous outburst of applause