The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1901-02-22
M'KINLEY IS ELECTED
Joint Session Of Congress Rati-
flies the Peoples Choice.
ELECTORAL VOTE IS COUNTED
The Galleries Were Crowded to
Witness Formalitles of the
Interesting Event.

The ceremony of counting the cleo
toral vote for president and vice presi-
dent cast at the election last fall took
place in the hall of the house of repre-
sentatives at l o'clock Wednesday at
joint session of the house and senate.
The method of counting the vote is
prescribed with great detail by the
statute and was followed literally.
Great crowds thronged the galleries.
At 1856 o'clock proceedings in the
house were suspended and five rows of
seats upon the right of the hall we're
vacated for the members of the senate.
At one minute Of l o'clock the presi-
dent pro tenn. and members of the SEN
ate were announced. The members of
the house rose to receive them, while
page boys carrying the caskets in
which the electoral returns were de-
posted, took them to the clerks desk.
Senator Frye, president pro tenn of
the senate, assembled the rostrum and
took his place at the right of Speaker
Henderson to preside over the joint
session. Immediately below Speaker
Henderson aud Senator Frye, at the
clerks desk, were the tellers of the
two houses, Senators Chandler, of New
Hampshire, and Caffery, of Louisina,
and Representatives Grosyenor, of
Ohio, and Richardson, of Tennessee,
] Ao,,1yoJ -, o;Lbor bop1 bvv Ibo eooro-
tary of the senate, Mr.. Bennett, and
the clerk of the house, Mr.. Mcdowell.
Senator Frye raped for order and an
nounced the object Of the session.
Senator Frye said consent already
had been given to dispense with the
formal reading of the certificates, but
that he thought it might be necessary
to read the certificate of Arkansas,
owing to a slight irregularity. This
showed that one of the electors had
been absent and that the governor had
appointed O substitute. The certificate
was not challenged, however, and the
tellers proceeded to announce the
result in each state. A lapsus linguae
by General Grosvenor, when he an
nounced the Colorado vote, created a
general outburst of merriment. He
announced that Colorado had cast four
votes for William J. Bryan, of Nebras-
ka, and four for Theodore Roosevelt,
of New York, for vice president.
"Oh," shouted Mr.. Richardson, one
of the Democratic tellers, while the
members of the senate and house on
the floor and spectators in the gala
ries joined in the laughter which fol-
lowed. Mr.. Grosvenor corrected the
error and the announcement of the
several states then proceeded in alpha
betical order
The certificates were not uniform
and the operation of opening the
bulky packages aud seeking out the
result was attended with many delays.
When Maryland's eight votes were en-
nouDced for Mckinley and Roosevelt
there was slight ripple of applause
and the same response was made tc
the announcement of Nebraska's vote
General Grosvenor announced thu
vote of the presidents own state O.
Ohio, but it created no demonstration
Upon the conclusion of the announce
ment of the vote of Wyoming, by di
rection of the presiding officer, tn,
tellers formally ascertained the totals
Senator Chandler announced tn,
total number of votes cast as 447, o
which William Mckinley, of Ohio, re
ceived for president of the Unitet
States 292; William J. Bryan, o
Nebraska, 1866, and of which Theodor
Roosevelt, of New York, received TO
vice president 292, and Adlai E
Stevenson, of Illinois, 155.
Thereupon, in accordance with tn
statute, Senator Frye proclaimed tn
state of the vote as delivered to him
"This announcement of the state 0
the vote by the president of the sen
ote," said he, sis by the law, a sufi
cient declaration that William McKin
, ley, of the state of Ohio, is electe,
president of the United States, an
that Theodore Roosevelt, of the stat
of New York, is elected vice president
each for the term, beginning March 4
1901, and will be entered togethe
with a list of the votes on the journal
? of the senate and house of represer
tatives.
The count of electoral votes havin
been completed and the result declal
: ed, the joint meeting of the two house
2 is dissolved and the senate will no
, return to its chamber"
The joint meeting was then dissolved
A tremendous outburst of applaus
, swept over the galleries..