The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1901-02-21
M'KINLEY IS ELECTED
Joint Session CT Congress Fati.
fies the Peoples Choice.
ELECTORAL VOTE IS COUNTED

The Galleries Were Crowded to
Witness Formalities of the
Interesting Event.
The ceremony of counting the cleo
toral vote for president and vice resi-
dent cast at tie election last fall took
place in the hall of the house OF repro
sentatives at ! O'Clock Wednesday at
| Joint session of the house and senate.
The method OF couLting lie vote is
prescribed with great detail by the
statute aud was followed literally.
Great crowds thronged the galleries.
At 1856 o'clock proceedings in the
house were suspended aud FIVE rows OF
seats upon the right of the hall were
vacated for the members of the senate.
At one minute of l o'clock the presi.
dent pro tenn. aud members Of tle SEN
ate we're 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, ascended 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, st the
clerks desk, were the tellers of the
two houses, Senators Chandler, of New
Hampshire, and Caffery, of Louisina,
and Representatives Grosvenor, OF
Ohio. and Richardson, of Tennessee,
hanked ON either hand by the secre-
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 !! 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 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
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 we're not uniform
and the operation of opening the
bulky packages aid seeking ont the
result was attended with many delays.
When Maryland's eight votes were en-
uounced for Mckinley and Roosevelt
there was a 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 di-
rection of the presiding officer, the
tellers formally ascertaired the totals.
Senator Chandler announced the
total number of votes cast as AT, OF
which William Mckinley, of Ohio, re-
ceived for president of the United
States 292; William J. Bryan, OF
Nebraska, 155, aud of which Theodore
Roosevelt, of New York, received for
vice president 292, and Adlai E:
Stevenson, of Illinois, 155.
fhereupon, in accordance with the
statute. 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 SEN
| ote," said he, sis by the Jaw, suffi.
cient declaration that William McKin-
ley, of the state of Ohio, is elected
president of the United States, 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 together
with list of the votes on the journals
| of the senate and house of represen-
tatives.
The count of electoral votes having
been completed and the result declar-
ed, the joint meeting of the two houses
is dissolved and the senate will now
return to its chamber"
The joint meeting was then dissolved.
A tremendous outburst of applause
swept over the galleries.