The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-01-23
RECEIVES FIFTY VOTES IN BOTH
HOUSES.
ONE MORE IS NECESSARY
Presiding Officers Of Lower Branch
Will Be Called Upon to Decide
Which Is Real Senate.

Denver, Jan. 20.-Both houses of
the general assembly balloted for
United States senator at noon today.
Henry M. Teller received SO votes,
only n less Inan is needed to elect.
Senator MCGUIRE, a democrat, refrain
ed from voting, but he subsequently
said he would vote for Teller if it
should appear that he could be elect
ed.
Only two republican senators were
in the senate chamber when the vote
for senator was taken and they did
not respond when their names were
called. Soon afterwards the nine
regular republican senators, the two
who were expelled by the democratic
majority and the seven contestants
who had been sworn in on the steps
of the capitol last night, assembled
in the lieutenant governors room
and formed a separate organization.
Senator M. q. Farwell was elected
president pro tenn, G. F. Hogan Sec
rotary and Thomas Mcmahon SER
geant at arms, the senate o1tlcers pre-
previously chosen being ordered re-
moved. A ballot was then taken for
senator.
Two Senates in Session.
A resolution u,oc oHnnf0d rofifuino
the governor that the senate had re-
organized and was ready for business.
Subsequently two of the regularly
elected republican senators, Drake of
Larimer county and Cornforth of Ell
Paso, left the Haggot senate and re-
turned to the senate chamber, where
they announced that they would act
with the regular senate and would
no longer participate in a farce"
Under the constitution Lieutenant
Governor Haggot is the presiding Of
ficer of the joint session which is .
meet at noon tomorrow to vote fo,
senator. He will insist that the body
over which he presided today was the
regular senate and that it's vote for
senator should be accepted.
Speaker to Decide.
The speaker of the house will then
be caleld upon to decide which senate
shall be recognized as regular. Com
parison of the journals will show that
no one has been elected senator. 1t
will then be necessary for the joint
session to proceed with balloting un-
til a senator is chosen. If the demo,
| cratic senate is recognized and the
house remains with it's present mem.
| bership, as seem likely, Senator Tel
Ter may be reelected: On the con
| trary, if the republican senate is rec
| ognized, there is likely to be no cleo
! ton and the bal1oting will continue
indefinitely.
Governor Remains Neutral.
Edward o. Wolcott, the leading re
publican candidate for senator, and
his followers are urging the governor
to call out the militia to place Haggot
and the republicans in possession OF
the chamber. Governor Peabody
said today he would not Interfere
His friends are advising him to keep
hands off, and they point out That II
he recognizes the Haggot senate nc
legislation can be enacted at this
| session and the state government
must go without funds for two years
as appropriation bills could not legal
ly be enacted.
The republican leaders of the house
| refused today to carry out the VOL
colt programme and nuseat n clever
| Arapahoe county democrats. The sen
ate remains in continuous session, but
will not remove more republicans
pending further aggression by the
house.
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