The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-03-19
WARNER MISSOURPS SENATOR
ELECTED AS THE LEGISLATURE
MAS TO ADJOURN.
Former Chief Of the @. 4. n.
Chosen TO Succeed Mr. COchFeli
Scenes OF Great Turbulence IN the
Final JOint Session 1T jefferson city.

Chosen TO Succeed Mr. Cockfeh
Scenes OF Great Turbulence IN the
Final Joint Session at Jefferson city.
JHEFERsoN CITY, MARCH is.-Major Will
liam Warner was elected United States
Senator to-day on the sixty ballot
He received Of votes His closest com
petitor, Senator Cockrell, received IS votes.
The Joint session dissolved soon after the
election Of Major Warner.
Wild eTeitsment in which members
fought one another, smashed the clock to
prevent adjournment and made attempts
! TO pull President Mckinley Of the Senate
from the presiding officers chair, marked
the last hours Of tho General Assembly
For more than half an hour the House
chamber, where the joint session was held,
was In the possession Of mob Of legislators
who seemed 10 have lost control Of them
selves Such a scene Of disorder has prob
| ably never before been witnessed In Mis-
souri, legislative halls.
Before the rollcall on the sixty seventh
ballot was taken, Col r. G. Kerens entered
the House chamber on the arm Of Senator
Peck of Atohison county. He was escorted
to the stand and took a seat beside President
Mckinley. The crowd eheered wildly,
realizing that some development was near
at hand.
Senator McDavid Of Greene county at
once moved that the joint assembly dissolve
He was recognized by the chairman, and
on the demand Of the Democrats q rolloall
was taken on the question Of dissolution.
While the rollcal on the que stion Of dis
solution was being taken Kerens sat be-
tween President Mckinley and Senator
Peck. The motion was defeated, 50 to 81.
When a measure Of quiet was restored,
Col. Kerens said:
mir PRESIDENT AND GENTLEMEN OF
| THE ASSEMBLY, Gallantry requires me,
before proceed, to acknowledge the pres
ence Of ladies'. do not think it necessary
for me to say am Republican. This
is a Republican Assembly. Its duty Ia to
elect a Senator, and that Senator, let me
say, must be a Republican. II Major
Warner is your choice, l say God speed to
him and to you; to elect him.
Then there was confusion worse con-
founded. Republicans cheered and Demo-
Gratis shouted. Senator Dickinson rushed
to the front and frantically moved a recess
for thirty minutes, and that a rollcall be
had on the motion. HE got It, His motion
was lost Amid boisterous cries Of Mr..
President" the president ordered a roll
call McDavid, pale with anger, and
McAllister cried: NO appeal and the
roll began. 1t was clearly Democratic
play to delay the election, and it resulted
in provoking a riot,
Personal difficulties we're averted mar
rowly. Several persons tried TO interfere
with Representative Godfrey, who went
toward the clerk as though 70 stop II.
He succeeded in hurting an inkstand.
Then some one else sent a similar missile
through one Of the large windows. Rep
resentative Wells Of Dunklin was. on top
OF desk with a chair uplifted. Others
got it away from him.
Then Senator Dave Nelson declared
he would pull the presiding officer from the
stand, and startel forward to exec To the
threat. Senator Kinealy forced his way
through the crowd, which began to mass
about the speakers stand, to stop him,
but Senator Frank Farris, who was on the
steps leading to the stand, prevented Mr..
Nelson from going further.
At this time although the clock had been
out Of commission for some time. Senator
DoweN mounted chair and pointed to the
time piece, saying 3 O'Clock" Some one
had moved its hands up to point that hour.
Despite his cries, Dowel would not look at
his watch to see whether II was the hour
he declared. It was then 100. When quiet
was restored the sixty-seventh ballot was
ordered with the above result. Seven bal
lots we're taken tu-dsy before an election
was had.
William Warner was born in Wisconsin
in 1870, and was educated at Lawrence Uni
versity, Wisconsin. At the University Of
Michigan he studied law and was then
admitted to the bar. He enlisted in the
army in 1852 and served In the Thirty-third
and Forty-fourth Wisconsin regiments I'M
til the close Of the civil war. In 1865 he
began the practice Of Law in Kansas City.
which has been his home ever since. He was
elected City Attorney in 1857, County At
torney in 1869 and Mayor In 1871. In 1872
he was a Republican Presidential Elector.
and in 1882 was appointed United States
District Attorney for Western Missouri,
serving two years.
Msjtr Warner was elected to Congress in
1885, serving two terms. He was the Republ-
can candidate for Governor In 1892 and in
1898 he was again appointed United States
District Attorney, retiring In 1907. He has
represented his party and State In the
national Republican conventions Of 1917,
1884, 1883, 1892 and 1899.
Major Warner has long been prominent
in the councils Of the @. A. r. and was Com
mander-in-Chie Of the order from 1883 to
1882