The Farmington times and herald. (Farmington, St. Francois Co., Mo.) 1902-1905, 1905-03-24
The Republicans Last Saturday, at the
Close Of the Session, Elect q Sen.
ator-DisgracefuI and Riot.
Gus Scenes.

OF the Missouri General Assembly
succeeded in electing n United
States Senator ten minutes before
the hour set for adjournment last
Saturday afternoon. Major Will
liam Warner of Kansas City was
the man upon whom the warning
factions, IN the frantic fear that
the moment of adjournment would
arrive without an election, finally
centered their votes, and he was
chosen to succeed Senator Cock q.
rell.
Every effort was made and all
sorts of schemes tried to bring the
Niedringhaus and kercns factions
together, but the latter were deter.
mined that the regular caucus nom.
lnec should not be elected, and the
supporters of Niedringhaus were
equally determined that neither
kerens DER weening ambition
should be gratifcd or that he should
dictate the man to he elected. Ev.
cry effort to bring the contending
factions together on Il compromise
candidate ended in utter failure
The situation was desperate when
the Assembly met in joint session
on Saturday, the last day of the leg.
islativr session; and three o clock
the time set for sine die adjourn
mcnt, was close at hand after six
unsuccessful ballots had been taken
the hands on the dial of the House
clock marked half past two.
The Democrats nursed the hope
that the time would go 10y either
without an election or that some OF
the Republicans would do ms they
had threatened, vote for Cockrel! be
fore they would allow theLcglslaturc
to adjourn without clectiug n Sena-
tor. Niedringhaus had gotten out of
the way and persuaded all but three
or four OF his supporters to vote for
Warner. kerens supporters were
still bushwhacking and refused to
leave him. Several Democrats had
stationed themselves under the
llOnsc clock to Ohstruct that far.
cnl custom of Legislative bodies of
stopping it or turning back the
hands when the hour of final nd.
jOurnmcnt approaches and the buSi-
ness of the session is unfinished.
At sight of this the Republicans
became frantic, and some of them
started to carry the ladder to the
clock to turn back the hands, when
Il Democrat grabbed it and threw
it ont of the window.
Then bcdlam broke loose. Re
publicans began to pick up file
books and throw them at the clock
The glass was broken, but the
pendulum kept up its regular
swinging to and fro. Stewart of
Warren became frantic. He gath.
cred inkstands from the desks and
hurled them at the clock. The
flying missiles scattered ink in their
wake, bespattering the desks, the
floor, the wall around the clock
and the dresses of the lady spccta.
tors in that part of the hall, caus-
ing the ladies' to flee from Their
seats. Eventually in his wild fury
he struck the clock and broke the
pendulum and the inanimate Of.
Tending monitor stopped.
While this was going on, Secre
tary Roach of the Senate refused tt
call the roll until some semblanct
of order was restored-it was prac
tically impossible to call the rol
and correctly tab the vote-wher
Chief Clerk Russell of the Hous,
grabbed a Senate roll call and be
gan shouting the names. His yell
ing could hardly be heard and th'
responses if any could not be dis
tinguished, put he proceeded will
the mock roll call amid the creates
confusion. President Pro Ten
Fields of the Senate and Speake,
Hill Of the House waved their hands
up and down and tried to quiet thu
mob. Russell finished his noel
roll call, putting down the Repub
licaus as voting for Warner nm,
the Democrats for Cockrell.
President Pro TEN Fields man
aged to secure a semblance Of or
der and a final ballot for Senate
was taken, which resulted in 9
votes for Warner and SO for Cock
rell. 1t was ten minutes to thre