Omaha daily bee., 1907-01-16
Only Formal Ratification in Joint Session
Now Remains for Body.
no FUSS OR FEATHERS ABOUT ELECTION
Each Branch Proceeds in Due Order and
with Appropriate DecOrum.
iov. SHELDON INTERESTED SPECTATOR
Sits with Speaker I'm House by Invita-
tion OF that Body and with Lieu
tenant Governor I'm senate
During Roll CsII.
(Fnom a stan Correspondent }

(Fnom a stan Correspondent
LINCOLN, Jan. 15.-(Special)-By sep
arate ballots cast in each house the Ne.
braska legislature really elected Norris
Brown of Kearney United States senator
today. although the formality of proclaim
ing the result and introducing the
senator will not take place until a Joint
session is held tomorrow noon. Senator
elect Brown will succeed to the full six
| year term of Senator Joseph H. Millard
of Omaha, who, although he had an
| nounced his candidacy publicly and never
| withdrawn it, failed to receive single
vote for recollection. Each republican in
/ both houses, with the exception of two,
who were absent, answered the roll call
| by rising in his seat and repeating the
| name of Norris Brown, the republican con-
| vention nominee, while each fusionist cast
! his vote for w. II. Thompson OF Grand
| Island, the nominee of the populist and
democratic state conventions. The house
| voted at IL o'clock in the morning and
| the senate at IL o'clock noon. Not n sign
of a break was noted anywhere beyond the
nervous laundering of Senator Clarke, who
in responding Immediately after a fusion
senator who had called out w. H. Thomp-
son repeated the name of w. II. Thomp-
son and then quickly corrected himself
so to be recorded for Norris Brown In
the house the vote stood 81 for Brown
and 81 for Thompson and in the senate
2S for Brown and for Thompson. The
two absentees were Representatives Baird
of Valley and Richardson of Gosper. each
of whom had been excused on account of
illness.
Joint Session Today.
A Joint session of both houses will be held
at u o'clock tomorrow and Mr.. Brown will
| he Of he of he tNyn
and invited to address the Legislature A
record of the proceedings will be furnished
Governor Sheldon and the new senator will
be given his certificate of election. He will
take the oath of office at Washington.
Chairman w. b. Rose of the republican
state committee, who managed the prem-
mary fight for Mr.. Brown. telephoned the
, action of the two houses to the new SEN
ator, who was at his home. Immediately
after the vote was taken and announced.
, The news was no surprise to the former
attorney general He received II in his
usual happy manner and expressed his
, pleasure at the action of the legislature, and
at the same time acknowledged the grave
, responsibility which has been put upon him.
4 Routine of the Law,
Z The election of Mr.. Brown came as a mat
ter of routine business before each house,
and in neither was there any demonstration
Ger that a new senator had been chosen.
In the house a, the time the vote was taken
there were Few visitors present, while the
senate was comfortably filled with members
of the house and others. Governor Sheldon
and Speaker Nettle. sat with Lieutenant
Governor Hopewell while the vote be-
ing taken in the senate and Governor Shell
: don was beside Speaker Nettleton when the
: roll was called in the house The governor
. no Of he ahn Iv
. before the hour set for the special order OF
business and was recognized by Tucker OF
= Douglas, who moved that he be invited to a
! seat in the chamber. This was at once
: unanimously carried and as he was escorted
!, to the seat beside the speaker the house
g members loudly applauded him.
- In the house Speaker Nettleton at II
O'Clock announced the hour had arrived
q for vote for United States senator. and
in the senate at 12 o'clock Lieutenant Gov
IS ernor Hopewell made the same announce
a ment The federal statutes providing for
n the vote was read and the roll was called.
Not a single republican. democrat or popu-
- list broke faith with the people Each
e voted as he had been instructed to vote
IT by his state convention the republicans
going on record for Norris Brown and
,s the democrats and populists for w. H.
ss Thompson.
" In so far as the republicans are concerned
II the election OF Mr.. Brown means pledge
lie No. / in their platform has been faith
fully kept, though every art known to cor
r poration lobbyists has been employed to
: get the members of the legislature to break
away from them. Each failed and each
- stand OF the opposition has been more
feeble than the one before, eliminating In
the humiliating spectacle witnessed In the
Al.
no resolution offered through the fusionist
vs member, Van Housen of Colfax. was voted
m down almost unanimously.
=, When the legislature FIRST arrived In LIN
90 coin a delegation from Omaha came down TO
t- find some comfort for Senator Millard and
for several days worked on the members.
bs but without success. Not a republican was
rv found willing to respond TO their entreaties
This delegation left, but there remained the
ed railroad lobby, which was also behind the
rn Millard movement, and this lobby tried In
So vain to get a republican to introduce the
ds Van Housen resolution to cast a cloud on
re- the reputation Of Norris Brown. Only al
at the last minute of the last hour fusionist
70 was secured TO do the Job
At the Joint session tomorrow the Law
requires the reading Of the journal OF bott
~ houses on the matter OF voting for a sen.
" ator. The only roll call will be to record
who is present. Mr.. Brown has already
:" been elected and the session tomorrow II
merely a formal ratification meeting.
Suspicious of Trolley Bill.
The house railroad committee began Il
m wrestle with house roll No. l tonight
nd which is a bill fathered by Representative
ny Lee OF Douglas. relating to the acqulsi
as- ton OF suburban trolley lines by stree
ng railway companies. Some members OF IN
Of committee were disposed 10 look with de
clded suspicion upon the measure as 1
mt there were something concealed about
a not visible TO the naked eye. II was sug
81 gested Il might be a scheme 10 lay track
OFT under guise Of a trolley system 10 b
his turned over later to some steam railroai
lse octopus. The bin finally put owe
a