The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1907-01-11
RICHARD s. WHALEY
ELECTED SPEAKER
OPENING OF SESSION OF GEN
ERAL ASSEMBLY YESTERDAY.
Withdrawal of Mr.. Nash From Race
Simplifies Election-The Other
Officers.

opcaker-Rlchard Smith Whaley or
Charleston.
Clerk-Thomas C. IIamer, Jr., of
Bennettsville.
Reading Clerk-John S. Withers
of Chester.
Sergeant-at-arms-Jo S. Wilson
of Lancaster.
Chaplain-Rev. r. N. Pratt Of Co.
lumbia.
Contrary to general expectation
but two ballots were held for speak
er when the house of representatives
met Tuesday at noon. On the first
ballot the voting was for Messrs.
Richard S. Whaley of Charleston, D.
d. McColl, Jr., of Bennettsville and
j. W. Nash of Spartanburg. On the
result Of the vote being announced
and there not being necessary ma
.joirty to elect, the name of Mr. Nash
was withdrawn and Mr.. Wfhaley was
elected by vote of 81 to 55.
With all that, however, it took the
body three hours to finish the elec-
Z tions and select their seats and it
was necessary for the reading of the
governors message to be postponed
until today, noon. A part of this time
was spent in discussion over the adop-
,tion of the rules for the session and it
took the house Is minutes to decide
/. whether or not the election of chap
lain should be postponed.
... Mr.. Gary Presides. ...
The gallery and floor were crowd
ed when Mr.. Thomas G. Hamer, act
ing clerk. raped for order at noon
4 and asked for the election of tenn
porary chairman. Mr.. John G.
q Richards, Jr., nominated Mr. Frank
lib. Gary Of Abbeville. Mr.. Gary was
Il unanimously elected and on taking
8the chair ordered the calling of the
a9Troll. Mcssrs Courtenay Of Aiken.
H Doar Of Georgetown and Cause Of
q williamsburg were absent. There
sswas one ray Of humor in the other
Ewise routine and dull proceedings.
MI. Hamcr called the roll from the
sst1ewspaper list printed some time ago
and when Clarendon was reached read
name of d. l.. Green. There was no
Ssanswer and he was about to be mark
ed absent when a member Of the dele
sgation informed the clerk that Mr..
Green failed of reelection.
S Election Of Speaker.
ssSA The election of speaker came next.
gSNIr. j. p. Gibson of Marlboro, in a
short speech nominated Mr.. McColl.
ssIt was seconded by Mr.. Croft of Ak
Zen.
81 Mr. George f. Won Kolnitz Of
ssSCharleston placed before the assem-
Ably the name of Mr.. Richard S.
Whaley, which was seconded by Mr..
FRASER of Sumter.
81 DR.. J. Fl. Miller of Laurens nomi-
mated Mr.. J. w. Nash, which was sec
Sonded by Mr.. M. w. Walker of
Spartanburg., The nominations then
CLOSED. Messps. Won Kolnitz, Richards
g.and Miller were appointed tellers.
SOn the first ballot the vote stood as
\ follows:
'| Whaley.
Aull, Banks, Beattie, A. G. Brice,
Bryan, Carey, Carrigan, Clinkscales,
Cosgrove, Cothran, Cox, DeVore, J. B.
Dodd, Fraser, Frost, Greer, Gyles,
Hall, Harley Hemphill, Hinton, Hy-
drick, Kellahan, Lawson, Legare,
Mann, Marshall, Nesbitt, Nicholson.
Niver, Parker, Patterson, Rucker.
Saye, Scarborough, Sellers, Shipp, d.
Z. Smith, K. P. Smith, Spivey, Still
ell, Thomas, Todd, Vanderhorst,
erner, Won Kolnitz, Wade, Wallace,
hite Wiggins Wimberley, Wing
Yeldell, Youmans-55.
McOoll.
yer, Bailey, Ballentine, Bethunc,
Brantley, T. S. ,Brice, Cannon,
pn, Carwile, Croft, Cutler, Der
Dick, Dingle, Dixon, Douglass,
ng, Epps, Epting, Garris, j. P.
: ii, Glasscock, Harris, Hughes,
Kershaw, tKirven, Lane, Les
eitner, Little, McKeown, McMas-
tiley, Norton, Richards, Richard
Robinson, Sawyer, Scruggs,
e, Slaughter, J 81 p. Smith,
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