The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1909-01-26
JONES CHIEF JUSTICE.
Joint Assembly Of Legislature Elects
Lancaster Judge by Vote Of
96 to S..

The general assembly Of the State
of South Carolina on Thursday elect
ed Ira 3. Jones. at present ali asSo>
ciate justice, as chief ju>il:.e OF the
State supreme conYt. There were but
two names placed Before the io!n- As
senlb1, =. >:*ociate Justice Eugene B.
Gary Il Ab5evilly. Al present The
rankin" member Of the bench, and
Associate Justice Ira B. Jones of
Lancaster, also of the supreme bench.
Several seconds We're made to the
nominations and the balloting con-
sumed but little time. Justice Ira B.
Jones received 96 votes and Justice
Eugene 3. Gary received 65 votes.
The joint assembly was called to
order at II 'clock. the senate resolu-
ton Of last Saturday being sent over
and adopted, although Mr.. Sawyer
suggested l o'clock as a substitute,
which was voted down.
Senator Williams of Lancaster
nominated Ira B. Jones who had, he
said, served faithfully and we'll on
the supreme bench and was we'll
qualified to fill the vacancy caused
by the resignation Of Chief Justice
Y. J. Pope. The nomination was sec
onded by Representative Foster and
others.
Senator Graydon Of Abbeville
nominated Eugene B. Gary and made
an argument for the election of the
senior associate justice, stating that
it was following precedent, that Mr..
Gary was entirely capable and
worthy in every respect to assume the
high Office and that the State would
honor itself in elevating Mr.. Gary.
The nomination was seconded by
Representatives Clark, Ashley and
others and after several seconds for
each candidate the ballot was order
ed taken, the result being as follows:
For Ira 3. Jones.
Senators Appel;. Bass, Carlisle,
Christensen. CroSson, Forrest, Har-
din, Harvey. JohnStone, Laney, Lide,
Mau lin, McKeithan, Montgomery,
Muck:nfuss, Otis, Rogers, SinAer,
Spivey, Stewart, Sullivan, Summers,
Walker, Weston, Williams-25.
Representatives Amick, Berg,
Bodie, Bowers, Bowman, Brice,
Brown, Bunch, Bush, Carrigan, Car
ter, Celey, Clary, Coker, Cosgrove,
Cothran, Daniel, Duvall, E. c. Ed
wards, Foster, Fraser, Fultz, Gasque,
J. P. Gibson, Green, Greer, Grifhn,
Hall, Hamer, Harmon, Hines, Hollis,
Horger, Hydrick. Klbler, Lawson,
Lengnick, McColl, McEarchern, Nc
Keown, McMahan, Mobley, Ncsbitt,
Niver, Nunnery, Richards, Ridgell, G.
NJ. Riley, Rucker, 0. L. Sanders,
Scarborough, Seibels, Shuler, Shuler,
CA Smith, K P Smith, Spears, Suy-
dan, Tobias, Utsey, VanderHorst,
Vaughn, Wade, Whatley, Wiggins,
Williams, Wilson, Wilson, Wingo,
Wright, Speaker Whaley-1.
For Eugene B. Gary.
Senators Bates, Black, Carpenter,
Clifton, Croft, Earle, Graydon, Grif-
fin, Hough, johnson, Kelley, Rains
ford, Smith, Townsend, Waller,
Wharton-16.
Representatives Ashley, Ashley,
Aver, Boyd, Browning, ". D. Bryan,
Cantrell, Carey, Carwile, Clark, Dick,
Dinsle, Dixon, I. Edwards, Garris, ".
j. Gibson, Glasscock, Graham, Garris,
Harrison, Harrison, Irby, Jackson,
Lane. League, Lee, LELAND, Mann,
Mars, Mauldin, Moseley, Nicholson,
Patterson, Paulling, Robertson,
Roessler, D.: c: Sanders, Sawyer,
simpkins, Singleton, N. L. Smith,
Stanley, Stubbs, Sullivan, Sullivan,
Todd, Way. Well, Wyche-49.
Accordingly Justice Ira B. Jones
was declared elected. The senate
then retired and the house proceeded
with the regular business.
The election of Justice Jones to be
chief justice means that it will be
necessary for the general assembly to
elect an associate justice and this
will be arranged for when Gov. Ansel
sends special message to the gener-
al assembly. Justice Jones Will pro-
badly send in his resignation at once,
said resignation to take effect in
April, according to the date Of the