Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-02-13
Both Branches Make For
NAL Count and Announce
the Choice of Wilson and
Marshall. s..
FORMALITY ATTENDS
THE CEREMONIES
Senate Marches to House
Behind Pages Bearing
Box Of Votes and Bacon
Presides at Counting.

Washington, D. c., Feb. 12.-Con'
gress today declared Woodrow VIII
son elected president Of the united
States and Thomas r. Marshall elected
vice president.
The electoral vote certificates,
opened in the presence OF the mouse
and senate sitting together, showed
that Mr.. Wilson and Mr.. Marshall re-
ceiyed 435 electoral votes; that Theo-
dore Roosevelt for president and
Hiram w. Johnson for vice president
received 88 votes, and that William IL.
Taft for president and Nicholas Muir
raw Butler for vice president received
8 votes.
The official count took little more
than an hour.
The certificates from the states,
each sealed in the envelope in which
1t was delivered were taken out OF the
senate vault early today and put into
a big rosewood box, to be carried to
the house chamber. House and senate
had made arrangements by formal or
ders, to suspend business snortly pe-
fore 1 o'clock and assemble In the
house chamber IL. the "joint conven'
ton provided for by the constitution.
Senators March to House.
The senate pages, william j. Jurgen-
sen and Nelson G. Carlisle had been
designated to carry the box OF electoral
votes. Ahead of them, in the line OF
march decided on by officers OF the
senate came Sergeant-at-Arms r. j..
Cornelius, and Immediately behind
them Senator Bacon, presiding officer
of the senate; Secretary Bennett and
the members of the senate IN a double
column. ...
Formally attends every stage of the
proceedings leading up tr the count
of the votes. Senators n.iiingham and
MARITIME and Representa- -Rucker
of Missouri ard S. w. Smith OF Michi-
gan had been appointed tellers for
tho respective houses to canvass and
count the vote. Their places had been
arranged directly in front Of the speak
er's chair where they took the place OF
the house clerks during the progress
Of the joint convention
The honor of presiding over the
loint convention fell to Senator Bacon,
as presiding officer of the senate. A
chair at the left provided place for
Speaker Clark and house members had
arranged to vacate the first four rows
IF seats at the right Of the speakers
desk to make room for senators.
House Receives Senators Standing
The program provided that the SEN
ate, carrying the electoral vote, should
be met at the door of the house by
Doorkeeper Jos. J. Sinnott and an
no,1rced. the members of the house re-
ceiying the visitors with a rising well
come. "
The electoral vote, borne by the two
pages, was required to be delivered
direct to the speakers desk where the
presiding officer of the joint conven-
tion took charge Of 1t, opened the
certificates asked if any "objection"
had been filed to any states vote, and
handed the formal certificate to the
tellers for counting
The total vote as ascertained by the
tellers constituted the Official total Of
the Wilson and Marshall electoral vote.
The official proclamation by Senator
Bacon, prescribed in form by the rules
governing today's proceedings was as
follows: "
"This announcement of the states of
the vote, by the president Of the SEN
ate shall be deemed sufficient decla-
ration Of the persons elected president
and vice president Of the United
States, for the term beginning March
4. 1915 and shall be entered together
with list Of the votes. on the journals
Of the two houses