Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-02-12
JOINT SESSION is HELD
Senator Bacon Presides Over Long
and Formal Ceremonies.
ONES APPLAUD
GLEEFUL
Galleries Crowded by Interested
Spectators and Capitol Assumes
Holiday Air.

noon to the announcement that Woodrow
Wilson had been elected President of
the United States, with 43o electoral
votes to his credit. and that Col. Roose-
velt had IS and President Taft S.
This was really the formal election
of a President, and the Senate injected
much Of it's dignity into the House for
three hours this afternoon while the
tellers solemnly announced that each
state had delivered SO many votes to
the three candidates
The Senate visited the House in a body.
headed by three Capitol policemen and
two pages bearing caskets in which the
certificates had been locked for safe keep
ing.
Senator Bacon took charge Of the pro-
ceedings in the House for the announce
ments, and the certificates of the states
were read off by Senator Dillingham; and
Senator MARITIME. tellers for the Senate.
and Representatives Rucker and Young,
tellers for the House
Senator Bacon warned the assemblage
that 1t was solemn occasion, but the
gleeful ones could not help breaking out
with a little applause now and then.
Galleries Fill Early.
The galleries of the House began TO
be filled early. BY 10 o'clock crowds
of people. mostly women. were throng-
ing the corridors of the Capitol, and as
admission was to be obtained by spe
cial card only seats in the galleries
today were of great value. One wom-
an. who was determined to get a per-
feet view Of the proceedings. arrived at
| $3.50 o'clock and obtained a place In
IL IL ? nj n
| and prepared for long siege. There
were no vacant gallery seats at IL
o'clock. and the several hundred oc-
cupants We're entertained by the sight
| into the hall. The pages distributed
yard long sheets, giving the details
| of the electoral vote. placing one on
, the desk of each representative, until
| the chamber appeared to have been
| whitened by a light snowstorm.
| Every one about the Capitol bore a
holiday air. The representatives looked
! to be dressed up for the occasion, and
| many OF them were decorated with car
| nations. On the democratic side several
| members had brought children. and Rep
resentative Webb of North Carolina had
! n sweet little eight-year-old girl I'm q
! pink froci and pink hair ribbon sitting
beside him. Representative Watt r.
| Denver's little daughter. in II white sailor
! suit. with broad blue collar. looked as
proud as any democrat in the House
Seats for the Senators.
! In order to seat the senator's who paid
| the House their quadrennial visit the
| regulation chairs in the first three rows
| on the democratic side had been removed
| and closely crowded cane-bottom chairs
| had been substituted.
People in the galleries could see many
| ante-election luminaries as they sat wait
f,.a.f pora-
ressentative Mckinley, who managed the
! TAFT campaign. read a newspaper dur
! ing the hour preceding the arrival of the
/ grave and reverend senators in their
! frock and other coats. Representative
| Henry and other cabinet possibilities
were fitting around like humming birds.
Page Boys Carry Votes.
Escorted by a big majority Of the men,
| bers Of the Senate. two Of the smallest
| of the Senate page boys carried the
precious electoral votes from the office
Of the Vice President. where they were
deposited by messengers from the vari-
Gus states to the desk of the Speaker
Of the House, where they were counted.
The two boys. of about the same height
and dressed I'm black suits with knee
trousers upon whom the honor was con-
ferred were William +. Jorgensen and
Nelson G. Carlisle. Young Jorgensen Is
the son of the inventor Of a rife that
bears that name. The boys We're selected
by Sergeant-at-Arms f. Livingstone Cor
nelius who was the master of ceremonies
so far as the Senate was concerned. !.
Locked in Two Boxes.
The electoral votes were locked up in
two inlaid mahogany boxes made in the
carpenter shop of the Capitol. When they
were delivered by the special messengers
from the forty-eight states of the Union
to Harry f. Devendorf, secretary to the
late Vice President, he deposited them In
the vice presidential safe and they were
kept there until a couple Of days ago.
They We're then packed in the two boxes
ready for delivery to the House when
President Pro Tempore Bacon of the
Senate ordered it.
In the presence of the Senate this after
noon the ballot boxes were placed on the
desk of the Senate clerks.
Under a previous order of the Senate,
that body began its march 10 the hall or
the House at ten minutes before O'Clock.
The two little page boys llfted the pai,
lot boxes from the clerks desk, and, LED
by SerReant-at-Arms Cornelius, proceed
ed to the main door OF the Senate. Be
hind them came the senators, with fres-
ident Pro Tempore Bacon. who was 10
The procession went slowly along the
long corridor to the main entrance OF the
House through the rotunda and through
StatLary Hall At the door of the House
there was n minutes delay until the CON-
ing of the Senate could be formally an
nounced In the House.
Move With Dignity.
The senators took their places in the
House with the same sort Of precision
as old-time country church elders filed
up to the mourners' bench, and the House
quit talking and gossiping while the
senators came In.
Senator Bacon took the Speakers chair
and told every one that the votes were
about to be counted. Senators DillinR-
ham and MARITIME and Representatives
Young of Michigan and Rucker Of Mis-
souri, went to the desk. Senator Bacon
told the House and visiting senators TO
keep quiet and not to break out in loud
cries and huzzahs over the figures as they
were announced.
Alabama First Polled.
Alabama. the state of Representative
Oscar Underwood. himself a presidential
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