The Pensacola journal., 1913-02-13
BY ASSOCIATED PhEss.

Washington, Feb. 12.-Congress to-
day declared woodrow Wilson elected
president of the United States and
Thomas r. Marshall elected vice-pres-
ident.
The electoral vote certificates, open
ed in the presence of the house and
senate, sitting together, showed that
Mr.. Wilson and Mr.. Marshall received
435 electoral votes; that Theodore
Roosevelt for president and Hiram w.
Johnson, for president, received
SS votes and that William H. Taft for
president and Nicholas Murray Butler,
for vice-president, received 8 votes.
The certificates from the states,
each sealed in the envelope in which
it 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 SEN
ate had made arrangements by federal
orders to suspend business shortly be-
! fore O'clock and assemble in the
house chamber in the Joint conven-
] ton" provided for by the constitution.
i; Two senate pages, William F, Jur-
/ gensen and Nelson c. Carlisle, had
been designated to carry the box Of
electoral votes. Ahead of them, in the
line of march decided upon by officers
| of the senate, came Sergeant at arms
E. T.. Cornelius and Immediately be-
hind them Senator Bacon, presiding
officer of the senate; Secretary Ben
nett and the members of the senate in
! double column.
| Formally attended every stage of
the proceedings leading up to the
count of the vote. Senators Dilling-
ham and MARITIME and Representatives
Rucker, of Missouri, and s. W. Smith,
, of Michigan, had been appointed tell
ers for the respective houses to can
vass and count the vote.
SENATOR BACON PRESiDES.
The honor Of presiding over the Joint
| convention fell to Senator Bacon, as
presiding officer of the senate. A chair
at the left provided a place for Speaker
Clark and house members had ar
ranged to vacate the first four rows OF
seats at the right of the speakers desk
to make room for senators.
The program provided that the sem
ator carrying the electoral vote should
be met at the door of the house by
the door keeper and announced the
members of the house receiving the
visitors with a rising welcome.
The electoral vote borne by the two
pages was required to be delivered di-
rect to the speakers desk, where the
presiding officer Of the joint convention
took charge of it. opened the certih-
Gates. asked any objection" had been
fled to any states votes, and handed
the formal certificates to the tellers for
counting.
The total vote as ascertained by the
eAS nl 0f a Ff
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:
."rhis announcement of the state IF
the vote, by the president Of the SEN
ate. shall be deemed a sufficient decla-
ration of the persons elected president
and vice-president of the United
States for the term beginning March
4 1918, and shall be entered together
with list of the votes on the journals
of the two houses.
When the house and senate after
observation of Lincoln day exercises,
finally got into joint session, the
counting of the vote began. There
was tense interest at first. but as the
counting went on. conversation on the
floor almost drowned the announce
nent of the tellers.
REPRESENTATIVE Rucker, OF Missouri,
rersisted in announcing votes Tor
William Wilson"
AS each certificate was read 1t was
aprroved and recorded An attempt
at applause when Alabana's twelve
votes were announced for Wilson was
sunmarily c,7t off with the announce
ment that demonstrations were for
hidden.