Henderson Elected Speaker

HENDERSON

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Date: 8/6/2008 at 21:58:12

Dubuque Herald
December 5, 1899

HENDERSON ELECTED SPEAKER OF HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Washington, Dec. 4-
The opening of the fifty-sixth congress-
“The next thing in order, “ announced the clerk, “is the election of the speaker.”
Mr. Hepburn, of Iowa, offered a resolution which was adopted viva voce, providing that the house proceed to the election of a speaker for the fifty-sixth congress. Thereupon Mr. Grosvenor, of Ohio, as chairman of the Republican caucus, presented the name of David B. Henderson, of Iowa. The mention of the name of Gen. Henderson was greeted with a round of applause from the Republican side.

Mr. Hay, of Virginia, chairman of the Democratic caucus, nominated James D. Richardson, of Tennessee, and his name drew the plaudits of the Democratic side.

Mr. Ridgeley, of Kansas, nominated John S. Bell, of Colorado, as the candidate of the Populists, and Mr. Wilson, of Idaho, placed Francis G. Newlands, of Nevada, in nomination as the candidate of the Silver Party.

Each party having put forward its candidate, by the direction of the clerk the roll was called and each member voted for the candidate of his political affiliation.

The roll resulted: Henderson, 177; Richardson, 135; Bell, 4, and Newlands, 2. The clerk thereupon announced the election of Mr. Henderson amid great Republican applause.

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