Show THE SPEAKERS Seventeen Ballots Resulted in No Choice I t CRISP SO FAR IS IN THE LEAD 31111s Is I Close Second Tho Caucus Adjourns till Monday Reed Is Nominated for Speaker by the Republicans WASHINGTON Dec 5Tho most remarkable remark-able contest in the opinion of old and experienced ex-perienced Congressmen for tho speaker ship of the House of Representatives that has taken place for many years reached Its last day this morning with no material change m the situation THE ATTACK ON SPNINGERS FORCES I designed to bring about the withdrawal of the Illinois candidate continues but Springer said this morning he could not bo forced to retire by defections in his own ranks that he was still resolved to go before I be-fore the caucus and stick to tho end A great deal of indignation i expressed by Springers warmest supporters support-ers at the abandonment of his canvass by members of his state delegation Other candidates are still confident of success Tee two loaders in the case still express confidence of winning but regard the situation situ-ation as serious and critical Each man known to bo in doubt is kept in sight and no persuasion omitted to induce him to definitely pledge himself I is generally believed that not more than two hundred and twenty members will go into the caucus cau-cus Estimates given show the leaders themselves are not far apart in their calculations calcu-lations and render it possible the absentees ab-sentees or votes for minor candidates until their flag is buried and the day lost may give the victory ono way or the other THE HALL OF THE IOUS began to fill up after 1 oclock though more than hal of ehe members present did not possess the voting privilege Several candidates can-didates have taken up headquarters in the committee rooms across the corridors from the hall Judge Holman has not yet succeeded I suc-ceeded in arranging his programme for the conduct of tho cacus He said nominating speeches would be limited to five minutes and seconding speeches to two minutes The order of placing candidates in nomination nomina-tion will probably bo Mills Crisp Springer Sprin-ger McMillan and Hatch Tho Illinois delegation held an informal meeting this morning and once more decided de-cided to stand by Springer though another begins meeting will be held before the caucus Nearly all the delegations of states i which have candidates for the speakership held secret caucuses at the capitol shortly before noon to prepare for the last final struggle Only in the meeting of the Illinois delegation was any general interest in-terest manifested as hopes are still entertained enter-tained by all thj other candidates that Springers forces would go to pieces on the first ballot A meeting of the delegation however failed to give them any great grounds for this hope It was simply agreed GENERAL NEWBERRT SIISULD PRESENT SPRINGERS NAME to the caucus and no action be taken in binding the Illinois Congressmen to Springer under the unit rule The failure of the Illinois friends of Mills to openly de sert bprlnger is duo to the action of the Michigan delegation Whiting of Michigan Michi-gan waited upon Messrs Forman Plthian and Wike of tho Illinois delegation and announced an-nounced the Michigan delegation had decided de-cided to give its entire support of seven votes to Springer upon the first ballot but that if any Illinois men deserted to Mills upon tho first ballot the Michigan delegation delega-tion would vote solidly for Crisp and endeavor en-deavor to effect his election The same announcement was made to Hayes and other Springer men of the Iowa delegation who were understood to be ready to go to Mills upon the first ballot A few minutes later Hayes informed an Associated Press reporter the Iowa delegation mIght conclude con-clude to remain loyal to Springer tor at least the Initial ballot I The Tennessee delegation resolved unanimously unan-imously to support McMillin until such time at least as his candidacy should be considered hopeless The caucus met and the first trouble came with tho question as to how voting should proceedby secret or open ballot I The question was referred to the committee 1 tee on rules consltting of one member named by each candidate The committee recommended an open ballot which report was submitted to the caucus and adonted Roll call showed tho presence of all the Democratic members except seven As stated by Chairman Holman 22 < Representatives Represen-tatives were present a majority of whom would be 114 Balloting then commenced Holman of Indiana voted for Springer and ONeill of Massachusetts voted for his colleague Stevens on tho first ballot There frst balot was a break in the Illinois delegation on the first ballot in the votes of Fithian Forman and Lane all of whom voted for Mills al Mis The Iowa delegation also voted solidly for Mills instead of Springer The first break in the Hatch column on the second ballot was Poll of Arkansas who transferred his vote to Crisp I was agreed the nomination of candidates candi-dates should be by name only and ballots taken by vivo voce vote a majority of all the votes cast to be necessary to a choice Mills was nominated by Culbertson of Texas Crisp by Blount of Georgia Springer by Nowberry of Illinois Mc Millin by Richardson of Tennessee and then Hatch began by Bland of Missouri Balloting TUB TIKST BALLOT resulted Crisp 84 Mills 78 Springer S3 McMillin 18 Hatch 1 Stevens 1 The details were as follows For Crisp I Anderson Alexander Allen Amorman Bacon Bankhead Beeman Bentiey Blanchard Blount Burch Bullock Bunn Cadmus Campbell Castle Catchings Clarke Alabama Cobb Alabama Cochran Coch-ran Compton Cowles Crawiord Cummings Cum-mings Daniels Donovan Dungan Dunphy Edmunds Elliott Ellis English Epes Everett Follows Fitch Forney Fowler Geissenhniner Gillespie Grady Greenleaf Haynes Hemphill Henderson Herbert Johnston ftnuth Carolina JonesKrlbbsLawson Georgia Layton Lester Virginia Lester Georgia Georg-ia Lewis Little Livingston Mallory McDonald McKay McRae Montgomery Moses Ortes OFejrellOuthwalte Owens Page Maryland PattisonPaynter Pend leton Rayner Robertson Rockwell Rusk i Stackhouse Stump Stillman Turner Turpin Van Horn Warwick Wheeler Alabama Williams North Carolina and Winn 84 For Mills Abbott Andrew Bailey Earwig Bowman Brawley Breckinridgo Arkansas Brecklnridge Kentucky Brett Brickner Brookshiro Brown Brun ner Bishnell Butler Bynum CamlnettI Capehart Caruth Cato Causey Chapin Olancy Coburn Cooledge Coombs Cooper Coo-per Cox New York Grain Crosby Cul berson Deforest Dickerson Dixon Flth ian Forman Geary Hall Hamilton Hare Harries Harter Hayes Hoar Hooker Johnson Ohio Kendall Kllgoro Lane Lanham Lapham Lockwood Long Wagner McAloer McCreary McKinney Mc-Kinney Mayer Mitchell MooreMutchler ONeill Missouri Barrett Pearson Sayers Seerloy Seerey Stahlnecker Stewart Texas Tracy Tucker Warner White Willcox Williams Massachusetts Wilson West Virginia Wise and Wolvor ton78 For McMillan Bellshoover Boatner Bunting Chipman Covert Cox Tennessee Ten-nessee Enloe Goodnight Kyle Logan Patterson Pierce Price Richardson Snodgrass Stockdale Stono Kentucky and Washington For Springer Babbitt Bryan Busey Cable Durborrow Gantz Gorman Hol man Hank Ohio Lawson Virginia Linch Martin McClellan Macean Miller Newberry Page Rhode Island Patton Reilly Scott Shively Snow Stevens Stewart Illinois Stout Terry Weadoclc Wheeler Michigan Whiting Wike Williams lams Illinois Youmans For Hatch Arnold Bland Byrnes Cobb Missouri Dearmond Dockery Hallowoll Heard Mansur Norton Riley Shell Tarsney Wilson Missouri 14 For Stevens of Massachusetts ONeill Massachusetts In the next two ballots Lawson Peel I Snell Stevens and Weadock broke to Crisp I Mansur and Williams to Mills Tho Illinois 1 Il-linois desertions handicapped Springer at I once Fithian Forman and Lane were subsequently joined by Wike Scott and Willirmiie rohn nlcn Aaprtprl thAI nntldi date and voted steadily for Mills During all this time however Springer received the CONSTANT SUPPORT OF TIE MICHIGAN DELEGATION DELE-GATION and a portion of the Indiana and Wisconsin delegations and his loyal followers in Illinois linois for a long time felt encouraged that this outside support would ultimately rally the deserting Illinois members to tho solid of support Springer On the ninth ballot Gantz of Ohio changed from Springer to Crisp in order he said to partially offset the action of some of Springers Illinois supporters who had deserted to Mills I was after S oclock this evening when the tenth ballot was concluded and members mem-bers began to get very weary as ballot after ballot passed without showing any material change During all these six hours constant pressure was being exerted ex-erted by various leaders to scatter the forces of Springer McMillin and Hatch stood but the resolute hardy followers of these gentlemen i On the twelfth ballot Crisp nndJMcMillin lost one each while Springer showed gain of three Bullock of Florida and Wee dock of Massachusetts concluded to support sup-port Springer while Gantz of Ohio returned re-turned to his first choice The secretary DRAWLED WEARILY THROUGH THE FIFTEENTH TEENTH BALLOT and Springers 1 votes showed an apparent I appar-ent gain of three votes over tho preceding ballot but Holman announced through an error of computation Springer was credited with 14 votes in tho previous ballot bal-lot whereas the Illinois candidate actually received 17 votes The record of the fourteenth four-teenth ballot accordingly was ordered corrected cor-rected After the seventeenth ballot which showed no change in the situation the caucus on motion of ONeill of Massachusetts Massa-chusetts adjourned till 10 oclock Monday The motion was carried unanimously those In favor of fighting it being in a hopeless minority and offering no opposition The decision to adjourn was the result of a prior understanding on the part of all five candidates who being unable to sue whether there would or would not be any advantage in holding a caucus together agreed to adjourn and take their chances Tne members quickly dispersed to seek much needed rest before beginning the difficult task of breaking the deadlock for 1 which a number of gentlemen themselves are eminently fitted The first call of the caucus for speaker resulted as follows Crisp 84 Mills 78 Springer 32 McMillin 18 Hatch 1 Stevens Stev-ens 1 Second ballot official Crisp 89 Mills SO Springer 28 MoMillin 18 Hatch 1 Third ballot unofficial Crisp 91 Mills 82 Springer 2 McMillin IS Hatch 1 Fourth ballot Crisp 93 Mills 87 Springer Sprin-ger 20 McMillin 18 Hatch 8 Fifth ballot official Crisp 95 Mills 89 Springer 20 McMillin 18 Hatch 4 Stevens 1 Sixth ballot Crisp 95 Mills 89 Springer Sprin-ger 20 McMillin IS Hatch 4 Stevens 1 Seventh ballot Crisp 95 Mills 89 Springer Sprin-ger 20 McMillin 18 Hatch B Stevens 1 Eighth ballot Crisp 94 Mills 91 Springer 18 MoMillin 18 Hatch 4 Stevens Stev-ens 1 Ninth ballot Crisp 94 Mills 91 Springer 17 McMillin 19 Hatch 5 Stevens 1 Tenth ballot Crisp 95 Mills91 Springer 10 McMillin 19 Hatch 5 Stevens 1 Eleventh ballot Crisp 94 Mills 9 McMillin 19 Springer 17 Hatch 5 Stevens 1 Twelfth ballot Crisp 92 Mills 89 Mc Millin 19 Springer 19 Hatch 5 Stevens 1 Thirteenth ballot Crisp 94 Mills 91 MoMillin 20 Springer 16 Hatch 5 Stevens Stev-ens 1 Thirteenth ballot Crisp 93 Mills 89 Springer 1 MoMillin 19 Hatch 5 Stevens Stev-ens 1 The changes are not significant as members mem-bers are going out to lunch I Fifteenth ballot Crisp 92 Mills 89 Springer 19 MoMillin 17 Hatch 5 Stevens Stev-ens 1 In the fourteenth ballot tho chair gave Springer 1 instead of 14 Sixteenth ballot Crisp 94 Mills 91 Mc Millin 19 Springer 17 Hatch 5 Stevens 1 Seventeenth ballot Crisp 94 Mills 91 Springer 19 McMillin 17 Hatch 5 Stevens Stev-ens 1 The caucus then adjourned till 10 oclock Monday morning |