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Show WILSON OFFICIALLY ELECMESffl Electoral Count Shows 277 Votes for Democrat and , 254 for Hughes. WASHINGTON, Feb. 14. Today congress con-gress completed the constitutional formalities for-malities carrying Into effect the will of the voters expressed last November and officially declared Wood row Wilson, president, presi-dent, and Thomas R. Marshall, vice president, presi-dent, re-elected. At a joint session of the senate land house1 the sealed vote was canvassed restates re-states with the usual quadrennial ceremony cere-mony and the result of the balloting of the electoral college, once the deciding factor In presidential contests, but in recent re-cent years only a perfunctory means of ratifying, the popular voice, was entered formally on the official records. The count showed 277 votes for the Democratic Demo-cratic nominees and 254 for Hughes and Fairbanks. The proceeding reflected only in a mild degree the partisan enthusiasm of the doubtful days following election day in November. , Announcement of-California's thirteen votes for Wilson brought an outburst out-burst of approval from the Democrats and there was applause on the Republican side when Connecticut ' returned the first votes for Hughes. Mrs. Wilson, wife of the president, watched the ceremony from the executive execu-tive gallery and Secretaries McAdoo, Baker and Daniels and Postmaster General Gen-eral Burleson were in the cabinet box. It fell to Representative Mapes, a Republican, Re-publican, to read the California returns. |