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Show MAJORITY IS MADE FOR THE REPUBLICAN WASHINGTON, Feb. 24. Election committee com-mittee No. 2 of the House today reported in the Wagoner-Butler election contest from the Twelfth district of Missouri, ' recommending the adoption of resolutions declaring that Mr. Butler was not elected and that Mr. Wagoner is entitled to the seat In the House. The report rejects entirely en-tirely the returns from sixty-one precincts, pre-cincts, the result giving Wagoner a majority ma-jority of 767. Ail the Republican members mem-bers of the committee voted for the report. re-port. The Democrats were not present. Chairman Olmsteadi will call the report up in the House at the first opportunity. |