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Show REAL ELECTION OF PRESIDENT HELD TODAY i Congress Counts Electoral I Vote and Declares Wilson Wil-son the Choice. FORMAL PROCEDURE REQUIRES AN HOUR Takes Place in Hall of the House of Representatives. Representa-tives. ; WASKIKQTON. Feb. Li. Con greet today declared Woodrov Wtlaon elected president, of tha United Htates and Thorn. Marshall elected rice praaidant. Tha electoral you cartlncstes opened In tha presence of tha house end sen ata alttlnf together showed that Mr. Wilson and Mr. Marsh ill received 4& electoral rotes; that Theodore Room valt for praaidant and Hiram W. John son for vice praaidant recelrad rot, and that William H. Taft for president and Nlcholaa Murray Batler for rice president received i rote. The official 'onot took a little- more taan an hour I day eiernsee arteadad the .'lertoral rounl id the bouse. Kepraaenutivc Ruaaell of Miseunri read Unrolo'a Oettysburg address and Kepreseatatlve (Jraham of Illinois, from the district I It. oa-e repteseated. made a speech. Wheo Hie house ud senate fiuall.v lot into joint eeaatoa the eoununx of the vote began. There was tense interest in-terest at first, but as the count went ou eonrersatlon on the floor almost drowned tha announcement of the tellers. Repreentatne Rmker of Miaaaari persisted In announcing votes for "William Wilson." Tne proclnmaiioD. made a the re suit of this count in the hall of too house of representatives, constitutes the formal notice to the nation that Wilson and Marshall received the ma jonty of electoral votes. The certificates from thr states each sealed In the envelupe in which it was delivered, were taken out of the sensls vault early today and put into a bin rosewood bos. to be carried to the rtous,. chamber. House and senate had made arrsnffemenls. by formal orders, to suspend sus-pend buelness shortly before 1 o'clock and sseemble In the house chamber. In the Joint convention, provided by the -on-stltutlon. Senate Marches to House Two senate pagee. William r. Jortan-en Jortan-en and Nelson CT Carlisle, had been dee-icnated dee-icnated to carry the bos of electoral votae. Ahead of them In tha Una of march decided on by oMloers of tha eeu-ate, eeu-ate, came Me rg sent at Amis B. L Cornelius Cor-nelius and Immediately behind them Heritor Heri-tor Paoon, presldlni- officer of the senate. Secretary Bennett and tha members of the senate In a double column. Formality attended every state lead-Ina lead-Ina up to the count of the eotee. Periston Peris-ton ntlllnjrham and Martins and Rep-resentallvee Rep-resentallvee Rucker of Missouri and W Smith of MlcJilgan had been appointed tellera for the respective houses, to can-vaaa can-vaaa and count the vote Their places had been arranged directly In front ot the eneaker'e chair, where the- took the pla'e of the house clerks during ths i roar eee of the joint convention The honor of presiding ovei Hie olnl invention fell to ttenatut' H.n on, as pre-tiding pre-tiding officer of the aenate. A chair at the left provided a place for Speaker Clark and houae members haul arranged to vacate the frrst four rows 'f aeata at the right of the epeaker'a desk make room for aenatore. Formality at Every Step. The program provided that lha aenate, carrying the electoral vote, shoultl he met et the door of the house b Moor-keeper Moor-keeper Joaeph Blnnol and announced, the member of the house receiving I h vle-Itora vle-Itora with a rlelnc welcome. The electoral elec-toral vote, borne by the two paxes, was reuulred to be delivered direct to the Npeaker'a deek. where the presiding officer offi-cer of the Joint convention took charge of It. opened the rertiflratee. aeked If aiiv "objection" had been filed to any Mete'e vote, ajd handed the formal certificates cer-tificates to the tellers for counting The total vote, ae aacertalned 1, the tcllere, constituted the official total of th.- u naon and Marahall electorate vote. The official proclamation by Senator Bacon Ba-con preecrtbed In form by rules governing gov-erning today's proceedings, was an ffol- IOWTuls announcement of the etate of the vote, bv the president of the senate, shall be deemed a sufficient declaration of the persona elected president and vice president of the Untied Btatee for the term beglnniiig March 4. 111. and shall he entered, together with a Hot of the rotes on the Journale of the two houeea |