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Show OSBORNE SEATED. The Official Count Completed, Giving the DEMOCRATS A MAJORITY In the Legislature Which Insures a Democratic United States Senator. CHEYENNE, Wy.[Wyoming], Jan. 1.-The Wyoming supreme court rendered a final decision in the consisted legislative cases which was a sweeping victory for the Democrats. The case has been a complicated one. The Carbon county canvassing board consisting of the county clerk and two justices of the peace peas was divided on the question of counting the vote of Hanna precinct, the returns from which contains several technical errors. The county clerk, a Republican, sent up the vote to the state canvassing board, omitting the vote of Hanna, thus defeating two Democrats, Bennett and Chapman, elected to the legislature by this Republican and Democrat sent up returns which included the Hanna precinct. The state canvassing board omitted the vote of Hanna, thus defeating two Democrats Bennett and chapman, elected to the legislature by this vote. The two justices of the peace, a Republican and a Democrat, sent up returns which included the Hanna precinct. The state canvassing board, all Republicans, accepted the returns of the county clerk. The Democrats asked for a writ of alternative mandamus to compel the state board to accept the returns sent up by the two justices of the peace. The supreme court was in vacation and the Republicans held ther [that?] a judge of that court had no power to issue such a writ during vacation. When the court convened a decision was rendered sustaining the Democratic position. In argument before the court on the main question at issue the republicans contended that the county convassing [canvassing] board consisted only of the county clerk with the justices as witness merely. The decision of the court on the question was with the Democrats and was that the board consisted of three persons, the action of two forming the legal action of the board, and that the returns counted by the state convassing [canvassing] board was not the legal one. The Republican then raised the question of the irregularity of the nomination certification of Bennett and Chapman and declared that omission of certain words in the certificates rendered them invalid and barred the petitioners from relief by mandamus proceedings. A decision on the point was made today, the court deciding that while technical irregularities existed in the certificates, they were not of sufficient importance to invalidate them. A writ of peremptory mandamus was then issued directing the board of state canvassing to count the vote of Hannah [sic] precinct. This canvassing board convened this afternoon and completed the canvass. The Official majority of Osborne, Democrat, for governor, is 1,781; for Coffeen, Democrate congressman, 461. The average plurality of the Harrison electers [electors] is 953. The legislature, upon the certificates of the state canvassing board, will be Democrats, 24: Republicans, 25. The Democrats control the lower house by five majority. There are two contests in the lower house which will be decided upon organization in favor of the Democratic contestants, which will give the Democrats the legislature by three votes on joint ballot. Acting Governor Barber states that he will turn over all the effects of the governor's office to Governor Osborne on Monday. The legal fight on the part of the Democrats in the cases before the supreme court has been conducted by Hon. A. Campbell, who was United States attorney for Wyoming during the Cleveland administration. |