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Show VOTING FOR PRESIDENT le Senators and Deputies of France Elect Raymond Ray-mond Poincare H Versailles, France Jan 17. Senators Sena-tors and deputies of France arrived rbrouRho.it Ihe forenoon today to take part in the election of a new presl m dent of the republic Preaidenl Fal I I lieries' seven-year term expires on if February 18. Nominally 897 representatives ol the people were entitled to vote today to-day in the national assembly, convened con-vened in rhe ancient residence of the kings nf France These official elecl ors included deputies and 300 son ators, but the number was reduced, owing to the vacancies caused b deaths and resignations or by illness Hundreds Arrive on Trains. Most of the senators and deputies rame out from Pans on special trains provided by the government and a few arr.vcd in motor cars nr carriages carri-ages With them came some 1.500 relatives rel-atives and friends Premier Raymond Poincare and the members of his cabinet arrived together to-gether some hours before tbe voting began Jules Pams. the minister cif agriculture, was not among them He had sent to the premier early today bis resignation and notification that he had accepted the candidate fur lit the president of the republic. Premier Poincare immediately dos- " j ignated Fernand David, at present minister of commcrrp, to take over also the portfolio of agriculture It was thought on this occasion owing to the multiplicitj of candidates candi-dates that had been mentioned., that several ballots would be necessary 1 According to the constitution If three ballots are cast without a result the candidate then holding the highest to f tal of votes Is chosen as president. Election on First Ballot. Out of tbe nine presidential i l i tions that have been held since the 5 foundation of the third republic In 1JJSJ 170 seven have been decided on the first ballot Only at the elections erf . Sadi Curnot in 1887 and of Felix 1 Faun- in iri." were two ballots neces- I r?arv Earn ballot occupies almost three hours, as the deputies and senators sen-ators are called upon separately in alphabetical al-phabetical order to place their ballot papers in the urns Brilliant Decorations II f The interior of the palace, w hicb .I;i-ps frOTD tb time of Louis N i V was brilliantly decorated. The floor I i of the congress hall itself was ar-" ar-" Tanred with 900 chairs covered in p r!rrk leath- r The members of the w ! two chambers took their places in ac-cordance ac-cordance with their political groupings group-ings Outside the palace in the spacious grounds there was great animation all day. the park being filled with motor cars and carriages, while many liveried domestics and thousands of curious foreigners wandered about. These were interspersed with mount -ed troopers for the purpose of keeping order Special Wires to Paris nB Twelve special telegraph wires had ltS been laid from Versailles to Paris, UjS; for the use of officials and newspa- n per correspondents, and doens of ! special telephones wore installed to clt insure rapid communication. IlilS' The huffet of the palace was heav-iV heav-iV i l v stocked with food and thousands enii of bottles of mineral water ifie The national assembly was opened promptly at 2 o clock this afternoon Ei by Antomn Puimst. president of the senate, who read tbe decree of convocation con-vocation in a loud, clear voice Every inch of space in the g Bat 1 T hall rt;tf occupied. Nine-tenths of I j the spectators in the galleries were ' ' women Ever-, body present was lis-tenmc lis-tenmc with strained attention when 111 suddenly a thunderous voice in the II J hall shouted v e protest against SThe rest of the phrase was lost I in a tumult of cries and exclamations The voice wa6 that of the Conserva- j tkc deputy, the Marquis Albert de i Dion, who, when the uproar had somewhat Bubsided, started afresh: j "W'e protest against the election of i 1 the president of the republic hv par- j liametir instead of fcn the people " eT The assembly was agitated anew by a shout from a Sociallsl deputy, Mn "Down with the emi I e 'tj The Republicans replied bv cheer- j 'Jr! ing "Long live the republic ' Pi fctf1 Order Restored. aft Senator fluids', v bo is a veteran parliamentarian, gtaduallv restored u order by admonishing the ssombly Blew that gueh interruptions were dcplor-S dcplor-S able and futile, as well as being con-o' ' ra r I to the rules of what waK mere-! mere-! ly an electoral college, where motions land speeches whatever their character, charac-ter, were not permissible I First Ballot- Premier Raymond Poincare received re-ceived ::m votes and Jules Pams 338 votes on the first ballot for the election elec-tion or another president of the republic re-public Another ballot was thus rendered ren-dered necessarv. a8 neither retained an absolute majoritv of the total vote Second Ballot. Premier Raymond Poincare obtained obtain-ed 4LTI otes on the first ballot and Jules Pams 327, according to the corrected cor-rected result. A second ballot must therefore be taken, the number necessary nec-essary for election being I3S Poincare Leads. Premier Poincare led Jules Pant his principal opponent, by more than IO0 votes on the lirst ballot and was within six votes of the neeessarv absolute ab-solute majoritv for election The details of the ballot were as follow s Raymond Poincare. lL,f. Jules Pams. 3J7; Marie Eduardo Valllanl. 63; Paul Deschanel. i$: Felix Ribot in. Leon Bourgeois. 4; Alexandre Millerand 3; Alfred Mascuraud 2; I Theopile Delcasse, 2; Anton Dubost.i 1. Henry Rochefort 1 blanks. E The second ballot bean immediate ly Poincare B'ected. Premier Poincare was elected pres- j idem on the second ballot The result of the second ballot was: Raymond Poincare 183, eletedi, Julius Pams 29L Marie Eduard Yail-lant, Yail-lant, 00. Strongest Man in France. Raymond Poincare, the new president presi-dent of the French republic, is one of the strongest men who have partici- ! pated In politics in France within re- J cent years. He Is In his fifty-third j year and has been in politics snce his early youth having leen elected deputy in 1877. M Poincare has been a minister in I many French cabinets, having served I as minister ,of agriculture, minister j oi public instruction, minister of finance, fi-nance, and as premier He was vice president of the cham-ber cham-ber of deputies for four years He became premier and minister of foreign for-eign affairs on January M Inst year Lawyer by Profession. M Poincare is a lawyer by profes-BiOD profes-BiOD He is also a prolific author and is a member of the French academy, acad-emy, which gives him rank as an ; 'immortal." He made a great personal sacrifice when he became premier, for he gave, up an extremely lucrative practice at! the bar. His eloquence is a proverb In France and even his strongest po- litical opponents express confidence in t he honesty of his purposes. Father and Brother Prominent. President Poineurt's lather was a prominent public official and one of I his brothers also occupies a hich post j In the government service. Madame Poincare was Mmle Henrietta Hen-rietta Benuccl, an Italian. She and, her husband have occupied for many ears an apartment on the Avenue ides Champs Elvsee. and they will I not have far to go when they leave for the presidential residence, the i 1 Palace of the Elysee, on February IS I next. |