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Show PUNTING THE VOLS I Electoral College Meets j to Verify Election of Wilson and Marshall I Washington. Feb 12. Congress to day declared Yoodro W ilson elected j presldeht of the Fnlted States, and I Thomas R Marshall elected rii c i.res- J ident. The electoral vote certificates. I opened In the presence of the house and senate, slitlnj; together, showed that Mr WilSOD and Mr Marshall r- reived 4J5 electoral votes, that Theo-1 I dore Roosevelt for president, and HI-' j ram W. Johnson for vir president received 8 votes, and that William H. Taft for president and Nicholas I Murrav But'er tor vice president re- I reived eleht otes , The reading of the certificate-.- of New Jersey's votes was accorded to Senator Martlne In a 'ond voice he announced the state's l t votes for TVoodrow Wilson, and Senator Bacon wag unable to stop an outburst of ap- ' plauM When the state of T'tah was called near the end of the list, a round of applause, led by Senator Smoot, greet ted the first votes cast for Taft and J Butler Another round greeted the only other vote cast for Taft, four ( from Vermont. |