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    ELECTION OF UNITED STATES SENATORS.



                           Chapter VIII, W. S., 1898.

  SECTION 90. Senators in Congress shall hereafter be elected as provided
by the
statutes of the United States. The meeting of the Senate and Assembly in
joint
convention shall be held in the hall of the Assembly. Each member shall vote
viva voce upon a call of the roll, and such vote shall be entered upon the
journal
of the convention. The President of the Senate and Speaker of the Assembly
shall cause a statement in duplicate of the result of such election to be
made
under their hands, certifying who has been chosen such Senator; one of which
statements they shall deliver to the Governor, to be filed and recorded in
the ex-
ecutive office, and the other they shall deliver to the Secretary of State,
who shall
file and record the same in his office. In case the President of the Senate
and
Speaker of the Assembly, or either of them, shall' neglect or refuse to execute
and
deliver such statement, the Chief Clerk of the Senate or of the Assembly,
respec-
tively, shall make and deliver, as aforesaid, such statement in duplicate,
setting
forth the whole number of votes given on the final ballot and the number
thereof
received by each person then voted for.
   SECTION 91. Immediately thereafter, the Governor shall certify the election
of
such Senator under the Great Seal to the President of the Senate of the United
States, and the Secretary c State shall countersign such certificate.



                         Seo. 1, Ch. 131, Laws of 1899.

   SECTION 1. In any legislative caucus for the nomination of a candidate
for
United States senator, each member shall vote viva voce upon a call of the
roll
and such votes shal be entered upon the minutes of the caucus. The person
re-
ceiving the number of votes required by the usages of the party holding the
cau-
cus shall be declared the nominee of such party.


   STATUTES OF THE UNITED           STATES RELATIVE TO ELECTION         
  OF

                                  SENATORS.

                      (Title II, Chapter 1, Rev. Stat. U. S.)

  SECTION 14. The Legislature of each State which is chosen next preceding
the
expiration of the time for which any Senator was elected to represent such
State
In Congress shall, on the second Tuesday after the meeting and organization
thereof, proceed to elect a Senator in Congress.
   SECTION 15. Such election shall be conducted In the following manner:
Each
House shall openly, by a viva voce vote of each member present, name one
person
for Senator in Congress from State, and the name of the person so voted for,
who receives a majority of the whole number of votes cast in each House,
shall be
entered on the journal of that House by the Clerk or Secretary thereof; or
if
either House falls to give such majority to any person on that day, toe fact
shall
be entered on the journal. At twelve o'clock meridian of the day following
that
on which proceedings are required to take place as aforesaid, the members
of the
two Houses shall convene in joint assembly, and the journal of each House
shall
then be read, and if the same person has received a majority of all the votes
in
each house, he shall be declared duly elected Senator. But if the same person
has
not received a majority of the votes in each House, or if either House has
failed