TRUSTEES OF THE BENEVOLENT INSTITUTIONS.
The SPEAKER said the hour has arrived for the order for the simultaneous election of Trustees of the Benevolent Institutions of the State.
Mr NEWCOMB indicated the order of the elections, and the votings proceeded:For Superintendent of the Institution for the Education of the Blind -
John S Spann received 62 votes.
Lewis M. Dale received 35 votes.
John S. Spann having received a majority of the votes cast, was declared the choice of the House of Representatives.
For Trustee of the Institution for the Education of the Deaf and Dumb -
J. C Burt received 60 votes.
J. G. Wolfe received 36 votes.
Mr. Burt, having received a majority, was declared the choice of the House of Representatives.
For Superintendent of the Asylum for the Insane:
John W. Moody received 59 votes.
James S. Athon received 35 votes.
John W. Moody having received a majority, was declared the choice of the House of Representatives - to serve for the legal term.
A message was now received from the Senate, announcing the successful nominees for these places in the House of Representatives as the Senate's choice for Trustees of said institutions, and requesting the concurrence of the House of Representatives.
Mr. GREEN explained that his party friends in the House did not know that Mr. Cooper, who was voted for in the Senate for Trustee of the Blind Institution, was in nomination, or he would have been voted for by his party friends here. It evinced defective organization. It was no reflection on Mr Cooper.
