Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1900 — COUP BY CLARK. [ARTICLE]

COUP BY CLARK.

Resigns AU Rent and Named for the Vacancy. ■ W. A. Clark,’ practically expelled from the seat given him in the United States Senate by the Montana Legislature, because members of that body were bribed in his support, asks for membership iq the upper house on the appointment of the Lieutenant Governor of Montana. Tuesday Senator Clark announced in the Senate that he had sent his resignatic** to the Governor of Montana. Tuesday .night the coup developed, when he was appointed by Acting Governor Spriggs to till the vacancy created by his own resignation, which was announced just in time to prevent the Senate from considering a motion to act on the committee’s report to expell him. The appointment by Lieut. Gov. Spriggs provides that Mr. Clark shall serve until the next Legislature shall'elect his successor. Senator Clark’s resignation was filed early in the day with the Lieutenant Governor. Lieut. Gov. Spriggs has been a partisan of Senator Clark during his candidacy for the senatorshtp and since. Gov. Smith, a partisan of the Daly people, left the State two weeks ago for California to attend to some mining cases in which he is attorney. This left the way clear for the resignation and the appointment by Spriggs. Smith wired frantically that he was coming right back, but Spriggs hastened to reappoint William A. Clark as United States Senator. That gives Clark a new and valid title to the Senate seat and completely routs the opposition.