People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1894 — TILLMAN ELECTED SENATOR. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

TILLMAN ELECTED SENATOR.

Ex-Governor Received 131 Out of 155 Votes in the South Carolina Legislature. Columbia, S. C., Dee. 12.—8. R. Tillman was elected United States senator Tuesday at noon, receiving 131 out of 155 votes. M. C. Butler received 21 votes. Three negro members of the

house voted —two for George Murray and one for W. I). Crum. The vote stood in the senate 29 for Tillman, 6 for Butler; in the bouse, 102 for Tillman, 15 for Butler. The two houses will meet in joint session at noon today to canvass the vote and declare the result.

SENATOR-ELECT TILLMAN.