IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I hereto set my hand and cause to be affixed the great Seal of State. Done at the city of Springfield this 5th day of January, A. D. 1915. [SEAL] LEWIS G. STEVENSON, Secretary of State. ABSTRACT OF VOTES FOR STATE SENATOR AND REPRESENTATIVES TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY FROM THE ELEVENTH SENATORIAL DISTRICT. Given in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, at an election held in said county on Tuesday, the third day of November, A. D. Nineteen Hundred and Fourteen. We, the undersigned, Justices of the Peace of the county above named, were this day taken to the assistance of the county clerk of said county, and the poll books and tally lists for the aforesaid election were opened, and the foregoing abstract made in our presence at the clerk's office in Chicago in the said county, this 4th day of December, A. D. 1914. THOS. E. MCBRIDE [SEAL] J. P. I, Robert M. Sweitzer, county clerk within and for the county and State aforesaid, do certify that the foregoing is a correct abstract of the votes cast for the persons therein set forth for the offices of State Senator and Representatives to the General Assembly, from the Eleventh Senatorial District, at an election held in the different election districts and precincts in the county of Cook in said State, on Tuesday, the third day of November, A. D. 1914. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of said county, at my office in Chicago in said county, this 4th day of December, A. D. 1914. [SEAL] ROBERT M. SWEITZER, (ENDORSED.) ABSTRACT OF VOTES. FOR STATE SENATOR AND REPRESENTATIVES COOK COUNTY. ELECTION OF NOVEMBER 3RD, 1914. FILED DECEMBER 5, 1914. LEWIS G. STEVENSON, SECRETARY OF STATE. When the Twenty-third Senatorial District was called, Mr. Jos. Strauss presented as credentials the certified copy of a paper filed in the office of the Secretary of State on the 18th day of December, in the matter of the canvass of the election returns in the Twenty-third Senatorial District, in the words and figures following: STATE OF ILLINOIS, DEPARTMENT OF STATE. LEWIS G. STEVENSON. SECRETARY OF STATE. TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, GREETING: I, Lewis G. Stevenson, Secretary of State of the State of Illinois, do hereby certify that the following and hereto attached is a true copy of a paper filed in my office on the 18th day of December, A. D. 1914, in the matter of the canvass of the election returns in the 23rd Senatorial District of Illinois. (Revenue stamp hereto attached.) The original of which is now on file and a matter of record in this office. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I hereto set my hand and cause to be affixed the great Seal of the State. Done at the city of Springfield this 24th day of December, A. D. 1914. LEWIS G. STEVENSON, Secretary of State. [SEAL] IN THE MATTER OF THE CANVASS OF THE ELECTION RETURNS IN THE 23RD SENATORIAL DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS. The undersigned, constituting a majority of the State Canvassing Board, sitting in the presence of the Governor to canvass and determine the result of the election for State Senator held in the 23rd Senatorial District of Illinois at the general election so held in said district on the 3rd day of November, 1914, from a consideration of the proofs filed by the contestant Joseph Strauss, find as follows: That it is apparent from the affidavits filed in support of the contention of the said Joseph Strauss that the Board of Election Commissioners of the city of Chicago, in the preliminary canvass of the returns so made to said board by the judges and clerks of election, arbitrarily and without sufficient reason appearing therefor, deducted from the said Joseph Strauss certain votes which it appeared from the judges and clerks he was entitled to receive. For instance, in the 39th Precinct of the 15th Ward, it appears that the said Joseph Strauss was entitled to receive one hundred and forty-five (145) votes as per the returns of the judges and clerks of election in said voting precinct, but that the Board of Election Commissioners of Cook County deducted fifty (50) votes from the vote of the said Joseph Strauss and only credited him with ninety-five (95) votes in said precinct. It further appears that in the Twenty-fifth Precinct of the 16th Ward the tally sheets, statement of voters and police returns showed that Joseph Strauss had received in said precinct two hundred and thirty-five (235) votes, but that said Board of Election Commissioners, without apparent cause or reason therefor, took one hundred (100) votes away from the said vote of the said Joseph Strauss as returned by the judges and clerks of election, and only gave him credit for one hundred and thirty-five (135) votes in said voting precinct; that while the apparent reason therefor was the fact that one hundred (100) more votes, apparent from the face of the returns in said voting precinct, exceeded by the number of one hundred (100) the actual number of male voters voting at said election in said precinct, the law provides a manner of adjusting such excess and this board is of the opinion that it is not within the arbitrary power of the Board of Election Commissioners of the city of Chicago to adjust said discrepancy by deducting the total vote from any one candidate and that it was possible and probably that manifest injustice was done the said Joseph Strauss by such adjustment. It further appears that in the 32nd Precinct of the 33rd Ward the tally sheets and statement of votes showed that said Joseph Strauss received twenty-one (21) votes by reason of straight Democratic tickets cast and Henry W. Austin received forty-six (46) votes by reason of straight Republican tickets cast in said precinct, although according to one of the tally sheets made and returned by the judges and clerks of the said election precinct, Henry W. Austin was credited with having received a total of one hundred and sixty-eight (168) votes for the office of State Senator, and the other tally sheet made and returned by the same judges and clerks credited Joseph Strauss with having received the sum total of one hundred and sixty-eight (168) votes in said precinct; and it appears that the Board of Election Commissioners of the city of Chicago heard evidence on said question and that one of the judges of said election testified that Joseph Strauss received a number of split votes in excess of the number of split votes received by Austin, yet it appears from the proof and by the affidavits filed by the said Joseph Strauss that the Board of Election Commissioners of the city of Chicago totally disregarded the tally sheet that credited the said Joseph Strauss with one hundred and sixty-eight (168) votes and did give the said Austin the total of one hundred and sixty-eight (168) votes and gave to said Joseph Strauss but thirty-seven (37) votes in said precinct, thereby giving arbitrarily and without sufficient cause a majority to said Austin over said Strauss, in said precinct, of one hundred and thirty-one (131) votes. It appears to the satisfaction of this Board that there were gross irregularities in the conduct of said preliminary canvass of the returns and in fact it was stated to this Board, by Mr. Stein, counsel for said Henry W. Austin, that said returns were not correct, either as returned by the Election Commissioners of the city of Chicago or by the County Canvassing Board for that portion of the district which lay outside of the city of Chicago. It further appears to this Board from a certificate filed by the deputy. county clerk and the two justices of the peace, who canvassed the returns for that portion of the 23rd Senatorial District which lay outside of the city of Chicago, that in the 5th District of Oak Park the canvass of the ballot was illegally carried on by the judges and clerks of election, and the said Cook County Canvassing Board has certified to this board, over their signatures, that after hearing the objections and the evidence of the judges and clerks of the 5th District of Oak Park, that the canvass of the vote in said 5th District of Oak Park was illegally conducted and was illegally tallied and canvassed by the judges and clerks of the said 5th District of Oak Park and that in said 5th District of Oak Park the said Henry W. Austin was credited with having received two hundred and thirtynine (239) split votes and twenty-seven (27) straight votes or a total of two hundred and sixty-six (266) votes, and the said Joseph Strauss was credited with having received eight (8) split votes and eight (8) straight votes or a total of sixteen (16) votes; and this board is further satisfied that from the face of the returns the vote in the 5th District of Oak Park should not be considered for either candidate and hereby does refuse to so consider it, thereby reducing the alleged vote so received by the said Henry W. Austin from the number of seven thousand six hundred and forty-nine (7,649), alleged to have been received by him, to the sum total of seven thousand three hundred and eighty-three (7,383), the maximum which this board finds he is entitled thereto. This Board does further find that the said Joseph Strauss was unjustly deprived of the sum of two hundred and eighty-one (281) votes by the action of the Election Commissioners of the city of Chicago, which should be added to the total of seven thousand four hundred and eighty-five (7,485) so alleged to have been received by the said Joseph Strauss, which would make a total of seven thousand seven hundred and sixty-six (7,766) votes from which should be subtracted the sixteen (16) votes so credited to the said Joseph Strauss in the 5th Election District of Oak Park, and this Board does therefore find that the total and correct vote of the said Joseph Strauss should be seven thousand seven hundred and fifty (7,750) votes and does hereby find that the said Joseph Strauss was elected to the office of State Senator from the 23rd Senatorial District of Illinois at the election so held on the 3rd day of November, A. D. 1914, for the term of four (4) years, by a plurality over the said Henry W. Austin of three hundred and sixty-seven (367) votes. Dated this 14th day of December, A. D. 1914. Filed December 18, 1914, Lewis G. Stevenson, Sec'y of State. Henry W. Austin presented as credentials a certificate from Lewis G. Stevenson, Secretary of State, attached to an abstract of votes for State Senator and Representatives of the General Assembly from the Twenty-third Senatorial District, State of Illinois, in the words and figures following: LEWIS G. STEVENSON. STATE OF ILLINOIS, SECRETARY OF STATE. TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, GREETING: I, Lewis G. Stevenson, Secretary of State of the State of Illinois, do hereby certify that the following and hereto attached is a true copy of abstract of votes for State Senator and Representatives to the General Assembly from the Twenty-third Senatorial District. (Revenue stamp hereto attached.) The original of which is now on file and a matter of record in this office. Done at the city of Springfield this 28th day of December, A. D. 1914. [SEAL] ABSTRACT OF VOTES FOR STATE SENATOR AND REPRESENTATIVES TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY FROM THE TWENTY-THIRD SENATORIAL DISTRICT. Given in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, at an election held in said county on Tuesday, the third day of November, A. D. Nineteen Hundred and Fourteen. We, the undersigned, Justices of the Peace of the county above named, were this day taken to the assistance of the county clerk of said county, and the poll books and tally lists for the aforesaid election were opened, and the foregoing abstract made in our presence at the clerk's office in Chicago in the said county, this 4th day of December, A. D. 1914. THOS. E. MCBRIDE [SEAL] J. P. FRED THOMA [SEAL] J. P. STATE OF ILLINOIS, SS. OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK. I, Robert M. Sweitzer, county clerk within and for the county and State aforesaid, do certify that the foregoing is a correct abstract of the votes cast for the persons therein set forth for the offices of State Senator and Representatives to the General Assembly, from the Twenty-third Senatorial District, at an election held in the different election districts and precincts in the county of Cook in said State, on Tuesday, the third day of November, A. D. 1914. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of said county, at my office in Chicago in said county, this 4th day of December, A. D. 1914. ROBERT M. SWEITZER, County Clerk. ABSTRACT OF VOTES. FOR STATE SENATOR AND REPRESENTATIVES TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY. ELECTION OF NOVEMBER 3RD, 1914. FILED DECEMBER 5, 1914. LEWIS G. STEVENSON, At 12:35 o'clock p. m., Hon. James H. Cartwright, a Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of Illinois, appeared and administered to each of the members-elect of the Senate holding certificates from |