Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-02-13
IN THE SENATE.

WASHINGTON, February Ex-senator
Machen introduced a bill for the eree-
ton of public buildings at Paducah,
Kentucky.
The calendar was then taken up and
the following bill passed: Amending the
act to provide for holding United States
Circuit Courts in the Western District Of
Missouri.
At fifteen minutes before one o'clock
the Clerk of the House appeared and
announced that body ready to receive
the Senate for the purpose Of counting
the Electoral vote for President and
| Vice-President of the United States.
On motion Of Senator Sherman, at
five minutes before one o'clock, prece-
ded by the Sergeant-at-Arms,a and with
the Vice-President and Secretary at its
head, the Senate proceeded to
! the hall of the House Of
Representatives. At ten minutes
past two o'clock, the Senate returned to
its chamber, and the Vice-Presidents SUBJ
mitted, for the decision of the Senate,
the objection raised in the joint cOnven-
| ton by Mr.. Hoar, to the counting of
three electoral votes of Georgia, cast for
Horace Greeley, upon the ground that
votes could not properly be cast for a per-
son who was dead.
The Vice President stated that the
| question must be decided without de-
bate.
Senator Edmunds offered the follow
ing:
ResolUed, That the Electoral votes Of
Georgia, cast for Horace Greeley, be not
counted.
Senator Thurman moved to amend
the resolution by striking out the word
| "not."
On motion of Senator Edmunds, the
yeas and nays were ordered. and the
vote was, yeas AZ, nays IS; so the
amendment was agreed to.
| Senator Conkling moved to add to the
resolution, so as to make it read, as
amended:
Resolved, That the Electoral votes of
Georgia be counted, the functions of the
Joint Convention being ministerial
merely, and this question being indie
pendent of the question of the effect of
the votes or count.
At the suggestion of Senator Morton,
Senator Conkling submitted the words,
Ethe two houses" for the term "joint
convention" !" and at the suggestion of
Senator Sherman he amended his
amendment so as to make it read "the
functions of th,s two houses in counting
the vote being ministerial"
Senator Bayard raised a point that
Senator Conkling's amendment was
merely recital of the legal proposition
and not properly an amendment at all,
because it did not change or affect in
any way the substance of the original
resolution.
The Senate sustained the point of
order and rejected the amendment by
vote of 80 to 80.
Senator Conkling to amend the
resolution so as to read:
Resolved, That the functions of the
two houses in respect to the count of
votes being ministerial and independent
of the question Of the effect of the votes,
the electoral votes of Georgia cast for
Horace Greeley be counted.
Bayard made the same point of order
as before, and also the point that this
amendment was mot in order, having
already been voted upon in substance.
The amendment was rejected by vote
of 33 to %.
The resolution that the votes Of Geor-
gia cast for Horace Greeley be counted,
was then agreed to; yeas Al, nays 10.
The Nlce-Presldent submitted the OBJ
lection raised in the joint convention,
by Senator Trumbull, to the counting of
the votes of Mississippi, upon the ground
that it did not appear from the certifi-
oates of the Electors that they had voted
by ballot.
Senator Trumbull withdrew the OBJ
lection, and submitted the following:
RESOLVED, That the electoral vote of
the State Of Mississippi be counted
The Vice President submitted the
objection raised by Mr.. Potter, of New
York, in Joint convention, TO the count
| ing of Mr.. Spellman's vote, an ElectoF
appointed to fill a vacancy, upon the