The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-12-13
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THE TwESTY-sEC0ED. JoINTRULE DISCUSSED
| IN THE HousE-XR. HUEToN'S RESOLUTION
| CONCERNING THE COUNTING OF THE ELEc.
ToRAL voTE-PERsoNAL-THE CASE OF BEL
| FORD, THE COLORADO REPRESENTATIVES
THE VIRGINIA B0UNDARY-L1EE QUESTION
yTDISG FOR FILLING THE OFFICE OF PREs1.
DENT IN CASE OF VACANCY. ;,
From Our Own Correspondent
WASHINGTON, D. c., December H.
In the Senate the "Oregon question -
came up to-day, and promised to develop
into lively debate, but was cut off by the
expiration Of the morning hour. l
Much Of the time Of the House was oc-
cupied in an informal discussion of the ex-
istence Of the twenty-second joint rule.
Speaker Randall avoided giving a, formal
decision OF the point, but his remarks in.
Dictated very plainly that when the question
comes up regularly for determination he
will hold that the rule still binds the House,
and that neither body can in good faith alb
rogate it without the consent of the other.
Mr.. Springer Of Illinois, Mr.. Hoar, and
several other members, avalled themselves
of the opportunity to ventilate their views
upon the question, the Democrats sustain
ing the rule and the Republicans opposing
it. iii. s..... .tEs..- - ;
The Judiciary Committee to-day deter
mined to report favorably Mr.. Hunton's
resolution for the appointment Of joint
committee to devise some means Of count
ing the electoral vote that may prove satis-
factory to both parties. They will also re-
port resolution for the appointment OF a
committee to consider and report what are
the duties, powers, and privileges of the
House in regard to counting the electoral
vote. During the discussion in the Senate
to-day Of Edmunds's resolution, for re-
ferring the count to the Supreme Court,
the Democrats were silent. Probably they
would have supported the measure had the
proposition been made previous to the
election, as the judges might then have
avoided utterances or forming opinions OF
a partisan character. .'r,,E. 2
General T.. L. Rosser, now Of Michigan,
General B. T. johnson, Major E. S. Gre
CORY, and Captain William Z. Hinton, OF
Virginia, were upon the floor OF the House
to-day.
The Judiciary Committee to-day deter
mined to admit Belford, the Colorado re.
preventative, to a seat in the House, the
case of Nevada being cited by the majority
of the committee as q precedent The right
of admission was strenuously opposed by
Messrs. Hunton Of Virginia, Ash of North
Carolina, and Hurd of Ohio. Expediency
and no desire to do anything that would
give color to cry Of unfairness had its
weight with the other Democratic members,
and thus the aiority voted in favor Of adj
mission. ..s.. .,.. ...s;
The feeling outside is that the error was
committed in giving to territory, with a
population hardly sufficient to entitle dis.
trict to representation, the power to or
ganize a State, but that the power having
been granted twas too late to object to the
representation. The bill admitting The
Congress, and not at the last session, as
enormously supposed. 49,.
a subscription paper has been started in
the Interior Department to raise funds fol-
holding Republican demonstration here
on the 9th instant, or about that time. The
subscriptions are In no way compulsory.
Mayor-elect Smith Ely, Jr., Of New York
yesterday resigned his position as Repre-
sentative in Congress from the Sixth dis
trict in New York city. A special election
to fill the vacancy has been ordered for the
Cd of January. s".--3 .l.
The arbitrators in the Maryland and Wiz.
ginia boundary case have made up their
decision and empowered Judge Black to
reduce their viewsto writing. Judge Black
commenced the preparation Of the opinion
on Saturday. 1t will be extremely lengthy
going over the whole ground of the dispute
between the States. r,sr .a ~
The President sent the following nomi
nations to the Senate to-day: Vincent
Boering, to be pension agent at Louisville
Ky; also, large number Of postmasters
among them the following: Lafayette Nc
Laws, Savannah, Ga; Charles W. Miller
Frederick, Md; Charles 81. Walker, Frost
burg, Md; William S. Oakley, salem,Va.
A. F. Gibbons, Kanawha Courthouse, w
Va; N. s. Cannon, spartanburg Court
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The House Judiciary Committee to-day
reconsidered the vote whereby it previously
adopted the resolution Of Mr.. McCrary pro
vidiHg for the appointment of a joint com
mittee Of the Senate and House, to whom
all questions concerning the electoral vote
should be referred. AS a substitute, TIT
committee agreed to recommend to tn,
House resolution providing for the ap
pointment Of seven members of the House
whose duty it shall be to examine into th'
existing presidential complication and re
port to the House their powers under con
stitutional and statutory provisions. II ,,->
The House Appropriation Committee to
day concluded the consideration Of thu
post-office, fertilization, and deficiency ap
preparation bills, and will present them t.
the House at once. The fertilization bill
appropriates $3.50, 900, which is S65, eco les!
than last year. The postroffice bill appro
pirates $4,000 less than last year. 2. The
| deficiency bill is for $4,000 as agains
S4,o00,oOO lastyear. III ~ ~ 49,. ,.,.,' .,
nj Mr.. Merrimon. of N orth Carolina intro
duced bill to-day providing that: in cas-
Of vacancy In the office OF President q
Yice-President, from any cause, the duties
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