The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-02-13
CONGRESSIONAL.
SENATE.

Washington, Feb. 12.-The session
began at ten O'Clock with slim at
tendance. President Ferry said an
swering Davis, that recess upon any
question except one raised in joint con-
vention would be out of order. The
Senate, without transacting any busi-
ness, waited for notification that the
House was ready to resume joint ses-
sion.
At 2:20 the clerk of the House ap-
peared at the bar of the Senate and an
nounced as the decision Of the House
that the counting Of the vote of Flori-
da shall not proceed in conformity with
the decision of the electoral committee.
He also notified the Senate that the
House was now ready to meet the Sem
ate in joint session. The Senate then
proceeded to the hall of the House.
HOUSE.
Washington, Feb. 12.-At 10 Nc
Crary rose to discuss the electoral de-
cision. Clymer objected that no quo
rum was present, and the debate was
postponed till 1890, when Field offered
the following:
Ordered, that the count ing of the
electoral vote from Florida shall not
proceed in conformity with the decision
of the electoral commission, but that
the votes of Call, Young, Hilton and
Bullock be counted as the votes from
the State of Florida for President and
Vice President of the United States.
Hale moved as an amendment:
Ordered, that the counting of the
electoral votes from the State of Flori-
da shall proceed in conformity with the
decision of the electoral commission.
Knott offered as substitute an Or
der reciting the language of the elector-
al act, that the commission might in
quire into such petitions. depositions
and other papers as shall by the consti-
tuition and the now-existing law be
competent, reciting also the fact that
in the Florida case the commission had
decided and determined that no evil
dence would be received or considered
which had not been submitted to the
two Houses in joint convention by the
President of the Senate, and that GER
tificate number /, that of the Hayes
electors, contained no evidence what
ever, while certificates numbers 2 and
of the Tilden electors, did contain ev-
idence fully and specifically showing
that the latter had been duly elected
and appointed as electors, and there
fore ordering that the decision of the
commission and the grounds thereof be
remanded and recommitted to the COM
mission with the request that the same
be so corrected or explained and that
the commission be further requested to
furnish in detail the reasons Of the de-
cision, so that the House may be en-
lightened as to the course it ought to
pursue in the discharge of its duties,
and that in the meantime the votes of
the Hayes electors be not counted.
Hale made the point of order that
under the order of the electoral commits.
sion law it was the imperative duty of
the House, at the end of two hours de-
bate, to vote on the main question,
which was whether the votes should be
counted in conformity with the deci-
sion, and that nothing in the shape OF
delay, In whatever form presented,
could now arrest the wheels of its deci.
sion.
Wilson added to Hale's point of order
that the House could refer nothing tc
the commission that would not require
at least concurrent action.
Wood declared that any intimatior
of desire on the part Of the Democratic
side of the House to interpose opposi
tion to any decision of the electora
commission was entirely gratuitous anG
unsupported by anything that had tax
en- place.
The speaker overruled the point o.
order made by Hale, but sustained thai
made by Wilson, holdingth that there wa!
nothing in the electoral commission