The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1877-02-27

Owl, or you Will take the owl aud Twill
take turkey. So, II the commission wotlll
decide In favor Of Tilden the Democrat
would stand faithfully by Il, but ifin IA
vor Of Hayes they would howl and resist
Was that the way that honorable mel
discharged public duties? lie referred
10 the sayings Of Judge Grover, Of III,
New York Court Of Appeals, in relerenc,
10 the outcry made against the decision o
the court in the Tweed case. That in All
legheny county, where the Judge lived
when man was beaten in lawsuit /
was understood that there were twt
things he could do. One was 10 appeal
and the other was to 20 down 10 the tay
ern and swear at the court. Laughter,
lie believed that he had faith in he tri,
bunal, whether Il had decided right o,
wrong lie called on the Democrati,
House in the name OF the country, patri
0tisT, honor and manhood, 10 do wha
the Republicans would have been re.
quired to do in case the decision had been
againa them. a HB ~ 4
Mr.. Iioar, who was not in the hall
when Mr.. Hewitt spoke, but who had
notes Of il read him by the official ye.
porter, replied TO il as a posthumous
speech he had prepared during the Sab
bath. lie asserted that Mr.. Hewitt had
had the fullest means OF knowledge, by
three days companionship on the Elect
oral Commission, that the right 10 "a
into the asCertainment of the facts as tC
who had been lawfully elected was utter.
Iy denied. II that gentleman were sane
man with ordinary intelligence, il was
utterly Incredible that he should have
understood the matter as he now pro,
fessed to Ii understand it. This leader Of
u party, with It's interests and its leader.
ship, what did he now say? That
in opposition TO every public nttcr.
came from the Republican side, he haj
gone into the matter because he had got
the assurance of some scounJreI tba1 Il
would come out all right, He (Hoarl
wanted no other evidence of the utter
delusion and folly that had prompted the
charge against him than that the gentle.
man Hewitt had furnished. Prophecy
was not OF the exact sciences but he
Hoar) wouid venture a prophesy thai
there would not be an event In the his,
tory Of the country which would be in
the future more gratifying 10 tho Ameri.
can people than the Constitutional asser.
ton OF a limit between State and
National authority, which the EIec,
toral Commission had made II the
Democratic party under the cyclic.
meut Of to.dav ;nfsmed with m
eager passion for nowsr JisnnnroveJ and
condemned the would 1nneaI from phil
ip drunk to Philip sober He wonld an.
peal from party maddened, excited and
drunk in the present to its future and to
~ past. Applause on the Republican
side.
Mr.. Springer closed the debate with an
argument against the decision Of the
commission.
The vote was then taken on Stinger'i
substitute for kelly's resolution, and il
was adopted-yeas 135, nays ll9. So the
House decided that the vote Of Boggs
should not be counted, because he, was
not appointed in conformity with the con.
stitution and laws of Pennsylvania.
The Senate was notified Of The vote and
OF the readiness OF the House to meet the
Senate in Joint meeting.
At 3:l5 the Senators entered the hall,
The presiding officer called the meeting
to order and the action Of each house
having been read, he announced that the
two houses not having concurred the vote
of Pennsylvania would be counted. SEN
ator Allison, one Of the tellers, liereupon
announced that the State Of Pennsylvania
gave 20 votes for Hayes and Wheeler.
RHODE ISLAND.
The certificates from Rhode I.IouJ w,,
then read showing A yniss for Have, "nJ "a
Wheeler
The President hov;D, askad II ,bere
was any objection to tie vote oi Rhode
island being counted. Mr., o'Brien on the
mart NJ SenStorS XII ~ GnsJoo y" .,nI '
Representatiycs Jents MacEey Rice
Vance Of Ohio Hurd and PonnIcton nre'
scented the followinc ob;ectiops to tLe Vote
OF VIM. S. Slater i-'
/. That said VIM. S. Slater was not
duly appointed elector by the State of
Rhode island at the election in said State
on November 7, 1876.
2. That Geo. W. Corliss, according to
the decision Of the Electoral Commission,
il such decision be law, rendered in the
count OF W. Watts as an elector Of the
State OF Oregon, was duly appointed an
elector by |he State Of Rhode Island, and
the substitution for him Of the said Slater
was illegal and unconstitutional.
3. II in any event II was competent to
complete the electoral college OF Rhode
Island, by adding another elector there
to, itwould only.have been done under the
law as announced by said Electoral Com:
mission. ltsaid decision be lawful and
persuant to the laws Of said State by an
act oil the majority OF the members oi
said college, and not by the Legislature
oi said State.
No other objection being made, the
President announced at half past three
o'clock, that the Senate would now return
to its chamber, 10 that both Houses
might separately consider and decide on
the objections as soon. AS order was re.
stored, Poppleton moved that the House
take recess till 10 o'clock Tomorrow.
Rejected; yeas 80, nays l7S.
The following is the affirmative vote:
MesSrs. Ashe, Atkins, j. II. Bagley,
tanning, Blackburn, Bliss, Bright, Boone
bradford, Caldwell Of Alabama, Caldwell