Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-01-24

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tice of said court member of SAID
commission; and in such appointments
regard shall be had to impartlalty and
freedom from bias sought by the orig
inal appointments to said commission,
who shall thereupon Immediately take
and subscribe the oath hereintofore
prescribed, and become member Of
said comm ss!on to fill the vacancy ot-
casioned.
All certificates and papers purport-
ing to be certificates of electoral votes of
each State shall be opened in alphabet
lcal order OF States, as provided in Sec
ton one of this act, and when there
shall be more than one such certificate
or paper as the certificates and papers
from such State, they shall SO be
opened, excepting duplicates of the
same return; they shall be read by the
tellers and thereupon the President of
the Senate shall call for objections #
any. Every OBJ lection shall be made
In writing, and shall state clearly and
conclsely, and without argument the
ground thereof, and shall be signed by
at least one Senator and one member
OF the House of Representatives before
the same shall be received. When all
such objections SO made to any certti-
cate vote or paper from State shall
have been received and read, all such
certificates, votes and papers SO OBJ
Jected to, and all papers accompanying
the same, together with such objections
shall be forthwith submitted to said
commission, which shall proceed to
consider the same, with same powers.
II any, now possessed for that purpose
by the two houses, acting separately or
together, and by majority of votes
decide whether any and what votes
from such State are the votes provided
Tor by the constitution Of the United
States, and how many and what persons
were duly appointed electors in such
State, and may therein take into view
such petitions, dispositions and other
papers. if any, as shall by the constitu
ton and now existing law be competent
and pertinent in such consideration.
which decision shall be made in writing
stating briefly the grounds thereof, and
signed by members of said commission
agreeing therein; whereupon the two
houses shall again meet, and such de-
cision shall be read and entered in the
journal of each house, and the counting
OF the votes shall proceed in conform
lty Herewith, unless upon objection
made thereto in writing by at least five
senators and five members of the House
of Representatives, the two houses
shall separately concur in ordering 9th.
erwlse, in when case such concurrent
order shall govern. No votes or papers
from any other State shall be acted
upon until the objections previously
made to votes or papers from any State
shall have been finally disposed of.
Sec. 3. That while the two houses
shall be in meeting, as provided in this
act, no debate shall be allowed, and no
question shall be put by the presiding
officer except to either house, or a mo-
ton to withdraw, and he shall have
power to preserve order.
Sec. 4. That when the two houses
separate to decide upon an objection
that may have been made to the
counting of any electoral vote or votes
from any State, or upon objection to a
report of said commission, or other
question arising under this act, each
Senator and Representative may speak
to such objection OF question ten min.
utes, and not oftener than once; but
after such debate shall have lasted two
hours, 1t shall lie the duty of each
house to put the main question without
further debate.
Sec. 3. That at such joint meeting
OF the two houses, seats shall be pro-
vlded as follows: For the President
OF the Senate, the Speakers chair; for
the Speaker immediately upon his left !;
the Senators in body of the hall upon
the right of the presiding officer; for
the Representatives in the body of the
hall not provided for the Senators; for
the the tellers, secretary of the Senate
and clerk of the House of Representa-
tlves at the clerks desk; for other Of
ticers of the two houses. in front of the
clerks desk and upon each side of the
Speakers platform. Such joint meet
ing shall not be dissolved until the
count of the electoral votes shall be
completed and the result declared; and
no recess shall be taken unless question
shall have arisen in regard to counting
any such votes or otherwise, under this
act, in which case it shall be competent
for either house, acting separately in
the manner hereinbefore provided, to
direct recess Of such house not be-
You'd the next day, Sunday excepted,
at the hour of 10 O'clock in the fore
noon, and while any question is being
considered by said commission either
house may proceed with its legislative
or other business.
Sec. 6. That nothing in this act