The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-02-01

would not avert it speaking rur the people of his
state who desired no injustice and would yield none
Returning Board from hearing aay statements the Re-
Electoral vote Of Mssissip and several oiher st.tes
He obeeied TO the blIl because by t The Democratic
yielded TIVE Under this bl the House could the
was a SURRENDER Of Repnbliean nights
seaate some eiehieen montns ago with the vote Of the
Senator from Csornia which provided that in case Of
unless both houses concuIredi
bill but he argued at the same time that the power 90
Mr.. Edmunds SAID the senator from California
was in error. fiir Edmunas did not consider the
| Mr. Sargent then concluded his remarks and said he
would do all IN ms TO avert He did be-
heve that civil disturbance would take place,
ton; il was preferable 10 disnou0r. He washed his
hands OF this bill Let those who desired TO take the
MT. Sargent having concluded Mr. Conkling resumed
signed by merchants and business men Of New YORK
table. '-'
He said he would presses to the Senate were it not
morning received By him from Indiana. and signed by
thirtyseven Republicans and three Democrats Among
GoveInor OF the state; Leonidas sexton. who was
FOR Attorney General in the aso election General
ernor and carried the 1 Se aany ne led the can
Eass disasyTo1sy 6us sssshasiy MT cDnEing then
YESTERDAY and after briefly reviewing his points
OF The % fna5 N nc m h the
over the Joint to count the Electoral vote
| ferTed to the return from Georgia. produced by
Silently Ur dg the r e y
vote which he dc not believe TO be right During the
! the 1'wentysecond Joint Rule the two houses had
then rsisrTsd e the dsgtiss attending ne
men in both houses of Congress- but the leaders OF
thought all eyer the country had their attention
tons as some OF these awaiting solution now;
prescribing The mode Of ecdns disputed in
the offices of President and Vice President and said
sa and Sne the Tear biz p9 Se oe S 9n ns s
judgment.seat whence over the whole world
@ a It he h r ,5s as TO the
questions like those Of to-day The senator from Ohio,
pending BIZ proyided for secret sessions Of the Commit
provide But for taxing up the time Of the senate he
S6rna safre sn0W that onT
1 SdvSTs gained by 5 s H
Of $3.50 foF moment put the idea that
m e Of 8D a a the not e ey e
nag any authority further than 60 open the & Ies
vide that The President of The Senate should not drect
open the eeroates He next referred to the iePsiS
ton OF 1875 and SAID II was asserted tn ere by unity
posed the two houses of Congress tn duty of
If ana yeco feq o Sas az sse e
they alone must determine whether vote was good
He next referred to the Twenty second JOINT Rule
e Ta o S d and T 9 bss hapd be DroSe
tqIh pGt So4nesn IN sea all o event a9s neye
Twenty-second JOINT Rule mad gone, and he rejoiced
ehost-it would not dowp-that If the power count
DENT Of ne se9at The Jont Rnle and
other rule on the subject had been bold usnrpa
G09si ing referred to MT GrsOTs bill Fs
@ at he ss session. and ss hee on I'VE three
Republicans who voted against it, namely: the senator
from Vermont Mr. Edmuuds; the Senator from Wis
consin, Nj. Howe. and himself. That bl would have
power to settle this election Ii passed the Senate
was held up in a motion to reconsider made by Dem
House Of could pass the bull and IN
ne S , S0h Gov at the last t a
return should be counted winch both houses. aOIins
, sn e9G9rS0e senator from MT
II there ever contrivance 1t the bill which
psed as and 1f asS Win
Gonti , mis- argumenL Ma Gonkng SAID he be;
46Tc and fncapablS Of nictIng injury upon his coun
try, ana he asked him title to his great office
H Mn''h for the state
refuse. by an association OF law:making power:
Which every dcuity Woad be soive9 II this bill
was compromise OF truth Of law or of right. he was
ana above al it did not compr6mse right principle or
promise it 70 Insist upon an honest far counting Of
tial eec zion had occurred ana unless there tie.
se nad Zen srrsS m @ 1eSt
mepts against the eonstitntoaaiity of the tribunal
sCn appointed by S0nEFesS was Illegal or Sd haG Its
Was Army co%misl9n Illegal because me General
ence dignity and strepgthsn that Gommissloni
Commission, the Army Commission and this Commits
SION 70 make vas as that the silver and
and their aSt2n was Of no account until accepted
make President was binding, unless overturned by
Mr.. UonEiing asked If it was ever heard that Con-
gTess could mot ppSe upon maoG officers extra or
OHIO deny that CONGRESS had power 10 employ Fed
states or assert other fact essential to public
TO make an examination Of the Electoral vote. They
agreed beforehand TO- make it IN particular way BY
two houses for the tine 6Eng The two houses
within their grasp to the end It was the exercise
power as mad Been claimed Recently if was Pfoposed
to make the Chief Justice Of the supreme Court uIn
diana Mr. Morton1 voted IN favor thereof consttu
ME- M Motto viii satisfy YOU directly
% h 70 'nou a nom my n enS snoox ms heaa
Resuming ms argument, he referred to the Geneva
~ with Great Britain and said OF the greatest En-
perors on the earth had acted as umpire IN an
ain. The fifteen million dollars awarded BY
aT h tfs Ss Why Of ruSS s t STD sS
is greater than ruieth a city what should DO
said of millions who by D0iseoss the wave
of wand settled this vexed question in an hourl He
commented at some length upon the powers and duties
of the Commission ana said it could do nothing
authorized by the Constitution and law, II now
stood. and it report the houses Con
gress II was not rowing Commission TO traverse all
the realms of fancy ana Imagination.
MIR Dawes said that while he heard the Senator from
New York with great postiveness the that
the Commission must be bound by the
stitution, had heard others. with equal
postiveness, declare that the Commission could
behind the returns nom state to
questions which belong To the states
Would be safer for Congress by statute
the powers and duties of the Commfsslonl
Mr.. Conking replied the Commission would be bound
by oath, ana its action subject 20 the review Of
Congress. II the honorable Senator from Massachu-
proposed TO the heavy
debate the powers OF the Commission, he would be
launching the subject upon without shore bot
tom, and the attn of March, 1878, would not the
end of the controversy
MT Dawes, in his seat, made remark to Nj
Conkling h they DID in Massachusetts.
MI Conkling said the ideA that anything earth