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1856 votes for President and William A. Wheeler
1875 votes for Vice-President, and that they
we're therefore respectively elected.
One solitary hiss vas heard. With this
exception the announcement was made in the
midst of the most profound silence. The
Senate then withdrew, and the House adj
journed for the first time in a month.
The Electoral Tribunal. =.
The tribunal having concluded its discussion
the following resolution was offered by Mr..
Edmunds
Resolred, That the certificate signed BYE A.
CroDin, J. N. T. Miller and John Parker, pur-
porting to cast the electoral vote of the State Of
Oregon, does not contain or certify the consti-
tutional votes to which said State is entitled.
Justice Field offered the following asa sub
stitutc:
Whereas, j. W. Watts, designated in certi6-
cate No. / as an elector of the State of Oregon
for President and Vice-President Or the day Of
election, viz, the seventh day of November,
1876. held an Office of trust and profit under
the United States therefore,
Resolved, That the said J. W. Watts was then
Ineligible to the Office of elector within the ex-
pressed terms of the Constitution.
Rejected-yeas, seven; nays, eight, as fol-
lows:
Nays-Mcssrs. Abbott, Bayard, Clifford, Field,
Hunton, Payne and Thurman-7.
Yeas Messrs. Bradley, Edmunds, Frelins-
huysen, Garfield, Hoar, Miller, Norton and
Strong-8.
Justice Field then offered the following:
Whereas, Attic election held on the seventh
of November, 1876. in the State of Oregon, for
electors of President and Fice-President, W.
H. Odell, J. W. Watts and J. L. Cartwright
received the highest number of votes cast for
electors, but
Whereas Tho said Watts, then holding an
office of trust and profit under the United
States, was ineligible to the office of elector !;
therefore
Resolved, That the said Odell and Cartwright
were the only persons duly elected at said cleo
ton, and there was q failure on the part of the
State to elect a third elector.
Rejected-yeas. seven, nays, eight-the same
vote in detail as the preceding.
Justice Field then offered the following
Whereas, The legislature of Oregon has
made no provision for the appointment Of an
elector under the act of Congress where there
was a failure to make a choice on the day pre-
scribed by law therefore &
Resolred, That the attempted selection of a
third elector by the two persons chosen was
imperative and void.
~Rejected-yeas, seven nays, eight Gas
abOve).
Mr.. Bayard then offered tine following
ReSolued, That the vote of, w. H. Odell and
the vote of j. c. Cartwright cast for Rutherford
3. Hayes, of Ohio, for President Of the United
States. and for William A. Wheeler, Of New
York, for Vice-President of the United States,
were the votes provided for by the Constitution
of the United States, and that the aforesaid
Odell and Cartwright, and they only, were the
persons duly appointed electors in the State Of
Oregon at the election held on Nov. 7, 1876,
there having been o failure at the said election
to appoint a third elector in accordance with
the Constitution and laws Of the United States,
and the laws of the State Of Oregon, and that
the two votes aforesaid should be counted, and
none other, from the State Of Oregon.
Rejected-yeas, 7; nays, 8, as above.
A vote was then taken on Mr.. Edmunds' orig
inal proposition, and it was adopted-yeas, Is :;
nays, O.
MIR. Morton then offered the following o..
Resolred, That W. H. Odcll, J. c. Cartwright
and j. w. Watts, the persons named as electors
in certificate No. l, arc the lawful electors of the
State of Oregon, and that their votes are the
votes provided for by the Constitution of the
United States, and should be counted for Prcsi-
dent and Vice-President of the United States.
Mr.. Hunton moved to strike out the name of
J. w. Watts, which was disagreed to by a vote
Of I yeas to s nays.
Mr.. Morton's resolution was then adopted
yeas, s; nays, 7 as follows:
Yeas-Messrs. Bradley, Edmunds, Freling-
huysen, Garfield, Hoar, Miller, Morton and
Strong-8.
Nays-Messrs. Abbott, Bayard, Clifford,
Field, Hunton, Payne and Thurman-7.
The decision. of the commission WAS then
drawn up and signed by the eight members
voting in the affirmative.
On motion of Mr.. Morton the injunction of
secrecy upon the acts and proceedings Of the
commission, except az regards their report to
the joint session of Congress, was removed and
the commission adjourned to meet in the SUI
prcme court room. :
The report in substance is MS follows: The
Electoral commission, having received certain
certificates and papers purporting to be certifi-
Gates of the electoral votes of the State of
Oregon, and certain papers accompanying the
same, and the objections thereto, report thatit
has duly considered the same, and has decided,
and does hereby decide, that the votes of w.
II. Odell, J. c.. Cartwright and J. ". Watts,
the persons named In the certificate Of the
secretary of State of Oregon az the persons re.
ceiving the highest number of votes for Presi-
dental electors, are the votes provided for by
the Constitution and that the same are law
fully to be counted as testified to in the certifi-
cate of said electors, namely. the three votes
for rutherford B. Hayes, of the State OF Ohio,
for President, and three votes for William A.
Wheeler, of the State Of New York, for Vice
President.
The South Carolina election question being
before the commission, the certificates num-
bcred ono and two were discussed at consider
able length. -
Mr.. Frelinghuysen offered the following
Resolred, That Theodore r. Barker, S. Nc
Gowan, John W. Harrington, John Isaac In.
graham, William Wallace, John B. Erwin and
Robert Aldrich, the persons named as electors
in certificate number two, were not the lawful
electors for the State of South Carolina, and
that their votes are not the votes provided for
by the Constitution Of the United States, and
should not be counted. .
This was adopted unanimously. s
Mr.. Morton offered the following
Resolred, That c.. G. Brown. ]. Winsmith,
Thomas B. Johnston, Timothy Hurley. W. B.
Nash, Wilson Cook and W. +. Myers, the per-
sons named us electors in certificate No. !,
were lawful electors for the State Of Sonth
Carolina, and that their votes are the votes
provided for by the Constitution of the United
States. and should be counted for President
and Vice-President of the United States.
This was adopted-yeas, 8 nays, 7.