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The Louisiana Case in Congress.
SENATE.
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ried on under the ten minute rule. Bay
ard, Stevenson, Maxey and other demo
Gratis argued that the evidence of disquali
fication was not sufficient and would there.
fore favor counting the vote.
Mr.. Allison offered resolution that the
objection to Crossman is not good in Law
and not sustained by any lawful evidence,
and that the vote be counted with the Other
votes Of electors of the state.
Mr.. Whyte said he could not vote fol-
the resolution as it stood. He therefore
submitted the following substitute:
Ordered, That while it is the sense of the
senate that no senator or representative OF
person holding an Office of trust or profit
under the United States shall be appointed
elector, aud that this provision of the con.
stitution shall be carried out in its whole
spirit into rigid execution, yet that the
proof is not such as to justify the exclu-
sion of the vote of Crossman as one of the
electors of Michigan, and that the vote
should be counted.
Mr. Whytes substitute was rejected by
strict party vote, 81 to 80. The question
then being on Allison's resolution, Mr.. Nc
Donald moved to amend the first resolu-
ton to read Resolved, That the objec-
ton made to the vote of Crossman is not
sustained by lawful evidence. Rejected
yeas 20, nays 3S, strict party vote.
Mr.. Cooper demanded a separate vote on
the resolutions and the first one as submit
ted by Mr.. Allison was agreed to by vote
of 40 to II. The second resolution was
then unanimously agreed to.
The house was notified that the senate
was ready to resume the count and reply
being received announcing the action of
that body the senate proceeded to the
house and on returning the president pro
tempore stated that the senate had with
drawn from the joint meeting on an OBJ
lection submitted to the vote of Nevada
The objection to the vote of Daggett. an
elector from that state, submitted in joint
meeting was then read and also the testi-
mony Of Daggett before the house COM
mittee on privileges in regard to his hold,
ing the Office OF clerk of the United States
courts, but which he stated he resigned on
the 9th of November last.
Mr.. Jones of Nevada submitted a reso-
luton that Daggetts vote DO counted with
the other votes of Nevada, notwithstand-
ing the objection thereto agreed to unani-
mously and the secretary was directed to
notify the house of the action of the senate.
At 1918 the secretary returned and re-
turned and reported that the house had
taken recess before he reached the hall.
The senate then took q recess until 10
o'clock tomorrow.
HOUSE.
Mr.. Gibson of Louisiana offered an order
that the Hayes electoral votes for Louisi-
ana be not counted.
MIR. Hurlbut Of Illinois moved to amend
by striking out the word "not"
The discussion was opened by MIR. New
of Indiana, who said he HAD voted for the
electoral commission without hesitation or
misgiving, and he was not ashamed of it.
He accepted without qualification his hum
BILE share of responsibility. He voted for
that act in full confidence that no require
ment in it, either expressed in it or implied,
would be ingored or treated with surplus
age. The bill provided in terms that the
commission was authorized to take into
view such dispositions, petitions and other
papers, as under the constitution and exist
ing laws, would be competent and peril
nent to such consideration, and he recol-
lected that the supreme court with the ut
most emphasis had never omitted, when
the opportunity offered, to declare that
fraud poisoned, corrupted and debauched
everything which it created or into the ex-
istence Of which it entered. he had, there
fore, had enough of simplicity and
credulity to believe that commission
80 constituted would not become mere
counting teller for the president of the
senate. He would vote to sustain the OBJ
lection to the decision of the commission
He was in favor Of proceeding without un-
necessary delay to the completion of the
count, and be declared it to be his iudg-
ment that the democrats of the house and
senate, of Louisiana and of the Union
should submit Che did not now think of a
more appropriate word) to the install alton
of minority president, under the findings
of the commission. If they did SO at the
sacrifice of their dearest interests, of their
strongest convictions, for the peace Of the
country, the near future would witness
such condemnation and overthrow OF the
incoming republican administration as had
happened in no other country. The choice
of the chief executive had been disregarded
and treated with contempt by usurper.
whose only title TO the Office came through
a rotten returning board, the most iufam-
GUS, most desperate, most despised body
of men that had ever been organized and
charged with an important political duty.
(Applause.)
Mr.. Seelye of Massachusetts said in the
case Of the Louisiana election 1t seemed to
him perfectly clear that the charges made
by each party against the other were in the
main true. No facts were ever proved
more concluslvely than fraud and corrupt
ion charged on one side and intimidation
and cruelty on the other. Which Of the
two sides went the farthest in that wrong
doing it would be very hard to say. The
corruption on one side seemed as heinous
as the cruelty of the other was horrible,
and on both sides there did not seem to be
any limit to the extent they went, save
where the requirements OF the case ceased.
He found it quite impossible to say which
of the two sets of electors from Louisians
voiced the true will of the people. II