Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-03-15
CONGRESS,

Meyer struck the Marquis.
CONGRESS.
In the Senate, on the 1st, 10 business
whatever was transacted although nearly all the
Senators were in or about the chamber during
the entire day. At 10 80 p. m. a message was
received from the House., announcing the action
of that body on the Vermont case, and the Senate
Immediately repaired to the hall of the House
for the purpose of resuming the count. Upon
returning at IL 80 a resolution to count the vote
of Downs together with the other Hayes Electors
from WISCONSIN was agreed to with
out debate, three or four Demo-
cratic Senators, however, voting no..
In the House, after some two hours had been
spent in dilatory motions, ste, a resolution was
presented by Mr.. Poppleton, the preamble of
which recited that a sealed package, addressed
to the President OF the Senate, purporting to
contain the Electoral vote of Vermont, was de-
livered yesterday by Dir. Hewitt TO the President
of the Senate, who refused 10 open 1t In the pres
ence of the two houses, and that such package is
retained by the President or Secretary of the
Senate; the resolution declares the action Of the
President of the Senate TO be a violation of the
law and of the privileges of the House, and that
until such package Is produced the counting of
the Electoral vote can not proceed further.
AT 80 a. M, after an excited and protracted
wrangle ON points of order, the Speaker ruled
that debate must begin. An appeal being taken ,
the confusion became so great that the Speaker
ordered the Sergeant at arms to clear the floor
of all but members, which was done. The rul-
ing of the Speaker was sustained by the House,
and at 2 O'Clock the debate began on the obtec-
ton to counting the vote of Vermont being open
ed by Mr.. Poppleton. The subject of the miss
ing package again came TO the front, however,
by Mr.. Hewitt gaining the floor and explaining
how he got the package and what had become Of
it. After a good deal of colloquy in regard to
what had become OF the paper, a messenger from
the Senate came into the hall and rendered the
package to Mr.. lie witt who refused TO receive il,
and %thereupon announced the fact TO the House.
After a long and exciting discussion in regard to
the package in question. and the duties of the
President of the Senate In reference thereto, a
vote was laken on the resolution offered by Mr..
Poppleton, which was defeated-yeas ll6;
nays, las. AS the vote on this resolution was
generally regarded as the final test vote upon the
question of allowing the count to proceed, we
give the yeas and nays as follows:
Yens-Messrs. Atkins, Ashe. Ainsworth, Bag
by, Bagley, j. H., Banning, Beebe, Blackburn,
Bland, Bliss; Blount. Boone, Braaford, Bright,
field. Chaplin, Clarke (ky.), Clarke (Mo.),
Cochrane, Collins. Cook, Cowan, Cox, Culber-
son, Davis. DeBolt. DIbrell, Douglass, Eden
Ellis, Faulkner, Field Finley Forney Franklin,
Fuller, Glover. Goode, Hamilton Qnd.), Ham
ris (va.). Harrison. Hartridge. Hartsell,
Hurd. jerks, Jones IN; Y.), Jones ,(Ky;),
Knott, Landers lind } Lane Luttrell, Lynde,
MaGsey' MARI harsh' MeIr,san a Me c Meade Meade
Odell, Phillips {Mo }. Popeleton Reilly LAS B. I.
Rice. Riddle. Robbins pa }, Robbins IN: c.,
Roberts. Ross Savage. sayler, Scales. schu-
ohOohhOJ SiAAti ANast
southland. Sparks, syringe. Stanton, stenger
Stone, Teese, Terry. Thompson. Thomas
T WSdSeii T % r VA Vance W ssiiR; va Ws,. q Wa G;}:
(Mo.], Whltthorne, wiggenton. Wike. viii
liams Gala. }, Wilson Nv. Va }, Young-l 6.
Nays -Messrs. Adams, Bagley, Geo. A.. Ba-
ker (nd.) Baker IN. J, Ballou, Banks, Bel.
ford, Bell. Blair, bradley, Brown (Ky.) Brown
(Ks.), Burchard Ql.), Burleish. Campbell
Chandler, Cannon, Cason Caswell. Chittenden,
rail-, Davis, Dennison, Dobbins, Dunnell, Dur
ham, Games, Egbert, Evans, FELTON,. Flye,
Goodi n0''e aan ness"f Haze Frye s SS 9 f HSlsl!
SON. Harris MASS }. Hathorne, Raymond
Hays. Hendee, Henderson. Hewitt O., ",
H Hnnte lr0I Hur hoge' Hvps = loves Mesk Mason nnR Rehr
Kelley, Kimball, Lamar, Landers Conn
Lapham. Lawrence. Leavenworth. Lemoine,
McDill, Miller. Monroe. Morss5, Nash, Neal
Norton, Oliver. O,Neil. Packer, Page
Payne, Phelps: Phillips {Ks:ls Pierce,
R Rad n ikea Res, Regain, Reilly Reilly. jno., Robinson h n
Ross, Rusk, Sampson, Schleicher, Seelye, Sin
gleton, Sinnickson, Smalls, Smith pa. Strait,
Stevenson. st9well, swami, Tho%rnburgh
(Pa.), Tufts. Van voorhes, Waldron,- Wallace
Wizard villa S.'S Williams mHI tS. YY w, Williams "ni a. 5,
(Mich.), Williams owls. } Williams (Del.), vii
liams W. b.. (Mlch.), Willis, Wiltshire, Wilson
Qa.), Wood lfa.). Wood IN. ". WOODBURY.
Woodwork, Yeates-l4S.
Various amendments, substitutes, motions tt
reconsider, ETC., were in turn rejected, when al
8 40 an amendment to the effect that the vote OF
~ollace be not counted was Vo ed on and carried
by the decisive vote ~Of-yeas, 2U5; nays, -. The
speaker now announced, in the face OF numer
Gus objections. that the senate would be notified
to attend the joint session, and at IL o'clock the
Senators again entered the hall. The
joint session closed at ii :25, ana, the
Senate having Withdrawn, Mr.. Mills introduced
a resolution that the House now proceed te
choose a President, in obedience to the pro-
visions of the Constitution. at this point
III: 4a) a message from the Senate announced
that the objections haa not been sustained Ths
announcement was greeted with very genera
clapping of hands on the Republican side
of the House and in the galleries
and the Speaker ordered that the Hobbies bt
cleared. Mr.. Lynde then moved a recess till 4
O'Clock tomorrow morning R~ejected-99 Il
14S At l o'clock a. m. debate on the objection
of the Wisconsin vote commenced. and at 8 so
resolution was carried that the vote of Downs b'
not counted. The Senate was again notified
and at 4 :0O a. m. ente, ed to participate in thu
final Joint session, which being concluded, tn,
House adjourned at 4 20 a. m.