The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1877-03-03
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In the House the session was. devoted to
the consideration Of the sundry civil appro.
priation bill upon which considerable progress
was made. At 3.l5 o'clock motion TO take
u recess until 10 o. clock Saturday morning
was adopted by vote Of 1870 to 100, twenty
Democrats voting with the Republicans
| against the motion.
Saturday.-In the Senate, the only bust.
ness Of interest was the adoption of resou.
ton sustaining the action of the electoral
commission in counting the three votes of
Oregon for Hayes and Wheeler, and the
adoption Of another resolution in favor Of
counting the vote of another alleged ineligible
Republican electOr from Pennsylvania.
In the House the army appropriation bill
was reported. 1t reduces the number of cav.
airy regiments to eight, artillery to four, and
of infantry to sixteen, aud contains a proviso
prohibiting any of the money appropriated
by the bill from being applied for the pay,
transportation or subsistence of troops TO be
employed in support of the claim Of either
Nichols or Packard as Governor of Louisi.
ana, or in support of the rival Legislatures in
said State, and prohibits the employment Of
any portion of the army in support of the
claims of any State government or any officer
of said State until duly recognized by Con.
gress. Conference committees were appoint
ed on the postolice appropriation, the naval,
the deficiency and Legislative appropriation
bills, At an early hour the two houses Of
Congress went into joint convention on the
electoral count, when the decision of the ma.
jority on the vote Of Oregon was announced.
Objections to the decision were presented,
and the two houses separated. After long
debate, participated in by Messrs. Hoar,
Hewitt, Brown and others, resolution
was adopted by a vote of ljl TO l07
that the vote of Watts, one of the electors
from Oregon, be not counted. But us the
Senate confirmed it the decision of the cleo
toral commission will stand. The Senate
again reappeared, and the two houses again
went into joint session. When the certifi.
Gates Of Pennsylvania were handed to the
tellers objection was made to one of the
Pennsylvania electors on the ground of ineli.
gibility, but without action in the case the
House took recess until ten clock Monday
morning, by vote Of 1873 yeas to l2l nays.
Hoaddy.--ln the Senate the resignation
of Senator Thurman as member of the cleo
toral commission on account of i'll health,
was announced, and Senator Herman, of New
York, was unanimously elected to fill the va.
cancy. The Senate unanimously oyerruled
an objection to the counting of Slater, Re.
publican Nelector from Rhode Island, on
account Of alleged ineligibility. a resolution
to proceed to the election of Il president pro
tempore Of the Senate was laid on the table,
TO DO called up for consideration at an early
day The report ofthe conference committee
on the Indian appropriation bill was submit.
ted and agreed to.
In the House, after considerable debate,
Henry j. Boggs, elected to Gil the vacancy in
the Pennsylvania electoral college, caused by
the ineligibility of ID. j. Morrell was declared
an ineligible elector, but the Senate having
voted otherwise the vote Of Pennsylvania was
counted for Hayes and Wheeler The two
houses, in joint session, then took up Rhode
Island, when the Democrats made objection
toSlatef, one Of the Republican electors, as be.
ing ineligible but in separate session both hou.
SEES oyerruIed the objection, aud Rhode Island
was counted for Hayes and Wheeler. The
Joint convention re. assembled, and when
South Carolina was called two certificates for
both tho Republican and Democratic electors
were presented which, with objections pre-.
scented by both parties, were referred to the
electoral commission.
1uesdIy.-ln the Senate, resolutions in re.
latiou to the death Of the late Speaker Kerr
were called up and brief culogies upon his
life and character were delivered. The fur
ther consideration oCthe bill to amend the Paci-
tic railroad acts so us TO create sinking fund
for the liquidation Of the Indebtedness due
the government by the Pacific railroad com.
pauics was postponed until the first Monday
of December next by a vote of yeas 90, nays
rs.
In the House the suudry civil appropriation
bill was considered and an amendment was
adopted providing for paying mail constrac'
tors who performed mail service in the
Southern States in the years 1889, 1860 and
and 1861. The amount appropriated for
this purpose is $4,000. Mr.. Field bill
amending the revised statutes so as to pro-
vide for the case of removal, death, resignation
or inability of both President and Vice Presi.
dent, was reported debated, and finally
passed by vote of 1888 yeas to l09 nays, one
republican lFnrmau Of Florida) voting for
the bill, and thirteen democrats voting against
it, A motion made by Mr.. Schleicher, of
Texas, to suspend the rules and adopt res
olution recognizing the governments of Mich.
oils and Hampton rs the lawful governments
of Louisiana and South Carolina was defeated
hy ljG yeas to 90 nays, two.thirds not voting
in the affirmative.
Wednesday, two Houses of Congress
met in convention soon after II o'clock.
The decision of the electoral commission
sustaining the Hayes electors in South Caro-
lima, was read n series of objections were
then presented on the part Of the Democrats
of the House. and the Senate withdrew. Fill.
clustering in the House then began, and all
sorts OF tactics were resorted TO for the pur
pose of delaying action, but the Speaker ruled
adversely, aud IN every instance, by nearly
two thirds vote the flibusters were voteddo
The browning effort was made on motion
that the voluminous testimony in the South
Carolina case be read, but it was defeated by
a vote of 81 yeas TO III nays. This was the
test of the strength of the flibustering ele.
mcnt. After this n resolution was adopted
that the electoral vote of South Carolina be
not counted.
While these proceedings were pending in
the House the Senate voted to adopt the de.
cision Of the electoral commission in the
South Carolina case, The two houses soon
after reassemblcd in convention. The vote
of South Carolina was counted for Hayes and
Wheeler, Tennessee and Texas were then
counted for rilden and Hendricks. When
Vermont was reached the President handed
one set of the certificates 10 the tellers. The
President was then asked if there was not
another set OF certificates. He said he had
received but one set of certificates from Yer
mont. He was then asked to receive du-
plicate copy sent by express TO Mr.. Hewitt,
but declined, after colloquy with Mr..
Springer, of Illinois. Objection was then
made to the vote Of Solace, one of the Yer
mont electors, on the ground of ineligiblity.
The Senators then withdrew, and on reaching
their chamber voted unanimously after n
short debate, that Solace was eligible. The
House by previous arrangement, agreed to Q
recess until ten o'clock Thursday morning,
without taking up the objections 70 Solace.
Thmsday-T interest u the proceedings
of Congress continued in the House, where
an exciting struggle took place in regard to
counting the electoral vote Of Vermont, which,
after u twelve hours contest, resulted in the
defeat of every effort to delay the count of
the Vermont vote. During the struggle
Speaker Randall expressed the opinion that
the President pro TEN. of the Senate had
committed wrong on Wednesday in refusing
to open the package rendered TO him by Mr.
Hewitt purporting to contain the electoral
vote IF Narfnnnt hut CONTRASTING his INABILITY