Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-03-08

to the President of the Senate, purporting to
Ivered yesterday by Mr. Hewitt to the President
of the senate, whe refused TO open it 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 l 80 p. 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 30 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 Objec-
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 air. Hewitt gaining the hoor and explaining
how he got the package and what had become OF
it. Alter 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 MIR. He witt, who refused to receive it,
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 taken ON the resolution offered by Mr..
PoppIeton, which was defeated-yeas, ll6;
nays, I.s. 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:
Yeas-Messrs. Atkins, Ashe, Ainsworth, Bag
10y, Bagiey, j. H., Banning, Beebe Blackburn,
Bland, Bliss; Blount, Boone, Bradford, Bright,
Buckner, Burchard (Wis.), Carr, Cate, Caul-
field. Chaplin, Clarke, (ky.), Clarke (Mo.),
son, Davis, DeBoit, Dlbrell. Douglass, Eden,
Ellis. Faulkner, Field Finley Forney Franklin,
Fuller, Glover, Gooae, Hamilton Qnd.), Ham
ilton q. j }, HardenDerg, Harris (Ga:), Har-
rs (VaJ, Harrison, Hartridge, HarrseIl,
Hatcher, henkle, Holman, House, Humphreys,
Knott, Landers lind }, Lane Luttrell, Lynde,
Mackey, Marsh, Mcfarland, McMahon, Meade,
Mills, Morey, MORRISON, Mutchler, O'Brien,
| nJ.u' pbiifina Mo \ PODalpfNn Reilly lac II
Rice, Riddle, Robbins PA }, Robbins IN. C.),
Roberts, Ross. Savage. Sayler, Scales, Schu-
maeher. sheakley. siemmonns. smith GA >
Stone, Teese, Terry. Thompson, Thomas,
Tucker, Turney, Vance ga, Vance IN -,
Gsa9eiis W nathoG Se"'} His Sal6tog, T Wife,. WINS wis
hams (Ala.), Wilson ~; Va }, Young-l &.
Nays -Messrs. adams. Bagley. Geo A., Ba-
ford, Bell, Blair, Bradley Brown (ky.j Brown
(Ks.). Barchard ui.), Burlei4h, Campbell
Chandler, Cannon, Cason, Casweil. thittenden
Conger. Grape. Crounse, Iutler, Dantord, Oar
rail-, Davis, Dennison, D0bbins, DunnelI, Dur
ham, Eames, Egbert, Evans, Feiton, Flye,
Fort, Foster. freeman, Frye, Garfield. Cause.
son, Harris Mass }. Hathorne, Raymond,
Hays, Hendee, Henderson,. Hewitt a. ",
Hunter, Huribut, hyman, Joyce. kasson, Kear,
Kelley, kImball, Lamar, Landers onn.).
Lapham. Lawrence, Leavenworth, Lemoine,
Lord Lynch, Nasoon' MeDousalI, Mc~rary,
Norton, Oliver. o'Neln. Packer, Page,
PIaisted, Pat, Potter, Powell, Pau,
Rainey, Rea, Regau, Reilly, Jno., Robinson,
Ross, Rusk, sampson, Schllicher, Seelyc, SIN
gleton, Sinnickson, smalls. smith pa, STRAIT,
Stevenson, stowell, Swami, Thornburgh,
1h~rockmorton, Townsend q. y, Townsend
(Pa.), Tufts, Van VOORHEES,, Waairon, Wallace
-. J., NallaCe (fa.l, " ard, NatteTson
Wells (Miss.), White, Whitehouse, Whiting
Willard, WiIiiams q. ", Williams, j.. ;.
Mich }, Williams (h is. }, W illIaus (Del.), VII.
Qa.), Wood a. }. Wood N. ". WOODBURY.
" OodwCrth, Geates-llS.
Various amendments, substitutes, motions t
reconsider, etc, were ia turn rejected, when al
9 40 an amendment TO the Effect that the vote OF
>Oilace be not counted was 70 ell on and carried
by the dec sIVG vote Oh, cas-, 2y5; nays, .. IhS
speaker now announced, In the face of numer
Gus objections, tnat the senate would be not fee
to attend the joint session, and at ii O'Clock III,
senators again entered the hall. The
joint session closed at Il:5, and, thi
Senate having withdrawn, Mr.. Mills INTRODUCED
4 resolution t.iat the House now proceed L
choose Il President, in obedience t. the pro
visions of the tonettutlOn. At this pom
Ql: A. "a message from the Senate announce,
that the objections had not been sustained I'll,
announcement was greetet with very genera
clapplng of hands on the Republican sid,
of the House and in tie galleries
and the Speaker ordered that the Hobbies bt
= cleared. MIR. LynGe then moved a recess till
O'Clock to-morroW mJTnlrg Rtjected-99 t
las AT l O'Clock a. m, uebate on the obi CtioI
OF the Wisconsin yot commvnceu, and AT 3 80
not counted. The senate was again notified
and at 4 90 a m. enter ed 10 participate ia tn
final JOINT Session, which being Concluded, tn
House adjourned at 1 20 a. m.