The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1877-01-14
Its PrcttincSS Lies in the Draw
and the Sentiment Comes in
Heavy on the Chance.
An Extraordinary Project, Which
Plainly Indicates that the Chances
OF Counting In Hayes Have
Grown Desperate.
Count, Congress, Count with Care; Count
In the Presence Of the vOx populalre,
l93fOr TiIden and Hendricks Fair,
With the Oregon Vote to Spare;
the Rest for Wages and
Heelalre."
Deprived of Lemonade. the Committee
Wants "A straw la she Count.

Deprived OF Lemonade. the Committee
Wants "A Straw la she Count.
NEW YORK, January ia Wash.
ington special says the proposition OF
the Senate electoral committee, which
was under consideration at the Joint
meeting OF the Senate and House COM
mittees yesterday, provides that the
Senate shall, on the day for counting
the vote, meet with the House in the
hall of the latter body. The vice pres.
ident shall open all certificates, and
teilers, appointed for the purpose, shall
as usual read, record and sum up the
Votes; but there are to be counted, in
the first place, only returns to which
no objection is made. Where there is
one return only from State, and that
Is objected to- the two houses will de-
termine whether it shall DO counted (;
but
Concurrence of Roth Houses VIII DO
Required 10 Reject Amy Vote.
When two returns are made from u
State, the dispute is to be referred to u
commission or tribunal composed OF
nine members of the House and Sen.
ate, and the four Justices of the Su-
preme Court the longest in the service.
The nine members of the House and
Senate are to be selected by the APP.
pointment of five Senators and five
Representatives, and then dropping
one of the ten by drawing of lots. The
Justices who would Gbecome members
of the commission by the terms of the
proposition would be Clifford, OF
Maine; Noah II. Swayne, of Ohio /;
Samuel G. Miller, of Iowa and David
Davis, of Illinois. The commission is
to he authorized to determine all ques-
lions of dispute, their decision TO be
final, The disputed votes having been
counted in the presence of the House
and Senate, in accordance with the de-
cision of the commission, and the
whole numb of electoral votes hay
ing been summed up by the tsllers,
The President OF the senate win An
nOuncc the Result I'm the Usual
Form
which will determine who is to be the
president Of the United States.
Justice Clifford is Democrat, and
Justices Swaine and Miller are Repub-
Leans. Justice Davis was appointed
by President Lincoln. He has been
known for several years US Liberal
Republican. The bill has not the
unanimous approval of the Senate
committee. If reports may be believed
Senators Morton and Frelinghuysen
give very reluctant and reserved con-
sentt to the proposition. 1t has become
clear, however, that no arrangements
can be made between the two Houses
when they meet In joint session.
There can be no agreement
in fact, unless the terminus
ton Of the questions in dispute is sub
mitted to some fair and able tribunal
outside of Congress, whose action can
not be absolutely foretOld.
Ghe Proposition In BASED on BnI
Passed by the senate I'm the Year
1900.
WI en- all disputes concerning Presi-
Dental elections were yet mere alb
stractions, the bill authorizing the APP
pointmont of Elk memb ers Of the SEN
ate and six from the House to net with
the Chief Justice Of the Supreme Court;
or, in case OF his absence, the Justice
OF longest service who might be In
Washington. This was to constitute a
grand committee to hear and settle all
disputes. The bill was lost by the dis
agreement between the two Houses.
The House committee are said to look
upon the proposition with some favor,
though the prospects for final agree
ment cannot now be estimated.