The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-01-25
Counting the Electoral Vote.
ITS ANTECEDENTS AND HISTORY FROM
st 1889 TO 1873. sae

Is lass e 54saF &
ITS ANTECEDENTs AND HIsBoEE FROM
1889 TO 1873. i
in convention Monday, September
II, 1887.
present: The States of NeWsHamp-
shire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Al
exander Hamilton from New York,
New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware.
Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina,
South Carolina, and Georgia.
''ReSo1ued, Thatsit is the opinion OF |
this convention, that as soonJas the con-
,yentions of nine States shall have ratl- |
fed this Constitution, the United. States
in Congress assembled should fix day
on which electors should be appointed
by the States which shall have ratified
the same, and a day on which the cleo
tors should assemble to vote for the
President, and the time and place for
commencing proceedings under; this
Constitution. That after such Fpubll-
cation, the electors should be appointed,
end the Senators and Representatives
elected. That the electors shouldanneet
son the day fixed for the election OF the
president, and should transmit their
votes, certified, signed, scaled, and dl-
Irected, as the Constitution requires, to-
the Secretary of the United States in
kCongress assembled; that the Senators
lsalad Representatives should Ganven at
the time and place assigned; thatlthe
Senators should appoint a presidentsOf
| the Senate, for the sole palrpase OF re-
>eeiving, opening, and counting the votes
/ for President; alad that after .hes,shaal
.he chosen, the Congress, together with
\ the President, should, without delay,
aipFoceed to execute this Constitution.
II BY the unaniaAaOus order, OF the c0H-
lMention. GEORGE WASHINGTON.
4 4 1 "fRTesident.
4 taFILLIAM JACKSON as.
| @SecretarE..'
i accordingly, lin obedience tothe fore
i going resolution iR the Senate saf the
4 lste Congress, at the FIRST CGsJrN2lMSoft the
i eleGteral votes OF the seysral States,
as(April 6, 1882 john Langd0n, Kssq, OF
BMew Hampshire, WAS chosen President
1tOf that body for the sole purpose ct OPP
'lelling and counting ahe votes for FIRES
isdentsand Vice President of the UNITED
4 States, and it Mas-ii9i sat RE-
4 'fQqsosred. That Mr. Observation-Disclosures
tfae House of Representatives tIataa
| @gaoE,Nn af the Senate is formel,; that a
/ President is elected for the suileipEr-
pose of opening the ceTtificaSes and
counting the, votes OF the eleetars of
Gf.,{ Iva no al CT "a
! President and Vice President of the
United, States: and that the Senate M
now ready in the Senate Chamber, to
!, pro0eedin the presence of the House
to discharge that dutys and that the
Senate haze appointed one OF their
membefs%to sit at the clerks tatsse to
make a list of the votes as they shall,he
declared submitting it to the wisdom
of the House to appoint one or more of
i their members for the like purpose
81 In response to this order Mr.. BolNai~
,, not, from the House Of Represents
t tives, Appeared in the SenaGe and said
''Mr. PRESIDENT: / am directed by
the House of Representatiyes to inform
the Senate that the House is ready
forthwith to meet the Senate to attend
the opening and counting of the votes
, of the electors of the President and
Vice Presidentof the United States"
Not to participate in the coslnt, nor
!, to perform any active function in the
! count, but to attend with the Senate,
u and witness "thes opening and counting
'Ysof the votes 10y .the President of the
ESenate.
/ Mr.. Langdon, asa PRESIDENT of the Sen
sage, in the presence of the two Houses,
Eassisted by tellers appointed by those
i bodies, opened and eeunted the votes of
1.-THE electors, announced the result to
! the two houses, and signed and issued
i the following certificate, prepared by
Messs,s. Patterson, johnson, Lee, and
i Ellsworth, as committee appointed
1 for the purpose:
BE lit known, that the Senate and
| Houseof Representatives of the United
States of America, being convened in
the city and State of New York, the
sixth day of April, in the year Of our
/ Lord one Thousand seven hundred and
eighty-nine, the underwritten, appoint
ed President Of the Senate for the sole
purpose of receiving, opening, and
counting the votes Of the electors, did,
in the presence OF the said Senate and
House of Representatives, open all the
certificates and cott'st all the rotes of
the electors for a President and for a
Vice President; by which it appears
that George Washington, Esquire, was
unanimously elected, agTeeably to the
Constitution, to the Office of President
of the United States of America.
I'm testimony whereof I have here
unto set my hand and seal.
7 John LANGDoN."
/ A similar certificate, substituting the
word ''Vice President" for that of
president" and the word duly for
Unanimously" was prepared for Mr..
| Adams. 4
/ At the SECOND COUNT February 10,
| 1889 of the electoral votes of the sew
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