The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-01-19
COUNTING THE ELECTORAL
VOTE.
What the Papers This Morning
East and West Say of the
Edmunds Bill
.ational Associated Press to the star.

National Associated Press to the star.
THE New York Herald Of This Mornrng1
NEW YORK, Jan. 19.-Regarding the
resolution adopted by the Joint Com
mittee for Counting the Electoral Vote,
the Herald believes it would be indorsed
by the American people. The bill should
be passed by Congress and
promptly approved by the Presi-
dent. The adoption OF this
plan it believes will have the effect of
reassuring the country and relieving
the vauge apprehensions Of dangers and
stormy 4th of March. All the elc-
ments of the proposed method are Con-
stitulioual, and promise an honest
and legal result. II this plan
should be rejected by Con-
gress, no other can be contrived,
ior there is not time. Tho country would
then be left to wrangling and furious
Congress, to the secret intrigues and
bolder strokes of demagogues, TO in
creasing excitement among the people,
all ending probably in violence, and per-
haps in civil war, or at best in lasting
discomfort OH one side or The other. The
Herald advocates it's adoption.
THE New York World Of this Morning.l
The World editorially still holds TO it's
decided views respecting the Electoral
votes, and claims that the President OF
the Senate is nothing more than an cfi-
cial receiver, keeper and opener OF the
Electoral certificates, and there his
functions end; and the two Houses have
complete and exclusive jurisdiction OIL
the whole business. The World avoids
a discussion OF the points of the Joint
Committee plan, but by implication
opposes the plan.
lThe New York Times of this morning.l
The Times opposes the plan, and con-
siders its worst feature is that consti-
tuting five of the Supreme Court Judges
arbitrators between the branches oil
Congress. BY it the Senate surrenders
method which protects the right OF the
States to determine the regularity oi
the respective VoLes oil the
| two parties whose interests are
involved. The Democrats alone have
reason to rejoice. The world will now
| believe, and on the authority OF this
Select Committee, that the Federal
Constitution can not endure the strain
of a closely-conteste Presidential elec-
tiop, That to meet an emergency
| which an adherence to the letter OIL
| the instrument might really have over.
come. it is considered necessary to con-
struct a ricGety piece OF machinery
which will neither harmoniza with othel
parts Of the system, nor contribute tc
| ihe faith of the people in the sagacity o.
| their rulers. The odium of pronouncing
A Judgment which one-haif OF the coun
lry Will object to as partisan, Will res
on the Supreme Court.
THE Cincinnati Enquirer of this morning.
The bill is pernicious one in itself
and would be dangerous as precedent.
The result of the arbitration would en-
| rage and not satisfy either party. Th'
hin would be the humiliating confession
mat after a President has been elected
the Constitutional arbitrators, three
Ihundred and seventy men, with all the
facts in their possession, with tnell
loaths recorded, are unable to, or dar'
mot, declare the result Of the election
without lawless assistance.
lThe Cincinnati Commercial Of this morning.
We would have preferred the staight
forward, Constitutional method, of as
lcertaining the result OF the Presidential
lelection by opening the certificates il
the presence of the houses Of Congress,
the President of the Senate, as theil
lcustodian, identifying them, the count
ling being mere clerical labor, and the
lConstitution declaring the result.
| The Republicans had the Presidency
lin their own hands by this method, bu
they had been for many years making
precedents that were just now very EN-
barrassing. They had been asserting
1.-The power of Congress Yehemently and