Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-01-03
president, which list was read to the two


The vice-p president declared George
unanimously elected president
of the United States for the period OF four
years, to commence with the 4th OF March
next; and
John Adams elected, by plurality of
votes, vice president of the United States
for the same period, TO commence with
the 4th of March next.
FEBRUARY IA, 1898.
Mr.. King, from the joint committee ap-
pointed on the 9th instant to report mode
of notifying the person who should be
elected president of the United States sub
mitted the following resolve:
ReSoIucd, Thata committee be appointed,
to Join such committee us shall be ap-
pointed by the House of Representatives,
to wait on the president and notify him OF
his unanimous reelection to the office OF
president of the United States.
And the report was adopted.
Ordered, That Messrs. King, lard, and
Strong be committee on the part OF the
Senate.
A message from the House of Repre-,
sentatives announced the appointment OF
a committee on its part to wait upon the
president elect and notify him OF his
election.
Mr.. King, from the joint committee APP
pointed for that purpose, reported, ltat
pursuant to the resolution OF the IAN IN
slant, the joint committee OF the senate
and House of Representatives have TINS
day waited on the president and notlIleo
him Of his unanimous reelection TO Tie
Office of president of the United States.
This record is given in full, rs III
form it has been substantially followed al
every subsequent election. 1t shows thai
the House has, from the very first, actef
Jointly with the Senate in order :" to ascer
tain and report a mode of examining the
votes for president and vice president anc
of notifying the persons who shall be elect
ed of their elecion;" that each house h"'
appointed telers; that the president OF the
Senate has delivered to these tellers APP
pointed by the two houses the certificates
OF the votes, and these tellers have lex
amined and ascertained the votes ant
handed their count to the president, wh'
thereupon has declared the state OF TIL
vote.
At tbe third election the same formal
ties were gone through with, and the vic
president, John Adams, who had beel
chosen president, in declaring the resul
said, "In obedience TO thu constitution
and the laws of the Unitol States, and t.
the commands of the two houses of Con
eress, expressed in their resolution pnSSe
in the present session, now declare" et(
At this election also II form of certilicat
of the result for the president elect WI
adopted by the Senate, and in it is this e'
preston; 1.-THE underwritten vice presldeT
of the United States and president OF I'll
Senate did, in presence of the Senate in
House Of Representatives, open all the ce
tificates and count all the votes, etc. Sin
. liar action on the part Of the Senate W.
| had ut subsequent elections until the ilr'
S election of jackson, when it was droppe
, and II Joint resolution adopted by the tv
houses, notifying the president elect tn
G he had been "duly elected"
S At the eighth election objection W
= made to counting the vote Of Indiana,
d the gound that it lltd not been admitted
c II state. The Senate retired, and t
d House indefinitely postponed the resol
u ton that the vote be not counted, whel
II upon the Senate returned and the cor
l. proceeded
At the ninth election, question bel
ID made as to counting the vote of Nilsson
OF the Joint committee "to report mode
lie examining the voies,' reported this re
Sc luton, which was agreed to by bt
e houses:
H. Resolrcd, That if any objection be ma
ct to the votes of Missouri, and the count
~. or emitting to count which shall not ess
TALLY change the result of the election,
- that case they shall be reported by
e president of the Senate in the follow
he manner: Were the votes of Missouri
a. be counted, the result would be, for 4
for president of the United States,
u votes. If not counted for A Is tor pr
he dent of the United States, Votes.
N, in either event A B is elected president
in the United States. And in the same m
,,t ner for vicc-presldent.
ho When the certificate of the vote of y
40 souri, was handed to the teIers, object
ln was made to counting it on the grol
=; that Missouri was not IL state in the UNI
- whpreupon the Senate withdrew, and
g.. House refused to entertain the object
- The Senate then returned and the co
, proceeded, and the president Of the Sci
H.. announced the result in compliance v
ho the above resolution.
AT the thirteenth election the Ser
-, adopted the following resolution, wi
va was concurred in by the House;
Resolrcd, That committee be appc
- ed. to ion such committee rs may be
pointed by the House of Rcpresentati
, to ascertain and report mode Of eXar
re- inc the votes of president and vice-pr
dent of the United States, and notify
ne the persons of their election; and, alsC
tee INQUIRE into the expediency of ascerl
as ing whether any votes were given at
'er- recent election contrary TO the prohibl
the contained in the second section of
md second article of the constitute on; an
9cl- any such votes We're given, what ougll
ing he done with them; and whether any
ter what provision ought to be made for
and curing the faithful observance, in fut
art. of that section of the constitution.
}. Grundy, Clay and Wright consIit
I'm I'm the committee on the part of the Sci
mo They reported that the time was too
Of to fully investigate the facts; and tina
any event, the result Of the election W
,. not be affected by excluding the
claimed to have been cast by ineli;
in electors. The report proceeds;
ext The committee are of opinion that
| be second section of the second article OF
Sem constitution. which declares that
hey Senator or Representative, or person
be ING an Office Of trust or profit under
ate, United States, shall be appointed an
ote, tor,' ought to be carried in It's
uses spirit into rigid execution in order to
be vent officers of the General Govern
ect- from bringing their official power t.
to- fluence the elections of president and
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