The daily gazette., 1877-02-22
The Jof,nt Convention
WASHINGTON, Feb. 21, 1S77.


" At 1l.45 the Senators entered the hall
and took seats assigned them. After all
were seated the presiding officer called
the meeting to order and directed the
reading Of the resolutions of each house
favor of counting the vote of Nevada.
The teller then announced that the
State of Nevada had cast three votes for
Hayes and Wheeler. e., r. ~ .
Then followed in succession the State
OF New Hampshire, with 5 votes for
Hayes and Wheeler; New Jersey, with 0
votes for Tilden and Hendricks; New
York, with 35 votes for Tilden and Hend
ricks; North Carolina, with 10 votes for
Tilden and Hendricks; Ohio; with 21
votes for Hayes and Wheeler. The presi-
ding officer then opened and handed the
tellers certificate received from the
State Of Oregon. 1t was read by Mr..
Stone (Mo.) and proved to he sworn GER
tifcate ofthe three Hayes electors Cart
wright, Odell, and Watts, executed before
q Notary Public.
The papers contain full statement OF
the doings of the three electors, the res
ignation of Watts as Postmaster, his sub
sequent choice by the other two electors,
the original ballots cast by the three elec-
tors, etc. They were read in full. . .
The presiding officer then handed to
the tellers the certificate of the rival cleo
tors, Cronin, Miller, and Parker, authen-
ticated by the signatures of the Governor
and Secretary of State, with the seal of
the State attached. This certificate gives
two votes to Hayes and Wheeler and
one vote to Tilden and Hendricks.
Senator Mitchell, of Oregon, presented
objections to the certificate of Cronin,
Miller, and Parker, on the following
grounds
First. Because neither of said persons
was ever appointed elector by the State
of Oregon in any manner whatever.
Second, Because it appears from the
records and paper contained in and at
tached to the certificate of W. H. Odell,
J. @. Cartwright, ,and John W. Watts, that
they were duly appointed electors and
cast their votes as such. ..
Third. Because it does not appear
from the face of Governor Growers GER
tificate attached to the returns OF the
votes of Cronin, Miller, and Parker that
such certificate was issued to three per-
sons having the highest number of votes
for electors, but was issued by him to per
sons whom he deemed eligible, though
one of them E. A. Cronin, was not ap-
pointed thereto according to the laws of
the State of Oregon.
Fourth. Because it appears from the
certificate of S. Chadwick, Secretary of
State, that Odell, Cartwright, and Watts
received the highest number of votes, and
that the Secretary of State, in pursuance
of law, so declared, and that therefore
the certificate of the Governor, in so far
as it omitted to certify the name of j. w.
Watts as one of the electors appointed,
and in SO far as such certificate contained
the name of E. A. Cronin as one of the
electors fails to conform to the act of Con-
gress in such cases made and provided,
and to the law of Oregon, and that such
certificate is as to said Cronin without
authority and of no effect.
Fifth. Because it appears from both
certificates that Odell and Cartwright, a
majority of the Electoral College were
duly appointed electors by the State Of
Oregon, in the manner directed by the
Legislature, that their record presented To
the President of the Senate, and by him
to the two houses, shows that vacancy
in the office of elector existed on the day
fixed by law for the meeting of electors,
apd that such vacancy was filled by the
appointment of Watts.
This objection is signed be Senators
Mitchell and Sargent and by Representa-
tiyes Lawrence, of Ohio, Burchard, of IL
linois, and McDill, of Indiana.
Senator Kelley, of Oregon, then presen-
ted an objection to the certificate of Cart
wright, Odell and Watts. 1t is signed by
Senators Kelley, Bogy, Mcdonald, Ste
yenson and Cooper, and by Representa-
tiyes Field, of New Y ork; Tucker, of Vir'
einia; Dane of Oregon; jerks, Of Penn
sylvania; Walling, of Ohio; Clymer, o.
Pennsylvania; Wiggint0n, of California
Poppleton, of Ohio; Vance, of Ohio
Hurd, of Ohio; and Luttrel, of Califor
mia.
The grounds of the objection are
First. The papers purporting to be thu
certificates of the electoral votes of State
of Oregon, have not annexed to them
certificate of the electoral votes Of the
State of Oregon, have not annexed to then
a certificate of the Governor of Oregon a
required to be made and annexed by Sec
tions 1856 and 1873, United States Revised
Statutes.
Second. The papers have not annexed
to them list of the names Of Cartwright
Odell and Watts as electors, to which tn
seal of the State of Oregon was affixed b.
the Secretary of State, and signed by tn
Governor and Secretary, as required b,
section go of chapter XIV Lq of the gen
eral laws of Oregon.
Third. 1t was the right and duty OF tn
Governor of Oregon, under the laws G
that State, to give certificate Of electio
or appointment as electors to j. G. Cart
wright, VIM. II. Odell and E. A. Cronir
they being the three persons capable {
being appointed Presidential electors, VIII
/ :..d .I,o I,;obaet numher 0f VOTES a