The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1877-03-01
HAYES IS PnEsIDEHTl
The Vote of Oregon was Cast Yester-
day for Hayes and Wheeler.
Full Report Of the Proceedings in Sc
cret SESSION of the Iripartite
Tribunal.
Senator thurman Being Sick, They
Adjourn to His Residence and
Take the Vote.
IAft9noon Report ]
OREGON FOR HAYES.

commission have decided against the valid
i:y of Cronin's vote and are now consider.
ing the admissibility of the vote Of Watts
IL is said that this decision was nearly
unanimous, while this report, is gener.
ally believed, is not authoritatively an
nounced. The official report of Cronin will
not be made before or about 3 o'clock.
LATER.
The commission took recess at 3 p. N
A Democratic member Of the commission
says decision regarding Oregon is virtu'
ally reached, as eight members, including
Bradley, have given their opinion in favol
OF counting three Republican votes.
FOR HAYES AND WHEELER.
WASHINGTON, February %, 4:30 p. NJ
Oregon has been given to Hayes anc
Wheeler. The vote is not known.
Morning Report
THE SECRET CoNCLAyE.
WASHINGTON, ID. c., February 23-Th,
electoral commission reassembled In secre
session at 1890, and rem aimed in consuita
tion on the Oregon case for four and hall
hours. At 3 O'Clock, the discussion being
concluded, and Senator Thurman not hav'
ing been able to attend the sitting on &C
count oil illness, a recess was taken in order
to ascertain whether he would prefer com
ing TO the capital or that the commission
should proceed TO his residence, and there
transact the business incident TO
TAKING VOTE.
A committee consisting OF Senators Bayard
and Frelinghuysen, was appointed for this
purpose, and reported in due time that Sen.
ator Thurman preferred to receive the coR-
mission, who proceeded in carriages to Sen
ator Thurman's residence. Senator Thur
man was found confined to his bed, where
he remained during the proceedings Of the
commission. The commission was formally
called TO order by Justice Clifford, presi-
dent, and a vote was taken on the follow
ing propositions, which had been informal
ly submitted and discussed but not voted
upon during the days session:
BY Edmunds.
Resolved, That the certificate signed by
E. A. CronIn, J. y. I. Miller and John
Parker, purporting to cast the electoral
vote OF the state Of Oregon, does not con-
tain or certify the constitutional votes TO
which the state il entitled.
Justice Field offered the following as e
substitute:
Whereas, J. W. Watts, designated in GER
titicate No. as an elecior of the state of
Oregon for President and Vice President, on
the day of election, viz, the 9TH day Of No
vember, 1876, held an office of trust and
profit under the United States; therefore,
Resolved, That the said J. W. Watts
was then ineligible to the office of electsr
under the express terms Of the Constitution.
Rejected: ayes, Z; nays,
Justice Field then offered The following {:
Whereas, At the election held on the
9TH of November, 1876, in the state of Ore
gon, for electors OF president and vice
president, w. ii OdeIl, J. w. Watts and J.
c. Cartwright, received the highest number
of votes cast for electors but,
Whereas, The said Watts was then hold
ing an Office of trust and profit under the
United States, was Ineligible to the Office of
elector; therefore,
Resolved, That the said Odell and Cart
wright were the only persons duly elected
at tae said election, and there was failure
on the part of the state TO elect the third
elector.
Rejected ayes, Z; nays,S.
Justice Field then offered the following /:
Whereas, The legislature Of Oregon has
made no appointment of an elector under
the act Of congress where there was fail
ure to make choice on the day prescribed
by law; therefore,
Resolved, That the attempted selection
Of third elector by two persons chosen
was imperative and void.
Rejected yeas, Z; nays, S.
Mr.. Bayard then offered the following:
Resolved, That the vote of w H. Odell,
and the vote OF J. C. Cartwright, Cast for
r. b. Hayes, Of Ohio, for President of the
United States, and for William A. Wheel
er, Of New York, for Vice President of the
United States, were the votes provided for
by the Constitution of the United States,
and that the aforesaid Odell and Cart
wright, and they alone, were the persons
duly appointed as electors in the state of
Oregon at the election held November :,
1876, there having been a failure at the
said election TO appoint a third elector in
accordance with the Constitution and laws
Of the United States, and the laws OF the
state of Oregon, and that the two votes
should be counted, and none 9TH
ers, from the state Of Oregon.
Rejected: yeas, nays, S.
A vote WAS then taken on Eimunds'
original proposition, and it was adopted
ayes, Is; nays,0.
Senator Morton then offered the follow
ing:
Resolved, That W. II. Odell, ]. c. Cart
wright and J. w. Watts. the persons named
as electors of the state of Oregon, and that
their votes are the votes provided for BY
The Contribution of the United States, and
should be counted for President and Vice
President of the United States.
Hunton moved 10 strike out the name Of
J. w. Watts. Disagreed to yeas, z nays,
Senator Morton's resolution was then
adopted yeas, s; nays, Z, as follows:
Yeas-Bradley, Edmunds, Frelinghuysen,
Garfield, Hoar, Miller. Motion and Strong
Nays-Abbott, Bsyard, Clifford, Field, |
Hunton, Payne and Thurman
The decision of the committee was then
irawn up and signed by the eight mem
,ers voting in the affirmative.
Ga motion of Senator Morton, the in
unction of secrecy upon the acts and pro-
,eedings Of the commission, except as re-
yards their report to the Joint session of con- |
,ress, was removed, and the commission ad- |
burned to meet in the supreme court room
It u IN tomorrow.
THE REPORT,
n substance, is as follows:
The electoral commission having receiv- |
d certain certificates and papers pulport-
ng TO be the certificates of the electoral |
7otes of the state of Oregon, and certain pa
,ers accompanying the same, and obiec-
ions thereto, report that it has duly
considered the same and decided,
md does hereby decide, that the
totes of Odell, Cartwright and Watts
Of State of Oregon as the persons
the highest number of votes for
Residential electors, are the votes provid.
d for BY the constitution, and that the
anne are lawfully to be counted n testi-
led to in the certificate Of the said electors,
amely, three votes for r. B. Hayes, of
)hio, and three for W. A. Wheeler, of
iew York. The report will further Get
orth that the election of Watts BY the other
wo member, of the electoral college, vas
q accordance with the constitution and
avs of Oregon.
THE GROUNDS
Or this decision, 30 far as they concern the
legibiliiy of Watts, are eubstan-
ally that it is competent to 20
ehind the certificate of the governor
, far rs the came is not founded upon
ne action OF the canvassing or returning
uthority provided for BY the laws of
ate. which authority in the case OF Ore
on is held to be the secretary of state.
he report will also take the ground that
Is not essential to show that an elector
'as eligible On the 9Th of November pro- {