The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-01-25
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tellers respectively appointed by them,.
proceeded to open and count the votes.
Objection was made to the count of
the votes OfMissoIri by Mr.. LivermOre,
of New Hampshire, because Missouri
is not a State in the Union" Where
upon the Senate retired to its chamber,
but took no action on the objection. In
the House, after some debate, the mat
ter on motion of Henry Clay was laid
on the table. The Senate returned to
the hall of the House, the votes of
Missouri were counted, the count con-
cluded, and the President of the Senate
announced the result. BY a previous
agreement between the two Houses, in
anticipation of the objection to the
count of Missouri's votes,as to the man
ner of declaring the vote, the President
OF the Senate announced that whether
the votes of Missouri be counted or not,
in either event, that James Monroe was
duly elected President and Daniel D.
Tompkins Vice-President of the United
States
= At the TENTH COUNT February 9,
1920 of the electoral votes of the sever
al States the two Houses agreeably to a
joint resolution, assembled in the hall
OF the House of Representatives, and
the President of the Senate, in the
presence of the two Houses, assisted by
tellers respectively appointed by them.
proceeded to open and count the votes.
lie announced as the result of his count
"that no person had majority of all
the votes OF the whole number Of
electors appointed to vote for President
of the United States; that the three
persons having the highest number of
votes are, Andrew Jackson, of Tennes-
see; John Quincy Adams, of Massachu-
sets and VIM. II. Crawford, of Georgia,
and that consequently the remaining
duties deyolye on the House of Repre-
sentatives." "And he further declared
that j ohm c. Calhoun, of South Carolina,
was duly elected Vice-President of the
United States" Mr.. Adams was ehos-
Ell by the House as President cf the
United States. Subsequently the
President of the Senate "made out and
signed" the following certificate:
BE 1t kqaoaO4l, That the Senate and
House of Representative Of the United
States of America being convened at
the city of Washington, on the second
Wednesday of February, in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and twenty-five, the underWritten,
President Of the Senate pro temp0re,
did, in the presence of the said Senate
land House Of Representative, open all
the certificates and count all the 00teS
of the electors for a President and for
Ia Vice-President of the United States;
|whereupOn it appeared that John G..
Calhoun, of South Carolina, had a
majority of the votes Of the electors as
Vice-President; by all which it appears
that Ohm c. Calhoun, Of SOuthCarOlina,
has been duly elected Vice-President,
of the United States, agreeably to the
Constitution.
'In witness whereof have hereunto
set my hand this - day of Feb
ruary, 1925.
JOHN GAILLARD."
With the retirement of James Monroe
passed from our politics the the ReYO-
lutionary race of Presidents. Wash
ington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, and
Monroe had all been active participants
in the struggle which had made the
old colonies "free and independent
States" and in the debates which franz
ed the Constitution of the United
States, or in the discussions in the
press and State conventions which led
to the adoption of that charter of our
liberties. With them, too, passed from
the active field of our politics the many
a. ~, Il i
statesmen, compatriots in the ReyOlll-
ton, and associates subsequently in
Congress in starting the new Govern
ment in 1889, and in ascertaining and
it's powers under the Con-
stitution.
In the convention which framed the
Constitution and aOho Uoted for the
to Congress- embodied in
the resolutions of September II, 1887,
(quoted before,) proo5diqg for the ap-
poaaat1neat by the Senate Of q PTesi-
dent for the sole purpose Of opening
and counting the electoral UoteS, were
George Washington, Alexander Ham
ilton, James Madison, Jr., John Lang
don, Roger Sherman, Benjamin Frank
lin, George Clymer, John Dickinson,
Paterson, William Livingston,
Robert and Cow. Morris, Charles and
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, John
Rutledge. II. Williamson, Pierce Butler.
William Few, George Read, Richard
Bassett, sc. In Congress, at its first
ession, at the first count of the elector-
i votes under that resolution, were
Tohn Langdon, James Madison, Jr.,
Rufus King, Roger Sherman, Oliver
ellsworth, William Paterson, Caleb
trong, Elbridge Gerry, the Mullen
ergs, George Clymer, Richard Henry
zee, Pierce Butler, George Read.
lichard Basssett Fisher Ames, Chas.
arroll, Philip Schuyler, Thomas
umter, HUI. williamson &C.. all
tatesmen and juriSts in the widest and
lost comprehensive sense, all thorough
lasters of political and civil law, with
thorough knowledge of the meaning
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