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nature we're presented by the Democrats, but IN
every case they we're voted down-the vote
standing in each case 8 tot.
Senator Morton then offered the following:
; Resolred, That the persons nsmed as electors
in certificate number one we're the lawful cleo
tors Of the State Of Louisiana, and that their
votes are the votes provided by the Constitution
of the United States, and should be counted Tor
President and Vice-President.
The resolution was adopted by a vote Of 8 to
7, rs follows
'Yeas-Messrs. Bradley, Edmunds, Frshng-
huysen, Garfield, Hoar, Miller, Morton and
Strong-8. $685.,
. Nays-Messrs. Abbott, Bayard, Clifford, Field,
Hunton, PAYNE and T~hurman-7.
Justices Miller and Bradley and Representa-
tive Hoar were then appointed q committee to
draft o report Of the decision, with q brief state
ment of the reasons therefor, to be signed BY
the members agreeing therein, and to be trans
mitted to the joint session Of the two houses as
! required by the Electoral act.
1he report was signed by Messrs. Miller,
Strong, Bradley, Edmunds, Morton, Frellng-
huvsen, Garfield and Hoar. The report is as
follows: :,
The Electoral commission having received
certain certificates and papers purportmg 10 DO
certificates of the electoral votes of the State
of Louisiana, and certain papers accompanying
IL suLllS, dllu tAC oUlSSSAShAo ~ ~
that it has duly considered the same, and has
decided and does hereby decide that the votes
of Vim. Pitt Kellogg, o. H. Brewster, A. B.
Leviseo, Oscar J~effrion, Peter Joseph, j. n.
Birch, L. 4. Sheldon, and Morris Marks, named
in the certificate of VIM. Pitt Kellogg, governor
of said State (Which votes are certified by SAID
persons as appears by the certificates submitted
to the commission as aforesaid, and marked
number one by said commission, and herewith
A.. ..a ill., -1kau ,,rnrI1od FOR hC fha
Constitution of the United States, and thatthe
same are lawfully to be counted as therein GER
~tifcd-namely, eight votes for Rutherford B.
Hayes, of the State Of Ohio, for President, and
eight votes for VIM. A. Wheeler, Of the State
of New York, for Vice-President. The COM
MISSION also decides and reports that the eight
persons first before named were duly appointed
electors in and by the said State OF LOUISIANA.
The ground of this decision. stated briefly, Is
substantially as follows: -.
That it is not competent to 60 into evidence
aHundi as to the papers opened by the presi-
dent Of the Senate in the presence OF the two
houses to prove that other persons thar those
regularly certified by the governor OF the State
! of Louisiana, in and according to the determl-
nation and declaration OF their appointment, II
other words, to 20 behind the certificates OF the
governor 30 far as it is founded upon the action
of the returning board.
The report also states that the commission
could not receive any evidence to show that any
elector was Ineligible on the seventh OF NoTeln.
Der, the day Of the election, on the ground that
it was not essential to show that an elector was
eligible on that day so long as he was eligible
when he cast his vote in the electoral college,
and the fact appears that the alleged ineligi-
bic electors, Brewster and Levisee, we're
chosen to fill vacancies caused by their own
absence from the college, and there was no al
legation of ineligibiity at the time they cast
their votes.