The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-02-15

'"o'Id"ehS w thc cdssiuR Oh Tue VOte5 OF
the electors on the prescribed day, are
inadnlAsable for any such purpose.
AS to the objection made 20 the eligi-
bility OF Dir. Humphreys, the commits
sion is Of opinion that, without reference
to the question of the effect of the vote
Of an ineligible elector, the evidence
Shipping Commissioner on the day when
the electors "ere appointed.
The con mission has also decided. and
does hereby decide and report, that rs o
consequence Of the foregoing, and upon
the grounds stated, neither Of the papers
pu:porting to bc certificates Of the cleo
tOral votes Of said State Of Florida, num-
bercd 2 and 3, by the commission, and
herewith submitted, are the certificates
or the votes provided for by the constitu.
ton Of the United States and that they
ought not to be counted al such.
Done Mt Washington the day and year
first above written.
SAMUEL +. MILLER,
w. STRONG,
JOSEPH H. Bradley,
GEO. F. EDMUNDs.
o. p. MoRToN,
FRED. t. FRELINGHUy SEN,
JAMES A. GARFIELD.
GEO. F. HoAR,
Commissioners.
After the readinr Of the report, Repre-
sentative field presented objections, signed
by the requisite member Of Senator's and
Representatives. The following are the
objections submitted:
An objection is interp0sed by the un-
dcrslgned Senator'S and Representatives
to the decision made by the commission
constituted by the act entitled "An act
to approve and regulate the counting Of
the votes for President and Vice Presi-
dent, and the decision Of questions arising
thereon, for the term commencing March
4, a. D. 1877" as to the true and legal
electoral vote of Florida, on the follow
ing grounds:
1st. The commission determined that
the vote cast by G. H. Pearce, F. c..
Humphreys, w. II. Holden and T. w.
Long, AZ electors fnr President and Vice
President of the United States, in and
for or on behalf of the State of Florida, in
the true and legpl electoral vote Of the
said State, when, in truth and in fact, The
vote cast by Wilkinson Call, J. E. Younge,
Robert +. Hilton and Robert Bullock is
the true and lawful vote of said State.
I'd. For that the said commission re-
fused to receive competent and material
evidence tending to prove that G. III.
Pearce, +. G. Humphreys, w. NJ. Holden
aud 1. w. Long, were not appointed elec-
tors i'll the manner prescribed by the Leg
islaturc of the State Of Florida, but were
designated as electors by the returning
board of said State, cnrruptly and traudu-
lently, in disregard of law, and with the
intent to defeat the will of the people ex-
pressed in the choice of Wilkinson Cali,
J. L. Y0unge, II. E. Hilton and Robert
Bullock, who were legally and regularly
appointed electors BY the State of Florida,
in the manner prescribed by the Legisla-
turc thereof.
Sd. For that the decision aforesaid was
founded upon the resolution and order of
aaid commission previously made, AZ fol-
lows:
Ordered, That no evidence will be re-
ceived or considered by the commission
which was not submitted to the joint con-
vention ofthe two houses by the President
Of the Senate with the different certifi-
Gates, except srch as relates to the eligi-
bility of F. c. Humphreys, one of the
electo 3.
4.h. FoE tha; aaid decision excludes
all the evidence taken by the two housea
of Congress by the committees of each
mouse concerning frauds, errors and ir.
regularities committed by the persons
whose certificates are taken as proof of
their due appointment as electors.
9th. For that the eaid decision ex-
cludes all evidence tending to prove that
the certificate OF Stearns, Governor, as
also that of the board of State canvassers
tryn rys,,
fraudulent and corrupt conspiracy to cheat
the State of Florida out of it's rightfnl
ch0i,;e ui electors, and to substitute there
for those who had not been chosen as
appointed electors by paid State in the
manner provided by the Legislature
thereof
9Th. For that the said commission -e-
fused to recognize the rights of the courts
of the State of Florida III review aud re-
wise the judgment af the returning board
or board of canvassers, rendered through
fraud, without Jurisdiction, and rejected
and refused to consider the action of said
courts, after their decisinn that PeaFce,
Humphreys, Holden and Long were not
entitled to cast the electoral vote OF the
State Of Florida which said decision
waB rendered by court of said State,
lawfully brought before said court, which
court had jurisdiction over the subject
matter thereof and whose jurisdiction
over the said Pearce, Humphreya, Hol-
den and Long had attached before any
act was dune BY them as electors.
7th. For that the said decision ex.
cludes all evidence tending to show that
the State of Florida, by all .he depart
ments of it's government--legislative,
judicial and executive-had decided as
fraudulent all the certificates of Stearns,
Governor, as well Us that OF the State
upon which certificates the
said commission has acted, and by means
Of which the true electoral votes of Flor
ida have been rejected, and false oues
substituted in their place.
9Th. For that the count of the votes Of
Pearce, Humphreys, Holden and Long,
fcr President ard Vice Presid==., wa=i was=isi
be violation Of the constitution of the
I1nitAd Gietee
Signed by Senators Zones, Cooper,
Barnum. Herman, Salisbury and Nc.
Donald.and Representatives Knott, Field,
Holman, Tucker, Thompson, jerks. Fin
lay, Saylor, Ellis, Morrison, Hewitt and
Springer.
= It will be remembered that when
Governor Hampton took charge of the