The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1877-02-24
JOINT SESSION
fhs S"nnf Proceeds Until Oregon 10
Reaches, Hnen objections to groaIn
aad Watts Were Read and the
Haese~ ssparat.d

Reaches, When Obi ectIons to groaIn
and Watts Were Read and the
Haeses Separated.
The joint session reassembied and
the vote of Louisiana was counted for
HaYes. TIE count then proceeded to
Michigan, when Mr.. Tucker objected,
aud the houses divided. After the de-
bate TIE House agreed 10 count the
vote. When Nevada was reached, an
other objection was made when the
houses separated. The House took u
reeess Till ten o'clock Tomorrow. The
Senate, after considerable discussion,
ia which it was claimed that the ineli-
gibilily of the Michigan elector was
not proven, the resolution TO count the
vote was adopted. The Senate again
returned from The House aud adopted
the resolution that the Nevada vote
should be counted. Adjourned.
Both houses voted to count Nevada,
aud the count progressed rapidly until
Oregon was reached, when the fall
reading of the documents was de
mandsd.
The credentials OF the Hayes elect
ors are certified to by notary public.
Attached is full report OF the election
by counties. ItI Is certified to by the
secretary OF State.
Governor Grover, ia the Oregon GER
titieates, makes no mention of Watts.
Growers Verhiage is a. to ineligible
electors, aud names Cfonin rs having
received the highest number of votes.
These papers are in ail respects similar
To those of other States, and gives
Hayes two votes ami Tilden ose.
The objections TO the Watts certiti
cate are:
fifst-fhe papers purporting to be
certificates OF electoral votes OF the
state of Oregon have not annexed the
certificate of the governor of Oregon,
As required 10 be made and annexed
by sections 1885 and l3S OF tie United
States revised STA utes.
Seeoad-Ihs pspers have not an
nexed 10 them list of the names Of
Cartwright. Oiell aud Waits, as elec-
tors, to which tile seal OF the State of
Oregon was affixed by the secretary of
State aud signed by the governor aud
secretary, as required by section 80, of
chapter li}5, OF general laws of Ore
gon,
Third 1t was the right aud duty of
the governor of Oregon, under the
claims OF that State, to give certificates
Of election or appointment as electors
to John c. Cartwright, W II. Odell
and & y CTouin, they being the three
persons capable of being appointed
presidential electors VINO received the
highest number OF votes Mt the election
held in Oregon, Novem Der I, 1876.
Fonrth-Cartwright and OIell had
no right or authority in law 10 appoint
Watts TO be All eleetor, on the 9th of
December, 1876, ss there was 80 vacan-
cy in the office OF the presidential cleo
tor on that day.
Fifth Cartwright aud Oiell had no
right or authority III law to appoint
Watts au eleeter on the 9Th OF Deeem-
Der, 1876, iHasmuch as they did not on
that day compose or form any part OF
the electoral college Oregon as per
law constituted
SiXth-Cartwright and Odeii had no
authority to appoint Watts an eIector
on the 6rb OF Deem her, 1876, because,
on that Gay Watts was still postmas
ter at Lafayette, Oregon, and was still
on that day holding said effice of profit
and trust.
Seventh Watts claims TO be an
elector in The above described certili-
cate, was ID February 1873, appointed
postmaster at Lafayette, Oregon. and
WAS duly commissioned and quail
fed as such postmaster, that
he held su office of trust and profit
under the laws of the United States,
and continued to be and act as such
postmaster from February, 1878, until
after the 18th Of November 1876, aud
WAS acting as such postmaster on the
9TH of November, 1876, when p:esi.
Dental electors were appointed by the
State u Oregon, aud that he was ineli.
gibie to he appointed AS one of said
presidential electors.
Eighth-When the governor of Ore
gon caused The list of names of eiec-
tors OF the State 10 be made and eerti-
fled 20, such list did not contain the
name of the said Watts, but did con-
tain the names of Cartwright, OdeIl
and Cronin, who were duly appointed
electors of president and vice presi-
dent of the United States in the State
of Oregon, on the 9TH of November.
1876.
The objections to the Cronin certifi-
cate are as follows:
First-Because neither of said per-
sons was ever appointed elector by the
State OF Oregon in any manner what
ever.
Seeond--Beeause it appears from the
records and papers contained in and
attached to the certificate of III. II.
0dell, ]. c. Cartwright aud John w.
Watts that they We're duly appointed
electors aud cast their votes as such.
Third-Because it does not appear
from the face of Governor Growers
certificate attached to the returns of
the votes of CronIn, Miller and Parker
that such certificates was issued 10
the three persons having the highes,
number of votes for electors, but was
issued by the govern or to the persons
whom he thought eligible; that one ei
them. L. A. Cronin, was not appointed
thereto according to the laws of the
State OF Oregon.
Fourth Because it appears from the
certificate OF s. +. Chadwick, secretary
of state. that 0deli, Cartwright and
Watts, received the highest NUM- Der of
votes, and that the secretary of state,
in pursuance OF law SO declared, and
that therefore, the certificate of the
governor, 50 far as ii omitted to certi-
fy the name of J. w. Watts as one of
the electors appointed, and in so far as
such certificate contained the name
of i. A. Cronin, as one of the electors