The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-02-15
Electoral Commission.
HTS DECISION.
House Objections TO the
Verdict.

The Electoral Commission state the
grounds of their decision in the case of
Florida, as follows:
That it is not competent under ths
Consticuuoa as it existed at the date of
the act constituting the Commission, to
90 into evidence aliuHdi The papers
opened by the President IF tn Senate in
the presence of the two Houses to prove
that other persons than thOse regularly
certified to by the Governor of Florida,
according to the termination and declarR-
ton Of their appointment by the Board
of State CanVasseVs prior to the time
required fJr the performance of their
duties, had been appointed electors, or
BY counter prof TO show that they had
net and that all proceedings OF court or
acts of the I4eeisiasug = or of the execu-
tive of Flor ida subsequent to the casting
of the vote : Of elecfors on the prescribed
dav, are Ia advisable for any such pur-
pose. As to the objection made to the
eligibility Of Humphreys, the CImmis-
sion is of the opinion that without refer
ence to the question of the effect of the
vote of the ineligible elector, that the
evidence does not show that he hell the
Office of Shipping Commissioner on the
day when the electors ware appOinteI.
The Commission also decided t1as as 6
consequence of the foregoing AID upon
the grounds before stated, neither of the
papers purpersing to be oe;tifcates Of
the electoral votes Of Fisrida re ceFtif-
Gates or votos provided for by the Con
stitution of the United States, aud they
| GU ght not TO be counted as such
The objec ioDs to the deoision inter
p0sed in the House are: First, that the
decision determined that the vots by
! Charles Ii. Pierce, Frederick G. Ham
phreys, Wm. Il. Holder AMI Thomas w
/ Long, as electors Of President and Vice
| President of the United Safes on be
/ half of Florida, is the true and legal
electoral yote of truth, when in truth
and in fact the vote cast by Wilkinson
James, Jamas E Young, Robert Z. Hi
ton and Robert Bullock is the true and
] lawful vote Of the State; second, that the
| Commission refused to receive eompe
tent and material evidence tending t.
prove that the FIRST named set were not
appointed electors in the manner pre-
scIibed by the Legislature of the State
but was designated a. electors by tbs
Returning Board of the State, cOrTuptly
and fraudulently, in diseegard of law aud
With intent to defeat the will of the REQ
pie; third, that the decision was fouude I'd
on a resolution and order of the com
missioner previously made; fourth, thai
the decision excludes all evidence taken
by the two Houses ef Congress: by jiis
committee of each House concerning
frauds, errors and irregularities com
mitted by the persons whose certifcater
are taken as proof of the due app int
ment of the electors; fifth, that the de
eision excludes all evidence tending Z
prove thai the certificate oil Stearns, ths
Governor, as also that sf the Board o
State Csnsas5eFs, was produced or giver
in pursuance of fraudulent and corrup
conspiracy; sixth, that the Commission
refused to rec0gnizs the right Of the
courts Of the State to reyisT and Eevers,