The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1877-02-08

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entered without formsIity, and took
chairs to the left Of the main aisle.
At two minutes past one o'clock the
. Speaker announced the arrival OF the
Senate, and the Members of the
House st the Speakers tap arose and
remained standing while the Senate,
preceded by its officers, filed down
the main aisle and took seats in the
first four rows on the Democratic side
OF the Chamber. The President OF
the Senate took the chair, having the
| Speaker on his right. When the
I Senators aud members were seated,
I the President OF the Senate said
THE joint convention of the two
Houses Of Congress for counting the
votes for President and Wee Presl-
dent, will now come to order" Per-
/ feet silence followed, and the Presi-
l dent OF the Senate continued, '1n
obedience to the Constitution, the
Senate and House Of Representatives
have met to be present st the open
ing Of certificates and counting and
declaring Of the result Of the cleo
tOral votes for the offices Of Presi-
! dent and Vice President of the Unit
ed States for the term OF four years,
com mmenciDg the fourth day Of March
next. In compliance with law, the
President OF the Senate will now pro-
eeed to open all of the certificates of
the several States and in their alpha
betieal order, beginning with the
State Of Alabama"
Then the strong box in which the
certificates were carried in by Mr..
Rnf1nfN Aoa-ako1k n-z-
Senate, was placed on q desk before
the President of the Senate, who
opened it and taking from it eertlfi-
cate from the State Of Alabama, han.
ded it to the tellers who were seated
just below him at the Clerks desk
and Senator Allison, Que of the tel
Iers, read the document In extenso,
the result Of it all being that Samuel
J. Tilden OF New York, and Thomas
A. Hendricks of Indiana, had re-
ceived the ten electg raj votes or Ala
bSma. The Vice President said that
the certificate received from Alabama
by messenger having been read, Q
duplicate certificate received by mail
would be read. Mr.. Stone was read
ing q duplicated certificate when he
was interrupted by Senator Conkling,
who suggested that it was hardly
necessary to read duplicate certif-
Gates, but that when the first certlfi-
Gates wss read by one teller the other
tellers should look over the duplicates
in order that a comparison might be
made. The President of the Senate
asked whether there was any objec-
ton 10 the proposition, and there be-
ing none, he stated that that course
would be pursued, Mr.. Stone having
then resumed and completed the
reading Of the duplicate certificate,
the presiding officer said, "Are there
any objections to the certificates from
the State of Alabama ?" After =
pause. "rhe Chair hears none. The
votes Of the State OF Alabama will be
counted and one of the tellers will
announce the votes so there may be
no mistake. The result was an
nOunced by Mr.. COoK. The
same ceremonial was observed
in reference to the next State,
Arkansas, except that the reading Of
duplicate certificates was emitted.
Tue result was announced that six
votes OF Arkansas had beeh given for
TIlden and Hendricks.
The next State was California, six
votes for Hayes and Wheeler. Then
followed Colorado, with three votes
for Hayes and Wheeler Connecticut,
with six votes for Tildeu and Hen
bricks, and Delaware, three votes for
Tilden and Hendricks. The reading
Of the Delaware certificates eonelud-
ed, the presiding officer asked inad-
vertantly IL there were any objections
to counting the votes Of the State OF
Florida, but he Immediately corrected
himself and substituted Delaware,
amid suppressed but general laughter.
Then Florida was reached, and Stone,
the teller, proceeded to read the GER
tificates. The reading Of the first Ger
tlficste showed the four votes Of FlOri-
da for Hayes aud Wheeler. Then the
presiding officer handed to the teliers
another certificate, received from the
same State, which, on being read by
Mr.. Stone, showed four votes for Til.
den aud Hendricks. The former eer-
tificate was authenticated by the late
Governor, Stearns, the latter by At
torney General CJcke. Then the pre-
siding officer handed down to the lat
ter still another certificate from
Florida received through 8 messen-
ger on the 31st of January. This
third is an authorization OF the act
OF the electors who voted for Tilden
and Hendricks, and Is made by the
present Governor, Drew.
After half an hour had been spent
in reading papers accompanying the
third certificate, Mr.. ConkIiug pro.
posed that the reading be regarded as
and the result be announc.
ed, as under the late act OF Congress
all papers would be referred to the
provisional tribunal raised to ex-
anime such questions. There being
no objection it was so ordered.
The presiding officer asked whether
there were objections to counting the
votes of Florida.
Representative Field sent to the
Clerks desk written objections TO the |
first certificate for Hayes and Wheel
er, signed by Senators Jones OF Flor |
ida, and Mcdonald OF Indians, and |
by Representatives Field, Tucker,
jerks and Springer.
The Clerk OF the House read the |
paper. 1t asserts that these persons,
Pierce, Humphreys, Holden and |
Young, assuming to act as Presiden-
tial electors, never were duly appoint |
ed ty the State of Florida or in any /
manner whatever that the other
four persons had been elected, and /
mad an irrevoeable title to the office
that the certificate OF election OF the /
first four persons was untruly and /
procured, and made in pur-
susnce of conspiracy between them
and NJ. L. Stearns, late Governor
that they were usurpers, and that
their acts are illegal, null aud void.
Further objections being called for,
Senator Sargent sent up to the Clerks
desk, on behalf of himself and Sena-
tors COnoVer, Sherman and Tiller,
and Representatives WOodburn,
Dunnell, Kasson and McCrary, three
several sets of objections to the votes
east by Call, Hinton, Bullock and
Yonge, Democratic electors on the
ground that the papers are not au-
thenticSted IS required by the Con-
and laws.
Senator Jones, OF Florida, made an
objection specially to Humphreys, as
holding an office Of trust and profit
under the United States.
Mr.. Kasson made an additional OBJ
lection to the third set Of certificates,
because they were not authenticated
by the person who held tine office Of
at the time that the iunc-
tons Of electors were exercised.
The Presiding Officer. Are there
farther objections tO counting the
vote OF Florida ? (After 3 pause II
there be none, the certificates and pa
Ders, together with other papers se-
the same, IS well as the
objections presented, will now be trans
mitted to the ElectiOnsl College Com
mission for judgment and decision.
The Senate will now Withdraw to its
chamber, so that the House may
determine the objections.
This is the way the Cincinnati Ga
;ette puts the case:
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