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

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0. P. MORTON,
FRED. T. FRELINGHUYsEG,
JAMES A. GARFIELD,
GEO. F. HoAR,
Commissioners.
After the reading of the report, Repre-
sentative field presented objections, signed
by the requisite member Of Senators and
Representatives. The following are the
objections submitted:
An objection is interposed by the un-
dersigned Senators and Representatives
to the decision made by the commission
constituted by the act entitled can 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:
lst. The commission determined that
the vote cast by G. II. Pearce, F. @.
Humphreys, w. H. Holden and T. W..
Long, as electors for President and Vice
President of the United States, in and
for or on behalf Of the State of Florida, is
the true and legal electoral vote Of the
said State, when, in truth and in fact, the
vote cast by Wilkinson Call, j. E. Younge,
Robert E. 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.. H.
Pearce, F. c. Humphreys, W. NJ. Holden
and T. w. Long, were not appointed elec-
tors in the manner prescribed by the Leg
islature of the State of Florida, but were
designated as electors by the returning
board of said State, corruptly and fraudu-
lently, in disregard of law, and with the
intent to defeat the will of the people ex-
pressed in the choice of Wilkinson Call,
J. E. Younge, R. E. Hilton and Robert
Bullock, who were legally and regularly
appointed electors by the State of Florida,
in the manner prescribed by the Legisla-
ture thereof.
Sd. For that the decision aforesaid was
founded upon the resolution and order of
said commission previously made, as fol-
lows:
Ordered, That no evidence will be re-
ceived or considered by the commission
which was not submitted to the joint con-
yention of the two houses by the President
of the Senate with the different certifi-
Gates, except such as relates to the eligi-
bilty of F. G. Humphreys, one of the
electors.
4th. For that said decision excludes
all the evidence taken by the two houses
of Congress by the committees of each
house concerning frauds, errors and ir.
regularities committed by the persons
whose certificates are taken as proof of
their due appointment as electors.
5th. For that the said decision e1-
cIudes all evidence tending to prove that
the certificate of Stearns, Governor, as
also that of the board of State canvassers
was procured or given in pursuance of a
fraudulent and corrupt conspiracy to cheat
the State of Florida out of its rightful
choice of electors, and to substitute there
for those who had not been chosen AZ
appointed electors by aaid State in the
manner provided by the Legislature
thereof.
9Th. For that the said commission re-
fused to recognize the rights of the courts
of the State of Florida to review and re-
wise the judgment of 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 decision that Pearce,
Humphreys, Holden and Long were not
entitled to cast the electoral vote of the
State of Florida which said decision
was rendered by a 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, Humphreys, Hol.
den and Long had attached before amy
act was done by them as electors.
7th. For that the said decision ex-
cludes all evidence tending to show that
the State of Florida, by all the depart
ments of its government-legislative,
judicial and executiye-had decided as
fraudulent all the certificates of Stearns,
Governor, as we'll as that of the State
canvassers, 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 ones
substituted in their place.
9th. For that the count of the votes OF
Pearce, Humphreys, Holden and Long,
for President and Vice President. would
be violation of the constitution Of the
United States.
Signed by Senators Jones, Cooper,
Barnum, Herman, Salisbury and Nc.
Donald ,and Representatives Knott, Field,
Holman, Tucker, Thompson, jerks, Fin.
lay, Saylor, Ellis, Morrison, Hewitt and
Springer.