The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1877-01-26
THE ELECTORAL BILL.

The bill to create an electoral tflDni.
al TO count the votes for President and
Viee-President of the United States
passed the Senate yesterday. by the de-
eisive vote of AZ to IL The bill passed
as reported by the joint committee.
without amendment. Only one Demo
crat, Eaton, of Connecticut. voted
against the bill. Il is, expected that it
will pass the House to day and be sub
mitted to the President to morrow.
The bill provides that the Senate aud
House of Representatives. shall meet
ia joint convention on the first Thurs
day IN February. Fonr tellers, two
from each Honse, are to receive the
votes when opeued by the President of
the Senate. and they shall be read and
acted upon in the Alphabetical order of
theStates, beginning with the letter A.
and the votes having been aseertained
and counted, the result of the same
budll NC QCilFClCu W tuO A iCoAdCub VI
the Senate, who shall annUnnce the
state of the vote and'th names of the
persons, if any, elected. Upon read
Jog the certificates from States from
which there Is bat one return, objection
may be made in writing. stating clearly
and without argument the ground upon
which it is made, after which the Sen.
ate shall withdraw and the objection
shall be considered by each House sep
arately, and no electoral vote or votes
from any State frGm which bnt Que
return has been received snail be re
jected, except by the affirmative vote of
the two Houses. Where more than one
return purporting TO be the electoral
vote have been received by the Prssi-
dent of the Senate from State. all
suca returns and papers shall be read
Blythe tellers in the presence of the
two Houses, and shall thereupon be-
submitted to the jndgmert and decision,
as to which is the trde and lawful vote
of such State, to a commission com
posed of i've members of each House.
to be chosen by viva voce vote. and five
of the Associate justices OF the Sn-
Ireme Court of bhe United States.
-Four of the lattes are named in the bill.
nBmely, those now assigned to the first,
third, eighth and ninth circniss and
they are to select the fifth in such man
ner as majority of them shall see fit.
When this commission is organized. it
shall not be in the power of either
House to dissolve it. or withdraw its
members from the same, and provision
is made for fl ling vacancies caused by
death or physical inability Of mem
Der. The members of the commission
take and Subscribe an oath to inn
partially examine aud consider all
questions submitted to theus and give
true judgment thereon according to the
Constitution ard the laws All obipc-
tions made by the joint convention to
certificates Of electoral votes shall be
submitted to the commission. which
may take into view petitions, deposit
tions and other papers pertinent to the
consideration Of the question of how
many and what persons were duly an.
pointed electors in each Of the disputed
States. which shall be decided by ma
j 'rity of all the members. This deci-
sion is TO be submitted to the Joint
convention of the two Houses. and
shall be counted, unless the two Houses
separately concur IN ordering it other
wise. The joint convention shall not
be dissolved until the connt of the
electoral vote is completed and the re-
suit declared.
The bill IL satisfactory TO the eonser-
vative masses of both parties, and is
only opposed by extremists, who
would appeal to force to inaugurate
their respective candidates, and wonld
plunge the country into civil war
rather than see the opposite party
placed IN power at Washington. The
people have faith i'll the commission
and will peaceably acqniesee in their
decision whether it places 1ilden OF