The Portland daily press., 1877-03-02

Mr.. Hale of Maine moved to lay the motion
to reconsider on the table. Agreed to, yeas III,
nays 80.
ment that the vote of the elector, Sollace, be
not counted.
Mr.. Walling of Ohio moved to lay it on the
table.
A point of order was made that motion to
lay on the table was not in order, as TINS was
the main question on which vote must pe Ia
ken under the electoral law.
In the course of discussion on this point
Wilson of Iowa, declared that II the House
intended to execute the law it would be abso-
lutely necessary to adopt a resolution cutting
off all filibustering.
MIR. Wallng replied that when fraud Is law,
filibusterng is patriotism.
Mr. Hancock of Texas-TraitorS never prac-
tice patriotism.
Speaker overruled the point of order, but the
motion was rejected
Mr.. Waling moved to reconsider.
This was lost, yeas g. nays 1853.
Question then REQUIRED on Woods amend
ment as substitute that the vote of Sollace
be not counted.
Mr.. Caulfield of ILL.,, interposed point of
order which was overruled by the chair. He
then insisted on having the original resolution
tPoppleton's) read, but in this he was also over
ruled the Speaker stating that the original res
olution was not now before the House and he
vote passed.
The substitute was adopted, yeas 21O. nays
%, the Republicans deemibg it the best policy
to vote for it.
There was but one more motion left for the
minority and that was to reconsider the last
vote 1t was made by Clark of Missouri, and
laid on the table, yeas 177 nays 50. This
point was reached at 1915, SO that the House
had spent over twelve hours in the struggle.
Mr.. O'Brien then attempted to offer an order
that the Senate be notified, the intention being
to spend couple of hours more over that, but
the Speaker refused to recognize him for that
purpose, and sad the chair has allowed vote
of the House on every legitimate legislative
motion, and now the House is brought to tbs
following paragraph in the law: when the
two houses have voted they shall Immediately
again meet and the presiding officer shall then
announce the decision on the question: submit
ted" The Senate has notified the House in
regard to its action on the objections to the
certificate from Vermont. The House has now
reached its judgment on these objections, and
the duty is mandatory on the chair to notify
the Senate OF that fact (applause)
'Brien-Therefore L offer this order.
Speaker-The Chair cannot entertain it,
Springer-I desire to submit a proposition
that the President of the Senate be requested to
bring with him the duplicate return. (Shouts
| of "Object.'')
| Mr. Cox-There is no use in endeavoring to
| prevent the Speaker counting in Hayes at once
| Standardization need not object, the
! Chair has no authority to receive any such mo.
| tion
In Joint Convention.
At II o'clock the Senators entered the hall
| and the action of each House on the objections
| having, been read, the presiding officer an.
| nounced that the two Houses not concurrne
| otherwise the electors votes of Vermont would
be counted, aud they were thereupon declared
| as five for Hayes and Wheeler.
Then the certificate of Virginia was read and
| the votes of that state were announced as eley
| en- for Tilden and Hendricks.
The votes of West Virginia were next an
nounced as five for Tilden and Hendricks.
Objections TO Wisconsin.
Then came the last state Wisconsin,, with
| ten votes for Hayes and Wheeler.
The certificate of Wisconsin having beer
| read Mr.. Lynde Of Wisconsin, presented objec
tons signed by Senators Barnum, Mcdonald
| Kelly, Cooper and Johnston, and Representa-
| tves Lynde and Burchard of Wisconsin, Phil
| lips of Missouri, Tucker of Virginia, Springer
| of Illinois, Rice and Vance of Ohio Young Of
| ing the vote of Daniel w. Downs, one of the
| electors, because he held the office of pension
| surgeon and examining surgeon for the pension
| office prior to and on Nov. 7, 1876, the day O.
the Presidential election, and on Dec. 6, 1876
| on which day he assumed to cast his vote as al
elector that said Office was an office of profit
and trust, and that said Downs could not there
fore be eonstitutionally appointed an elector fol
the state of Wisconsin or vote as such under
the Constitution of the United States; that saIi
| Downs was not, therefore, duly appointed ar
elector for said state, and that his vote cannot
be constitutonaly counted
The Senate then, at II. p. M, retired to it,
| chamber SO that the two Houses might separ
ately consider and determine the objections.
The Senate Gverrules the Objections.
Upou returning at 11.30 p. m. the Presiden
| pro tenn. announced that the Senate having re
tsrnd 1nJsl -
| lection submitted to the vote of Wisconsin
| that objection would now be read.
The Secretary read the objection presented il
| joint meeting and Mr.. Cameron of Wis, sub.
mitted the following:
| Resolved, That the vote of Daniel N. Downe:
! as eector of the state of Wisconsin be counted
| together with the other electoral votes of tina
| state, the objections made thereto to the con
trary notwithstanding.
| The resolution was agreed to without debate
and without roll call, though three or foul
Senators on the Democratic side voted mo
| when the question was put, and the Secret ary
was directed to notify the House of Represen
tatives OF the action of the Senate.
More Fiiibustering i'm the House.
| As soon as the Senate withdrew Mr.. Mills o.
Texas rose to privileged question and sent W
a resolution to be read. Mr.. Lutrell interpose(
| withdrew it to allow Mr. MINIS resolution u
| be read.
| The resolution sets forth at length the failure
of an election by the people nd concludes:
| Resolved, by the House of Representatives,
that said House will proceed Immediately in
| obedience to the constitution to choose Presi
| dent from the persons having the highes mum
Der OF votes not exceeding three on the list of
| those voted for as President.
| Mr.. Lynde OF Wis, was recognized by the
| Speaker as the objector TO the Wisconsin vote
and offered a resolution that the vote of Dowues
| be not counted because he held an office Of
| trust and profit under the United States ant
| therefore was not constltutionally apponte q
| an elector.
Mr.. Mills of Texas then offered his, as sub
| stitute.
| AT this point, LAO p. M, message from the
| Senate announced that the objection had not
| been sustained. The announcement was greet
| ed with very general clapping of hands on the
Republican side of the House and in the gal
leries. This demonstration annoyed the mem
bers on the Democratic side of the House, who
demanded the clearing Of the galleries.
The Speaker directed that the lohbies be
| cleared, but submitted to the House the ques
ton as to clearing the galleries, and there was
| very decided majority against it.
MT. Lynde then moved a recess till 10 o'clock
| tomorrow morning Rejected-99 to 14S.
At 1920 Mr.. Wood of New York made a
proposition that the House take a recess till 1C
O'CLOCK tomorrow, and that at one oclock the
vote Shall be taken on the main question, but
there were objections to it, and scene of up.
| roer and confusion ensued, lasting several
minutes, in the course of which Mr.. Blackburn
exclaimed that Friday, hangmans day, had
been ushered in fit day to witness the coz.
summation of the villany and scoundrelism OF
| this proceeding.
Mr.. O'Brien designated Mr. Wood of New
York as the high priest of the Republican par
ty, and was himself designated by MIR. Harri-
son OF Illinois as the small priest of the flibus
tiers.
Mr.. Wood then declared that if his proposi.
ton was not assented to he would never leave
the hall till the count was finished.
AT o'clock the two hours debate on the OBJ
lection commenced.
Both Houses were in session at 3 O clock,
with the evident determination of completing
the count before adjournment
LOUISIANA.
The Democratic u. q, Senator