The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1877-02-27
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Forty Fourth Congress.
WASHINGTON. Feb. 26.

ceeded to the house and on returning took
up the objection to the vote of Slater, the
Rhode Island elector.
Mr.. Burnside submitted resolution that
the vote of Slater be counted with the other
votes of the electors of Rhode Island, not
withstandipg the objections thereto.
Mr.. Bayard discussed the question of the
appointment of Slater, and said 1t had been
made in accordance with the constitution
After brief debate the senate unanimous
ly agreed that the vote of Slater shall be
counted and the secretary was directed to
notify the house.
At 555 the clerk of the house notified
| the senate of the action of the house in the
Rbcde Island case and that the house was
| now ready to receive the senate and re-
sumo the count The senate then left its
chamber Upon returning at $3.50 the pres
ident announced that the senate would re-
sumo legislative business.
Messrs. Window, Allison and Davis were
appointed members of the conference COM
mittee on the legislative, judicial and ex-
ecutive appropriation bill Sargent, Win
dom and Withers on the deficiency appro-
priation bill, and Sargent, Cragin and Wal
lace on the naval appropriation bill.
Mr.. Sargent submitted resolution,
"That the senate now proceed to the cleo
ton of president pvo tempore !" laid on
the table. He gave notice that he would
call it up for consideration at an early day.
MIR. Allison submitted report of the
conference committee on the Indian ap-
preparation bill and it was agreed to.
The chair laid before the senate Pacific
railroad sinking fund bill in order that it
should be unf1nisbed business tomorrow.
Recess until tomorrow.
HoUsR.
The house met at 10 o'clock, but 1t was
nearly 10 o'clock before business was pro-
ceeded with, the interval being consumed
in call of the house and voting by yeas
and nays on the question whether the tee
timony taken before the committee on pri-
vileges of the house In the case of Penn
sylvania Elector Boggs (appointed instead
of MorrilD should be read. The house de-
cided by a vote of 1873 to 1l6 that it should
be and it was
Mr.. Kelley of Pennsylvania offered a
resolution that the vote of Mr.. Boggs should
be counted, and Mr. Singer of Pennsylva-
nil offered substitute that it should not
be.
Mr. Kelley of Pennsylvania said the OBJ
lection was based on the principle 30 often
over-ruled on law, that his side could sub
init the question without discussion.
AT 1910 o'clock the speaker interrupted
the proceedings, and announced the begin
ming of new legislative day. Discussion
was then resumed.
Mr. Chlttenden of New York thought it
high time to stop and inquire into the cost
of such partisanship, and particularly the
cost of continuing for another year. He
would not defend the Louisiana returning
board, but he believed that the electoral
commission could have made no other de-
cision than it had {; that between Louisiana
and Oregon "honors were easy"
Mr.. Scales of North Carolina criticised
the action of the president in selecting as
visiting committee to New Orleans such
men as Mr.. Hale of Maine, son-in-law Of
the chairman of the republican national
committee, Mr.. Garfield and Mr.. Sherman
of Ohio, political and personal friends OF
Hayes, and Stanley Mathews, brother-in-
law of Hayes. This he characterized as
miserable subterfuge and base pretext for
| imposing on the American people. Such
men as these had undertaken TO whitewash
j. Madison Wells and the Louisiana return
ing board. 10 regard to that he quoted the
verse:
"Ihe river Rhine as is well known,
Doth wash the city OF Cologne;
But tell me what, ye powers divine,
Shall henceforth wash the river Rhine"
MIR. Tucker of Virginia, referring to the
remark that this was a trivial objection,
asked if the time had indeed come when a
constitutional objection was to be called
| trivial.
Mr.. Jones spoke Of the approaching
close of the stupendous farce, and de-
clared the electoral commission had be-
come the scorn and by-word of all honest
men. The majority of its members had
violated their oaths and there was no law
to compel acquiescence in their decision.
The house would be perfectly justified in
resorting to every legal and constitutional
means to annul the decision.
Mr.. Hewitt again returned to the charge
which he had made Saturday against the
| good faith of MIR. Hoar for acting and vot-
| ing in the electoral commission at variance
with his speech in the house, and said that
the gentleman In his attempt to answer the
charge Saturday had seized the mhntle of
Webster aud tried reversing the usuel
process) to exc out the fox's skin with the
lions hide. He cited various propositions
voted on in the commission showing that
Hoar had uniformly voted against the al
mission of evidence to show fraud on the
part of the Louisiana returning
board, and he asked whether
that was Justice and righteousness"
He (doar) had voted in the Louisiana case
that the commission had no judicial power
and in the case of Oregon that the com
mission had power to take evidence that
the seal of state was or was not an authen-
tic seal, and as to whether Watts held the
commission from the United States, but
where there was an allegation Of fraud then
he had voted there was no power to pre-
vent fraud. In conclusion he sald ask
my democratic friends, deceived, defrauded,
cheated as they have been, whether we
should meet bad taith with bad faith.