The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1879-03-11
The Situation.

On the 81 of March, 1877, the day before |
RUrHEBFoRD b. HAYES was sworn into the !
office to which he hal not been elected, the
House OF Representatives passed the follow |
ing resolution, reported 10y the Hon. J. Proc |
TOR KNOTT from the Committee on the Pryi- |
logcs, Powers, and Duties Of the House,
R,.o'si ~ he H,ae NJ Rpr,.,sir,, NJ 2e Uaaoi St,.
" Aur That Il is the duty Of the House % declare and
this House does hereby soennly declare, that
Ttnr Ut the State Of New York received ieO electoral
the Office Of President OF the United States, all
II which votes were cast AMI lists thereof signed
lod ami Transmitted to the seat OF Government directed
the President OF the Senate IN conformity with the Con
.u,u and laws of the Vn,,d SEES by Gle tos es
eli.ule anI qc-lacl such electors. each Of whom
had been duly appointed and elected IN 1e manner d.
rec,ed 10y the Legislature OF the sse in and for which
he his aforesaid he as thereby duly cetcd
President OF the United stat OF America tor the term Of
Tour years commence 20 the an Of March, A u 1877,
ana TINS House To- ,her declares that TnoNN iiFspRcSs
hANni rec ~ the number OF the electoral votes
Tor me Orcc VI Vice President Of tie United States that
,ers cast for s,VrFlJ TupfSor President as Aforesaid.
the said votes having been cast him by the same per
sons who the said TLpES for President as aore
said and at time ami In the same manner II is
the opinion Il this House that said rHoSA llENnRcKs
Of the state Indiana was duly excited NcePcsdcnt
OF the United States for term Of tour years, eoniilene'
ing on the 4th day ol March. A. d. is'7."
This resolution was passed 10y n majority
Of forty-cight votes. substitute proposed
by the Republican minority Of the Commit
tee, upon which no vote was taken, did not
pretend to assert that HAYES had been duly
and fairly elected, but only that he had
been " declared elected" as follows;
"Rot.i That the electoral votes OF the states have
been counted accordance with law, aud That RurHEg-
togn u,Y.s and WILLIAM WHEELER have been Legal
Is declared elected President aud Vice President OF the
United and that Is The duty Of law abiding ciu'
lsns to obey the Law OF the land
With this record the Forty-fourth Con-
grcss went out Of existence, and the country
is familiar with what followed in the Sue
cceding Congress, which has Just expired.
| For the first time since 1861, the Democrats
arc in possession Of the Senate and the
! House Of Representatives. This triumph
has been achieved gradually and slowly
and may he described as n reaction against
the corruption, the proiigacy, md tho
revolutionary measures Of the Republican
party since the close Of the civil war.
The truth Of history will not be vindcatcd
fully until the record Of 1871 Is made COM
pletc by the forma, vote Of the Forty-siSth
Congress 1t has boon bad enough to sub
nit to tho Great Fraud, and TO see the high
trusts the foremost honOrs, and the general
patronage parccllcd out as common spoil-
among the conspirator5 and their instru-
mcuts, who banded together, and by every
form Il ciimcachieycd It's success. ltwould
be worse, aud little less than busting dis
grace, if the new Congress, representing q
largo majority Of the American people
should fail to rnailirm in the most solemn
"a nI in,fto-iutr form he resolution of tho 81 O
March, 1877, with the added declaration tina
HAYES Is an intruder in the White House
and has no valid claim 10 Doe President.