Sacramento daily record-union., 1880-12-08

estate. He stated that the firm mad over
$500, 600 surplus. The rumor of the suspen-
sion spread quickly about the lover part of
the city and caused considerable surprise.
Coffse-Gealers on Front and Wall streets ex-
pressed sympathy for Arnold in his misfor-
tune, tn ugh the opinion seemed to be gen.
ersi that after an accounting had been made
the assets would be sufficient to cover all
liabilities.
Counting the Electoral Vote.
WASHINGTON. December 7th.-The dis
cussion in the House to. dey as to whether
the Joint resolution on Electoral count was
question of privilege brought out sharply the
two sides of the question really involved, the
Democrats holding that the House alone
could judge whether contingency had arisen
which would demand of the House the count.
ing of the vote for President and Vice-Presi.
dent, while the Republicans headed by
Robeson, held that the House could not, by
tellers, elect President, nor could
it create the contingency in which it claimed
tie right to count the vote. They could only
be notified OF such contingency by the Senate.
If the President Of the Senate declared a
President elected, be is elected.
Reagan declared that the President Of the
Senate was only medium between the two
houses, whereon Conger made an elaborate
aed he argued that the Speaker conld only
declare this a privileged question on some
wild theory, revolutionary in itself that the
country had barely escaped revolution and
was Threatened again and again with the
same danger.
Hooker replied to Conger, quoting full
precedents, etc.
Robson, Updsgraff, Whit horne and others
took part in the debate, the latter asserting
that the pending Presidential election was in
no wise concerned in this matter. Garfield
had been elected by the people, and he for
one should see that he was iHaugurated.
The Speaker said that the Twelfth Article
OF the Constitution provides for counting the
electoral vote and Section 142 OF the Revised
Statutes provides that the electoral vote shall
be ascertained and declared agreeably to the
Constitution. This law also fixes the time
for counting the vote, and fixes this session as
the one at which the count shall be made
of the last Presidential election. The uni
form practice, certainly the recent practice,
goes 20 the extent of showing and places
a fair construction on what has been the
action of Congress, but the two houses
do count, and have counted, the electoral
vote. The two houses of Congress in the
first session of the Thirty eighth Congress
agreed to the twenty-second joint rule Tor
counting the vote. The Senate, in the Forty
fourth Congress, re-enacted all the joint
rules Of the Forty-third Congress except the
twenty-second, and the House taking no
action thereon, the Senate declared there
were no Joint rules in force. The Senate de-
cided in the Forty fourth Congress, by vote
of 3S to Z, that the President of the Senate
has no power to count the vote. The Senate
now sends this joint rule to take the place Of
the twenty joint rule. Ii the Chair
were to refuse on technicalities to allow an
adjustment between the two houses as to the
government of the houses when in joint session,
such proceeding must lead to chaos, confu-
SIGN, perhaps revolution but as far as tie
question of privilege really is concerned, the
Chair is of opinion that it makes no differ
ence by whom the votes are counted If done
by the two houses. 1t is the highest duty
they have to perform-one imposed directly
by the Constitution relating to the election Of
President and -President-and the very
existence of our form of government may
depend upon It, If counted by any other
person, it must be done in the presence of the
two houses so all rules regulating the joint
meeting are of the highest privilege. affecting
as they do the exercise of the most important
function of the two houses. 1t is not COM
petent for the House to make any rule which
obstructs in any degree the execution of the
terms of the Constitution. The Chair, there
fore, considers, in view of past practices, that
it is question of privilege.
Colorado and the New Cabinet.
WASHINGTON, December Representa-
tive Belford, who returned to Washington
to-day, says the Colorado Congressional dele
CATION intend to make vigorous effort to
secure repre- esentation in President Gar6el6's
Cabinet They claim that Colorado is enli.
tied to such representation on many grounds.
First. it is reliable Republican State; Sec
ond, it has vast mining interests which are
constantly enlaI IPing. and in which the whole
country is interested; 4; third, it has large
interest in the proper solution of the Indian
problem; fourth, two continental railroad
lines traverse the limits Of that State, and
intimately connect it with the vast COM
merce in which the whole country is
interested; sixth, the proper disposition Of
the public lands is another subject
in which Colorado is largely interested. All
these interests it is argued give Colorado an
exceptional status, and should be represented
in the Cabinet. Judge Belford further says
the delegation propose to urge Governor
John L. Routt for the position, on the
grounds that he is intimately acquainted
with all the growing interests of the West {;
is q man of unimpeachabie integrity, of large
r.
in the judgment of the delegation his ap
pointment would be satisfactory to the Pa
ci6c coast. 1t is further argued that if the
States of the Far West are to be represented
in the Cabinet, Colorado has an additional
claim in the fact that while California and
Nevada fell by the wayside, Colorado actu-
ally increased her Republican majority.
Changes In Senate Committees.
WASHINGTON, December 9Th. = By the
changes made to-day in the Senate commit
tees Blair succeeds Ingalls, on the Pension
Committee and Sharon on the Education
Committee. The Senate decided TO appoint
select committees On civil service, West
Chairman; on electoral law, Morgan, Chair
man; on epidemic diseases. Harris, Chair
man; on election frauds, Wallace, Chair
man; on Nicaragua claims, Hampton,
Chairman; on Freedmen's Bank, Bruce,
Chairman on the bill giving the Cabinet
seats in the House, Pendleton, Chairman {;
on library, voorhees,, Chairman. The com
mittees discontinued are VOORHEES,, negro ex-
odus; Davis, Treasury investigation Kirk
wood, Cheyenne Indians.
Taxation Of legal Tenders.
WASHINGTON, December 9TH. = Senator
MacDonald's bill for the taxation of legal
tenders provides that any State or Territory
property any legal tenders owned or held by
any person or corporation, in assessing taxes,
and may tax them not more than the rate of
taxes on gold and silver coin in the hands of
individuals.
Violent yciope In Missouri.
ST.. LOUIS, December 7th.-A cyclone
passed over the section of country near Car
thage Yesterday. destroying fences and few
farm houses. No lives were lost except that
MIR. Onimby was fatally injured. AT Sar-
coxie the storm ragged with great fury. A
blacksmith shop was totally destroyed, the
Masonic Hall twisted off its foundation,
running it, and many other buildings badly
damaged, and fences and outhouses carried
away. La Round Prairie the school-house
was destroyed, and even the stone foundation
carried away for several rods. The house of
J ohm Mccoy was nearly lifted off its founda
ton. Mr.. Newman's house was blown down
and his two little girls fatally injured. The
timber in the course cf the storm was all torn
up. The town of blarshfeld, which was
nearly destroyed last summer, was visited by
this storm, and great damage is said to have
been done. Nearly all the northern part of
the city was blown down again. The storm
was accompanied by thunder and lightning,
the electric shocks being very violent.
Serious Railroad Accident.
AToH1soN (Ks.), December 7th.-The reg
ular passenger train on the Rock Island road
last evening few the track near Edgerton
Junction, twenty three miles out, on account
of broken rail. The baggage, mail and
passenger coaches were burned. Mail Agent
w. X. Syms was burned to death, and Mail
a-..4 n PalIar he ~ chouldar diclncatad