Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-02-17

therefore, nave nothing 10 ado to that WHICH,
have before said" The colloquy here end
ed, and the subject was dropped The Sem
ate then resumed consideration of the pension
appropriation bill which was discussed until
In the House, a number of bills were intro.
duced-one by Mr. Gillette, of Iowa, express
sing sympathy with the Irish people. Mr.
Aiken of South Carolina, moved to suspend
the rules and pass the bill making the agri-
cultural department an executive department.
The House, however, refused to suspend the
rules for this purpose. The river and har-
Dor appropriation bill was debated without
action. Mr. Whitthorne, of Tennessee, in.
troduced bill appropriating sl75,O0O, to be
expended by the Navy Department for
prosecuting the search for the Jeannstte."
Referred The House then adjourned.
In the Senate on the 9th, Senator Bruce,
from the committee on education and labor,
reported adversely the joint resolution to pro
vide for the enforcement of the eight hour
law. He remarked that he did not concur
in the report. Indefinitely postponed. Mr..
Maxey, from the committee on post Offices
reported the appropriation bill, appropriating
one million dollars to be expended in the es'
tablishment Of American steamship lines to
foreign countries from Atlantic, Gulf and
Pacific ports. Consideration of the pension
appropriation bill was resumed. After a long
discussion devoted principally to the manage
ment of the Pension Bureau and the best
method of dealing with fraudulent claims,
Plumb's amendment appropriating two hun
dred thousand dollars for additional examin
ers and clerks in the Pension Office was adopt
ed-ayes, SO noes, 81. The committee then
rose and reported the bill to the Senate, when
the committee amendments were agreed to-,
with the exception of the Indian pensions pro-
vision, which was stricken out, and Plumb's
amendment, upon which discussion was re-.
sumed. The bill was finally laid aside with.
out action. The Senate then adjourned.
In the House, Mr.. Reagan of Texas, from
the committee on commerce, reported back
the river and harbor appropriation bill, and
it was referred to committee of the whole,
The bill was read by sections for amendments.
and after considering forty eight of the eighty
two pages of the bill, the committee rose and
the House adjourned.
In the Senate on the 9th, the pension ap
preparation bill was taken up, and after con-
siderable discussion, Mr. Plumb's amendment
increasing the pensions ofof6cials, was tabled.
The bill was then read the third time and
passed. AT 12 o'clock, the Vice President
announced that the time appointed for count,
ing the Presidential electoral vote had ar
rived. The Senate, with the Vice President
at its head, proceeded to the hall of the
House of Representatives.
III the House, the Vice President called
the. assembly to order and said: "The two
Houses being assembled, in pursuance of the
Constitution, that the votes may be counted
and declared for President and Vice -Presi-
dent on the 4th day Of March, 1881, it be-
comes my duty, under the Constitution. as
President of the Senate, to open the certi6-
Gates of the election of the several States of
the Union, in the presence of the two Houses,
and I now proceed to discharge that duty"
The telers-Messrs. Thurman and Hamlin,
on the part of the Senate, and Messrs. House
and Crowley, en- the part ofthe House-hav-
ing taken their places at the Clerks desk, the
Vice President said: 81 open package pur-
porting to contain the certificates of election
of the State of Alabama, to be reported" The
certificate having been read very slowly by
Senator Hamlin, and having shown that the
electors of the State of Alabama had cast the
votes of that State for Winfield S. Hancock
for President and ten votes for VIM. H.
English for Vice President, the Vice President
continued in the same manner, taking the
States in alphabetical order and announcing
the electoral vote of each State, until the GER
ti6cate from the State of Georgia was reached.
This certificate showed that on the 9th Of
December, 1880, the eleven votes of Geor-
gia were cast for Hancock aud English. The
ce.President then said {: ut appearing from
the certificate the vote of the State of Georgia
was cast on day other than that fixed by
an act of Congress in pursuance of the Consti-
tuition of the United States, the result of this
certificate will not be recorded until, in the
language of the concurrent resolution, under
which this count proceeds, it will appear
whether the counting or ommitting to count
such votes will change the result of the elec-
tion." The reading of the other certificates
was then proceeded with and the votes of the
States recorded, when the tellers then pro-
ceeded to foot up the votes cast for President
and Vice. President Senator Thurman then
said: "The Tellers report that the whole
number of electors appointed to vote tor
President of the United States was 1863, Of
which majority is 1876. Were the votes of
the electors for the State of Georgia cast on
the second Wednesday of December 1880,
being the 9th day of said month, to be count
ed, the result would be: For James A. Gar
field, of Ohio, for President of the United
States, 214 votes, and for Winfield S. Han
cock, of Pennsylvania, for President of the
TTnited States 155 votes IF not counted the