Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-01-27
XLVI. CONGRESS.
SENATE.
WASHINGTON. Jan. 2G

Mr.. ingalls, submitted resolution
as follows: That the Senate will be
ready to receive the House of Repre-,
sentatives in the Senate chamber on
Wednesday, February 9, at 12
o'clock, NJ, for the purpose of being
present at the opening and counting
of the votes for President and Vice
President of the United States;
that two persons be appointed tellers
on part of the Senate to make list
of the votes for President and Vices
President of the United States as
they shall be declared; that the re-
suit shall be delivered to the Press
ident of the Senate, who
shall announce the state of the vote,
which shall be entered on the
journals, and if it shall appear that
the choice has been made agreeably
to the Constitution, such entry on
the journals shall be deemed suffi-
cient declaration thereof.
Mr.. Whyte objected to the pres-
ent consideration of the resolution,
and it was laid over and ordered
printed.
Bills were introduced and referred
as follows:
By MIR. Morgan: To extend the
postal service to foreign countries.
Referred to the committee on post.
Offices and post-roads.
By Mr.. Call: For the improve
ment of certain rivers and harbors
in the State of Florida. Tabled and
ordered printed.
Mr., Call forwarded to the clerk the
credentials of his colleague, Chas.
W. Jones, elected for the term COM
mencing March 4, 1881. Read and
filed
The Indian land in severalty bill
was then taken up and discussed at
some length, but at 4.35 the Senate,
without action on it, went into execa
tive session, and when the doors
were reopened adjourned.
HOUSE.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 26.
The motion to dispense with the
morning hour was defeated, 80 to 80,
and the Speaker, as irregular order,
directed the clerk to finish the read
ing of the bill which was pending at
the expiration of the last morning
| hour.
Mr.. Money,of Mississippi, chairman
of the committee on post-ofices and
post-roads, reported back the reso.
luton directing the committee to in
quire into the expediency of estab-
fishing a telegraphic postal system
under the Government of the United
States, and also into the cost of re-
producing fac SMILES for transmit
ting telegraph messages equal to
those now possessed by the existing
corporations, and into the cost of
operating the same, and granting to
/ the committee leave to send for per-
sons and papers.
Mr.. Bicknell, of Indiana, called up
the resolution proposing a joint rule
for counting the electoral vote.
Mr.. Speer, of Georgia, asked Mr..
Bicknell to yield to him to call up
the contested election case of
Yeates VS.. Martin.
Mr.. Field, of Massachusetts, hoped
the gentleman would not do that.
The report in that case had just been
printed, and the House should be
allowed two or three days to ex-
anime it.
After some time spent in a vain
attempt to arrive at some determine
ton in reference to the time to be
consumed in debate, Mr.. Speer, of
Georgia, gave notice that he would
call up the election case tomorrow
after the morning hour.
Mr.. Cobb, of Indiana, from the
committee on appropriations, report
ted the District of Columbia appro-
priation bill, which was ordred print
ed and recommitted.
MIR. Bicknell then demanded the
previous question on the Morgan
electoral resolution.