The weekly miner., 1881-02-15
Counting the Electoral Vote.

The galleries we're crowded in anticipation
of the electoral count, but there was no such
excitement as four years ago. The morning
hour was dispensed with and the house went
into committee on the legislative appropria-
tion bill, but rose without concluding, and
Singleton offered a resolution extending the
privilege of the floor to ladies who could not
secure gallery seats. Adopted.
Shortly after noon the President of the
Senate arrived. Ihe Vice-President took a
seat on the right hand of speaker Randall,
and the senators took front rows of desks.
The Vice-President called the assembly to
order, and said that the two houses beng
assembled in pursuance of the constitution,
the votes may now be counted and declared
for President and Vice-Presi1ent. 1t be-
comes my duty as President of the Senate to
open the certificates Of election of the several
states of the Union in the presence of the two
houses and now proceed to discharge that
duty. The tellers having taken their places,
the Vice-President said: 81 open package
purporting to contain the certificates Of cleo
tion CT the State of Alabama" and read the
certificates to be reported.
Senator Hamlin read the certificates slow
ly, showing 10 votes for Hancock and Eng
lish.
The Vice-President said "thevote of Ala
bama having been recorded by the tellers, l
open and hand to them the certificates of
Arkansas"
The same proceeding was observed in that
case.
Reagan then moved to dispense with the
formal reading. Agreed to.
California's certificates showed of the 8
votes of that state for Hancock and for Gar
field.
When Georgia was reached, crowley read
the certificates.
Springer demanded the reading in full.
1t shows that on December the 18th the II
votes of Georgia were cast for Hancock and
| English.
The Vice-President said it appeared from
| certificates that the vote of Georgia was cast
| Oh day other than that fixed for casting such
votes by the act of congress in pursuance OF
the constitution. The result of this certif-
cate will not be recorded until, according to
the language of the concurrent resolution
under which this count proceeds, it will ap
pear whether the counting or omltting to
count such vote will change the re,
suit of the election.
| Illinois, Iowa and other states in order were
counted.
| The tellers footed up at the close Of the
reading, and Thurman declared that the
! whole number of the electoral votes was 359
| of which {. majority was 1856. With the votes
of the Georgia electors, which were cast or
the Sth of December, the result would be fo1
Garfield, 2lS; Hancock, 1855. If not counted
The result would be Garfield, GA Hancock
IA. In either count James A. Garfield has
received majority of the whole number O
the electoral votes.
The same statement was made respecting
the Vice-President, wherefore the Vice
President declared James A. Garfield Presi
! A Artb Vioa- DraSidoc r.
of the United States, for the four yeaIs be
ginning March 4th, 1881. loud applause.
The senate then retired, and the house pre-
sented the house report Of the count, and al
ter formal record was made by resolu
tion of the proceedings, the house went int
committee on the legislative appropriation
bill.