The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-02-03

senate from the foreign relations com
Hlittee, with q recommendation that
it be ratified without amendment.
1t was placed on the calendar of
executive business for future consider
alton. and Senator Eaton, who made
the report on behalf Of the committee,
gave notice that he would endeayor TO
call them up at tie first opportunity
during the present week.
The proposition agreed upon in tine
democratic caucus Monday evening,
and reported TO the senate Tuesday
afternoon from the committee on cleo
toral count, is regarded very fayorably
by many republicans, and according to
the present outlook, will not encounter
a great deal of opposition from the
minority in the senate, as it seems to
offer a fair and sensible method of
avoiding all trouble in regard to the
declaration of the results of the last
election without obliging either party
to abandon their views concerning the
proper methods Of dealing with the
important disputes which may arise in
subsequent elections, but which con-
fessedly do not need to be provided for
now. II is therefore probable that the
democratic senators will abandon their
first intention of pressing to its passage
the resolution now on the calendar
which declares that the vice president
has NJ constitutional authority To count
the electoral votes, and that they will
content themselves with passing the
concurrent resolution reported Tuesday,
in a well grounded expectation that the
house will likewise adopt it, thus
promptly providing for the next weeks
count, and leaving its general subject
of permanent regulation for the delib-
GRAFTON and consideration of legislative
action at the hands of the incoming
congress. The democrats are firmly
determined TO prevent the establish
ment Of any precedent this year which
might he used TO their disadvantage in
1886, and many Of them openly assert
that the claim put forth by some Of the
prominent republicans, Of a constitu-
tional right Of the vice president to de-
eide disputes in the electoral count, is
merely the first step OF n design to steal
the presidency at the next election.
They accordingly o that in case
the republicans prevent the adoption of
this concurrent resolution, by llibuster-
ing, the democratic majority in the SEN
ate will on Wednesday morning, the
9th inst, adopt an order directing the
senate to proceed to the hall of the
house and join with the representatives
in counting the electoral vote, and that
the democrats of both houses will thus
meet, and numbering a quorum of both
branches will proceed with the electoral
count.
The members of the California dele
CATION on Tuesday received n telegram
from the land committee Of the Califor-
mia state university earnestly request
ing them to secure the passage of the
senate bill introduced by Farley, and
reported by Booth from the public land
committee, authorizing the interior de-
partment to accept the deed of relin-
quishment from the state of California
for the lands enormously selected for
the benefit of the university, in order to
allow proper selections. The bill may
get through the senate, but it will be
next to impossible to obtain action on
it in the house during the short remain
der of the present session.
The Pacific coast senators and repre-
s~cntatives are daily in receipt of appli-
cations from their constituents for the
census reports of 1880. 1t will be a
number of months before even the first
brief abstract report is printed for dis
tribution, and a much longer time be-
fore the full report III be ready. The
statistics for the latter are yet being
collected by special agents in all parts
of the country, and the public printing
offices as the session draws TO n close is
crowded with the current daily work of