Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-02-11
The Electo raj Count.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.-N l. O'Clock the
vice president announced that the hour
appointed for counting the electoral vote
had arrived. The senate, with the vice
president at its head, proceeded to the hall
of the house of representatives.
The galleries were crowded i'll the an.
,icipatiun Of the electoral count, hut there
was no excitement rs four years ago.
The vice president took II seat on The ri ght
hand of Speaker Randall, and the scna-
tor, took front rows of desks. The vice
president called the assembly to order and
said: "Thr two houses being assembled
in pursuance Of the constitution. the votes
NAV now he counted and declared for pres
ilrnt and vice president. |, becomes my
duty under the constitution rs president Of
the senate to open the certificates of cleo
ton of the several states of the union in
the pre-. cncc of the two houses, and now
proceed to discharge that duty The
tcllcrs having taken their places, the vice
prc>idcn, said 81 open package pur-
porting to contain certificate OF cleo
lion from the state Of Alabama and send
the ccritc t. to be reported" Senator
IIamlin read the certificate slowly, show
ing 10 votes for Hancock and English,
and the vice president said: The vote
of Alabama havin" been recorded by the
trllcrs, open and hand to them the GER
,iicatc of Arkansas" The same proceed
ing WAS observed in that case.
Reagan then moved TO dispense with
formal reading; agreed to.
The California certificate showed that D
of the votes of that state were for Ham
cock and for Garfield. When Georgia
was reached Crowley read the certificate,
Springer demanded the reading in full.
II shows that ON Dee. Sth the IL votes OF
Georgia were cast for Hancock ard En-.
glieh.
The vice president said that it appeared
from the certificate that the vote OF Georgia
! was cast on II day,,othcr than fixed for count
! iug such votes by act of congress, in pur.
| sunncc of the constitution the result OF
| this certificate will not he recorded until
! in the language of the concurrent rc,olu
! ton under which this count proceeds, It
! will appear whether counting or emitting
! to count such votes will change the result
of the election.
Illinois, Iowa and other states i'll order
were counted.
The tcllcrs footed up at the close OF the
reading, and Thurman announced that the
whole number of electors votlnT were o69
of which Il majority is lS5. Were the vote
Of the Georgia electors cast on the S;ll, @
December counted, the result would be
for Garfield, PIT; Hancock. 155. If no
counted the result would he: Garfield, PA
Hancock IA. In either event, Jas. y
Garfield has received IL majority of The
whole number Of electoral votes. The
same statement was made respecting thu
vice president, wherefore the vice prcsiden
declared James Y. Garfield president ant
Chester \. Arthur vice president of th'
United States for four years, brginnn!
March 4, 1881. Loud applause. Thu
senate then retired, and House presented
the house Il report of the count. and attc
the formal record hy resolution of the pro
cccdings, the house went into committee
on the legislative appropriation bill.
Upon It's return the senate received from
IIamlin reports of the tcllcrs Of the TIVE
houses. accompanied hy Il preamble recit
ing the result, with Il resolution that tn
two houses are of the opinion that tn
constitution and laws have been duly exc
cu,rd, and no further declaration of fact
set forth rs necessary: adopted.
WyNSLow, n. y, Feb. s.-Congrcssmal
Hay is dead.
NEW York. Feb. 3.-Francis \. Dun
wage, author and poet, is dead; age sixty
seven