The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-02-02
FEB. 2, 1851.
WASHINGTON oTE

The house committee on commerce
continued its work on the river and
harbor bill Monday. The amount agreed
upon for the improvement of the Mis-
sissippi river, as it now stands in the
bill. is 81, 900. 900 for the Mississippi
from Cairo to the mouth, and 5000, 600
from Cairo to the headwaters. These
amounts will probably be revised.
Covert, chairman of the committee
on agriculture, reported to the house
on Monday the agricultural appropria-
tion bill. Among the miscellaneous
items are the following: For continn-
ing the experiments in connection with
the manufacture of sugar from sor-
CHAM s25, 900; continuing investigation
relative to insect injuries to agricul-
ture $4,000; further experiments in
tea culture $40, 600; reclamation of arid
and waste lands in territories $4,000.
The president has approved the bill
placing Gen. Ord on the retired list,
with rank of major general.
National banks hold s106, s9l 900 in
specie, and gold coin being nearly one
hundred millions, and silver coin about
$780, 900. The amount of circulating
notes outstanding on December 31st
was s317 600, 900.
The democratic senatorial caucus met
to make arrangements for a count of
the electoral vote next week, and after
some discussion it was unanimously de-
cided, in the first place, that the domi-
nant majority in the senate would not
consent TO the establishment OF the
precedent proposed by the Ingalls, reso-
luton, or any similar regulations devil
ating from the long established practice
of counting the electoral vote in joint
convention of the two branches of con-
gress in the hall Of the house Of repre-
sentatiyes. Second, that the resolution
now on the table Of the senate declar-
ing that the vice president has no con-
~stitutional authority TO count the cleo
toral votes, shall be called up at an
early day, probably Tuesday, and will
be pressed for passage at a continuous
session, running through the night il
necessary. Third, the select commit
tee on this subject shall report, and a
majority in the senate pass, rs Don as
practicable, as n substitute for the In
gals resolution, n concurrent resoln-
ton providing in substance that the
two houses shall assemble in the hall Of
the house OF representatives on the 9th
day Of February, and that the lists OF
electoral votes shall be made by two or
more tellers on the part of the house
and n or more on the part of the SEN
ate. That the totals for each presiden-
tial candidate, excepting the votes cast
for the state Of Georgia days
after the time prescribed by federal
laws, shall be handed to the president
of the senate, and he, as presiding Off
Ger OF the joint convention shall an-
nounce the result, in the same way in
which the results were announced under
similar circumstances in the years 1919,
1857 and 1869, when the electoral
vote of the state of Missouri, Wiscon-
sin and Michigan were cast on days
other than those fixed by general law.
According to this proposed arrange
ment it would be a hypothetical declar-
alton as to what would be the total for
each candidate, IL the votes of Georgia
be counted, and il the votes of Georgia
be not counted; but it is to be provid-
ed in the concurrent resolution that
this hypothetical declaration shall be
supplemented by the announcement by
the presiding officer that sin any event
James A. Garfield and Chester a.
Arthur have received n constitutional
majority of all the electoral votes and
are duly elected president and vice pres
ident.n