The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-02-09
lo-Dav's Dispatches.
XLvI CONGRESS.
HOUSE..


WAsHINGroN. Feb. 9.-The galleries
were crowded in anticipation Of the cleo
toral count, but there was no excitement
as occurred four years ago. The morning
hour dispensed with and the house went into
com mittee on the legislative appropriation
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 vice president
and senate arrived, The vice president
took seat on the right hand of Speaker
Randall and the senators took the front
rows Of desks. The vice president called
the assembly to order and said the two
houses being assem- bled in pursuance to
the constitution. votes may now be counted
and declared for president and vice prssi
dent 1t becomes my duty under the
constitution, 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. aud | now proceed to
discharge that duty.
The sellers having taken their places,
the vice president said: Il open the
package purporting to contain the oerti6-
Gates OF election of the state OF Alaoams.
and hand the certificate to be reported"
Senator Hsmlin read the certificate
slowly. showing 10 votes for Hancock and
English, and the vice president said the
vote OF Alabama having been recorded by
the tellers. Il now oren and hand to them
the certificate of Arkansas. The same
proceeding was observed in that case, and
Reagan then moved to dispense with for
NAL reading. Agreed to.
California . certificates showed OF the
votes Of that state for Hancock and for
Garfield When Georgia was reached
Crowley read the certificate and Springer
demanding the reading in full. it shows
that Dec, Sth. the Is votes of Georgia
were cast for Hancock and English. The
vics president said: >''It appearing from
the certificate that the vote of Georgia was
cast on day other than that fixed for the
casting OF such votes. by the act of con-
grsss. in pursuance of the constitution, the
result of this certificate will not be record
cd until. in language concurrent. the reso-
luton under which this count proceeds, it
will appear whether the counting or omit
ting to count such votes will change the
result of the election. Illinois, Iowa. and
other states were counted. The tellers
footed up at the close of the reading and
Thurman announced the whole num Der of
electors voting were 500. of which ma jor-
ity ls 1S5 in which were votes of Georgia
alestors castD 8. counted the result would
be for Garfield 2l4. Hancock 1855. II not
counted the result would be Garfield 2l4,
Hancock IA. In either svent JAS. A
Garfield has received a majority OF the
whole number OF electoral votes. The same
statement was made respecting the vice
president wherefore the vice president
declared sJAs. A. Garfield. president and
Chester A. Arthur. vice president of the
United States for four years, beginning
March 4th, 1881. Loud appiauas.
The senate then retirsd, and the house
presented the house report of the com
mittes. and after a formal record by
resolution of the proceedings the house
went into committee on the legislative
appropriation bill.
SENATE.
WASHINGTON, Feb. .9.-Senator Wallace
submitted a reso luton which was adopted
calling on the president, if not incompat-
ible with the public interest. for the cor
rsspondsnee of Spain and the = United States
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