Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1881-02-16
THEVO-ES COU .sTED.
Gen. Garfield declared Elected.
WASHINGTON, February 9.

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Long before the hour for the opening
of the House to-day the public throng-
ed the corridors Of tie Capitol and
pressed for place, in anticipation of the
electoral count. This was to occur at
IL o'clock. AS early az III the galleries
were densely packed. Halt an hour
later hundreds of disappointed and
curious people crowded the rotunda,
statuary hall and the passage leading
from the Senate to the House, deter
mined to see at least the Senatorial
procession on its way to the Hall OF
Representatives By this time the
scene on the gallery floor of the latter
was of the liveiest description. Every
door was besieged with anxious crowds,
who struggled and jostled with each
other and choked up the corridor, un-
able to gain admission. The door
keepers earned their salaries to-day.
They were beset with beautiful women
and persuasive gentlemen, Congress
men aud rowdies indiscrminately, all
of whom displayed their "iuduence" in
the most imposing way. Even door
keepers of the most accommodating
sort and biggest salaries could make no
room where there was none, and
hundreds were turned away to sniffie
or swear, according to sex and tcmpera-
ment. A tight knot of forty or fifty
squeezed about the open doorway lead
| ing to the galleries to catch word now
and then, though unable to see within.
At few minutes TO twelve these knots
completely blocked the broad corridor.
The usual pressure was brought To
bear on the reporters gallery, but the
management Of this was better than
heretofore and the working force vas
not this time crowded out Of their
seats.
| COUNTING THE VOTES.
The Senators. announced by the
House doorkeeper, filed solemn y in, two
by two. headed by the veteran, Captain
Bassett, bearing in either b md a square
rosewood box containing the electoral
votes. Vice President Wheeler took
hi. place at the right Of Speaker Ran.
dali and raped the joint convention III
order. The tellers took place below
| him at the Clerks desk, while the
journal Clerks were drv.'n to a table
below the'oflicialreporters Of the House.
Mr.. Wheeler's announcement that IL
was his constitutional duty to open the
electoral votes in the presence of the
two houses and deliver them To the ap.
pointed tellers excited the keenest at
| tention lie embraces in single sent
ence the Democratic theory in the re
cent discussions on th ssubject, namely
that it was his constitutional duty to
open the votes only. This Eoint was
received by a suhdued buzz from foor
and gallery. The private secretary oI
the Vice President then opened one OF
the boxes a. it rested on the marble
desk and took therefrom the sealed en-.
velope marked Alabama This the
secretary carefully clipped at one end
with delicate looking pair of shears
and passed the contents over to Mr.
Wheeler, who formally delivered to the
tellers the vote of Alabama. The GER
tificate was read by Senator Hamlin,
one If the two telers On the part ofthe
Senate. and the result was recorded ou
the talley-si eets Ike by each teller
Its reading occupied more than fifteen
minutes 1t was evident that if this
was kept up the counting would lastall
day. AT the third certificate Reagan
moved to dispense with the formal
reading, which was done, and there.
after the character Of the certificate and
the vote merely were stated, each tel
Ter reading in turn. 1t was not until
the vote of Georgia was reached tha,
interest revived. When that occurred
Springer arose, amid painful hush
aud demanded the reading Of the Ger
tiicate 10 full. 1t was cone. Then
Wheeler read the joint resolution adopt
ed by the two hous' S and quie,ly p s.
ed to the next There WAS II genera
murmur of voices throughout tbv ball