The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1885-02-18
CLEVELAND AND HENDRICKS.

The Senate and House OF Representatives
Meet in Joint Session and Count the
Electoral Vote. tt
WASHINGTON, February 12.-The CALLER.
les and all vacant places In the House were
crowded at twelve m. yesterday when the
Senate, headed by Edmunds, its Sergeant
alarms, and the venerable door keeper,
Bassett, bearing the boxes containing the
votes were announced by Leedom, the Ser
geant-at-Arins Of the House, and moment
later entered. The President OF the Sem
ate, taking the chair, announced that In
obedience to the Constitution and law and
in accordance with their concurrent resolu-
ton, the Houses had met In joint conven-
tion to count the votes Of the electors for
President and Vice President for the term
commencing March 4, 1885. The tellers on
the part Of the two Houses were directed
to take their places. The chair then said:
"The President of the Senate will open
the votes Of the several States in alphabet
ical order, and he now opens the certificate
of the State Of Alabama. He will deliver
to the chairman Of the Senate tellers the
certificate received by mail and to the chair
man of the House tellers the certificates
received by messenger"
Senator Hoar then read the certificate
handed him with the accompanying certlf-
Gates OF authority from the State authorities,
while Mr.. Clay looked over the copy haHded
10 him. The certificates for Arkansas were
next delivered to the tellers, the mail copy
being handed TO Mr.. Clay and read by him.
His voice was so weak that he could not be
heard by those In the rear, which lead TO
confusion. and finally request for better
order.
Senator Sherman suggested that the eer-
tiicates be inspected by the chair and only
the operative part read, which was received
with much satisfaction and unanimously
agreed 10.
Senator Pendleton read the certificate
from California and Mr.. Keifer from Colo
RADIO, and the reading OF certificates con.
tlnued TO rotate between the two. When
Iowa was reached there were three certih-
Gates owing to the failure of the mail GER
tifcates to reach the President Of the
Senate before January 1. The two regular
certificates were handed the tellers and the
third placed on file.
The count progressed quietly until the
vote OF New York was reached, when there
was slight clapping Of hands, but 1t was
soon suppressed by the stentorian demand
Of the chair: "Let there be orderp
When Mr.. Clay announced that the GER
tifcate was signed by Grover Cleveland,
Governor, there was another outburst, but
the chair said: "The Sergeant-at-Arms
will take into custody any gentleman or
other person disturbing these proceedings
by applause or otherwise"
The three certificates from Oregon were
treated as those from Iowa. At the con.
cluslon Of the reading, the chair directed
the tellers 10 make their computation and
report.
While this was being done the Sergeant.
alarms sent officers TO different parts Of
the halls and galleries to suppress any man
festations OF applause when the result was
announced.
Senator Hoar announced that the result
OF their computation was that the whole
number OF votes cast were 401, of which a
majority was 20l; that there were cast for
President the following: For Governor
Cleveland Of New York, 2l9; for James G.
Blaine, OF Maine, 1872. For Vice President
the following: For Thomas A. Hendricks,
Of Indiana, 219; for John A. Logan, Of ILL
nols, ls2.
The President pro tenn. OF the Senate,
Edmunds, then announce the result, stating
that he made this declaration as the result
OF the count OF the electoral certificates and
not as possessing any authority In law 10
determine the result. There was some ap-
plause which was quickly suppressed by the
chair, who then declared the joint session
termined. There was then fresh and pro-
longed outbreak of applause as the Senators
retired. In order to more quickly restore
order, the House at l:20 p. m. took recess
for fifteen minutes.