The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-02-12

'sf nos ouou Quiy elected vice.
president of the United States, agreea.
bleto the constitution, for the term of
iour years, beginning March 4, 1885.
In witness whereof | have herewith
set my hand this - day of February.
iSeo' ana have sealed 1t with the seal Of
the senate. and that the commit-
zee hereby appointed, when
notifying the persons eleetea
OF their election to the Office of presi.
dent and vice-president of the Upitea
States, shall present to each OF them n
duiy authenticated copy OF the tCre-
going certificates"
rms resolution was in harmony with
all precedent. except as to the last two
presidential elections.
On the suggestion of Mr.. Cox, of Nav
YORK. the resolution was modified 80 as
W make the committee consist of three
representatives. and two senator's,
Mr.. KEIFER said the resolution was
wholly unnecessary.
Mr.. j. ID, TAYLOR, of Ohio. moved 10
Jay the resolution on the table. Lost
IS to l0S.
Mr.. HOLMAN moved to amend by
striking out all that part of the resolu-
tlon having reference TO the certificate
Oh election. Agreed to, without division.
me resolution as amended was agreed
To.
The house then went into committee
oil the whole, Mr.. Springer in the chair.
ON the postotiice appropriation bill.
Mr.. HORR offered an amendment in
creasing from s$4, 100000 to Si,535, 900 the
appropriation Tor the letter carrier sys-
tenn.
Mr.. ToWNSHEND called attention
TO the TACT that the bill, as it now stood
appropriated 100000 more than the an.
preparation Tor the current year.
Mr. MONEY made strong appeal for
an extension OF the free delivery sys-
Veili, ahu lhtlnated that he favored Il
system OF postal telegraph.
Mr.. MCMILLAN announced his nm.
position to the postal telegraph proposi-
iion. The consequence Of this sc6ema
would be TO double the number of oili-
GERS VINO ruled over the republic. He
entered his protest agmnsta system so
proOlemalical in ITS workings.
Mr.. BlNGHAM said the cost of the
service ior the coming year. without the
Increase OF another man, must be nearly
S2OO,OOO more than the amount sought lo
be appropriated.
Mr.. HOLMANlwarned the house that
~ could not pass the appropriation bills
II they were all dragged along as the
present one was being dragged along.
Ii this policy was to be pursued t6e
gentlemen might as well make up their
minds to a called session.
Mr. HOkRS amendment was agreed
to 100 To g.
Mr.. SKINNER, of New York, offered
AN amendment providing that letter
carriers may be appointed when public
business demanded 1t, in places whore
lhe population was not less 10000 and
Wheh inc gross revenue OF such Office
amounted To $4,000 or in several
places near TO each other, where the ag-
sreSate population was 10000 and the
gross revenue not less than $4,000.
f-hulnB lurther consideration OF the
the committee rose and Tie
house adjourned.
SENATE.
WASHINGTON, Feb. lI.-The Joint res.
olution of the legislature of Nebraska,
urging congress to pass the bill for ihe
fellel OF settlers ON the st. ,Joseph ,S
Denver CITY railroad lands, was re-
terred.
Mir. ALLISON, from the committee
ON appropriations, reported the army
appropriation bill. Placed on the calen.
dar.
Mr.. GARLAND introduced bin TO
re-locata the Hot Springs reservation IN
Arkansas, and the memorial of eitizans
of Hot Springs relating thereto. Re-
ferred.
The senate passed the bill providing
Tor permanent reservation for Indians
of northern Montana.
Az five minutes before u o'clock a
message was received, announcing that
the house Representatives would,at II
O'Clock, he ready to receive the senate,
that in Joint convention both houses
may count the electoral votes.
The CHAIR announced that the con-
current resolution, providing for the
JOINT convention, would now be exc
cnted and the senators, headed by the
president pro tem., and the secretary of
the senate, preceded by the sergeant-at-
arms. proceeded 10 the house of repre-
sentatives.
AT l2:55 p. m. the senators returned to
the senate chamber aud the president
pro tenn. OF that body having resumed
the char, the tellers on the part of the
senate, Messrs, HOar and Pendleton,
appeared and on their behalf Mr.. Hoar
reported the result of the electoral
count. When the tellers' report was
completed, the president of the senate
repeated verbatim the closing sentence
uithe announcement made by him in the
house relating To the declaration of the
vote. That sentence was as follows:
And the president make this declara-
tion only as public statement in the
presence of the two houses of congress
of the contents OF the papers opened
aud read on this occasion, and not as
possessing any authority in law to de.
clare any legal conclusion whatever
MIR. CONGER said that he desired, as
ono member of the senate, tOs say that he
entirely dissented fram the declaration
that the president OF the senate, or the
vice president, had no other power i'm
that vote than to announce
the fact, and he did not know by what
authority the sentence had been made
a part of the declaration.
Mr.. SHERMAN said: az also wish
for myself, having put on record my
opinion ON this question at othor
times, to again assert and
put on record my opinion
that If the declaration made was the
declaration of the gentleman who pre-
sidod ON that OCCASION, expressing his
own opinion, 1t should not oe taken as a
precedent, except so far as il may COM
mand the Judgment of mankind here
altor | believe the yice.president of
the Unitod States declared aud exer.
csed a constitutional power wnen he
presided over that body to.
day and counted the vote, and
that his announcement OF the
vote Is conclusive and ends all
argument upon the question, and that
In doing so no not only gave his own
opinion as the result of certain papers
given to him, but he made also a consti-
tutional declaration, provided for under
the existing laws, as to who is to be
president of the United States alter the
lth of March.
Mr.. HOAR: al conceived IL 10 be my
duty, as one of the tellers, TO report To
the senate only so much of the proceed
ings of the two houses as seemed to me
to be of the substance OF
tho ascertainment and declaration
of the result. did not,
therefore, In tho report which made,
communicate tho various declarations
or the statement of the presiding officer,
as supposed he understood, AZ has
been stated by the senator from Ohio
(Sh 9rman) that tho declaration which
has been adyerted to WAS tho
declaration of his own understanding.
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