Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-12-10

enaii oe certlned and communicated to
Ine secretary of State at Washington.
oecClon prescrioes the melting of the
senate aud House in the hall II the House
on the second Wednesday IL February
succeeding the meeting of tue electors.
r AiIer proVldlng for the appointment of
.e.lers and the reading by then of the GER
t!HcSCes ana papers, ,purportlrg to be cer-
Itncates OF the electoral Vote the billlcon-
tInues, and the votes, having been ascer-
Ialneo and counted and in the manner
anu according to the rules in this act, pro-
slued the result of the same shall be de-
IlVered to the President of the Senate,
| who shall thereupon announce the
state OF the Vote which announcement
snail be deemed sufficient declaration
vi Tue persons, II any, elected President
ana wee President Of the United States,
ana together with the list of y3tes shall
De entered on the journals ,f the two
houses. Upon such reading of any such
certlhcate or paper the President of the
senate shall call for objections, If any.
Every objection shall be made In writing
ana snail state clearly the determinations,
II any. Every objection shall be- made
IN writing and shall state slearly and
conclsely, and without argument the
ground thereof, and shall be signed by at
!east one senator and one member of the
House OF Representatives before the same
snail be received, When all objections so
mace 10 any vote or paper from State
snail have been received and read the
senate shall thereupon withdraw, and
such objections shall be submitted TO the
Senate for its decisions, and the Speaker
OF the House of Representatives shall, in
Ike manner submit such objections to the
house of Representatives for it's decis-
ION, and no electoral vote or
votes which Shall have been
regularly given by electors, whose ap-
pointment shall have been certified ac-
cording to the third section of this act,
from any State from which but one re-
turn has been received, shall be rejected.
Ii more than one return Orpaper purport-
Ing to be return from State shall have
been received by the President OF the
senate those votes, and those only, shall
De counted which shall have been regu-
larly given by the electors who are shown
Dy the determination mentioned in sec
ton OF this act to have been
appointed, If the determination in said
section provided for shall have been made,
or by such successors or substitutes in
case OF vacancy in the board of electors
80 ascertained as have been appointed to
NIL such vacancy in the mode provided by
the laws OF the State; but in case there
snail arise question which of two or
more of such State authorities determine
what electors have been appointed as
mentioned in section of this act is the
lawful tribunal OF such State, the votes
regularly given of those electors and those
only. OF such State shall be count
ed whose title as electors the
Two Houses, acting separately,
shall concurrently decide, is supported
by the decision of such State so author
lied by its laws; and in such case of more
than one return. or paper purporting to
be the return from the State, if there
shall have been no such determination of
the question in the State aforesaid. then
those votes and those only shall be
counted which were cast by the electors,
whose appointment shall have been duly
certified under the seal of the State
by the Executive thereof, in ac-
cordance with the laws OF the State,
unless the two houses, acting separ-
ately, shall concurrently decide such
votes not to be lawful of the legally ap-
pointed electors Of such State. When
the two houses have voted they shall
meet again and the presiding officer shall
then announce the decision, No votes or
papers from any other State shall be acted
upon until objections previously made to
votes from any State shall have been
finally disposed of.
Section 8 gives the President of the
Senate power to preserve order.
Section limits to two hours the debate
which shall be had on any question after
the two houses have separated.
Section 7 provides that the joint meeting
shall not be dissolved until the count of
the electoral vote is completed. In case
the electoral votes shall not have been
completed before the fifth calendar day
after the first meeting of the two houses,
no further recess shall be taken by eltner
house.
AGRICULTURE AND LABOR.
The House then at 3:10 O'Clock went
into committee of the whole on the bill
creating department of agriculture and
labor. .-f
Mr.. Weaver, of Iowa, supported the bill
as being in the interest Of the greatest In
dustry. l-af-
Mr.. Breckinridge, of Arkansas. opposed
the measure as creating political depart
ment, and he cOntended that agriculture
would not be benefited by tinsel and frip-
perry. What it needed was reduction of
the load of taxation.
Mr.. Gibson, OF West Virginia, took the
same view.
Randolph Tucker also took this view,
and he also opposed the bill on constitu-
tional grounds.
Mr.. Reagan said that there was no con-
stitutlonal ground for the proposed legis-
lation.
Mr.. Anderson, of Kansas, and Mr..
Hatch, OF Missouri, supported the bill,
both as to constitutionality and eXpedi-
ency.
Pending further debate the committee
rose.
MIR. Randall. OF Pennsylvania, from the
Committee on Appropriations, reported
the sundry civil bill, which was referred
to committee of the whole.
The house at 5 O'Clock adjourned until
tomorrow.
RIVERS AND HARBORS.
A Move on Foot TO Keep the Ap-