Morning journal and courier., 1886-12-10


 executive thereof in accordance with the laws
 of the State, unless the two houses, acting | separately, shall concurrently decide such l votes not to be the lawful votes of the legally appointed electors of such State. When the | two houses have voted they shall immediate ly meet again and the presiding officer shall l then announce the decision on the questions l submitted. No votes papers from any l other State shall be acted upon until the ob- l Jections previously made to the votes or pa pers from any State shall have been finally l disposed of
 Section gives the president of the Senate power to preserve order. Section 6 limits to two hours the debate which shall be had on any question after the two houses shall have separated. Section provides that the joint meeting shall not be dissolved until the count shall be completed and the result de- clared and prohibits either house from taking recess beyond the next calendar day. In case the electoral votes shall not have been completed before the fifth calendar day after the first meeting of the two houses no fur ther recess shall be taken.
 FULLGRAFF GOES TO PIECES Before the Merciless Cross.Examina.
 tiOn of Lawyer NeWcombe.
 NEW YORK, Dec. 9.-Fullgraff's cross examination on the first trial was milk and honey to his cross examination on the pres ent trial. Lawyer Newcombe to-day prodded him unmercifully with questions tending to degrade him and crushing in their pointed ness. MT. Newcombe brought the fact out in bold relief by Fullgraf's own admission that the informer had never made any ad- mission touching his own guilt until taken to police headquarters and informed that the district attorney had secured evidence against him and other aldermen in relation to the Thirty fourth street road. The lawyer also elicited answers numerous and serious enough from the informer to impress the jury with the fact that before Fullgraff had made his alleged confession he was promised gen. eral immunity for all of his dishonest acts as l ex-alderman. Continuing his questions, l Lawyer Newcombe entrapped Fullgraff into | statement which was at direct variance l with a previous statement on the present | and former trial. Fullgraf had previously | said that he never received money for any | vote of his in favor of a railroad franchise, I except for the Broadway and Thirty-Fourth | street roads. Mir. Newcombe asked Full 4 graf if he had not been paid for | voting for the Forty-second street ]
  Wall street road. "I decline to answer" | Fullgraff said. "You must answer" said the I recorder, "unless you say that your answer I would criminate or degrade you?'' Fullgraff ! saw that an answer would criminate and de- | grade him. Fullgrafs refusal to answer the I questions whether he had not been paid for \ his votes for the Forty second street and the | Chambers street franchise were practical 4 admissions that he had contradicted his for mer testimony that he had been only bribed l for the Broadway and Forty second 1 street roads. Lawyer Newcombe called Full 1 graf's attention to his contradiction and the I informer replied that he didn't know that he ! had testified previously that he had been only 1 brlbed for his votes in favor of the Broadway and Forty second street roads. Fullgraffs l contradictions were crowding on each other | so fast and so relentlessly that his frequent l of the fact that he had l sworn differently as to the same state of facts on this very trial were becoming to be chest nuts of a very narrowing type for the pros- ecution, if not for the informer himself. After a severe ordeal which thoroughly estab blished his humiliation Fullgraff was al- lowed to leave the stand.
 Ex-Alderman Duffy was called. He went through the same course of confession as on the previous trial, but came out rather less an acknowledged criminal than Fullgraff. Lives Lost By Drowning.
 LONDON, Dec. 9.-Dispatches from Bus