Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-12-18
THE ELECTORAL BILL,

OhiO,n now running q chicken ranch. n &C
~casionally running for road supervisor ir
the little town OF Fremont, in that State
was foisted into the seat OF the late Samuel
j. Tilden in the White House at Washing
ton, the country has seen the necessity Of
Congress passing an Electoral Count bill
whose provisions we're incapable OF miscon.
struction. The most important matter
was to provide a method for settling con.
tests between rival delegates. This, it ie
claimed, is accomplished by this bill.
At the last session the Senate passed a
bill which did not meet with favor in the
House. The latter body, however, amend
ed it to suit it's views and passed it the
other day. The amendments are not likely
to be a~ntagonized by the Senate. 1t is held
by the friends of the measure that it quiets
all the questions concerning the electoral
canvass which have arisen from time to
time and which were the most embarrass-
ing at the time Hayes was given Mr.. Til.
denis seat through the action OF an extra
legal tribunal known as the 8 to z commits
sion.
The bill as passed by the House directs
that the Presidential electors shall meet on
the aecnnd Monday in Ionna-,r s.n~-:-.
their appointment: that the judicial find
ing OF a State where there is a controversy
concerning the electors appointed shall
stand, providing such finding is made six
days before the meeting of electors under
laws passed before the appointment of
electors, how the electoral vote of each
State shall be certified and communicated
to the Secretary of State at Washington;
that the Senate and House shall meet in
the hall OF the House on the second We'd
nesday IN February, when tellers shall be
appointed and shall read the certificates
and papers purporting to be the certificates
of the electoral votes
And the votes having been ascertained
and counted in the manner and according
to the rules in this act provided, the result
OF the same shall be delivered to the presi-
dent ofthe Senate, who shall thereupon an
u the state of the vote, which an
nouncement shall be deemed q sufficient
President and Vice President of the United |
States, and, together with a list of the
votes, be entered On the journals of the
two houses. Upon such reading of any
such certificate or paper, the President oil |
the Senate shall call for objections. if any.
Every objection shall be made in writing. |
shall state clearly and ~concisely, and
without argument, the ground thereof, and
shall be signed by at least one senator and
one member OF the House of Representa-
before the same shall be received.
When all objections so made to any vote
or paper from q state shall have been re-
ceived and read, the Senate shall thereup-
on withdraw, and such objections shall be
to the Senate for it's decision,
Ind the Speaker OF the House
of Representatives shall in like
submit such objections to
The House OF Representatives for it's
decision, and no electoral vote or votes
which shall have been regularly & ven by
electors whose appointment shall have
,een certified according to the third Sec
ion OF this act from any state from which
,ut one return has been received ehall be
supporting to be a return from a state
'hall have been received by the President :
the Senate those votes, and those only,
hall be counted which shall have been reg. {
llarly given by the electors who are shown ]
~ the determination mentioned in section ,
OF this act to LAY been appointed, if the =
in eaid section provided for !
hall have been made, or by such successors '
substitutes in case OF a acanc in the j
Soard OF Electors so aece:tained, as have
zen appointed to fill such vacancy in the
node provided by tho laws of the state: 9
nut, in case there shall arise the question 7
'hich OF two or more of such state author. G
determining what electors have been. c
ppointed, as mentioned in section 2 of +
his act, is the lawful tribunal of such state
he votes regularly given of those electors.
those only ,ofsuch state shall be counted =
hose title at electors the two houses, act
1g separately, shall concurrently decide
supported by the decision of such State
D authorized by it's laws; and in such case
I more than one return, or paper purport-
,g to be q return, from q State, if there
hall bave been no such determination of Q
he question in the State aforesaid, then
hose votes, and those only, shall be a
which were cast by electors whose
shall lave been duly certified =
nder the seal Of the State by the executive '
hereof, in accordance with the laws of the
tate, unless the two houses. acting sepa. y
ately, shall concurrently decide such votes
OF to be legal votes OF the legally ap- t
ointed electors Of such State. When the
houses have voted they shall immedi- r
tely meet again. and the presiding officer
hall then announce the decision of the o.
~ &NO OVCo VI pdUcT6 /
any other State shall be acted upon ,
ntil the objections previously made to the .
otes or papers from any State shall have :,
Ben finally disposed OF. l
The President OF the Senate will maintain >.
rder, ETC., and the debate on questions =
rising 10 limited to two hours after the two
buses have separated. But the Joint u
Getting OF the two bodies is not considered t.
until the count Of electoral votes
lall be completed and the result declared. q
this measure had been in effect in 1876, o
+. Tilden would have occupied the seat to :,
hich he was fairly elected and justly en-. 3
lied, and MI. Hayes would have had just
ur years. longer experience in chicken n
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