Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-14


careful examination merely TO state the
manner in which the votes had been cast
A smile ran over the assembly when BIZ
a slip of the tongue Mr.. Ermentrout an
nounced that the electors of Florida had
cast four votes for Levi p. Morton for
ee-president The smile broadened
into hearty laugh when few moments
afterwards Mr.. Harris by a similar error
gave the electoral vote of Indiana to
Grover Cleveland. It was some time
before the laughter died out and
he was permitted to correct
his error. The presiding officer
upon receiving The vote said: The state
of the vote for president of the United
States delivered to the president of the
senate is as follows: The whole number
of electors appointed to vote for president
of the United StaJes is 40l, of which
majority is POL Benjamin Harrison of
Indiana has received for president Of the
United States 233 votes, and Grover
Cleveland of New York has received 168
votes. The state of the vote for vice
president as delivered to the presi-
dent of the senate is as fol-
lows: The whole number of cleo
tors appointed to vote for vice
president is 401 of which a majority is
Dol. Levi p Morton of New York, has
received 233 votes and Allen G.. Thurman
of Ohio, has received 1913 votes This
announcement of the state of the vote
by the president of the senate as by law
sufficient declaration that Benjamin Har-
sison of Indiana, is elected president of
the United States and that Levi p.
Morton of the state of New York, is
elected vice-president of the United
States, each for the term beginning
March 4, 1889, and will be entered
together with the list of votes on the
journals of the senate and house of rep
resentatives.
No demonstration or applause followed
this declaration, and Mr.. ingalls, pro-
ceeded: :'The count of the electoral
votes having been concluded and the re-
suit declared, the joint meeting of the
two houses is dissolved and the senate
will now return to its chamber. -
In five minutes the senators had re-
tired, but it required a much longer time
to induce the ladies to vacate the cham
Der
When order had been restored the house
resumed consideration of the Smalls-El-
lott contested election case, Mr.. Hemp
hill of South Carolina taking the floor.
The house seated Elliott, 142 to 1876
Mr.. Hemphill said he proposed to show
from a Chicago paper published in 1887
that colored man had not as many
rights in Chicago as in Mobile or New
Orleans.
This brought Mr. Adams of Illinois to
his feet with a demand for specifica-
tons
Mr. Hemphill replied that he would
specify and he quoted from a paper to
show that in Chicago a cOlored boy could
int UNrof Il TT,,io
not learn to be a mason or a carpenter.
Mr. Adams Neither can any Ameri-
can boy
If that is SO, - exclaimed Mr.. Hemp
hill, 'ChicagO is worse than thought it
was. - Laughter. Continuing to show
the treatment of the negro in the North,
Mr.. Hemphill SAID he had heard it stated
that in Marion, H., where some colored
men had recently been employed in a
tobacco warehouse, notice had been
served on them that if they did not
leave town in ten days they
would receive summary punishment,
aud notice had been served on their en-
ployer that if they were not discharged
his factory would be burned down. At
Fort Scott, III Kansas, colOred children
had been turned out of white schools.
This declaration aroused Funston of
hdUSdS WHO NeHeHl6uily dilIu IOuu cries
for order denied the assertion.
Mr. TaTsney of Michigan said he must
protest against the assumption by Repub-
licans that they were sole guardians of
the cOlored man The highest law he
knew was the constitution and his own
understanding. When Republicans in
sisted that the colored man was entitled
to a seat in this house they were in error.
When they spoke of gerrymander-
ing South Carolina districts. he could
show them a district in a Northern
state made by a Republican legislature
230 miles long and twenty-seven miles
wide. He had seen as much bull-dOZing
at the polls in the North as he had seen
Tecounted before this house. He favored |
a fair, free ballot, but when Republi-
cans sought to draw sectional lines they
were making a mistake, and when they |
asked him to vote to seat man who he |
believed was not elected, they made
another.
Mr.. Crisp of Georgia in concluding the
for the majority of the COM
mittee, denied the truth of the general !
statement that had been made touching |
election outrages in the South. There |
was nothing about q Southern election |
that was not as fair, and as well cal
culated to secure an untrammelled ex-
preston of views as in an election in any |
other section.