Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-02-13
THE ELECTORAL Vote.
HOUSES IN JOINT CONVENTION.
Scenes in Representatives Hall.
FLOOR AND GALLERIES CROWDED
Incidents Of the Proceedings.
The Senate.

relations, reported the joint resolution
authorizing the heirs of Rear Admiral Chas. II.
Baldwin to receive a snuff box set in diamonds
from the czar of Russia, and it was passed
THE DIPLOMATIC BILL.
MIR. Hale presented the conference report on
the diplomatic and consular appropriation bill,
which was agreed to after a statement by Mr..
Hale in reply to question of Mr.. Sherman's)
that the appropriation of half million for the
protection OF American interests in Samoa was
retained, and that the appropriation of $780,
OOO for coallng station at Pago Pago had been
transferred to the naval appropriation bill,
which had passed the Senate yesterday. 9th
erwise there were no substantial changes in the
diplomatic BILL
The House bill granting to the St. Paul,
Minneapolis and Manitoba railway company
right OF way through the White Earth Indian
reservation in Minnesota, was reported and
passed with one formal amendment ON which
a conference was asked.
PENSION FOR MRS. GEN. HUNT.
Mr.. Henderson introduced a bill giving
pension of 500 month to Mrs. Mary B. Hunt,
widow of Gen. Hunt. Referred.
NOTIFICATION OF THE COUNT NOT NECESSARY
On motion of Mr.. Hoar, it was ordered that
at five minutes before to-day the Senate shall
leave its chamber and proceed to the hall of
the House of Representatives, there to take
part in the proceedings for the ascertainment
and counting of the electoral vote. ques-
ton had been raised by Mr.. Sherman
as to the omission of the usual notification from
the House. but that was accounted for by Mr..
Hoar on the ground that now, for the first
time, the proceedings were provided for by
statute, SO that notification was unnecessary.
The Senate bill for the ascertainment of the
amount ofmoney expended and the obligations
assumed, by the state of California, growing
out of Indian hostlities was. on motion of Mr..
Stewart, taken from the calendar and passed.
DEPARTURE OF THE SENATE TO THE HOUSE HALL.
In accordance with the terms of a concurrent
resolution adopted some time ago for the
counting of the votes of the presidential cleo
toral college at o'clock to-day the Senator's
at five minutes before that time arrived. formed
In body in the Senate chamber and marched
over to the House of Representatives, where
the vote was ordered to be counted. As the
hour of O'Clock began to draw near President
ingalls, displayed more than usual expedition
In disposing of morning business, and the last
committee report having been received, he at
1855 announced 1.-The time has arrived for the
execution of the order of the Senate Sergeant
alarms Canaday, at this announcement, took
his station at the main entrance to the
Senate chamber, and the Senators quick
ly formed in line, and, headed by
Mr.. Canaday and the venerable Captain
DdSSett DldTcHeu IN OOuDie HE tlrOugl the
principal corridor to the House of Represen-
tatives, and Senator Ingalls, by virtue of his
office of President of the Senate, walked ahead
of his colleagues. but with this exception there
was no order observed, and each Senator fell
in line wherever he saw an opportunity. The
rear of the line was brought up by Senators
Chandler, Wilson, of Iowa, ex-senator Ferry
of Michigan. and several of the principal
clerks of the Senate. A squad of capitol police
men was stationed just outside the Senate
chamber. and kept back the crowd until after
the procession had moved toward the House.
House of Representatives.
President Cleveland's contribution to the
ceremony OF ofcounting in his successor to-day was
a pension veto message, which was read at the
clerks desk in the House before the Senators
arrived to take part in the count This char
act caused much comment on the
part of members on the floor 1t was l o'clock
when the Senator's headed by President pro
tenn Ingalls,. marched into the House. The au-
dience for the ceremony was long time ahead
of him. All the galleries of the House except
when the House met at IL o'clock, and the
people had been struggling at the
doors sometime before that. By good
on the part of the doorkeepers
people were seated, as long as there were seats
to be had, without confusion, except that of
of the House there was comparative quiet, but
during the rest of the time until the Joint ses-
sion was assembled and Mr.. Ingalls, held the
gavel, several thousand voices were impelled
by several thousand tongues into a perpetual
prattle. The big sofas and chairs from the
lobby we're placed in front of the Speakers
desk and all other available space was oc-
cupied by chairs. Aresolution was adopted
ADMITTING LADIES TO THE FLOOR,
and soon many gay bonnets added color to the
picture spread before the galleries. The gal
lantry of members was taxed when ladies began
standing up about the aisles. When a woman
fixed her eye on a seat and looked very hard
the congressional occupant was much hardened
if he did not grow nervous and finally give it
up. The corridors in the rear of the galleries
wese thronged with sight-seers, who were
contented II by rising on their tip-toes
they could glance over the shoulders
of the more fortunate persons who
had secured a foot-hold in the door-ways
At quarter before II the assistant doorkeeper
requested all persons not entitled to the privi-
leges of the floor to retire, and the crowd in
the corridors was augmented by number of
stragglers who had been lolling back in the
seats of members lazily surveying the sur
roundings. Beside the Speakers chair was
placed one for Senator Ingalls,, who, as presid-
the joint assembly. and in the area in front of
the clerks desk were placed a number of
richly upholstered chairs and lounges for the
accommodation of the Senators.
THE cHAPLAIss PRAYER.
At noon the Speakers gavel hushed the hum
of conversation and the chaplain made the
following invocation: God of our Fathers, as
the Senate and the representatives of the peo-
pie will presently assemble in Congress to an
nounce and record, according to prescribed
form, that Benjamin Harrison and Levi Perry
Morton have been chosen by the suffrages Of
their fellow-citizens to the offices of President
and Vice-President of the United States, we
humbly and devoutly pray that Thou wilt have
them and their families in Thy sacred care
Guard them from all peril and danger and pro-
long their lives, grant them health and peace
and everlasting blessings. Standing as we do
on the threshold of the second century
of our national history, when the
brains of the masses of men are touched by a
finer intelligence, and possessed by more sem
sitive feeling. when mans monarchy in nature
and the masterdom of its laws and energies are
enlarging. when industry and inventive skill,
the means OF transportation and communica-
ton are increasing, when populations all are
enlarging, and men are coming closer
together and questions, civil social,
and spiritual are being agitated,
as they never were before in this time of uni
versal ferment and agitation. Thy servant,
the President-elect, has been called by his
fellow-citizens to one of the most solemn and
honorable posts to which a man could be sum-
moned to bear the sword 70 guard the Trea-