The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-02-14
PRESIDENT AT LAST.
The Electoral Count Occupies
. the House.
DISCUSSING NEGRO VALUATION
A Warm Fight Over the Election
Contest of South Caralina-
Elliott Declared Elected.
HOUSE.

WASHINGTON, February 13.-The
chamber of the House presented q
lively scene this morning, though moth
ing of a sensational character was ex-
pected. The galleries were filed an
hour before noon by crowd Of spects-
tors eager to witness the ceremonies
attending the counting of tie electoral
vote.
THE LADIES PRAY FOB SEATS.
The ladies were in large mejority.
Many of the ladies upon the floor pleaded
with members for passes to the already
ovsrfowing galleries. Beside the
Speakers chair was placed one for Sen
ator Ingalls,, who, as presiding officer
of the Senate, was to preside over the
Joint assembly. At noon the Speakers
gavel hushed the hum of conversation
and the Chaplain made an appropriate
prayer.
COUNTING ELECTORAL VOTES.
After the routine business, at
O'Clock the legislative proceedings were
suspended, and the members of the
Senate headed by Senator ingalls, filed
into the chamber anu Captain Bassstt
carried the box containing the returns
from the electoral college.
the Representatives remained stand
ing until the Senators had taken seats.
Then Senator ingalls, seated on the right
hand of the speaker called the JOINT as
sembly to order and stated the business
before it.
ALABAMA's VOTE.
The presiding officer then broke the
seal of certificate from Alabama and
handed it to Senator Henderson, one
of telIers, who read the document. 1t
was in due form and showed that the
ten electoral votes Alabama had been
cast for Cleveland and Thurman. The
certificate gave in minute detail the
proceedings of the meeting of electors
In Montgomery, contained ballots cast
by each elector for President and Vice
President. 1t was accompanied by q
statement from the Governor of Ala
bama, certifying to the election of the
electors therein named. The reading
consumed seventeen minutes.
Thereafter the reading of the returns
was dispensed with and the telle1s.
result in each State. Oregon having
been reached, the presiding officer said:
AN OREGON INCIDENT.
1.-The president of the Senate has re-
ceiYed two certificates and two other
papers rurporting to be certificates
from the Stats of Oregon. As required
by law, he opens them all and delivers
them to the tellers. who will read. If
there be no objection, only that which
is authenticated by certificate of cleo
tors, certified by the Governor of the
State of Oregon, have been duly ap-
pointed in such State, as appears IN a
copy of such certificate which has been
transmitted to the two Houses of Con-
gress by the Secretary of State"
HARRISON GETS IT.
After Ser or Manierson and the tel
lers have examined the different Ger
tificates presented to them, they find
but one in duplicate certified by the
Governor of the State of Oregon. Over
a great deal of that State it seems to
be in due form, and by it it appears
that Benjamin Harrison of Indiana has
received three votes for President"
There being no objection to the vote
being so counted, the reading of the
returns was completed and footed with
out further incident.
ANNOUNCING THE WHOLE RESULT.
The presiding officer. upon receiving
the result, said: 1.-The vote for Presi-
dent of the United States. as delivered
to the president of the Senate, is as fol-
lows:
whole number of electors appointed
to vote for President of the United
States 401. of which a ajority of 201
are for Benjamin Harrison, of the
State of Indiana. who received for Pres
ident of the United states, 233; and
Grover Cleveland, of the state of New
York, receivek 168 votes"
LIKEWISE LEVI.
In like manner and with same major
ity, the election of Levi P. Morton, OF
New York, to be Vice President was de-
clared, and both were directed to be en-
tered in the journals of the Senate and
House.
THE sMALLs- ELLIOTT CASE,
The joint session then dissolved and
the House resumed consideration of the
Smalls.Elljott contested election case,
Representative Hemphill spoke at
great length and in sarcastic manner.
ALL this talk about unfair election law
in South Carolina, he said, was non-
sense. The people of South Carolina
believed the negro should have his
rights, but they did not believe he
should have all his rights and the white
mans too.
SAUCE FOR THE GOOSE.
If colored men were so dear
to the people of the north
as indicated by the speeches
of some of the gentlemen on this floor
why did not some of the northern
States elect a colored man to Congress
and make living exam pie OF his fitness
to make laws for the people There
were number Of States in the north
which Wouid not have q shadoy of a