Morning journal and courier., 1889-02-14
THE ELECTORAL VOTE IA TabuIated Result Of The Vote Counted In Congress. EARTHQUAKE IN COSTA RIGA. Le Caron Denounced As A Coward And Mutineer. 4 JACK THE RIPPER IN CHICAGO. Elliott Gets The Contested
 Seat In The House.
A JACK THE RIPPER IN CHICAGO.
THE ELECTORAL VOTE.

Counting she Vete in Congress-Be.
 tails of the Proceedfngs-The Result
 Tabulated.
 WASHINGTON, Feb 13.-The floor of the House was arranged in the usual manner. Extra chairs were placed in all vacant spaces for the diplomatic corps and for such other distinguished persons as were to be admitted. In accordance with the customary chivalry the families of the members were admitted to the floor. The electoral vote is literally counted in & convention of the people.
 The gavel fell in the House at noon. The chaplain remembered Benjamin Harrison and Levi P. Morton by name, and invoked divine
 blessings upon them, and prayed that they may be preserved from harm and kept in health.
 Beside the speakers chair was placed one for Senator Ingalls,, who presided over the
 joint assembly. The journal having been read and approved, the speaker laid before
 the House three messages from the President
 announcing his disapprovaI of private pen sion bills. The messages were referred to
 the committee on invalid pensions, after an
 unsuccessful effort on the part of Ar. Steele
 Qnd.) to have them referred to the committee
 on pensions. At five minutes before 1 the
 legislative proceedings were suspended, and
 few moments afterwards the Senate was
 announced, and the Senators, headed by
 officers, filed into the chamber. Senator In-
 gals leaned on the arm of Secretary McCook,
 and Captain Bassett carried the box contain
 ing the returns from the electoral colleges.
 The representatives remained standing until
 the Senators had taken the seats assigned
 them, and then Senator Ingalls,, seated on
 the right hand of the speaker, called the
 joint assembly to order, and said:
 This being the day and the hour appointed for opening the certificates and counting the votes of electors for President, the Senate and House of Representatives have met to- gether pursuant to the Constitution and the laws of the United States. If there be no objection to the electoral vote of the State of Alabama the certificate will be read by the tellers, who will make list of the votes thereof.
 The presiding officer then broke the seal of the certificate from Alabama and handed it to Senator Henderson, one of the tellers, who read the document in a clear voice. It was ernor of Alabama, certifying to the election of the electors therein named. Its reading consumed seventeen minutes.
 The certificate from the State of Arkansas was handed to Senator Harris and he read that portion Of it which certifes that the seven votes of that State were cast for Cleve- land and Thurman. laugh ran through CQ0 6sSeuOly "ncu OouaGOE hdTrls 8uuOuuceO that s'Jeff Davis (one of the electors) gave one vote for Grover Cleveland" At the suggestion of Senator Edmunds the work of the tellers was frightened by dispens- l ing with the reading of any part of the cer- tiGcate and requiring them, after careful ex- animation, merely to state the manner in which the votes had been cast. The certif- cates from California and Connecticut were thus disposed of.
 The certificate from Delaware was read and the presiding officer asked: 'tIs there objection to. the electoral vote of the State of Delawarea" There being none, the count was proceeded with. A smile ran over the assembly when by slip of the tongue MT. Ermentrous announced that the electors of Florida had cast four votes for Levi P. Mor- ton for vice president.
 The smile broadened into hearty laugh when a few moments afterwards Senator Harris, by a similar error, gave the electoral vote of Indiana to Grover Cleveland. The count was completed in due order, and Harrison and Morton were declared elected President and Vice President.
 The vote as tsbulated was as follows: