Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-10
THE ORDER OF PROCEEDING

The clauses providing the method of
conducting the count at the joint session
are as follows:
That congress shall be in session on the sec
ond Wednesday in. February succeeding every
meeting of the electors The senate and house
of representatives shall meet in the hail OF the
house ofrepresentatives NJ the hour OF / o'clock
in the afternoon on that Gay, and the president
of the senate shall be their presiding officer. Two
tellers shall be previously appointed on the part
of the senate and two on the part of the house of
representatives, to whom shall be handed as
they are opened by the pre;1dent OF
papers supporting to be certificates OF
the electoral votes, which certificates and papers
i'll the alphabetical orders of the state beginning
with the letter A. and said tellers, having then
read the same in the presence and hearing of the
two houses, snail make f1st OF the votes as they
shall appear from the said certificates; 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 deliv-
cred to the president OF the senate who shall
tbereupon announce the state Of the vote, which
announcement shall be deemed a sufficient dec
laratIon of the persons, any, elected president
and vice. president of the United States and,
together with list of the votes, be entered the
journals OF the two houses. Upon such reading
of any such certificate or paper the president of
the senate shall call for objections if any. Every
objection shall be made in writing, and shall
state clearly and concisely, and without argu-
ments, the ground thereof, and shall be signed
by at least one senator and one member Of the
house of representatives before the same shall be
received. When all OBJECTIONS SO made TO any
vote or paper from state shall have been re-
ceived and read, the senate shall thereupOn
withdraw and such objections shall be
submitted to the senate for its decision
and the speaker of the house of representa-
tives shall, in like manner. submit such Objec-
tions to the house of representatives for its
decision, and no electoral vote or votes from
any state which shall have been regularly given
by electors whose appointment has been law
fully certified TO according to section of this
ar WI oh hut
shall be rejected, but the two houses concur
rently may reject the vote or votes when they
agree that such vote votes have not been so
regularly given by electors whose APP
pointnlent mas been so certified. If more
than return or paper purpOrt-
ing to be return from q state shall have been
received by the president of the senate, those
votes, and those only, shall be counted which
shall have been regularly given by the electors
who are shown by the determination mentioned
in section of this act to have been appointed,
if the determination in said section provided for
shall have been made, or by such successors or
substitutes, in case or vacancy IN the board of
electors so ascertained, as have been ap-
pointed to fill such vacancy in the mode
provided by the laws of the state, but
in case there shall arise the question which
of two or more such state authorities determn-
ing what electors have been appointed, as men
toned in section two of this act is the lawful
tribunal of such state, the votes regularly given
of those electors. and those only, OF such state
shall be counted whose title as electors the two
houses, acting separately, shall concurrentiy
decide is supported by the decision of such state
so authorized by its laws; and IN such case of
of more than one return or paper purporting to
be a return from q state, if there shall
have been no such determination OF
the question in the state aforesaid, then
those votes, and those only, shall be counted
which the two houses shall concurrently decide
were cast by lawfnl electors, appointed in
cordance with the laws of the state, unless the
two houses acting separately, shall concurrent
" decide such votes net to be the lawful votes of
the LEGALLY sppointed electors of such state But
If the two houses shall disagree in respect of the
counting of such votes, then and In that case,
the votes of the electors whose appointment
shall have been certified by the executive of the
state under the seal thereof, shall be counted
When the two houses have voted, they shall i'm
mediately again meet, ana the presiding officer
shall then announce the decision OF the questions
submitted No votes or papers from any other
state shall be acted upon until the objections pre-
viouslv made to the votes or papers from any
state shall have been finally disposed of.
That while the two houses shall be IN meeting
as provided in this act, the president of the SEN
debate shall be allowed and no question shall be
mt nv the prIsiding officer except to either house
on a motion 10 withdraw
That when the two houses separate to decide
unon an affection that may have been made TO
the counting of any electoral vote or votes from
any state or other question arising in the mat
ter each senator and representative NAV sneak
to such objection or question five minutes, and
not more than once; but after such debate shall
have lasted two hours It shall be the duty of the
presiCiine officer of each house to put the main
ouestior, Ehout further debate
THE IoIxT SESSION CONTINUOUS.
This joint session cannot be dis