Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-01-07
THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE
The Vote Will Be Counted
 Under a New Law.
THE WEEK IN SENATE AND HOUSE


 Upper House-NIr. Morton Granted the Privileges of the FIoor-The Deadlock in the ouse.
 WASHINGTON, Jan. 7-The electoral votes for president and vice president this year will be counted in new way and under a new law. On Feb. last year President Cleveland approved the bill providing for the change of method.
 Under the new law the presidential electors will meet in their respective states next Monday for the purpose of c.ecting the presi- dent and vice president But the result of that meeting will not be officially declared until the second Wednesday in February, when there will be a joint convention of the senate and house to receive the votes of the presidential electors, canvass them, and officially declare the names of the new presi- dent and vice president.
 Certificates of the result of the November election have been received by the secretary of the state from only portion of the gov ernors. From day to day, as they continue to reach the state department, Secretary Bayard will promptly transmit copies of them to congress. Tn. law also directs him to have a copy of each of the certificates pub ished in some newspap'r. The certificates which have been receiveI up to the present time have been published in one of the Washington newspapers Some of them are brief, compact documents and do not take up much space. The certificate bearing the signature of Governor Davl B. Hill, of New York, occupies nearly three pages of the newspaper in which the publication was made
 The same law which requires the governor to send this certificate to the secretary of ctofn n1c~ 1, copies of it to each of the candidates elected to the electoral college. These three copies he may deliver any time up to the day on which the presidential electors meet, the second Monday ill January.
 Section of the new law sets forth in de- tail the manner in which the electoral vote shall be finally counted
 Congress shall be in session on the second Wednesday in February succeeding every meet Ing of the electors. Tine senate and house of representatives shall meet in the house of repre- sentatives at the hour of o'clock in the after. noon of that day, and the president of the senate shall be their presiding officer Two telers shall be previously appointed on the part of the senate and two on the part of the house of representa- tyeS, to whom shall be handed, as they are opened by the president of the senate, all the certl1cates and papers purporting to be certifi. cateS of the electoral votes, which certificates and papers shall be opened, presented and acted
 
 ginning with the letter A; and said tellers having then read the same in the presence and hearing of the two houseS shall make list of the votes as they shall appear from the said certificates; and the votes having been ascertained and counted ln the manner and according to the rules in this act provided, the result of the same shall be delivered to the president of the senate who shall thereupon announce the state of the vote which announcement shall be doomed sufficient declaration of the persons, if any, elected presi. president Of he Tpita State together with list of the votes be entered upon the journals of the two houses
 THE SENATE AND THE TARIFF.
 The time ot the senate during the coming week will be devoted almost exclusively to the consideration of the tariff measure In fact no other business likely to provoke dis. cussion will be brought before that body un- til the vote on the tariff bill is taken, Jan, 2l. It is we'll understood that no amendment to the bill will be adopted without the sanction of the finance committee and that no amend. ment will be proposed by that committee unless it is known to be satisfactory to all of the Republican majority.
 SPECIAL HoNoRS TO MIR, MORTON.
 An amendment to the senate rules was adopted on Friday last giving to the presi- dent-elect and the vice president-elect the privileges of the floor. It is learned now that the reason for changing the rules was toglve the vice presidentelect an opportunity to study the rules of procedure of the senate so that he may be familiar with them when he is called upon to take the chair of the pre- siding officer. A member of the senate went to MT. Ingalls, last week and asked if MT Morton would De admitted to the floor of the senate in event he came to Washington dur ing this session of congress. Mir. Ingalls, re piled that under the rules he would not; haf rnr, T L the floor but for the fact that he had been senator and thus came under distinct rule Mir. Ingalls, said that the only way to obtain admittance to the floor for Mir. Morton would be to change the rules; and in aecordance with his suggestion the committee on rules reported the proposed change to the senate, which thereupon adopted it. So when MT. Morton comes to Washington in February, he will find no obstacle to a careful study of the senate rules of procedure
 THE HOUSE DEADLOCK
 The deadlock in the house is likely to con. tinue during the week unless some compro mise is effected
 MT. Reed will call up his resolution abolish. ing the call of states and territories on sus pension Mondays, the pending motion being demand for the previous question on the passage of the resolution Both sides seemed
 
 ness of any kind shall be transacted until the resolution is passed. The opponents of the resolution say it cannot pass this Congress They seem to be gaining strength. The fact that Mir. Randall and MT. Mills voted in committee against the resolution and that it was only adopted by Speaker Carliale voting with Messrs. Reed and Cannon is having much weight as the fight progresses in da, termiring the action of the Democrats who have heretofore been inclined to vote for the resolution. It has also leaked out that. MT. Carlisle voted for the resolution condition ally. It was the understanding in commit tee, so MT. Randall says, that if the resolu- tion when offered in the house should be met by determined obstructive tactics MT. Reed would withdraw it. It is intimated in high Democratic circles that it was upon this con. dition that Speaker Carlisle voted for it. MT. Reed has not as yet shown any dis position to withdraw it, and there is no reason to believe he will The matter is likely to block legislation this week.
 THE SAMOAN CONTROVERSY.
 Senator Frye, in referring to the Samoan trouble said that he thought it was now too late for the United States to interfere. He believed that Germany would soon proceed &N AA~-~z 1f