Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-02-14
AT WASHING ION.
The Count Of the Electoral
Vote Concluded.
EyARTs ON ELECTION REFORM.
A Regular Bear-Garden Scene in the
House Over the Smalls-ElliOtt
Contest.
| Associated Press DISPATCHES to the HERALD.

port on the Diplomatic and Consular Ap- |
bill. Agreed to, after a
statement by Hale lin reply to a ques-
ton of Sherman's) that the appropriation
of half million for the protection OF
American interests in Samoa was re-
tanned, and that the appropriation OF
500 900 for a coaling station at Pago-
Pago had been transferred to the Naval
Appropriation bill, which passed the
Senate yesterday.
The Senate bill for ascertainment OF
the amount of money expended and OBJ
legations assumed by California growing
out of Indian hostilities, was, on motion
OF Stewart, taken from the calendar and
passed.
The Senate then proceeded to the
House to assist in counting the electoral
vote.
WASHINGTON, February 13.-The SEN
ate returned to it's own chamber at 2 :25,
when Manderson, on behalf of the SEN
ate tellers reported the result of the
counting and the ascertaining of the
electoral votes for President and and
Vice-President of the United States.
The report was ordered entered at length
on the Journal.
A resolution reported from the Com
mittee on Elections and Privileges that
the committee revise the existing law
regulating the election of Members of
Congress, was taken up and Evarts spoke
in its support. After carefully going over
the case and reading petitions, ETC.,
Evarts said the great question came at
last to be whether there was 10 be toler.
ated in this country an authority and a
persistent power that was to set aside
| the government of the constitution and
of the laws. If there should prove to be
an irreconcilable conflict between public
opinion in Texas, or in New York, and
public opinion in the country at large,
his opinion was that the opinion of the
whole country must finally prevail.
Coke obtained the floor and the Senate
adjourned.
THE HOUSE.
WASHINGTON, February 13.-The Cham.
| ber of the House presented lively scene
this morning. Though nothing of a SEN
sational character was expected, the gal
leries were filled an hour before noon by
a crowd of spectators eager to witness
the ceremonies attending the counting oi
| the electoral vote. Ladies were in a large
majority.
Many ladies were upon the fool
pleading with the members for passes
to the already overfowing galleries
Beside the Speakers chair was placed
one for Senator Ingalls,, who, as pre-.
siding officer of the Senate, was to pre-
side over the joint assembly. At noon
| the Speakers gavel hushed the hum OF
conversation and the chaplain made an
appropriate prayer.
After routine business at o'clock the
legislative proceedings were suspended
and the Senators filed into the cham
ber. Captain Bassett carried a box
containing the returns from the Elec-
toral College. The Representatives re-
NAMED standing until the Senators had
taken their seats, then Senator Ingalls,,
seated on the right hand of the
Speaker, called the joint assembly
10 order and stated the business be-
fore it.
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. 1t
was in due form, and showed the ten
| electoral votes of Alabama had been cast
for Clevel and and Thurman. The GER
tifcate gave in minute detail the pro-
ceedings of the meeting OF electors in
Montgomery. 1t contained the ballots
cast by each elector for President and
Vice-President. 1t was accompanied by
a 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 tellers, af.
ter inspection, merely announced the
result in each State.
Oregon having been reached, the
presiding officer said: "The Presi-
dent of the Senate has received two
certificates and two other papers pur-
porting to be certificates from the
State 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 authenti-
Gated by the certificate OF the electors,
certified by the Governor of the State of
Oregon to have been duly appointed in
such State, as appears in the copy of such
certificate transmitted to the two houses
"a OOhSiC Coo Wy tAC OcCIOGdTy Ol oCdL0.
Another pause, and Senator Mander-
son said "The tellers have examined
the different certificates presented to
them, and find but one in duplicate certi-
fed to by the Governor of the State of
Oregon. Over great deal of that State
it seems to be in due form, and it ap-
pears that Benjamin Harrison, of In
diana, received three votes for Vice
President" There was no objection to
the vote being so counted, and the read
ing of returns was completed and footed
without further incident. The presid ding
officer, upon receiving the result, said:
1.-The votes for President of the United
States as delivered to the President of
the Senate is as follows: Whole number
of electors appointed to vote for President
of the United States, 401, of which a
majority is POL. Benjamin Harrison, of
the State of Indiana. received for Presi-
dent of the United States 233 votes, and
Grover Cleveland, of the State of New
York, received 168 votes" In like man.
ner, and with the same majority. the
election of Levi P. Morton, of New York,
to be Vice-P President was declared, and
both were directed to be entered in the
journals of the Senate and House. The
Joint session was then dissolved and the
House resumed consideration of the
Smalls-Elliott contested election case. |
Hemphill spoke at great length and in
a sarcastic vein: He said that all this
talk ahoilt the unfair a1action lou 1f |