St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-02-14
TO MAKE 4 TRUE ELECTION
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Congress Meets in Joint Session and
Counts the Electoral Vote.
SEVERAL LUDICRoUS BREAKS
Benny and Levi Pull Through With q
Good Many Votes to
Spare.
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 13.-Long before
noon the crowd that was to witness the
counting of the electoral vote began to
gather at the capitol, and to fill the cor
ridors of the house wing. One O'Clock
was the hour fixed for the ceremony,
but at II 80 every seat in the galleries
was filled. Hardly more than 100 seats
had been left open to the public. The
rest had been reserved for the friends
and families of members. When all the
seats in the galleries were full the
crowd began to eneroach upon the floor
of the house. Extra seats had been
crowded behind the desks, and touches
had been placed in the space Immediate
ly in front of the speakers desk. The
buzz. of conversation drowned the
voices of the members who rose to pre-
sent reports, and the speaker pounded
the house to order again and again In
vain. The only galleries that were not
packed were the executive and the dip
lomatic galleries. The presidents
seat in the front row of the
executive gallery was empty, and
there were number of seats In the
diplomatic gallery that were not taken.
Mrs. Carlisle was in the speakers gal
lery, accompanied by Mrs. Steele, of
Indiana, Miss Steele and some other
friends. A few minutes before l
o'clock there was lull in the converse
ton, and the speaker took the oppor
tunity to announce the order that would
be observed in
SEATING THE SENATORS.
At 1858 o'clock Col. Canaday, ser
geant-at-armS of the senate, appeared
at the door of the house, his arm linked
in that of Jim Christie, acting assistant
doorkeeper of the senate. They
stopped while the assistant clerk OF the
house, standing in the center aisle, adj
dressed the chair and announced the
coming of the senate. AS the an
nouncement was made the members of
the house rose and remained standing
while the senatorial procession en-
tered. Behind Canaday and Christie
came the venerable Capt. Bas-
sett, assistant doOrkeeper of the
senate, bearing in either hand
big brown box. Behind Capt. Bassett
came the two special officers who have
for weeks stood guard over the room of
the president of the senate, where the
electoral votes have been deposited.
Then came President Of the Senate pro
tempOre John G. ingalls,, his arm linked
in that of Gen. Arson McCook, secre-
tary of the senate; then Senators Man
derson and Harris. and behind them,
two and two, the senators. A prOmi-
nent figure in the line was that OF eX-
Senator Ferry, Of Michigan. Almost
directly across the aisle from him as he
took his seat was
THE BUSHY WHITE HEAD
L iahn III, in,
son. The senators took seats on the
right of the speaker. Mr.. ingalls, was
escorted to the speakers desk, where
he took seat on the right of Mr.. Car
Isle, The big brown boxes were placed
on the desk in front of them and opened.
The tellers appointed by the two
houses, Senators Henderson and Har-
ris and Representatives Baker and
Ermentrout, took seats at the
clerks desk below. When the
joint assembly had come to order Sena-
tor ingalls, arose and announced in clear,
distinct tones that, this being the day
appointed for opening the certificates
and counting the electoral vote for pres
ident and vice president, the senate and
house had met together for that pur-
pose, pursuant to the laws OF the United
States. If there was no objection to the
state of Alabama it would be read and
the telers would count it. MIR. ingalls,
then opened the package and handed its
contents to Senator Henderson, who I'M
folded the papers and began to read the
certificate. At the same time the second
COW was handed to Representative
Ermentrout, who followed the reading
of Senator Henderson, and compared it
with the text before him. When the
reading of the certificate was concluded
the individual votes were read, and the
result
RECORDED BY THE TELLERS.
The electoral vote of Arkansas was
next presented. and was read by Sen
ator Harris. At the conclusion of the
reading, Senator Edmunds, wis had con-
suited with the presiding officer, arose
and asked unanimous consent that the
reading of the certificates be dispensed
with. No objection was made. and
thereafter the tellers simply announced
the results. Just before the announce
ment of the vote of Delaware, MIR. Cox
rose and called attention to clause in
the law of Feb. 8, 1887, providing that
the presiding officer should call for OBJ
jectioDs after the announcement OF
each vote. Several amusing errors were
made by the tellers in announcing the
votes. Mr.. ErmentrOut had the vote in
Delaware for vice president cast for
'Leyi Pho, Allen G. Thurman" an
announcement which was greeted with
laughter. Senator Henderson an
no,lnced that in Illinois Benjamin
Harrison and Levi p. Morton had
rece ived 'stwenty votes EACH" For
what?' said Senator Hoar, from his
seat in the front row, and senators
about him laughed quietly. When In
diana was reached Senator Harris took
the certificate in his hand and pro-
nounced in his peculiarly deliberate
way that the certificate appearing, to be
in good form. showed that Grover
Cleveland" There was shout of
laughter from the galleries and the
floor, and the
PROCEEDINGS WE'RE SUSPENDED
for fully a minute. At its conclusion
Senator Ingalls, arose and called atten-
ton briefly to the breach of dignity and
decorum, and expressed the hope that it
would not occur again. When the vote
of Oregon was reached, Senator ingalls,
announced there were too many papers
i'm the envelopes, aud the tellers accord
ingIy examined them. They reported
that there was but one in duplicate and
as that seemed to be in due form no OBJ
lection was made to it. When the vote
of Pennsylvania was announced, Sen
ator Edmunds arose and said: ut
seems to me that Pennsylvania has