St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-02-09
COUNTED The VOTE.
Official Canvass Of the EleetO-
raj Ballots by the Con-
gPaSS.
The Solemn Ceremony Per-
formed in the House Of
Representatives.
Grover Cleveland Declared
Elected President OF the
United States.
Result by States as Entered
on the Journals Of Both
Houses.


Houses.
WASHINGTON, Feb. s. - Immense
crowds were drawn to the capitol to day
by the merely formal ceremonies incl
dent to the official counting of the cleo
toral vote. 1t was an undress rehearsal
of inauguration. The bright sunshine
and bracing breeze which marked the
day were boldly claimed as "CleValand
weather." Inauguration visitors are
already focking into the city, though
there was little in the actual proceed
lngs to call out any excitement The
ceremonies attending the counting of
the vote are prescribed by joint reSo-
luton reported III 1883, and which has
been Incorporated in the supplement-
airy revised statutes. 1t provides that
the two houses of congress shall assem-
bic in the hall of the house of repre-
sentativeS on certain Wednesday III
February, which this year falls on the
Sth, at o'clock D. IN. The president of
the senate is fixed to be the presiding
officer; two persons are tellerS on the
part of the senate and two on the part
of the house. Vice President Morton
some DAYS since appointed as tellers Oh
behalf of the senate for this impOrtan
ceremony Mr.. Hale. of Maine, and Mr..
Blackburn. of Kentucky. Speaker
Crisp appointed Judge Chapman, of
Michigan. and Henry Ca bot Lodge, of
Massachusetts. house tellerS.
The Actual Ceremonies
were nearly the same today as four
years ago, with slight difference in
personnel. There was the ceremOniouS
opening of the safe i'll the vice preSl-
dents room, and the taking out of the
lightweight sealed packages, supposed
to represent the votes of the fOrty-four
states as received in duplicate by mail
and messengers: there was solemn pro-
ceSsion in goose step' OF old Capt.
Bassett, vino has participated in every
presidential count for more than sixty
years, escorted by sQuadeof capitol po-
lice to prevent d raid being made upon
the precious locked boxes containing
the votes. This was a precautlon orig
mating in the fears of Acting Vice
President Ferry in the troublouS times
of the disputed count of 1877, and it has
been since kept up. The boxes (Which,
by the way, were this year entirely new,
their predecessors in the service having
been carried away by eXPresdent Pro
TEN ingalls, as mementOs) having been
safely deposited in the house. promptly
at o'clock the senate, headed by the
vice president, Levi p. Morton, entered
the hall of the house. The vice presi-
dent took tine seat of honor at the right
of the speaker, and, having called the
Joint assemblage to order, proceeded
formally to open one OF the boxes In
which were contained the returns OF
the electors of the various states.
The First Return
that of Alabama-was handed to Sena-
tor Hale, one of the tellerS, who in a
low but distinct voice reading the state
ment showing that the eleven botes of
that state had been cast for Cleveland
and Stevenson. The certificates were
presented without formal reading, the
tellers merely stating the result. There
was utmost dignity preserved until
Teller Blackburn ammo nced that the
votes for Cleveland and Stevenson.
Then few of the spectators broke into
applause, which was promptly checked
by the president, who in few dignified
words called upon the spectators not
to disturb the decOrum which ought to
characterize the great national trans
action which was now proceeding i'll the
presence of the great American people.
The electoral count was completed and
announced almost without incident.
The entire ceremony did not occupy
more than an hour, and there was not
the slightest hitch in the proceedings.
Grover Cleveland and Adlai E. Steven
son were declared respectively presi-
dent-elect and vice president-elect, and
then the senate returned TO its chamber.
The totals announced by the vice
president we're: Cleveland and Steven
son, 277; Harrison and Reid, 145;
Weaver and Field, %.
The senate returned to its chamber at
2:1O aud the vice president made state
ment of the votes for president and vice
president of the United States and said
| that that announcement of the state of
the vote by the president of the senate
was by law a sufficient declaration that
/ Grover Cleveland, OF the state of New
York, was elected president OF the
| United States, and that Adlai E. Seven
son, of the state of Illinois. was elected
vice president of the United States.
each for the term beginning March 4,
1898, and that the fact would be entered
together with list of the votes ON the
| journal of the senate. The formal an
nouncement of the result by states
spread upon the journal was as follows:
Fine Vote in HetaiI