Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1893-02-16
CANVASS OF THE VOTES
Concl ess Formally Declares Gle Velard .,
ise President elect.

JAN ADO VI LIE NUIEN,
Cong, ess Formally Declares Cleveland,
ise President-eiect.
WASHINGTON ID. e., Feb. Sim.
mense crowds were drawn to the can-
toll to-day by the merely formal cere.
monies incident to the official count-
ing of the electoral vote. It was
an undress rehearsal of the in.
auguration. The bright sunshine
and bracing breezes " hich marked tha
day were boldly claimed as "Clevelapd
weather" Inauguration visitors oro
already hocking into the city, though
there was little in the actual proceed
ings to call out any excitement.
The ceremonies attending the count.
ing of the vote is prescribed by Joint
resolution reported in 1888, end
which has been incorporated in
the supplementary Revised Stat
utes. 1t provides that the two
houses of Congress shall assemble
in the hall of the House of Represen-
tatves on a certain Wednesday in Feb
ruary, which this year fell on the
9Th, at p. NJ. The President
is fixed to be the presiding
officer; two persons are tellers
on the part of Senate and two on the
part of the House. Vice President
Morton some days since appointed as
tellers on behalf of the Senate for this
important ceremony, Mr.. Hale, of
Maine, and Mr.. Blackburn, of Ken
lucky. Speaker Crisp appointed Judge
Chapman, of Michigan, and Henry
Cabot Lodge, of Massachusetts, as
House tellers.
The ceremonies were nearly the same
to-day as four years ago, with a slight
difference in personnel. This began
with the ceremonious opening of the
the taking out of the eighty
eight sealed packages, supposed
to represent the votes of the forty.
four states as received in duplicate by
mail and messenger. Then came the
solemn procession in goose step" of
old Capt. Bassett, who has partici-
pated IN every presidential count
for more than sixty years, es.
corted by squad of capitol police
to prevent raid being made upon the
precious locked boxes containing the
votes. This was precaution originat-
ing IN the fears of Acting Vice Presi-
dent Ferry, in the troublous
times of the disputed count in
1877. and it has been since
kept up. The boxes this year were en-
tirely new, their predecessors in the
service having been carried away bv
ex- President pro tenn Ingalls, as me-
men:os. The boxes having been safely
Il b., - hn
body, followed shortly before O'clock
The Vice President ascended the
Speakers platform and took his seat at
the right hand of Speaker Crisp, the
senators ranging themselves on
the right. Then the count
proceeded in the presence of
densely packed galleries and a
crowded floor. The tellers having as
certained that the certificates were i'll
the form and properly authenticated,
proceeded rapidly with the read
ing and ascertainment OF the re-
suit. After the last certificate
had been read and the results
footed up, the Vice President made
the customary announcement that uE-
der the law this was sufficient deCara-
ton that Grover Cleveland, ofthe state of
New York, was elected President of the
United States, and that Adlai Il. Steven
son was elected vice. president of the
United States, each term beginning
March 4, 1898; and that this result
would be entered, together with a list
of the votes, on the journals of the Sen.
ate and House of Representatives. The
joint session was then declared dis
solved, and the Senate withdrew, and
each house resumed business In Its
own chnmhar