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CONGRESS, UNITED STATKS. 



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 Kiu. l!, Lowe, Nortey, Ha 

 Prc. 



Hltnan, Hooper, Houghton, 

 Horn W. I'.rkcr. : 



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rood, 810M, Bnydur, Sutherland; Swaun, Sy^lu-r, 

 Tbotuu, UwufUtTownaend, 



Twiohell, Walls, William* of New York, Jeremiah 

 M. Wilion, and Young 7. 



80 (two-thirds voting in favor thereof) the 

 rale* were suspended; and the amendments of 

 the Senate were concurred in, and the bill was 

 subsequently passed. 



On February 12th, tho Senate at 1 p. n. 

 proceeded to the House of Representatives for 

 the purpose of counting the electoral vote tor 

 President and Vice- President of the United 



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The Vice-President took his scat as Pre- 

 siding Officer of tho joint convention of the 

 two Houses, the Speaker occupying a chair on 

 the left of the Vloe-Preddent. 



Senator Sherman, of Ohio, the teller ap- 

 pointed on the part of the Senate, and Messrs. 

 Dawes, of Massachusetts, and Beck, of 

 Kentucky, the two tellers appointed on the 

 part of the House, took their seats at the 

 Clerk's desk, at which the Secretary of the 

 Senate and Clerk of the House also occupied 



The Vice-President : "Tho Senate and 

 Home of Representatives having met under 

 the provisions of tho Constitution for the pur- 

 pose of opening, determining, and declaring 

 the vote* cart for President and Vice-President 

 of the United States for the term of four years 

 commencing on the 4th of March next, and it 

 being my duty, in the presence of both Houses 

 thus convened, to open the votes, I now pro- 

 ceed to discharge that duty." 



The Vicc-Presid. iit then proceeded to open 

 and hand to the tellers the votes of the several 

 State* for President and Vice- 1 'resident of tho 

 1'nited States, commencing with the State of 



Senator Trim, Lull, of Illinois : " I think tho 

 Governor's certificate should be read as the 

 evidence of the election of the electors." 



The VIce-PrMident: "The tellers will re- 

 port the certificate." 



Senator Sherman (as one of tho tellers) 

 read the certificate of the Governor of 

 Maine. 



Senator Trnmhull said: "I wonld inquire 

 if that certificate bears the signature of tho 

 Executive of the State of Maine? " 



,t..r MxTmari : I lie signature of Syd- 

 ney Perham, a* Governor. i in the centre of 

 the paper, tin'! ' *<-al of tho state. 



Senator Tninihull : "It ii not mn< 

 white it is, If the signature of the Executive 

 is there." 



The Vice-Prwidont: "The chair will -.talc 

 that upon several occasions of the connting 

 of the electoral vote, after the first certiti- 

 rate had been read In full, the reading in full 

 of tho subsequent certificates has been dis- 



pensed with by general consent, unless some 



T or Kcpreseiitative in a particular case 

 called tor the reading of the entire certilicate. 

 ll no person objects, tlierel'ore. the tellers will 

 report the material part of tho subsequent cer- 

 tificates, subject, however, to the demand of 

 any Senator or Representative that the docu- 

 ment shall be read in full." 



The tellers proceeded to announce the elec- 

 toral votes of the several States, it 

 mentioned in each case that the certificate \ 

 the election of the electors was signed by the 

 (iovernorand countersigned by the Secretary 

 of State. When the State of Georgia was 

 reached 



Mr. Beck, of Kentucky (one of the tell- 

 ers), announced tho electoral vote for Presi- 

 dent as follows : 



B. Gratz Brown, of Missouri, six votes; Horace 

 Greeley, of New York, three votes ; Charles J. Jen- 

 kins, o'f Georgia, two votes. 



The vote for Vice- President was announced, 

 as follows: 



B. Gratz Brown, of Missouri, five votes ; Alfred 

 II. .Colquit, of Georgia, five votes; Nathaniel P. 

 Banks, of Massachusetts, one vote. 



Mr. Hoar, of Massachusetts, said : " I desire 

 to make the point that tho three votes re- 

 ported by the tellers as having been cast fur 

 Horace Greeley, of New York, cannot bo 

 counted, because the person for whom they 

 purport to have been cast was dead at the 

 time of the assembling of the electors in that 

 State," 



Tho Vice-President : " The gentleman from 

 Massachusetts (Mr. Hoar) having made the 

 point which has been stated by him, the 

 Chair will read from the twenty-second joint 

 rule of the two Houses : " 



If, upon the reading of anv such certified 

 the tellers, any question- shall arise in regir 

 counting the votes therein certified, the same having 

 been stated by the Presiding Officer, the Somite shall 

 thereupon withdraw, and said question shall be 

 submitted to that body for its decision ; and thu 

 Speaker of the House of Kcprenentatives shall in 

 like manner submit said question to the Ho 



-cntatives for its decision ; and no question 

 shall be decided affirmatively, and no vote ol j 

 to shall bo counted, except DJT the concurrent 

 of tho two Houses, which bcinn ciht:iiiuu, l) 

 Houses shall immediately reassemble, ami the Pre- 

 siding Officer shall then announce the decision of the 

 question submitted; and upon any such qm 

 there shall lie no debate in cither House. And any 

 other question pertinent toth."H <t ti>r which the 

 two House* are assembled may be submitted and 

 determined in like manner. 



Tho Vice-President: "If there is no ob- 

 jection, tho gentleman from Massiu hi 

 will bo understood as reserving the point 

 which he has made, to be presented at the 

 close of the counting, or whenever the two 

 Houses may lie required tinder tho rule to 

 meet in their r< ' Cambers. Will that 



suit the gentleman from Massachusetts ? " 

 Mr. llonr: " I have no objection." 

 Tho tellers resumed the reading of tho ccr- 



