228 



CONGRESS. (COUNTING THE ELEOTOBAL VOTE.) 



O'Hara, Charles O'Neill, Paige, Parker, Payne, Pay- 

 son, Perkins, Peters, Pettibone, Phelps, Poland, Post, 

 Potter, Pusey, Kandall, Kanney, Ossian Kay, T. B. 

 Eeed, Eiggs, W. E. Eobinson, Rockwell, W. F. Eog- 

 ers, Boweli, Kussell, Eyan, Seney, Seymour, C. E. 

 Skinner, Smalls, Snyder, Spooner, Spriggs, Steele, 

 Stephenson, Stevens, J. W. Stewart, Stone, Storm, 

 Strait, Struble, C. A. Sumner, Talbott, J. D. Taylor, 

 Thomas, Thompson, Tillman, Townshend, Tully, 

 Van Alstyne, Vance, Wadsworth, Wait, Wakefield, 

 Wallace, Ward, Washburn, Weaver, Wemple, J. D. 

 White, Mo White, Whiting, Wilkins, Willis, Wil- 

 son, John Winans, J. S. Wise, Worthington 198. 



NAYS Alexander, Ballentine, Barbour, Barksdale, 

 Belmont, Bennett, Blackburn, Blanchard, Blount, 

 Buchanan, Buckner, Cabell, Caldwell, Clay, Clem- 

 ents, Cobb, Cook, Cosgrove, Covington, W. E. Cox, 

 Crisp, D. B. Culberson, Davidson, L. H. Davis, Dib- 

 rell,' Dockery, Dowd, Eaton, Eldredge, Forney, 

 Geddes, Gibson, Green, Halsell, Hammond, W. H. 

 Hatch, Hemphill, G. W. Hewitt, Hill, J. H. Jones, 

 Lanham, McMillin. Matson, J. F. Miller, Mills, 

 Money, Muldrow, Neece, Gates, O'Ferrall, Patton, 

 Pierce, Price, Pryor, Eeagan, J. W. Eeid, Eeese, J. 

 H. Eogers, Bosecrans, SMvely, Singleton, T. G. 

 Skinner, A. Herr Smith, Charles Stewart, Stocksla- 

 ger, Swope, J. M. Taylor, Tucker, H. G. Turner, 

 Oscar Turner, Van Eaton, Eichard Warner, Well- 

 born, E. B. Winans, G. D. Wise, Wolford, Wood, 

 Woodward, Yaple 79. 



NOT VOTING Aiken, Arnot, Belford, Bland, Bow- 

 en, Boyle, Breitung, J. H. Brewer, Burleigh, Burnes, 

 Candler, Chalmers, Dixon, Dunn, Hardeman, Harmer, 

 Henley, Herbert, Holman, Hooper, Houk.J. T. Jones, 

 Ketcham, Lewis, Morrison, Morse, J. J. O'Neill Peel, 

 Eankin, G. W. Bay, Eice, Eobertson, J. S. Kobin- 

 son, Shaw, Slocum, H. Y. Smith, Springer, D. H. 

 Sumner, E. B. Taylor, Throckmorton, Valentine, A. 

 J. Warner, Weller, Williams, York, Young 46. 



So the bill was passed and immediately ap- 

 proved by the President, who, on the same 

 day, March 3, sent in to the Senate the nomi- 

 nation of " TJlysses S. Grant, formerly com- 

 manding the armies of the United States, to 

 be General on the retired list of the army with 

 the full pay of such rank." The nomination 

 was confirmed unanimously. 



Counting the Electoral Vote. Jan. 12, 1885, Mr. 

 Hoar, of Massachusetts, from the Committee 

 on Privileges and Elections, introduced in the 

 Senate the following resolution in regard to 

 counting the electoral votes : 



Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives 

 concurring), That the two houses of Congress shall 

 assemble in the hall of the House of Eepresentatives 

 the llth of February, 1885, at twelve o'clock noon, 

 pursuant to the requirement of the Constitution and 

 laws relating to the election of President and Vice- 

 President of the United States, and the President of 

 the Senate shall be the presiding officer ; that two 

 persons be appointed tellers on the part of the Sen- 

 ate, and two on the part of the House of Representa- 

 tives, to make a list of the votes as they shall be de- 

 clared ; that the result shall be delivered to the Presi- 

 dent of the Senate, who shall announce the state of 

 the vote and the persons elected to the two houses 

 assembled as aforesaid, which shall be deemed a dec- 

 laration of the persons elected President and Vice- 

 President of the United States, and, together with a 

 list of the votes, be entered on the journals of the two 

 houses. 



" Jan. 28, Mr. Clay, of Kentucky, introduced 

 in the House the following resolution on the 

 same subject : 



Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate 

 concurnna}. That the two houses of Congress shall 



assemble in the hall of the House of Eepresentatives 

 at twelve o'clock noon on the llth day of February, 

 1885, pursuant to the requirements of the Constitu- 

 tion and laws relating to the election of President 

 and Vice-President of the United States, and the 

 President of the Senate shall be the presiding 

 officer. 



That one person be appointed teller on the part of 

 the Senate, and two persons appointed tellers on the 

 part of the House ot Representatives, to make a list 

 of the votes as they shall be declared. 



That the result shall be delivered to the President 

 of the Senate, who shall announce the state of the 

 vote and the persons elected to the two houses assem- 

 bled as aforesaid, which shall be deemed a declaration 

 of the persons elected President and Vice-President 

 of the United States, and, together with a list of the 

 votes, be entered on the journal of the two houses. 



Jan. 29, this resolution passed the House, 

 and Jan. 30 it passed the Senate, with an 

 amendment providing for two tellers from the 

 Senate. This amendment was made on the 

 ground that it had been the uniform practice 

 since the organization of the Government to 

 appoint two tellers on the part of the Senate. 

 The House concurred in the amendment, but 

 Mr. Eaton, of Connecticut, in making the mo- 

 tion to agree to it, said : " I am compelled to 

 say that the Senate has not examined the mat- 

 ter thoroughly. There have been, up to 1868, 

 but two instances where there were two tellers 

 on the part of the Senate. Always, with two 

 exceptions, there has been but one teller on 

 the part of the Senate, with two on the part 

 of the House. But it is a matter of no signifi- 

 cance whatever." 



In the Senate, Mr. Hoar, of Massachusetts, 

 and Mr. Pendleton, of Ohio, were appointed 

 tellers, and in the House Mr. Clay, of Ken- 

 tucky, and Mr. Keifer, of Ohio. On the ap- 

 pointed day, and at the hour set, the Senate 

 entered the hall of the House of Representa- 

 tives, preceded by its Sergeant-at-Arms, and 

 headed by the President pro tempore of the Sen- 

 ate and the Secretary of that body, the officers 

 and members of the House rising to receive 

 them. Mr. Edmunds, of Vermont, President 

 of the Senate, took his seat as presiding officer ' 

 of the joint convention, with Mr. Blackburn, 

 of Kentucky, Speaker pro tempore of the 

 House, at his left hand, the tellers, the Secre- 

 tary of the Senate, and the Clerk of the House, 

 occupying the clerk's desk. Mr. Edmunds 

 said : 



" The two houses have met pursuant to the 

 Constitution and the laws, and their concurrent 

 resolution, for the purpose of executing the 

 duty required by the Constitution and the laws 

 in the matter of counting the electoral vote for 

 President and Vice-President, cast by the elect- 

 ors in the several States, for the term com- 

 mencing on the 4th of March, 1885. The 

 President of the Senate will open the votes of 

 the several States in their alphabetical order, 

 and now opens the certificates from the State 

 of Alabama, and hands to the chairman of the 

 tellers on the part of the Senate the certificate 

 of Alabama received by mail, and to the chair- 

 man of the tellers on the part of the House of 



