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choosing our publfc officers, and in directing the 

 policy of the Government ? 



Lawlessness is not less such, but more, where it 

 usurps the functions of the peace officer and of the 

 courts. The frequent lynching of colored people ac- 

 cused of crime is without the excuse which has some- 

 times been urged by mobs for a failure to pursue the 

 appointed methods lor the punishment of crime, that 

 the accused have an undue influence over courts and 

 juries. Such acts are a reproach to the community 

 where they occur, and so far as they can be made 

 the subject of Federal jurisdiction the strongest re- 

 pressive legislation is demanded. A public senti- 

 ment that will sustain the officers of the law in 

 resisting mobs and in protecting accused persons in 

 their custody should be promoted by every possible 

 means. The officer who gives his life in the brave 

 discharge of this duty is worthy of special honor. No 

 lesson needs to be so urgently impressed upon our 

 people as this, that no worthy end or cause can be 

 promoted by lawlessness. 



This exhibit of the work of the Executive Depart- 

 ments is submitted to Congress and to the public in 

 the hope that there will be found in it a due sense of 

 responsibility and an earnest purpose to maintain the 

 national honor and to promote the happiness and 

 prosperity of all our people. And this brief exhibit 

 of the growth and prosperity of the country will give 

 us a level from which to note the increase or de- 

 cadence that new legislative policies may bring to us. 

 There is no reason why the national influence, power, 

 and prosperity should not observe the same rates of 

 increase that have characterized the past thirty years. 

 We carry the great impulse and increase of these 

 years into the future. There is no reason why in many 

 lines of production we should not surpass all other 

 nations as we have already done in some. There are 

 no near frontiers to our possible development. Re- 

 trogression would be a crime. BENJ. HAKBISON. 



EXECUTIVE MANSION, Dec. 6, 1891. 



Counting the Electoral Vote. The Senate 

 and the House of Representatives adopted the 

 following concurrent resolution in regard to the 

 counting of the electoral votes for President and 

 Vice-President : 



Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate 

 concurring), That the two Houses of Congress shall 

 assemble in the hall of the House of Representatives 

 on Wednesday, the 8th day of February, 1893, at 1 

 o'clock in the afternoon, 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 Senate and two on the part of the House 

 of Representatives, to make a list or the votes as they 

 shall DC declared ; that the result shall bo delivered 

 to the President 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 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 journals of 

 the two Houses. 



On the appointed day (Feb. 8, 1893) both 

 Houses of Congress met in joint session, Vice- 

 President Morton in the chair ; tellers were ap- 

 pointed, and the electoral certificates from the 

 several States were read without objection. The 

 following report of the result was made : 



The undersigned, Eugene Hale and Joseph C. S. 

 Blackburn, tellers on the part of the Senate, and J. 

 Logan Chipman and Henry Cabot .Lodge, tellers on 

 the part of the House of Representatives, report the 

 following as the result of the ascertainment and count- 

 ing of the electoral vote for President and Vice-Presi- 

 dent of the United States for the term beginning 

 March 4, 1893 : 



Vice-President Morton said : " The state of 

 the vote for President of the United States, as 

 delivered to the President of the Senate, is as 

 follows : 



" The whole number of the electors appointed 

 to vote for President of the United States is 444, 

 of which a majority is 228. 



" Grover Cleveland, of the State of New York, 

 has received for President of the United States 

 277 votes. 



" Benjamin Harrison, of the State of Indiana, 

 has received 145 votes ; and 



" James B. Weaver, of the State of Iowa, has 

 received 22 votes. 



' ; The state of the vote for Vice-President of 

 the United States, as delivered to the President 

 of the Senate, is as follows : 



" The whole number of the electors appointed 

 to vote for Vice-President of the United States 

 is 444, of which a majority is 223. 



" Adlai E. Stevenson, of the State of Illinois, 

 has received 277 votes. 



" Whitelaw Reid, of the State of New York, 

 has received 145 votes ; and 



" James G. Field, of the State of Virginia, has 

 received 22 votes. 



