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CONGRESS, UNITED STATES (ELECTORAL COMMISSION). 



" Mr. Commissioner Abbott offered the following 

 as a substitute : 



" ' Resolved, That testimony tending to show that 

 the so-called returning board of Louisiana had no 

 jurisdiction to canvass the votes for electors of Presi- 

 dent and Vice-President is admissible.' 



'* The question being on the adoption of the sub- 

 stitute, it was determined in the negative yeas 7, 

 nays 8. 



" Those who voted in the affirmative were : Messrs. 

 Abbott, Bayard, Clifford, Field, Hunton, Payne, aud 

 Thurman 7. 



" Those who voted in the negative were: Messrs. 

 Bradley, Edmunds. Frelinghuysen, Garfield, Hoar, 

 Miller, Morton, and Strong 8. 



"Mr. Commissioner Abbott offered the following 

 as a substitute: 



'' ' Resolved, That evidence is admissible that the 

 statements and affidavits purporting to have been 

 made and forwarded to said returning board, in pur- 

 suance of the provisions of section 26 of the election 

 law of 1872, alleging riot, tumult, intimidation, and 

 violence at or near certain polls and in certain par- 

 ishes, were falsely fabricated and forged by certain 

 disreputable persons, under the direction and with 

 the knowledge of said returning board, and that said 

 returning board, knowing such statements and affi- 

 davits to be false and forged, and that none of the 

 said statements or affidavits were made in the man- 

 ner or form or within the time required by law, did 

 knowingly, willfully, and fraudulently fail and refuse 

 to canvass or compile more than ten thousand votes 

 lawfully cast, as is shown by the statements of votes 

 of the commissioners of election.' 



" The question being on the adoption of the sub- 

 stitute, it was decided in the negative yeas 7, nays 8. 



" Those who voted in the affirmative were : Messrs. 

 Abbott, Bayard, Clifford, Field, Hunton, Payne, and 

 Thurman 7. 



" Those who voted in the negative were : Messrs. 

 Bradley, Edmunds, Frelinghuysen, Garfield, Hoar, 

 Miller, Morton, and Strong 8. 



" Mr. Commissioner Hunton offered the follow- 

 ing as a substitute : 



" ' Resolved, That evidence be received to prove 

 that the votes cast and given at said election on the 

 7th of November last for the election of electors, as 

 shown by the returns made by the commissioners 

 of election from the several polls or voting-places 

 in said State, have never been compiled or canvassed, 

 and that the said returning board never even pre- 

 tended to compile or canvass the returns made by 

 said commissioners of election, but that the said 

 returning board only pretended to canvass the re- 

 turns made by such supervisors.' 



1 The question being on the adoption of the sub- 

 stitute, it was decided in the negative yeas 7, nays 8. 



" Those who voted in the affirmative were : Messrs. 

 Abbott, Bayard, Clifford, Field, Hunton, Payne, and 

 Thurman 7. 



" Those who voted in the nesative were : Messrs. 

 Bradley, Edmunds. Frelinghuysen, Garfield, Hoar, 

 Miller, Morton, and Strong 8. 



" Mr. Commissioner Bayard offered the follow- 

 ing as a substitute : 



r ' ' Resolved, That no person holding an office of 

 trust or profit under the United States is eligible to 

 be appointed an elector, and that this commission 

 will receive evidence tending to prove such ineligi- 

 bility as offered by counsel for objectors to Certifi- 

 cates 1 and 3. 



" The question being on the adoption of the sub- 

 stitute, it was decided in the negative yeas 7 

 navs 8. 



" Those who voted in the affirmative were : Messrs. 

 Abbott, Bayard, Clifford^Field, Hunton, Payne, and 

 Thurman 7. 



" Those who voted in the nesative were : Messrs 

 Bradley, Edmunds. Frelinghuysen, Garfield, Hoar, 

 Miller, Morton, and Strong 8. 



" The question then recurring on the adoption of 

 the order submitted by Mr. Commissioner Hoar, 



" Mr. Commissioner Payne moved to strike out 

 the word ' not.' 



" The question being on the adoption of the 

 amendment, it was determined in the negative 

 yeas 7, nays 8. 



" Those who voted in the affirmative were : Messrs. 

 Abbott, Bayard, Clifford, Field, Hunton, Payne, and 

 Thurman 7. 



" Those who voted in the negative were : Messrs. 

 Bradley, Edmunds. Frelinghuysen, Garfield, Hoar, 

 Miller, Morton, and Strong 8. 



" The question then recurred on the adoption of 

 the order submitted by Mr. Commissioner Hoar in 

 the following words : 



" ' Ordered, That the evidence offered be not re- 

 ceived.' 



" The question being on the adoption of the order, 

 it was determined in the affirmative yeas 8, nays 7. 



" Those who voted in the affirmative were : Messrs. 

 Bradley, Edmunds, Frelinghuysen, Garfield, Hoar, 

 Miller, Morton, and Strong 8. 



" Those who voted in the negative were : Messrs. 

 Abbott, Bayard, Clifford, Field, Hunton, Payne, and 

 Thurman 7." 



2. For that the said commission refused to receive 

 evidence offered, as in the annexed paper stated, or 

 any part of said evidence, and decided that the votes 

 mentioned in the certificates numbered 1 and 3 shall 

 be counted for Hayes and Wheeler, said evidence to 

 the contrary notwithstanding. 



W. H. BABNUM, Connec- 

 ticut. 



CHAS. W. JONES, Florida. 



F. KERNAN, New York. 



F. HEREFORD, West Vir- 

 ginia. 



H. COOPEB, Tennessee. 



L. V. BOGY, Missouri. 



WM. W. EATON, Connec- 

 ticut. 



S. B. MAXET, Texas. 



T. F. RANDOLPH, New 

 Jersey. 



R. E. WITHERS, Virginia. 



J. E. BAILEY, Tennessee. 



H. G. DAVIS, West Vir- 

 ginia. 



G. R. DENNIS, Maryland. 



G. GOLDTHWAITE, Alaba- 

 ma. 



A. S. MERRIMON, North 

 Carolina. 



T. M. NORWOOD, Georgia. 



T. C. McCsEERY, Ken- 

 tucky. 



J.E. MCDONALD, Indiana. 



LUCIEN L. AlNSWORTH, 



JOHN D. C. ATKINS, 

 JOHN C. BAGBY, 

 HENBY B. BANNING, 

 GEORGE M. BEEBE, 

 RICHARD P. BLAND, 

 JAMES H. BLOUNT, 

 ANDBEW R. BOONE, 

 TAUL BBADFORD, 

 JOHN M. BRIGHT, 

 JOHN YOUNG BROWN, 

 AYLETT H. BUCKNER, 

 GEORGE C. CABELL, 

 JOHN H. CALDWELL, 

 WILLIAM P. CALDWELL, 

 MILTON A. CANDLEB, 

 GEOBGE W. CATE, 

 BEBNABD G. CAULFIELD, 

 CHESTEB W. CHAPIN, 

 JOHN B. CLARKE, 

 JOHN B. CLARK, JR., 

 HIESTER CLYMEB, 

 ALEX. G. COCHBANE, 

 FRANCIS D. COLLINS, 

 PHILIP COOK. 

 JACOB P. COWAN, 

 SAMUEL S. Cox, 

 DAVID B. CULBERSON, 

 JOSEPH J. DAVIS, 

 REZIN A. DE BOLT, 

 GEORGE G. DIBEELL, 



Representatives. 



MILTON J. DURHAM, 

 JOHN R. EDEN, 

 ALBEBT G. EGBERT, 

 E. JOHN ELLIS, 

 ( "HAELES J. FAULKNER, 

 WILLIAM H. FELTON, 

 DAVID DUDLEY FIELD, 

 JESSE J. FINLEY, 

 WILLIAM H. FORNEY, 

 BENJAMIN J. FRANKLIN, 

 BENONI S. FULLER, 

 LUCIEN C. GAUSE, 

 RANDALL L. GIBSON, 

 JOHN M. GLOVER, 

 JOHN GOODE, JR., 

 JOHN R. GOODIN, 

 THOMAS M. GUNTER, 

 ANDREW H. HAMILTON, 

 ROBEBT HAMILTON, 

 AUG. A. HARDENBERGH, 

 HENBY R. HABRIS, 

 JOHN T. HARRIS, 

 CARTER H. HARRISON, 

 JULIAN HABTRIDGE, 

 WILLIAM HARTZELL, 

 ROBERT A. HATCHER, 

 ELI J. HENKLE, 

 ABRAM S. HEWITT, 

 GOLDSMITH W. HEWITT, 

 BENJAMIN H. HILL, 

 WILLIAM S. HOLMAN, 



