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HAKTWIXI., II A ItT t'OI'XTY, WA. i
ItXInoHIH) Morning;. Jnnnnr)' M. 1A77.
election or urArr. omcr.itn.
On Tuoday, 1 <ith instant, the Goncr
al Assembly elected the following State
officers: liAitsktt Was re-elected Secre
tary of State; Renfroi; was re-elected
Treasurer; Goldsmith, Comptroller-
General ; nml James I*. Harrison,
Printer for tho unexpired term.
They were, all elected by decided major
ities and amid great applause.
Wtif" The following telegram, address
ed jto S. B. Packard, New Orleans; 1).
11. Chamberlain, Columhia, S. and
lieu Martin, Tallahassee, Florida, has
come to light at Washington :
New York, Nov. 8, 1870.
We are now absolutely certain of 185
votes for llaykm if your State is safe,
and Tii.DjTN is sure of the rest. Can
yrtll certainly defeat all the Democratic
attempts by fraud, false counting or
brilmry to capture it. Answer when
sure. Z. Chandler.
*sr < lovernor Colquitt has ro-aj)-
pointed Logan E. Bleckley Judge of
the Supreme Court, Martin J. Craw
ford Judge of the Chattahoochee Cir
cuit, Cicero I). McCutchen Judge of
five Cherokee Circuit, and Cincinnati's
Beetle* Judge of the Atlanta Circuit.
They were all confirmed by the Senate.
These gentlemen are all appointees of
Governor Smith, and have made flue
reputations on the Bench.
t&T The General Assembly is grind
ing out tho meal of Retrenchment and
Reform. Good things, gentlemen, and
ns times are very hard and it stands ev
ery man in hand to be economical, we
would respectfully suggest that the sal
aries be out down so low as to make the
office one of honor, rather than a place
of profit. The number of office-seekers
would be no doubt considerably lessened.
JteT The rioters, who made an attack
upon the two young men nearLowndes
ville, S. C., in which Mr. Allen was
killed, are to suffer dearly for their out
lawlessuess. Twelve of them were put
upon trial at Abbeville, and ten were
found guilty of murder and two were
acquitted. They were sentenced to be
hung on Friday, the 20th of April next
Ha?" The Democrats have unearthed
some cf Zace Chandler's telegrams to
his Southern allies, and now, it is said,
he is not exactly certain whether Hayes
lias been bull-dozed into the Presidency,
or not. At least, Zacii is weakening.
.#,
Basr General Lonostrket stab's that
the whole Democratic State ticket in
Louisiana was elected. The General
has heretofore affiliated with the Repub
licans, and, of course, ought to know.
——
B&p- Nothing of special interest has
transpired in either South Carolina or
Louisiana. Everything is in statu quo.
Now is a very good time to re
solve to plant more corn, and loss cotton.
Hon. A. H. Stephens, it is well-known,
received his education through the aid of
some ladies who kindly loaned him the
money which he needed. lie paid it all
lmck with interest. Re has since educated
fifty young men in the same way; advanc
ing money for them, and they paying back
when they were able. Every cent thus ad
vanced has been returned to him. In this
way he has had the pleasure of doing
an immense amount of good at small cost.
Row little the ladies thought, when they
were aiding the poor and friendless lad
what gracious and far reaching results were
to come from their small benefaction. Is
it necessary to point out the moral ?
Tilt: HItENI DEVI'I AI. BIMTIOX.
Some time since both Houses of Con
gress appointed a Conference Committee
to take into consideration the Presiden
tial question, and report some plau by
which the difficulties might be sur-
mounted. Below will be found a sum
mary of the report of this Committee as
presented to both Houses on last 1 htirs
day, 18th instant, together with the bill
they rccommeud to be adopted, ihe
report was signed by every one of the
Committee except Senator Morton.
In their report submitted w ith the bill,
the Committee say they have applied tho
utmost practicable study and deliberation
to tho suhjoct, and Relievo that the kill re
ported is the best attainable disposition of
the difficult problems and disputed theories
arising out of the late election. They speak
of the difficulty of reaching a conclusion,
fiie report implies that legislation may be
had on tho subject in accordance with the
Constitution, but the Committee think that
the law proposed is inconsistent with the
lew principal theories upon the subject.
'l'lio bill is only directed to ascertaining,
for the purpose in aid of the counting, w hat
are the constitutional votes of the respec
tive States, and whatever jurisdiction ex
ists for such purpose the bill only regulates
the method of exercising it. For this the
Constitution gives warrant, and therefore
the law proposed is not inconsistent with
that instrument. The Committee regard it
as of far greater moment that the will of
the people should he law fully carried out
than the question of who shall be Presi
dent for a prescribed term. They, there
fore, endeavored to frame a fair and impar
tial measure. The legislature and judi
ciary are represented in the tribunal in
equal proportions. The composition of
the judicial part of the Commission looks
to a selection from different parts of the
Republic, (while it is thought to he free
from any preponderance or supposable bias)
as the addition of the necessary constituent
part of the whole. In order to obtain an
uneven number the commission is left to
an agency, the furthest removed from pre
judice of any existing attainable. It would
he difficult if not impossible, the Committee
think, to establish a tribunal that could he
less the subject of party criticism than
such a one. The Committee felt bound by
the highest duty to let no bias of party
feeling stand in the way of just, equal and
peaceful measures for extricating tho ques
tion from the embarrassments that at pres
ent surround it.
Tho Committee conclude as follows :
In conclusion, we respectfully beg leave
to impress upon Congress the necessity of
a speedy determination upon this subject.
It is impossible to estimate the national
loss the country daily sustains from the
existing state of uncertainty. It directly
and powerfully tends to unsettle and para
lyze business, to weaken public and private
credit, and to create apprehension in the
minds of the people that disturb the peace
ful tenor of their ways and mar their hap
piness. It does far, far more. It tends to
bring republican institutions into discredit,
and to create doubts of the success of our
form of government and of the perpetuity
of the Republic. All considerations of in
terest, of patriotism and of justice unite in
demanding of the law-making power a
measure that will bring peace and prosper
ity to the country, and show that our re
publican institutions are equal to any emer
gency, and in this connection we cannot re
frain from the expression of our satisfac
tion that your Committee, composed of
equal numbers of both parties, have for
tunately been able to do what has been at
tempted m vain heretofore—almost unani
mously agree upon a plan considered by
them all to be just, wise and efficient. We
accordingly recommend the proposed act
to the patriotic and just judgment of Con
gress.
[Signed.] Geo. F. Edmunds,
F. T. Fbklinghuyskn,
Roscok Conk lino,
A. G. Thukman,
T. F. Bayard.
L. A. Ransom,
of Senate Committee.
11. B. ‘Payne,
Efua llunton,
Wm. M. Springer.
Geo. \V\ McCkeery,
Geo. F. Hoar,
Geo. Willard,
of House Committee.
THE BILL.
Be it enacted , That the Senate and House
of Representatives shall meet in the hall of
the House of Representatives at the hour
of 10 o’clock, ante meridian, on the first
Thursday of February, A. !>., 1877 ; and
the President of the Senate shall he
their presiding officer. Two tellers shall
be previously appointed on the part of the
Senate and two on the part of tne House of
Representatives, to whom shall be handed,
as they are opened by the President of the
Senate, all the certificates and papers pur
porting to be certificates of the electoral
votes, which certificates and papers shall
be opened, presented and acted upon in the ;
alphabetical order of the States, beginning i
with the letter A, and said tellers having
then read tUw same in the presence and
hearing of the two Houses, shall make a
list of the votes as they shall appear from
the said certificates. On the votes having
been ascertained and counted as in this act
provided, the result of the same shall he
delivered to the President of the Senate,
who, shall thereupon announce the state of
the vote, and Abe names of the persons, if
any. elected, which announcement shall he
deemed a .sufficient declaration of the per
sons elected president and \ ice-Presidcnt
of the UuitcdHtates. and together with a
list of the viA he entered on the journals
of the two I looses. Upon such reading of
any such certificate or paper, where there
shall he only due return from a State, the
President of Senate shall call for ob
jections, if any. Kvery objection shall he
made in writing and shall state clearly and
concisely and without argument the ground
thereof, and shall be signed by at least one
Senator and one member of the House of
Representative* before the same shall he
received. When nil objections so made to
any vote or paper from a State shall lm\o
been received and read, the Senate shall
thereupon withdraw, and such objections
shall he submitted to the Senate for its de
cision, and tffi Speaker of the House of
Representatives shall in like manner sub
mit such objections to the House of Repre
sentatives for its decision, and no electoral
vote or votes from any State from which
hut one return has been received shall he
rejected except by the affirmative vote ot
the two Houses. When the two Houses
have voted, they shall immediately again
meet, and the presiding officer shall then
announce the decision of the question.
Sec. 2. That if more than one return or
paper purporting to he a return from u
State snail have been received by the Pres
ident of the SAiate. purporting to be the
certificates of electoral votes given at the
Inst preceding election for President and
Vice-President in such State, unless they
shall he duplicates of the same return, all
such returns and papers shall he opened by
him in the presence of the two Houses
when met as~aforcsaid. and read by the
tellers, and all such returns and papers
shall thereupon he submitted to the judg
ment and decision as to which is the true
and lawful electoral vote of such State, of
a commission constituted as follows, name
ly: During the session of each House on
the Tuesday next preceding the first Thurs
day in February, 1N77. each House shall by
a viva voce vote appoint live of its mem
bers, who. with the five Associate Justices
of the Supreme Court of the l nited States
to be ascertained as hereinafter provided,
shall constitute a commission for the de
cision of all questions upon or in respect
for such double returns named in this sec
tion. On the Tuesday next preceding the
first Thursday in February, Anno Domini,
1877. or as sodn thereafter as may be, the
Associate Justices of the Supreme Court
of the United States now assigned to the
first, third, eighth, and ninth circuits, shall
cleat Him
.snail deem fit, another of the Associate
.Judges of said Court, which five persons
shall he members of said commission, and
the person longest in commission of said
five Justices shall he the President of said
commission. The members of said com
mission shall respectively take and sub
scribe the following oath : “1 do solemnly
swear (or affirm as the case may he) that I
will impartially examine and consider all
questions submitted to the commission of
which I am a member, and a true judg
ment give thereof, agreeable to the Consti
tution and laws, so help me God"—which
oath shall he filed with the Secretary of the
Senate. When the commission shall have
been thus organized it shall not he in the
power of either House to dissolve the
same or to withdraw any ot its members,
hut if any such Senator or member shall
die or become physically unable to perform
the duties required by this act, the fact of
such death or physical inability shall he by
said commission, before it shall proceed
further, communicated to the Senate or
House of Representatives, as the case may
be, which body shall immediately and
without debate proceed by viva voce vote
to till the place so vacated, and the person
so appointed shall take and subscribe to
the oath hereinbefore prescribed, and be
come a member of said commission ; and
in like manner if any of said Justices of
the Supreme Court shall die or become
physically incapable of performing the du
ties required by this act, the other of said
Justices, members of the said commission,
shall immediately appoint another Justice
of said Court a member of said commis
sion, and in such appointment regard shall
be had to the impartiality and freedom from
bias sought by tlie original appointments to
said commission, who shall thereupon im
mediately take and subscribe to the oath
hereinbefore prescribed, and become a
member of said commission, to fill the va
cancy so occasioned. All the certificates
and papers purporting to he certificates of
the electoral votes of each State shall be
opened in the alphabetical order of the
State as provided m section one of this act,
and when there shall he more than one such
certificate or paper, as the certificates and
papers from such States shall be opened,
excepting duplicates of the same return,
they shall be read by the tellers and there
upon the President of the Senate shall call
for objections, if any. Every objection
shall be made in writing and shall state
clearly and concisely and without argu
ment the ground thereof, and shall be sign
ed by at least one Senator and one mem
ber of the House of Representatives before
the same shall be received. When all such
objections so made to any certificate, vote
or paper from a State shall have been re
ceived and read, such certificate, votes and
papers so objected to, and all papers ac
companying the same, together with such
objections, shall be forthwith submitted to
said commission, which shall proceed to
consider the same, with the same powers,
if any, now possessed for that purpose by
the two Houses acting separately or to
gether, and by a majority of votes decide
whether any and what votes from such
States are the votes provided for bv the
Constitution of tho United States, and how
many and what persons were thus appointed
electors in such State, and may therein
take into view such persons, depositions
and other papers, if any. as shall by the
Constitution and the now existing law lie
competent and pertinent in such consider
ation. which decision shall he made in wri
ting, stating briefly tho ground thereof and
signed by the members of said commission
agreeing therein, whereupon the t wo Houses
shall again meet and such decision shall
be read and entered in the journal of each
House, and the counting of the votes shall
proceed in conformity therewith, unless
upon objection made thereto in writing uv
at least five .Senators and five members of
the House of Representatives the two
Houses shall separately concur in ordering
otherwise, in wnich case such concurrent
order shall govern. No votes or papers
from any other State shall be acted upon
until the objections previously made to the
votes or papers from any State shall have
been finally disposed of.
Sec. 3. That while the two Houses shall
he in meeting as provided in this act, no
debate shall he allowed, and no question
shall l>e put by the presiding officer, except
to either House on motion to withdraw,
and lie shall have power to preserve order.
Sec. 4. That when the two Houses sepa
rate to decide upon an objection that may
have been made to the counting of any elec
toral vote or votes from any State, or upon
any objection to the report of said commis
sion, or other question arising under this
act, each Senator and Representative may
speak to such objection or question ten
minutes, and not oftener than once, but
after such debate shall have lasted two
hours, it shall be the duty of each House
to put the main question without further
debate.
Sec. 5. That at such joint meeting of the
two Houses seats shall be provided as fol
lows : For the President of the Senate, the
Speaker's chair; for the Speaker, immedi
ately upon his left; for the Senators, in the
body of the hall upon the right of the pre
siding officer; for the Representatives, iu
the body of the hall not provided for the
Senators ; for the tellers. Secretary of the
Senate and Clerk of the House ol Repre
sentatives, at the Clerk's desk; for the
other officers of the two Houses, in front
of the Clerk's desk and upon each side of
the Speaker's platform. Such joint meet
ing shall not he dissolved until the count of
the electoral votes shall he completed and
the result declared, and no recess shall he
taken unless a question shall have arisen
in iegard to counting any such votes or
otherwise under this act. in which case it
shall be competent for either House, acting
separately in the manner hereinbefore pro
vided, to restrict a recess of such house not
beyond the next day, Sunday excepted, at
the hour of ten o'clock in the forenoon;
and while any question is being considered
by said commission, either House may pro
ceed with its legislative or other business.
Sec. (!. That nothing in this act shall he
held to in pair or affect any right nowex
-yAhta. nn<jw r th,i>.( 'ppjß.jiqti.un jj.uA
question, by proceedings in the judi cal
courts of the United States, the right or
title of the person who shall he declared
elected, or who shall claim to he President
or Vice-President of the ..nited States, if
any such right exists.
Sec. 7. The said commission shall make
its own rules, keep a record of its proceed
ings. and shall have power to employ such
persons as may he necessary for the trans
action of its business and the execution of
its powers.
LETTER FROM “ OLD B.”
Doings in (lie Lcii'islatnro—-Retrench
nient and Reform. Elf.
Atlanta, Ga. January 15, 1877.
To the Editors of The Sun :
This is a damp, cloudy, disagreeable
morning. The members seem disposed to
push business this week—retrenchment,
reform and a general reduction of salaries
seems to be the order of the day. Last
week the city was fioode . with candidates
for all the petty offices. I have heard of a
“Fool-Killer" all my life, and so far have
been able to escape him; hut 1 think a
Candidate-Killer, with a good corps of as
sistants, ought to be on hand at the open
ing of every Legislature.
I do not like the State House as well as
the old one at Milledgeville. I drew a seat
in the suburbs of the Hall—a gentleman
from the Southern gable end of the State
sits near me. and as I am from the North
ern gable, and not being able to hear much
that is going on. think it safest to vote
“No!” to everything, and which in niue
cases out of ten will he right. However,
by getting the morning papers, 1 can tell
pretty well what was done the day before.
If the members really mean economy
and reform, they had better give Joe Brown
a salary of twenty-five or thirty thousand
dollars to run the State Government; by
that means he could save enough in a few
years to buy a small State.
Norwood stock is rising rapidly in the
market, and 1 hope he will be the Senator.
I went to Church yesterday, and heard a
sermon, or oration, on “Patriotism and
Piety." It was very line, and the acting
, equal to Booth’s.
I received a petition addressed to the
General Assembly, requesting the Act
passed last year to prevent retailing spirit
uous liquors within three mile of Reed
Creek Baptist Cl urch and Harmony Pres
byterian Church shall not be repealed, and
by last mail received another petition from
the same District to have it repealed. Of
course 1 would have to present both peti
tions, and that would be the last of it.
1 will give you a few dots next week.
‘Yours, “Old B.”
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