Counting Electoral Votes: Proceedings and Debates of Congress Relating to Counting the Electoral Votes for President and Vice-president of the United StatesU.S. Government Printing Office, 1877 - 807 pages |
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... decide those questions properly , as I see no practical result to flow from any decision pronounced upon any point . The whole difficulty which arose while the two bodies were together was upon the simple point whether the Presiding ...
... decide those questions properly , as I see no practical result to flow from any decision pronounced upon any point . The whole difficulty which arose while the two bodies were together was upon the simple point whether the Presiding ...
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... decide whether the vote of a certain State is to be counted or not , who is to decide it ? It must be decided by some body ; and if the two houses separate and do not agree , what is to be the result , and what is to come of it ? If the ...
... decide whether the vote of a certain State is to be counted or not , who is to decide it ? It must be decided by some body ; and if the two houses separate and do not agree , what is to be the result , and what is to come of it ? If the ...
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... decide whether he will count or reject them . In my humble judgment that is the construction of the Constitution and law as they now stand . In either event , it will be conceded , I think , by every Senator , that it is a dangerous ...
... decide whether he will count or reject them . In my humble judgment that is the construction of the Constitution and law as they now stand . In either event , it will be conceded , I think , by every Senator , that it is a dangerous ...
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... decide them . I think it would be better to postpone this question until the time shall arise when it is indispensably necessary that it should be settled . Mr. SEWARD . I do not object to this debate , because I am desirous to have ...
... decide them . I think it would be better to postpone this question until the time shall arise when it is indispensably necessary that it should be settled . Mr. SEWARD . I do not object to this debate , because I am desirous to have ...
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... decide whether the vote of Wis- consin was counted or not as a good vote , then my objection was that the Chair so ruled as not to permit it to be decided . Certainly the Presiding Officer was of opinion that there was no authority to ...
... decide whether the vote of Wis- consin was counted or not as a good vote , then my objection was that the Chair so ruled as not to permit it to be decided . Certainly the Presiding Officer was of opinion that there was no authority to ...
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4th day adopted agreed amendment announced appointed assembled ballot bill body certificates Chair Clerk concurrent resolution CONKLING Constitution counting the votes debate decide decision declared dent duty EDMUNDS elected President election of President electoral college electoral votes February February 12 Frémont gentleman from Massachusetts Government Horace Greeley House of Representatives houses of Congress James Buchanan joint convention joint resolution Kentucky legislation legislature Louisiana majority Massachusetts MERRIMON MORTON motion number of electors number of votes objection opinion passed point of order preamble present President and Vice-President PRESIDENT pro tempore Presiding Officer question received rejected Resolved result seal Secretary Senate Senate and House Senator from Indiana Senator from Ohio South Carolina Speaker submit suppose tellers Tennessee tion TRUMBULL twenty-second joint rule United Vermont vote of Georgia vote of Wisconsin votes for President whole number yeas and nays York
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Page 4 - That the said report, with the resolutions and letter accompanying the same, be transmitted to the several legislatures, in order to be submitted to a convention of delegates, chosen in each State by the people thereof, in conformity to the resolves of the convention made and provided in that case.
Page 167 - States hereinbefore named, as may maintain a loyal adhesion to the Union and the Constitution, or may be from time to time occupied and controlled by forces of the United States engaged in the dispersion of said insurgents...
Page 390 - There shall be a seal of this State, which shall be kept by the Governor, and used by him officially, and shall be called " The great Seal of the State of California.
Page 117 - President of the United States, and, together with a list of the votes, be entered on the Journals of the two Houses.
Page 218 - The use of force against a state would look more like a declaration of war than an infliction of punishment, and would probably be considered by the party attacked as a dissolution of all previous compacts by which it might be bound.
Page 465 - Representatives, in the body of the hall not provided for the Senators; for the tellers, Secretary of the Senate, and Clerk of the House of Representatives, 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.
Page 160 - States, then and in such case it may and shall be lawful for the President by proclamation to declare that the inhabitants of such State, or any section or part thereof, where snch insurrection exists, are in a state of insurrection against the United States ; and thereupon all commercial intercourse by and between the same and the citizens thereof and the citizens of the rest of the United States shall cease and be unlawful so long as such condition of hostility shall continue...
Page 199 - Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty, each having taken the oath aforesaid and not having since violated it, and being a qualified voter by the election law of the State existing immediately before the so-called act of secession, and excluding all others, shall re-establish a State government which shall be republican, and in nowise contravening said oath, such shall be recognized as the true government of the State...
Page 4 - Resolved, That it is the opinion of this Convention, that as soon as the Conventions of nine states shall have ratified this Constitution, the United States in Congress assembled should fix a day on which electors should be appointed by the states which shall have ratified the same...