Show LATEST TELBGSAMS FORTYSETH CONKE3S LAST SESSION 8E ATE Washington 9Pendl ton introduced ajointresolotion for the purpose of ob tamin the pnvilesa of opening a road and highway from the Oaoada line of tbe United State and Braiih America through British Columbia to Fort W range ran-ge and Sita in Alaska Referred to the committee on foreign reJatoot The bili l for the tale of the roma > der of tie reservation of the Otoe aid iiusouri Indianj in Kansas and Nebraska was discussed Tile vioepresident presented the case of the Bragg and Polls confederate papers who are for sale for IOCoo each sad eald it was for Congrcsa to decide de-cide thematter Adjourned HOUSE WMhlcRtoo 9F Wood askci how mtny days the republicans intund to obstruct business Conger called him to order fur insolent i unparlIamentary laogua and Wood withdrew it Conger said there must be fro limi H impTticence Republicans were tptyt < o1 oa the fardin bill and even poctpoic debate Wood thougbt they might iIlJica a a time when they would DO ready ilcL r3 spoke on the electoral res la toiiS He sad in rcfeiriig to the else tv11 l cainmUioc that tht aw Rathunz ing it was a dngr ce and dishonor tobe country bccaua it resulted In COURting in a man who dii not receive a majority of the electoral vote of the country and the Twelfth Article gave the il jsa the power to elect the pi evident under a certain contingency and imposed on tile House the actual necessity of counting count-ing sod rerifyinfc the votes Kowing the gentlemen on the other side meant to set tbe Constitution at defiance it was his hope that he would liva to see his party again in a majority in the House If the gentlemen on be other side choose to obstruct business until the day should como for counting the electoral vote let them have the responsibility Let the democrats await that dy end when it comer let them take their seats and see that the votes opened by the vice president were genuine TO 01 let them see that every elector was qualified and let them take any other step they pleased in the way of inquiry in-quiry and investigation to know whaiher the electors who had east votes were quaVflcd electors If perchance they should find that aa was the case in 877 the electors had voted who ware not qalinedlet them hare the courage to refuse re-fuse to certify or count such votes or if they found that the vicepresident had opened certificates where votsa alleged to have been cast were forgeries lt them have the courage now end forever to refuse such votes Let tem do as their fathers had done take their seats appoint tellers and count tbe votes as honorable representatives repre-sentatives of thc people certify to the genuiness of a vote or refuse to certify to it Every person felt that in deegatiog the power to count the electoral vote to another tribunal the responsibility had been with Congress and If there had been any shame or d honor in tho action it reached here He bad for that reason never felt at liberty to denounce that tribunal he would hcnrcTO never cast his vote to create another He hoped the democrats would cot be lafiaenced either by filibustering or by toe offensive insinuations insin-uations that they were hatching mischief Except in the case of it state which had voted for tiaccoekthero was no question in any state There was a qtieeliun and a very serious question ts to the vote of Georgia fio could not conceive of ay more detestable thing thin in rejecting the vote of a state The republican party had accepted perjury per-jury and forgery as a means of certifying votes Bcd in the face of this fact then I the-n n thn nh d 11 I v v J and endeavored to give taeie JE5dent the power to count the votes It WM an attempt at usurpation that looker to the ftsfcrra and there was no le l isiotiT action that was cot justifiable v > defeat that purpose A diyoinle rooting dcctle then enSUE en-SUE participated ia by McLane Oalt J log Hunter Cox of New York and i I Mill during tho course of which Mills imiuaated tholt his opposition to the nond inz resolution w3 on the ground that under its provision the Senate dectare I who vws president ittpham aid th tat the last EeBlcn he I had looked upon tho measure as an attempt at-tempt to debauch the electoral count Why were the wheels of legislation now blocked to consider a question when it I was admitted that thore was no necessity whatever fortho operation of the xtra ordinary provisions cf ihja losoIton Thai there was Jymir behind it i B EJQ purpose he was bound to assume I from the tenacity with which this matter was pressed Under its provisions the I queetpticg cf a return would juatiiy tho majorii7 in r ecling tho vote ot a staia It provided that if more than one list cf electoral votes or papers purporting to 1 bo euch list were received from a eLate either house night refuse lo receive tie vote What was tho poar An official t paper Not at all but t paper certified i by tha CAaiaaaQ of Po democratic stale committee would aoavrsr the require meat of thatprovWon The republicans were willing to uUf < r themselves re1 1 sorting to every expedient known to par lisKentury usage to resist the purpose of i this reacluton i Adjourned I I i |