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Show coiLvmo the vote. The Joint Conventiou Assemble in the House of Representatives. Repre-sentatives. Hesult So Far Alabama, Arkansas, Ark-ansas, Connecticut and Delaware, Del-aware, 23 Votes, for , Tiiden. California and Colorado, Nine Votes, for Hayes. The IIlt:h Joint CouiiuImhIuu '1'akeet Florida lu Iluutl. tVliat She Will bn Turned Oui, 11 nd IVIit-u, Hie Lord Only Ikuout. Washington, 1. After a recess of tho house was declared, at 1 o'clock p.m., the lime prescribed by the law lor the :i?8oniblm of the joint coh-veDtion coh-veDtion of both housed of cuugrets, the lloors of the ho ise of representatives representa-tives wt-re filled up by members of Liie cabinet and counsel for the national na-tional committees of both parties. The galleries were packed largely with Indies. Justices Mi.ler and Field arrived firat of the commission, and at 1 o'clock the speaker announced thai the senate nrembers had arrived, whereupon the house arose and the senate members riled dowa the main uiale and took seats on the democratic side. The presiaent of the senate took the chair, the speaker being on bis right, culkd the house to order, and amid perfect order said : In obedience to' the constitution the senate and .Souse of representatives representa-tives have met to be present at the opening of the certificates and the counting and declaring tho results of the electoral vole for president and vice president of the United States for the term of four years, commencing com-mencing on the 4th of March next. In compliance with the law the president presi-dent of the senate will now proceed in the presence of the two houses to open all the certificates of the several states, and in their alphabetical order, BHGlNtXn WITH ALABAMA. Bassett, :issit;int doorkeeper of the senate, brought in the btrong boi in which were tho certificate?, and placed it on thedeek before the president pres-ident of thu senate, who opened it and took therefrom the certificate from Alabama and handed it to the tellers who were seated just below him at the clerk's desk, and Allison, one of the lellers, read the document docu-ment in f-Jstenso, the remit bring that Samuel J. Tiiden of New York and Thomas A. Hendricks of Indiana had received the ten electoral votes of Alabama. The vice prwident said a certificate received from Alabama by the messenger mes-senger having bteu read, a duplicate certificate was received by mail. Stone was reading the duplicato certificate when he was interrupted by Senator Conkliug, who suggested that it was hardly necessary to read a duplicate certificate. While it was read by one teller the other teller should look over the duplicate in order that comparison . might be made. Tho president of the senate asked whether there waa any objection to the proposition, aud there being none he stated that that course would bo pursued. Stone having then resumed and completed the reading of the duplicate dupli-cate certificate, the presiding officer said: Aro there any objections to the certificate from the state of Alabama? Ala-bama? aud after a pauso, Tho chair hours none; the votes uf the state of Alabama will be counted. Ono of the tellers will announce the vote bo that there may bo no mistake. The result was announced by Cook. Tte same ceremonial was observed , concerning the next state, Arkansas, ' and the result was that the six voles , of Arkauaas were given tor Tiiden aud Hendricks. The next state was California, three votes, given for Hayes and Wheeler. Then Colorado, three, for Hayes and Wheeler; Connecticut, Con-necticut, six, lor Tiiden and Hendricks; Hend-ricks; Delaware, threo, for Tiiden and Hendricks. , FLORIDA Ol'ENS THE BALL. And when Florida was reached, Stone, teller, proceeded to read the certificates, the first ol which showed four for Hayes and Wheeler, oud the second lour for Tiiden and Hondrioka; the former being authenticated by the late Governor Stearns; the latter by Attorney General Cocke. The presiding- officer then handed the tellers still another certificate trom Florida, received through a messenger January 31st, corresponding with the one by mail on the 30th of January, it being an authentication ot the act of the Tiiden electors, and made by Uovernor Drew. After the partial reading ol the paper accompanying the third cerii-: ficate, Conkliug proposod that tho reading be regarded aa completed, aud the result be announced, as under the lato act of congress all the papers would bo referred to the provisional tribunal. So ordered. The presiding officer asked whether there was any objections to counting tho electoral votes of Florida. Representative Re-presentative Field eent to the clerk's desk a written objection to the first certificate for Hayes and Wheeler, signed by Senators Jour-s (lrla.), Cooper and McDonald i f Indian, and Representatives Fieid, Tucker, Jenks and Springer. These objections were referred to tho electoral commission, aud the senate returned io its own chamber. |