Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1893 — THIS SETTLES IT. [ARTICLE]

THIS SETTLES IT.

Fopnal Counting: of tbe Electoral Vote— Cleveland and Steveson Are Elected. Early Wednesday morning Vice-Presi-dent Morton and Private Secretary Chilton unlocked the safe in the private apartment of the Vice-President, attached to tlm Senate chamber, at -Washington, and took therefrom j the two polished cherry boxes imvhichjtho envelopes containing the votes of tho electors were to be placed. Then, omj by one. he drew forth tho envelopes - 'And handed them to Capt. Isaac Bassett, the assistant doorkeeper of the Senate, Who deposited them in the boxes. By the time this task had been completed the members of the Senate were in their seats, and the venerable doorkeeper bore the boxes in dignified state into tho Senate chamber, and placed them upon the desk to the light of the presiding officer. * • Precisely at five minutes to 1 o'clock the Senate stopped in the midst of the proceedings, and, forming in a marching body, moved toward the House of Representatives. Captain Bassett, with a box under each arm, was in the center, surrounded by the Senators and a cordon of Capitol police in dress uniform. At the Honse door Charles H. Turner, the official doorkeeper, was in waiting, and, taking a position at the head ofthe procession, heentered the House and announced the arrival of the Senate. Slowly and impressively the dignified Senators then entered the hall, preceded by the Sergeant-at Arms, and headed by Vice-President Morton, arm-in-arm with Secretary McCook. The members and officers of the House rose as tho Senate entered, and remained standing until Vice-President Morton had mounted ♦he Speaker's platform, and taken the chair vacated on tho moment by Speaker Crisp, the latter taking a chair on the Vice-President’s left. The galleries were crowded to overflowing with families and friends of members of both Houses, and the large number of ladies in handsome toilets gave the galleries a particularly brilliant ensemble. When quiet had been secured. Captain Bassett, with duo formality and deliberation, unlocW the boxes and deposited them on the table immediately in front of the Vice-President. The latter, in a few words, rehearsed the act of Congress under which they were proceeding, and then proceeded to open the sealed certificates and hand them to to the tellers. At tho outset he statecTfhTegal phraseotogyrthat if there was no objection to the electoral vote of Alabama, tho first state on the list, the certificate from that State would be read and its contents noted. This course was pursued with each and every one of the envelopes containing certificates, no objections being raised to any certificate. When the last envelope had been opened the tellcrs.tabulated the vote and handed to Viee-Prosident Morton, a report embracing the number of electoral votes to which each State is entitled, the respective electoral votes cast for President ahd Vice-President, and in addition the total of votes received bv the candidates of each party. Having scanned this report through his glass, Vice-Presi-dent Morton proceeded to read it with deliberation of manner and clearness of tone, and then rising to his feet he formally declared that Grover Cleveland, of New York was elected President ofthe United States, and that Adlai E. Stevenson, of Illinois, was elected Vice-President of the United States, each for the term beginning March 4, 1893,' and that the announcement was by law a sufficient declaration of the fact, which, with the list of votes, he ordered should be entered on the journals of tho Senate and House.