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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER HI The electoral count of 1877 ? Senator Morton's scheme ? Tilden's history of the presidential counts ? President Grant concedes Tilden's election ? Electoral commission created ? Disapproved of by Tilden ? Refuses to raffle for the presidency ? Horatio Seymour's speech before the New York electors ? Dr. Franklin's advice to his son ? The Florida case ? The Louisiana case ? The Oregon case ? Conflicting decisions of the commission ? The commission for sale ? The forged certificates from Louisiana ? Decision of the commission condemned by the House of Representatives ? Letter of Charles Francis Adams ? The Fraud Blazon ? Tilden's reply ? Protest of the Democratic minority of the electoral commission ? Thurman and Bayard ? James Russell Lowell. At the meeting of Congress in December the absorbing question was the counting of the electoral vote. It had been usual for Congress to define in advance the manner in which this duty should be discharged. In the session of 1864?5 Congress provided that no electoral vote objected to by either House of Congress should be counted except by the concurrent votes of both Houses. This became notorious as the 22d rule. It was re-adopted at the three successive electoral counts of 1865, 1869, and 1873. This rule, after having been in force for three successive elections, was abandoned by a resolution of the Senate in December, 1875, on motion of Senator Edmunds, at whose instance the Senate adopted the rules of that body and the joint rules of the two Houses except the 22d joint rule heretofore in use. The House of Representatives was at this time largely Democratic, and, had the 22d joint rule continued in force, any electoral votes which it refused to count would have been rejected. The rule, which was of doubtful constitutional...
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