Identifier: statesmen00inbroo (find matches)
Title: Statesmen
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Brooks, Noah, 1830-1903
Subjects: Clay, Henry, 1777-1852 Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852 Calhoun, John C. (John Caldwell), 1782-1850 Benton, Thomas Hart, 1782-1858 Seward, William Henry, 1801-1872 Chase, Salmon P. (Salmon Portland), 1808-1873 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874 Tilden, Samuel J. (Samuel Jones), 1814-1886 Blaine, James Gillespie, 1830-1893 Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881 Cleveland, Grover, 1837-1908 Statesmen
Publisher: New York : C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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least some one of the States, or possibly one of
the electors in one of the three States, would be
returned for Tilden, and when they found that
every vote of the three States was counted for
Hayes, their anger was intense. Threats were
made that General Hayes should never be in-
augurated as President of the United States, and
a fierce excitement swept over the country. As
the time drew near when the electoral votes
should be counted by Congress in joint session
of both Houses, this excitement became deeper
and more strained. Under the existing law it
was directed that No electoral vote objected to
shall be counted, except by the concurrent votes
of the two Houses. At this time the House of
Representatives had a Democratic majority and
the Senate had a Republican majority. It was
obvious that either of the two Houses could pre-
vent the counting of an electoral vote. Accord-
ingly, after a long and heated discussion, a bill
was passed by both Houses providing for the
creation of an Electoral Commission, to which
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Greystone, Mr. Tilden's Country Place, near Yonkers, N.Y.


276 STATESMEN

body all the questions in dispute should be re-
ferred. This commission was to be composed
of five members of the Senate, five members of
the House, and five Justices of the Supreme
Court of the United States. This Electoral Com-
mission was finally organized on the thirty-first
day of January, 1877, and was composed as fol-
lows : Nathan Clifford, Samuel F. Miller, Ste-
phen J. Field, William Strong, Joseph P. Brad-
ley, Justices of the Supreme Court; George F.
Edmunds, Oliver P. Morton, Frederick T. Fre-
linghuysen, Thomas F. Bayard, Allen G. Thur-
man, United States Senators; Henry B. Payne,
Eppa Hunton, Josiah G. Abbott, James A. Gar-
field, and George F. Hoar, Representatives in
Congress—eight Republicans and seven Demo-
crats. It had been generally supposed that the
fifth justice selected for this commission would
be David Davis, of Illinois, then a Justice of the
Supreme Court of the United States. Judge
Davis was classed as an Independent, although
there was an impression abroad that he would
cast his vote in favor of Tilden.

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