Joint Session completes electoral vote counting in Washington
In Washington on February 11 the joint session of Congress opened the certificates of the states for President and Vice President. Alabama to New York delivered votes showing Cleveland 319 and Blaine 182 for President, Hendricks 219 and Logan 182 for Vice President. The presiding officer declared Cleveland elected, to take office March 4, 1885, amid applause and a brief recess, as Keifer offered a resolution affirming the constitutional result.
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United States
Hoar
Pendleton
Clay
Keifer
Edmunds
Senate
Alabama
Tellers
House of Representatives
Messenger
Grover Cleveland
Thomas A. Hendricks
Sherman
Arkansas
Cleveland
Hendricks
California
Blaine
Logan
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
Florida
Georgia
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
Maryland
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississipi
Cleveland Andendricks
Missouri
Nebraska
Nevada
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New York
North Carolina
Ohio
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Carolina
Texas
Vermont
Virginia
West Virginia
Wisconsin
James G. Blaine
John A. Logan
Ian Iver Ain
Ana
Congress
Illinois Senate Standoff Over U S Senator Ballot
In Springfield Democrats press to force a ballot for United States Senator as Republicans face unheeded members and sickness. House and Senate clash over quorum with Morrison leading on the roll call and a joint ballot planned for noon tomorrow.
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Chicago
Springfield
Ill
United States
Brown
Hamilton
Morrison
Haines
Richard J
Bishop J. Morgan
Weller
Holmes
House
Senate
Merritt
Morgan
Favorable Outlook Amid Revival Feels The City
Editor notes revival of business with rock quarries resuming work after six months and hopes for early starting of the Aransas Pass railroad. He urges granite capitol walls, better waterworks funding, and improved care for county poor house residents, urging fair taxation and investigations.
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San Antonio Light
Aransas Pass
State Capitol
G. G. Braper
Disorderly conduct and vagrancy fines imposed in local cases
J D Eckhart was found sleeping in a vacant house on Sole dad street by Officer Van Alstyne. W Williams James Brown and P Barrett were fined ten dollars or thirty days jail for vagrancy. Espinosa was fined three dollars for drunkenness. Two cases were dismissed and four continued.
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J.D. Eckhart
van Alstyne
Soledad Street
W. Williams
James Brown
P. Barrett
Espinosa
Mourning in London Over General Gordon’s Fate
London papers react to Gordon's death with widespread grief and mourning emblems. Reports confirm Khartoum’s fall to the Mahdi, with detailed atrocity accounts and descriptions of the massacre, captives, and subsequent fortification of the town.
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London
Gordon
Standard
Lord Wolseley
Khartoum
Sa Agro
Wilson
Aransas Pass railroad plan eyed by Texas rail syndicate
A Licnr reporter quotes a Texas railroad figure linking the Aransas Pass extension to the Texas narrow gauge system. He notes Paul Bremond leads the system and explains a map showing a line from Boerne to San Antonio to Laredo, with long gaps needed to reach Saltillo and Mexico City, arguing Pieper plans could strengthen gulf access and freight to St Louis without transfers.
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Licnr
Aransas Pass
Texas
Paul Bremond
Piper
Boerne
San Antonio
Laredo
Saltillo
City of Mexico
Waco
St. Louis
Pieper
Society Women and the Demi Monde in Washington
A partisan critique decries Washington society as increasingly debauched with raw whiskey at Stewart mansion parties and stolen gowns. The piece notes more women in low cut fashions at receptions, foreign liaisons dominating fashion, and demi monde parading along Pennsylvania Avenue with no enforcement of laws.
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Stewart Mansion
Holman
Washington
Pennsylvania Avenue
Creas Cae
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San Antonio, Tex
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Mall Head Band
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James
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LeClaire
Bach
Lansing Delwild
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the Kid
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