CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.
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FebraaYy hc I2fh, 1915. COUNTING THE VOTES FOR PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

 Mr. Brodhead said that the hour having arrived which was set apart by JoIht reso- mtion of the two Houses for counting the votes for the electors for President and Vice President he begged leave 10 offer the usual resolution. Mr. B. then offered resolution that a message be sent to the Senate to inform that body that the House was now ready to receive them, and proceed to the opening oI the certificates and counting the votes gwen by the electoral colleges. The resolution having been agreed to, a message was accor- aingly sent to the Senate by B. B. French, Esq, the Clerk of the House.

 The Senate soon after entered the hall oi the House of Representatives, two abreast, preceded by their Sergeant-at-arms, who was succeeded by their President, the Hon. WiLIE P. MAN6uM, and Secretary, Asbury Dickens Esq. The senators took seats prepared for them in the central area of the House, and the President of the Senate took the char o the Speaker. fthe Hon. JoHN ". JONES' the last named officer being seated on hls leit. | he tellers (,he Hon. ROBERT ]. WALKER, of the Senate, and the Hon EDMUND BURKE and the Hon. JOHN P. KENNEDY, oi the House oi Representatives, took their seats atthe Clerk $ desk, assisted by the Secretary ot the Senate and B. B. French, Esq, the Clerk ot the House L. Machin, Esq, Principal Clerk of the Senate. and D. Gold, Esq., Principal Clerk of the House of Representatives, acted as re- cording Clerks, being seated in front of the Clerks desk al table prepared for their use in the central area.

 The galleries were densely crowded ill every part, large number of the auditors being ladies

 The President of the Senate rose when the members of the House and the senators were all seated, and stated the object oc their thus assembling to be to count the votes east by the electors of the respective States of the Union for President and Vice President of the United Sales; and handing to NIT. WALKER tone of the telers) a sealed packet, he said, :" deliver to the gentlemen teIers the votes of the electors of the State of Maine for Pre- sident aud Vice President of the United States, Ill order that they may be couniedo D

 MT. Walker received the packet; and hav- ing broken the seals, the tellers examined the votes, which were announced to be nine H number, all of which were given for James K. Polk, of Tennessee, as President of the United States. The same number of votes for the Vice President were given for George N. Dallas, of Pennsylvania.

 The President next delivered to the tellefs the votes of the electors of New Hampshire, and of all the other States of the Union in succession in the same manner, and t4ey were examined by the tollers, and the result was announced with the same formalities.

 The final result stood thus: