Statesmen . e one of the States, or possibly one ofthe electors in one of the three States, Avould bereturned for Tilden, and when they found thatevery vote of the three States was counted forHayes, their anger was intense. Threats weremade that General Hayes should never be in-augurated as President of the United States, anda fierce excitement swept over the country. Asthe time drew near when the electoral votesshould be counted by Congress in joint sessionof both Houses, this excitement became deeperand more strained. Under the existing law itwas directed that No electoral vote objected tosh
Statesmen . e one of the States, or possibly one ofthe electors in one of the three States, Avould bereturned for Tilden, and when they found thatevery vote of the three States was counted forHayes, their anger was intense. Threats weremade that General Hayes should never be in-augurated as President of the United States, anda fierce excitement swept over the country. Asthe time drew near when the electoral votesshould be counted by Congress in joint sessionof both Houses, this excitement became deeperand more strained. Under the existing law itwas directed that No electoral vote objected toshall be counted, except by the concurrent votesof the two Houses. At this time the House ofRepresentatives had a Democratic majority andthe Senate had a Republican majority. It wasobvious that either of the two Houses could pre-vent the counting of an electoral vote. Accord-ingly, after a long and heated discussion, a billwas passed by both Houses providing for thecreation of an Electoral Commission, to which. 276 STATESMEN body all the questions in dispute should be re-ferred. This commission was to be composedof five members of the Senate, five members ofthe House, and five Justices of the SupremeCourt of the United States. This Electoral Com-mission was finally organized on the thirty-firstday 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 , 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 inCongress—eight Republicans and seven Demo-crats. It had been generally supposed that thefifth justice selected for this commission wouldbe David Davis, of Illinois, then a Justice of theSupreme Court of the United States. JudgeDavis was classed as an Independent, althoughthere was an impressi
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