Members of the Commission.
Hon. Nathan Clifford, Associate Justice Supreme Court, First Circuit.
Hon. William Strong, Associate Justice Supreme Court, Third Circuit.
Hon. Samuel F. Miller, Associate Justice Supreme Court, Eighth Circuit.
Hon. Stephen J. Field, Associate Justice Supreme Court, Ninth Circuit.
Hon. Joseph P. Bradley, Associate Justice Supreme Court, Fifth Circuit.
Hon. George F. Edmunds, United States Senator.
Hon. Oliver P. Morton, United States Senator.
Hon. Frederick T. Frelinghuysen, United States Senator.
Hon. Allen G. Thurman, United States Senator.
Hon. Thomas F. Bayard, United States Senator.
Hon. Henry B. Payne, United States Representative.
Hon. Eppa Hunton, United States Representative.
Hon. Josiah G. Abbott, United States Representative.
Hon. James A. Garfield, United States Representative.
Hon. George F. Hoar, United States Representative.
The Electoral Commission met February 1st, and by uniform votes of 8 to 7, decided all objections to the Electoral votes of Florida, Louisiana, South Carolina, and Oregon, in favor of the Republicans, and while the two Houses disagreed on nearly all of these points by strict party votes, the electoral votes were, under the provisions of the law, given to Hayes and Wheeler, and the final result declared to be 185 electors for Hayes and Wheeler, to 184 for Tilden and Hendricks. Questions of eligibility had been raised against individual electors from Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont and Wisconsin, but the Commission did not sustain any of them, and as a rule they were unsupported by evidence. Thus closed the gravest crisis which ever attended an electoral count in this country, so far as the Nation was concerned; and while for some weeks the better desire to peacefully settle all differences prevailed, in a few weeks partisan bitterness was manifested on the part of a great majority of Northern Democrats, who believed their party had been deprived by a partisan spirit of its rightful President.