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by assignment, and resulted in the same manner, Mr. Sumner receiving 187 votes, 192 being necessary to a choice.
On the 26th of February, the sixteenth ballot was taken, but no choice was made, Mr. Sumner lacking two votes of the number necessary for his election.
The matter came up every two weeks regularly, with the same result, until the 24th of April, when the end was reached, as will be seen by the following report of that day's proceedings:
The House was called to order at 9 o'clock, and prayer was offered by Rev. Mr. Stone.
The morning business was unimportant, and at 9. 30 the House proceeded to the twenty-fifth ballot for United States Senator, which resulted as follows:
At the conclusion of the ballot given above, it was discovered that two more votes had been cast than there were members present, and, to avoid such an occurrence in future, it was ordered that, in subsequent trials, the ballots be enclosed in envelopes, and if any contained more than one vote, all but one should be rejected, if all the ballots so contained were for the same person.
In case there should be more than one candidate named, all should be thrown out. The result was as follows:
And Charles Sumner was declared elected.
In the same issue of that journal, the following bright and pointed editorial appeared:
The mountain that has been in labor for the last three months has brought forth, and Charles Sumner, Esq., has been elected for six years, from the 4th of March next, to succeed Mr. Webster in the Senate of the United States.
This was consummated in the House of Representatives
