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At the State election for members of the House of Representatives, the returns are contested, the Democratic candidates claiming a majority of about 100 votes in a poll of 57,000. The Whig candidates receive certificates of election under the Broad seal of the State......Oct. 9, 10, 1838 A speaker of the House was elected (Robert M. T. Hunter) by compromise, but the five Democratic contestants are seated on the report of a committee declaring them elected by a vote of 111 to 81......July 16, 1839 Clerk of the House of Representatives, H. A. Garland, of Virginia, refuses to call the names of the Whig delegates from New Jersey, on the ground that the seats were disputed at the opening of Congress (as there were five contested seats, and as the House stood, without New Jersey, 118 Whigs to 119 Democrats, success to either party in this controversy meant a control of the House; hence the controversy)......Dec. 2, 1839 [This governmental flurry is known as the Broad seal War. ]