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New Hampshire Statesman
Concord, Merrimack County, New Hampshire
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The New York Tribune details how James Harlan of Iowa was elected U.S. Senator a year ago by a joint legislative ballot despite Democratic Senate boycott, but the U.S. Senate recently declared the election invalid on partisan grounds.
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The two branches of the last Legislature of Iowa agreed to meet in joint ballot for the choice of a United States Senator. They did so meet, and, after ineffectually balloting, adjourned to a future day. But meantime the Democratic Senate discovered that, should the adjourned joint meeting be held a Whig United States Senator would be chosen (there being a Whig majority in the House and in joint ballot;)so they resolved not to attend the adjourned joint meeting, but adjourned the Senate over the day.
A quorum of the House and a minority of the Senate nevertheless attended the adjourned joint meeting, and Mr. Harlan was therein elected, receiving the votes of a clear majority of the whole Legislature, and was commissioned accordingly.
Such are the circumstances of an election which the United States Senate has just, by an essentially partisan vote, pronounced invalid, thus inviting a majority of one House in a Legislature, when overbalanced in joint meeting, to try the dangerous resort of breaking up a joint ballot.
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Iowa
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A Year Ago For Election; Just For Invalidation
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election pronounced invalid by the united states senate by an essentially partisan vote
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The Iowa Legislature's two branches met in joint ballot to choose a U.S. Senator. After initial balloting, they adjourned. The Democratic Senate boycotted the adjourned meeting to prevent a Whig election, but a quorum of the House and minority of the Senate attended, electing Mr. Harlan with a majority of the whole Legislature's votes. He was commissioned accordingly.