Mr. PAINE. I am not now s aking of the technical returns, but of the eerti cate socalled, which is a mere notification to the candidate of his election, not required bylaw to contain any statement of the vote, but only the simple an nouncement of his election; an instrumentpro vided by the legislatnre as a mere notification to the successfu candidate, and not designed to be sent here. I say that the certificate in favor of Mr. Coffroth comes before us, net authenticated, but contradicted by the roclamation of the GOvernor, signed only y 4 out of the 5 judges of that district, contradicted by the certificate and by the return in favor of Mr. Koontz, and contradicted by the return in favor of Mr. Coffroth himself, in which it is expressly stated that all the votes of that district were not counted, that the vote of Somerset county was excluded. Now, I wish to call the attention of the House to the vote as it stands in the judgment of the minority of the committee. there is a portion of this vote about which there is no dispute. It embraces all of Franklin, Fulton, and Somerset counties, part of Adams county, the home vote of Bedford county, and art of the soldiers vote of Bedford county. gut there are military election returns which are diuted. The Gentfrom Michigan [Mr. rson] went through with those returns. He insists that they should be reected. We insist that they phould be counte. If they are counted, as we)nsist they should be, then in lookin at the returns, pollrbooks, and tallylists it taken together, you have a majority for Mr. Koontz o 82 votes. Looking only at the returns and not at the telly papers or pollbooks, you hare a majority ofl in fiworof Mr. Koon, Now, if you throw out Barracks No 1, on whi Gentfrom Michigan has dwelt 50 long, you stillhave a majority in favor of Mr. Koontz and if you throw out the whole of the Bedford county rejected soldiers voteboth of those 2 returnsyou stfll elect him by a majority of 5. You can throw out both those soldiers returns over which the gentleman has been so sorely exercised, and " still you must give the seat to Mr. Koontz, because he still has a may jority of votes and for the reasons which we have given at length in our minority report, and which, coupled With the majority report, [think it is but justice to both of these contestants that the House should read at length, I believe that Mr. Koontz is entitled to a seat on this floor. But it is said that even though the district board return in favor of Mr. otfroth was a nullity, though it did not embrace the vote of all the counties you ought to accept it for the e lbur counties which it does embrace, and look elsewhere for proof as to the Somerset county vote. Here the hammer fell.]