Mr. UPSON. I will read the whole of it if the gentleman desires it. He will find that where there are exccptional clauses, those exceptional clauses have to be put in the return, showing that they are within the exccptions or th. votes cannot be counted; and he will find returns. in one or 2 instances showing that very thing. I will read the whole section: "A poll shall beopenedin ench coiupany. compofsed in whole or in part of Pennsylvania soldiers, at the quarters of the captain or other officer thereof; and all electors belonging to such company; who shall be within one mile of such quarters on t 0day of election, and not prevented by orders of their commanders or proximity of the enemy from returning to their company quarters, shall vote at such poll and at no other place. Ofliccrs, other than thoscofa company, and other votersdetachedand absenttrnmtheir companies, or in any military or naval hospital, oriii any vesselor navyyard, may vote at such other polls as may be most convenient for them: and when there shall be ten or more voters at one place. who shall be unable to attend any companypoll ortheir properplace of election as aforesaid, the electors present may open ii poll at such place as they may sclcc and certify, in the pollbook, which shall heareco of the proceedings at said election, substantially in the manner and arm as hereinafter directed.” Now, let usturn to what in called the return of the election, and I ask the Gentfrom Wisconsin to notice the position taken by him in relation to the law of Pennsylvania in relation to these votes. The minoritypf the Committee ofElections in their report in this case, on page 14 of the same, lay own the rule that under the soldiers voting law of Pennsylvania the military return is in substance the same as the return of home votes, and that the pollbook, tallylist, and cer tificates of oaths forni no part of the return, an"d they assert that The law requires the prothonotary tocertify to the board copies of the returns, not of the pollbooks or other papers.” and that “If the ori, inals are nsed. it is only at the original returns that t ojndges are required to look.” If this position of the minority be correct, it follows conclusively that if there be no such return, nothing but the pollbook, tallylist, and certificates of oaths, then there is nothing for the prothonotary to certify to the board; and if he certifies this pollbook, tallylist, and cer tificates of oaths only, there is nothing for the board to correct, and no leval return, as the ny. the gentleman read the tallylist isa part of the poll book. (See section 15.)