be picked is that, the bill forming this commission cited certain circuits, and the supreme court justices still wrote circuits. we want such and such a junction, the circuit and that. came with two democrats and two republicans. those four guys were to pick the best number and they had to be associate justices, nobody wanted the chief justice. and everybody believed this was going to be david davis. a judge from illinois who had been around lincoln's campaign in 1860, but the day before congress is going to go on this bill, the democrats in the illinois legislature, along with some green backers, third- party, elect david davis as the next u.s. senator. from illinois, to replace a republican now blackjack, davis refuses to serve. he said, i'm not a judge anymore. he refuses to serve on this electoral commission, so the four guys pick another guy named joseph bradley from new jersey. what happens? well, to give you the bottom line, because i want to leave monday of time for questions, the votes are counted in the joint session, and that's where i'm a this is a picture of the actual session in which the votes were counted. when they got to flor