Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1801-1806, 1801-11-07

ibS ksOusC uSiuS uiSilVf, ttc pTOToto
selolu,ons were nega,iscd BY e'ea, majority.
A motion wss then made by Mt. Potter.
thar ,heyess aud nays bs entered On the jour
mails. f
M.. Manso.d s!ked If /, was proper that
the yeas and nays ihasla be called for, after
tie Js.f sfike Hssjs kai BEEN ses.a. The
speaker autserei that u was.
Nj. 1,ber obierved that il appeared to
him TO BE- uielcfs. Surely taid bt) it cannor
be iniended TO ans"cs any fair, or bcEe6eisl
parPoie.
Mr.. Green enquired of the Speaker,
whether in cafe aquert,on had been declared
oy him Determined by a majority Of one and
after yards. when the yeas ndnsys were TAX
en-. fome member, through fear. or y ha,evsr
caule. had beea induced TO volc differently,
the h'N vote would he dcaroyed. or not
He th5usht that the rules Of the houlr ought
10 Be puaidsd asa,ne fnch difficulty.
Nj HazaId thought the yeas. and nays
eould not with proprie,y be taken after tie
qneaion had been determined. He aked for
what purpofc vote Is taken! It's merely TO
aieertain the icnu,nenr. OF the Houie. After
thoie iSntiments have been afcertaihed no
further vote can be taken, unlcts for party
1urpotes merely. In this Houie we are to
coilult the public good not to endeavor to-
create party. Ifthis was rule Of the Houfc,
on shis accouot he gave notice thar he Mould
move to aoohih il.
Saturday. Mr.. N. Hazard rofe to offer
feveral rcfolutions 20 the Houie. He iaid
he offsred them, not from any private op-
pof'icn to any member of that Hnu!c ~
lie ctlered them merely to exprefs the high
confidence we repofe in the virrue and tall
eats Of His Exceiiency the Governor Of this
Sta,e-sr time when both his public and
p,ivate chiraeter, have been wantoniy and
icandaloufly attacked in frvcral public papers
OF this its,e, and of our iull INTERPRETATION
ot thoie Publications. iIR
The Ieiolutions were read, when vsri.
ETY. OF motions were iuee,fiy,ly made by
Mr.. Potter, ia order TO Prveat ihcit p.hing
the hooe. The qaeaion. however, was ar
ieog'h taken, and wa, carried in the aihrmz-
tive by great maj 'rity. TIE ref5lasions.
we're as folloxs:
State of Rhode. Iiland and provi-
dence Plantations.
In General AEmby, Odober SsDIon,
ii. d. 1901.
EORASMUCH as feveral Pub
T. licalions have of late been
made, in acertain News Paper prin-
ted at Providence by Bennett Whec-
Ter, called the United States Chron-
icle, laundering and deiaming the
Governor, Supreme Court, and
other conitituted Authorities Of this
State, one Of which Publications
was lubicribed by Jobn Dorronfc,
Re/oiued, Thar in the Opinion
of this General Ailembly, the laid
Publications tend to difcredit this
State abroad, and to diiquiet the
good People of this State, by weak
ening public Confidence in the con.
fiiiuted Authorities thereof.
Rs)obv<d, That in the Opinion
of this General Aiiemb!y, His Ex-
cellency the Governor, the Su.
preme Court, and the other conGi-
tuted Authorities of this State, are
well entitled TO the public Conf
dence, and have delerved we'll Of
their Fellow, Citizens, by faithful
and meritorious Execurion cf the
Iruas repoIed in them by the
People. ~ 81
V0ted, That the above Refolu-
tions be publilhed, for three weeks
fucceflively, in ali the News-papers
printed in this State.
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