The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1827-05-10

exert tuefuStNes III ilS oeNuVot husbus
rather to the good sense OF the people to
sustain il.
1.-THE Speaker here interrupted mr.. 7.
and said he thought the allusion Irrelevant.
Mr. resumed. NO Sir; beg leave to diff |
fer from the Chair; do not consider 1t ir-
relevant. We are trying to get at the
sentiments Of the people, upon this &C I,
and the effect of these public discussions
of the measure, through the medium Of ad-
dresses and appeals to the people,by means
of the press, is the criterion by which we
are to test the opinion OF the people. A
fair opportunity has been given to the OPP
ponents Of the bill TO urge their objections,
and it has been improved with great zeal
and industry. The attention OF the people
has been again and again called to this
subject, and they have expressed their o.
pinIons as distinctly as they can be ex-
pressed upon any act of this Legislature.
That opinion has been favorable, and they
have returned here the same men who
passed the bill in January, free in most ca
ses, to act precisely as they had done, when
the bill passed in January. Can this be
misconstrued or mistaken by any one? II
is not necessary TO go into discussion OF
the pTacireh aiyS aiscGssed i ana an It now how
belongs to those who ask for its repeal, to
show that the people are opposed to IT,
and that strong reasons exist why it should
be repealed before it has gone into ope-
ration.
Mr. Horsie replied--l must confess my
worthy friend from Providence has acknow-
ledged he had time to consider. Every
member knows what intend to do. IT'S
to repeal this law. Let my worthy friend
go round into the country, and he will hear
what the people talk about it. They are
all opposed to it, and my constituents sent
me here to have it repealed. had no idea
it was so obnoxious to the people--any act
this House ever passed--as this.
[Queston,w n,was called for by several MEM
bers.
Mr.. Ha,ard said he understood there
was considerable objection to that part of
the act requiring the judges to charge the
jury on matters of law. For one he was
unwilling to lose the act on that ground,
and if, in the vote to be taken, the House
decided against the repeal, he would move
TO have that section stricken out, with
view to take the sense Of the House upon
1t.
Mr.. Horsie.--I wish to interrupt Mr..
wait till this bill on your Honor's table is
disposed of, and then fine has any other
bill to bring up, we will hear him.
Mr. Harard--The worthy member is
undoubtedly right, and am much obliged
to that gentleman for instructing Inc, cs
pccially on point OF order. l was going
to say
Mr.. Horsie.--Better bring up your mat
ters in a seasonable time, mr. Hazard.
The question was loudly called for, and
the Speaker called upon the members to
vote by ayes and nays: repeal or no rc-
peal
Mr.. Horsie.--The question is to be ia.
ken, repeal or not that act in January.
The question WAS then taken and the
ayes and nays stood as follows.
For Repeaiing. Dutce Arnold ofWar.
wick, Daniel G. Champln and Avery
Browning of Exeter, John Brown, Little
Compton, James Aldrich and George Bur
ton, Cranston, Gnstructed) Edward Barber
Hopkinton, Bradford Clark and Thomas
Reynolds, Richmond; VIM. Chafee and
VIM. Harris, North Providence; Gideon
Greene and Anthony Olin, West Green
witch Ginstructod) Thomas Hoxsie and JOS
Wilcox I'd Char 'estown, INSTRUCTED verbal.
ly) Geo. Hawkins, Coventry, Daniel How
ard Jr. and Emery Hop kins, Foster; Elisha
r. Potter, and John Watson, South Kings.
town. Arnold Spear, Smthfeld, Instruct
ed,) William Smith and Nathan X Stone,
Scituate, Instructed Thomas Tillinghast,
East Greenwich; Ephram Thayer, Burrill.
Vile 1nstructed.) 25.
Against the Repeai.--Lemuel II. Arnold,
Christopher Barker, James Bowea Isaac
Champlin, Noel Coggesball, Nathan F.
Dixon, Pardon Gray, Levi Halle, Stanford
Newell. Josiah s. Peckham, Jediah Shaw,
Nathaniel Smith. George w. Tllinghost,
Thomas II. Watson, Christopher Allen,
Nathaniel Bullock, Joseph Child, Daniel
Cornell, Levi Cooke, Job Durfee, Benz.
Hazard, George Knowles, Benjamin Norris,
Joseph Rogers, Hale NJ. Sisson, Eleazer
Trevett, Joseph ]. Tillinghast, Joseph
Whipple, Henry Bull, Stephen Belknap,
Abner Chase, Cyrus Cooke, Henry Y.
Cranston, John b. Francis, Thomas Holden,
Jethro Lapham, Thomas Potter, Jr. Edward
Simmons, James +. Simmons, Joseph l..
Tillinghast, Solomon G.. Weaver--4l.
(Absent, Eleathan w. Babcock, ofBop.
kinton; Caleb Earle, Providence: John
VAUGHN, Coventry; Thomas Remington of
Warwick, and the second Representative
from New -Shorcham.--5.
Ofthe 20 Representatives from .Newport
county, one only was absent, and all the
rest, except mr.. Brown, Of Little Compton,
voted against the repeal.
Providence County Of 90 Representa-
tives, are absent: for the repeal 10, Of
which four were instructed, who had for
mally voted for the bill: against the repeal,
IL.
Washington County of Is Representa-