Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Mass.) 1828-1830, 1828-06-03

Sprague of Plymouth, and Parker.
On Agriculture, Messrs. Fiske, La
throp of Bristol, and Bowman.
On Bills an the I'd reading, Messrs.
Strong, Lathrop of Hampden, Jarvis,
Adam, Duncan, and Barnard.
On Engrossed Bills, Messrs. Sprague
of Plymouth, Fiske, Thorndike, La
throp from Bristol, and Pope.
Rev. DIR. jerks was chosen chaplain OF
the Senate on the second ballot.
On Saturday no business of interest was
transacted in the Senate excepting the
bill providing for the choice Of presiden-
tial electors which was taken into new
draft and assigned for tomorrow. The
House will wait for this bill before they
take up the subject for discussion.
In the House on Wednesday the MEM
bers were called to order by Mr.. Russell
of Boston, and quorum having been as
certained to be present, the Governour,
attended by the 1t. GOVERNOR and Coun-
Gil, came in and administered the oaths
of office. Pelham w. Warren was re-
chosen Clerk by 2s2 out of 2s4 votes.
The two scattering votes, however, were
evidently thrown in by mistake. There
were three ballots for Speaker before
a choice was made. On the first, Mr..
Calhoun of Springfield had l0l votes, Mr..
Phillips of Salem SO, Mr.. Fuller of Cam
bridge rs, and scattering votes for Messrs.
Shaw, Sedgwick, M'Kay, &c. &c. On
the second Mr.. Calhoun had l52, Mr..
Phillips 10S, Mr.. Fuller As. On the third
Mr.. Calhoun had PA, Mr.. Phillips II, Mr..
Fuller 5. Mr.. Calhoun was therefore de-
clared chosen. He took the chair and
made short but pertinent and ingenious
acknowledgment to the House for the no.
nour conferred upon him. The choice
fell upon the right one. Mr.. Fuller, in
deed, has every qualification of talents, ex-
perience, gentlemanly department, and
responsibility, but wants manner and
voice-two things that are indispensable.
Some members seemed at first, as it was
said, unwilling to vote for Mr.. C. because
they feared his administration propensities
were not sufficiently vigorous. They
judged from the circumstance of his OPP
posing the famous resolves once and again
brought into the House last year. Other
gentlemen, too, known to be friendly to
the National Administration, were of the
same mind as Mr.. c. and he, as we'll as
they, is known to be friendly to the plain
tiff as the case now stands in the action of
Adams VS.. jackson. This is all right !;
but the joke is carried too far; for how
ever friendly you may be to the re-elec-
ton of Mr.. Adams, you are at once sus-
pected of hostility to him, unless you will
place yourself in the front ranks and shout
Hosanna and fall down and-not worship
but almost worship him. The princi-
pie, the country, seem swallowed up in the
After the two branches were organized,
the procession was escorted to the Old
South, where a very appropriate and able
discourse was delivered by Mr.. Walker
of Charlestown. / would attempt an alb
stract had l time. 1t will be printed, and
will probably come to the hands Of most
of your readers. His text was from Exc
dus xviii. 81: Moreover thou shalt pro-
vide out of all the people able men, such
as fear God, men ftruth, hating covetous-
ness, and place such over them, &c.
On Thursday, the committee appointed
for the purpose announced the reelection
of His Excellency Levi Lincoln as Gov.
and Hon. Thomas L. Winthrop as 1t Gov.
for the year. The two branches met in
convention to fill the vacancies in the Sc
nate. Samuel F. Dickinson was chosen
for Hampshire, John A. Parker for Bris-
tol, Robert G. Barnard for Berkshire, and
Joseph Bowman for Worcester. The
principal reasons for choosing the latter ra-
Their than Mr.. Mixter, were that he had
more votes with the people, and that an
understanding existed between the parties
that at the close of this year Mr.. B. should
retire wholly from the contest and give
the County no further trouble.
On Friday Andrew ]. Allen presented
petition praying for lease of the Hud-
son and Providence Rail Roads when
completed, at rent of $780, 900 per an
mum, with security to pay rent into the
Treasury every week. This petition was
laid on the table until the appointment of
the standing committees.
Rev. Henry Ware, jr., on the second
ballot was chosen Chaplain Of the House.
The two branches then met in conven-
ton, and the Goyernour and 1t. Governour
elect came in and took and subscribed the
oaths of Office. The Secretary then made
the usual proclamation. Nine Counsel
lors were then chosen from the Senate.
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