The Arkansas advocate., 1831-02-09
aII Tae motion was agreed to upon a division by s.sas;,od nays, by the following vote: Yeas, l II

The resolution was aCcoTdlHSiy tdAtut up.
 Mr. Jols,ss said, he should refrain from troub- tng the House with any remarks on the merits o inc question, inasn.nch as gentlemen had al yeady had sufficient opportunities of forming q judgment respecting them. He was ofopinon, that in order to be enabled to progress with public business, the House should deyoteits time to it's appropriate duties, instead of repairing daily to the Senate.
 MT. Haynes said, that neither was 1t his in tention to occupy the time of the House unne- cessariy; but he thought it requisite to submit few observations upon the resolution. He trusted that his habits in that House were suffl- .cenHy known to exonerate him from the charge of ofretarding the public business. He conceived that the House should continue to attend the Impeachment. As they had heard the testimot ny for the prosecution, It was, Tn hls Judgment, no more than proper that they should listen to that for the defence also. He would not, there fore. reeapituate what he had said, when lie had the honor to address thena before upon this subject.
 Tie SPEAKER said that the question now was not the adoption of the resolution, but only whether they should proceed to its considera- ton.
 Mr. Haynes said his remarks were applicable to that proposition. He repeated that if was his conviction there were sufficient reasons for the attendance of the House in theSenate Cham her. The committee, on their return, had, on |. pror day, informed them that the testimony for the impeachment was closed. We, said Mir. II. were then, in common justice, called upon to listen to the defence; for was it right, was it proper, was it even delicate, after attending there every day, he believed, but one, to refrain from hearing what the accused party, on so so- lemn an occasion as the impeachment of a Judge, had to say in his vindieation? He, Mr. Fl, had formed a decided opinion on the merits of the case; but in common justice to the de fendant. he should not mention It.
 Mr. Spencen-of New- York, said that the ma nagers had closed the testimony they had to give, and if was their opinion that the evidence to be adduced on the part of the respondent, would not occupy more than two days. The written dispositions of three witnesses for the ac- eused had been drawn up, and agreed to on both sides to be received as evidence, at least with few exceptions; and it was presumed that the oral examination would not continue for more than the period he had specified. The princi- pal part3of the time occupied in giving the tes- tinanv for the prosecution had been consumed in the cross-examination of aIr. Lawless.
 MT. Pettis said he could not perceive how, or by what means, any person could say that the time of the examination would not extend be- yond two days. For all that he. Mir P. saw, it might be as long as the former oae; and because we had attended on other days, ought we 10 continue to attend, and put off day after day the public business? He had observed. or the days he had attended the Court, that there were never more than 6ftyand scarcely ever more than thir- ty of the members of the House in the Senate Chamber, which shows that we shall always be able 10 form quorum.
 A farther discussion cnsued, in which Mfr. Spencer, of New York, and MT. Ho6iaan took part, and after the taking of another question by yeas and nays, on q motion Of Mr. Ho6faan to lay the resolution on tn table, tIe farther con sideration of the subject was arrested by the ex- piraton of tho allotted hour.
 Jan. 4.--TThe resolution respecting the non- attendance of the House in the Senate Cham bcr, during the trial of Judge Peck, was taken up, and after considerable discussion, MT. Stows offered the following, as modification of MT. Johns proposition, which was adopted:]
 Resoloed, That the managers appointed to con duct the impeachment of James H. Peck, be in- structed to attend the trial Of the said chment at such time as the Senlte shall appoint for that purpose, and that the attendance of the House be dispensed with until otherwise ordered ny the House; and that the clerk communicate the rcgu- fatlon to the Senate.
 Mr. WictliH. from the Committee on Public Lands, reported, without amendment, the bill from the Senate to extend the time for locating land to certain purchasers of public lands.
 Mir. Wichlifs stated, that if the bill passed, it was advisable it should be passed at as carly q period as possible. as the time allowed by the act now Tn operation, expired on the first of July. IIe moved. therefore that if he made the order of the day for this day week. The motion was agreed to.
 The bill to extend the time for locating dona. lion claims for lands in the territory of Arkan- sas, was read a third time. and PASSED.
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