The Arkansas advocate., 1832-06-13
From the Jffatioaat Iateiiigencer
 CONGRESS--MAY I4.

bar oi the House of Representatives. He was allowed to read and to have spread on the journal of the House, a paper protesting against the authority i of the House, bat avowing his submis- sion to it, under the circumstances in which he was placed. The SPEAKER then pronounced the reprinland requi- red by the vote of the House, for the contempt of the House and breach oi privilege thereof, committed by Gen. 8ousToN in the following worlds
 Samuel Houston You have been charged with violation of the rights and privileges of the House of Repre- sentatives, in having offered personal Vi olence to one of its members, for words spoken in debate. In exercising the high and delicate power of ascertaining and vindieating their own privileges, the House have proceeded throughout this investigation, and in relation to your individual rights, with all that de. liberation and caution hich ought to characterize the dignified and moral justice of such an assembly.
 You have been beard inpersonin your epefence-you have been ably and elo- qucntly defended by eminent counsel, and every facility afforded you to place your cause fully and fairly before the House, and to urge upon its eonsidera- ton matters of principle as wei as fact, in explanation and justification of your conduct.
 Whatever the motives CT causes may have been,w which led to the aetofyioleHce committed by you, your conduct has been pronounced, by the solemn judge ment of the House, to be a high breach of their rights and privileges, and to de- mand their marked disapprobation and censUre.
 If, iii fulfilling the order of the House, ] were called upon, as its presiding offi- cer, to reprlmand an individual unedu- lcated and uninformed, it might be ex- peeted that ] should endeavor, as far as l was able, to impress upon him the im- portanee and proprIety of sedulously guarding from violation, the rights and privileges secured to the members of this House by our invaluable constitu- ton. But, when addressing a citizen of your character and intelligence, and one who has himself been honored by the People with a seat in this House, it cannot be necessary that should add to the duty enjoined upon ne, by dwel- ling upon the character orconsequences of the offence with which you have been charged and found guilty. Whatever has tendency to impair the freedom of debate in this House-a freedom no less sacred than the authority of the Constitution itself--or to detract from theindependence ofthe Representatives oi the People, in the rightfuI discharge of their high functions, you are no doubt sensible, must, in the same proportion, weaken and degrade not only the Le- gislature of the nation itself, but the character of our free institutions.
 Your own mind will suggest to you. probably, more suitable reflections than any thing which can say could convey. To those reflections I am prepared to trust; not doubting that, had you at the time considered the act of violence which you have committed, in the light in which it has been regarded by the House, you would have been spared its dsapprobation and censure, and l the duty of declaring to you the result of it.
 l forbear to say more. than to pro- nounce thejudgmentofthe House. which is, that you have been guilty of thigh breach of it's privileges and that yoo be reprimanded therefor, at its Bar by the Speaker, and in obedience to the order of the House l do reprimand you ac- cordingly.
 You will now be conducted from the Bar of the House, and discharged from the custody of the Sergeant-at-Arms.
 On motion of Mir. STANBERY, after considerable intermediate proceedings. resolution was adopted for appoint Ing committee, with power to send tor persons and papers, to examine in- to the allegation of intended fraud in making contracts for the supply of ra- tons to the Indians, in the year 1880.
 Mir. E. COOKE, of Ohio, then pre- sented 10 the House a letter presented to him on Saturday last, by person who gave his name as ALEX. DIMrrRY. which letter was from E. S. DAv1s, one l of the witnesses examined in the late hearing of the case of Gen. HousroN. demanding satisfaction for q question which the letter allenes to hara haon