The Arkansas advocate., 1835-11-06

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 Our readers will see by the Legislative proceedings, that MT. Evans of Washington, on Saturday last, i've love to be precise where distinguished men are concerned, in- troduced a resolution in the House of Repre- tsentatives, accommodating us, and forbid ding us the privilege of copying from the re- cords-because We had said that their clerk wrote hand little worse than our own.g 1 That was a considerable charge we confessZ but the consequences were more awful than we had anticipated. They came within dozen votes of putting us under interdict. Washington is most distinguished county. Last session talented man from that county introduced a bill for .torciag Editors to give up the names of anonymous correspondents. We thought then that the county had outdone l itself--but another Phoenix arose out of the ashes of the former delegation. We wonder they did not make an order to fine us for con- tempt! The offence might even have sub- {jected us to an indictment for scaadal,tas mag uatum-for the fesa maestas of the Clerk. Why did not the House arraign the Council for contempt, when the latter body sent back a message written by this same clerk, with in- 1 formation that it could neither be read nor un- derstood! We should like to know what it was supposed we would care for their censure. We do not intend to do them any wrong- and we thank Heaven that they are not our censors. 1.-the gentleman from Washington thought that he had arrived at that dignity, he was mistaken. We owe the Legislature, as c body, no favors. To many of it's mem- bers individually, we owe friendship, good will, and justice-no more. The House of Representatives did us no favor by allowing us to copy from the journals. We did them l as great a kindness in that matter as they did us-and as we did not make the lowest bid for the public printing, we see no right they had to say when, and on what subjects, we should speak or be silent. The four or five members who voted with Mr. Onesimus Evans, have immortalized themselves. They can go home in blaze of glory-but we fear that the wisdom which they displayed and expended in that vote, will leave them poorly supplied for the remainder of their lives. We cheerfally comply with the request of Messrs ELLIs and PEEL, in publishing the following note We certainly did mistake their vote, owing to the ambiguity of the en- 1 try in the journals. The votes have been published, on all the amendments, in our pa per, and can be referred to. When the Bill came back from the Council with an amend ment, MT. Walker of Washington offered an- other amendment, (being the apportionnent ] in the Bill as it now stands.) Against this amendment Mcssrs. Ellis and Peel voted.- The yeas and nays not having been called on the final passage in the House, we took the last record of the yeas and nays as that vote. The following is the entry in the journals of the House of the final action there upon the Bill.
 'The bill, to elect members to a Conven- ton, Soc. was taken up, when Mr. Walker of Washington offered an amendment to the amendment made by fhe Council; and the question being on agreeing to the amend ment, the yeas ard rays were called for, and were as follows:
 Yeas-[As given in our last.I
 ''-Nays-Messrs. Ellis, Peel, Shaw, Scruggs, Walker of Hampstead, and Mir. Speaker-6. ''So the amendment to the amendment made by the Council was adopted, and the bill returned to the Council for concurrence therein.'
 MR. PIKE:
 Dear Sir-In your paper of the 3oth ul- tlmo, you have placed the undersigned among those who voted against the fnak passage of the Bill authorizing the Territo< ry of Arkansas to form Constitution, pre- paratory to its admission into the Union as State. You will confer favor on us by correcting the error. It was the amend. ment offered by MT. Walker of Washing ton, to the amendment from the Council, we voted against.
 The question was then, shall the Bif pass with the amendments? The yeas and nays were not called for. We, in obedience to the instructions of our constituents, yield- eG the minor consideration of the amend ment to the all important subject of the Bill, and voted in the affirmative.
 Yours respectfully,
 N. D. ELLIS,