Cheraw gazette. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1835-1838, 1836-06-21
Reso1ycd That the Committee on Mill:

Resolucd, That the Committee on Mill:
tary Affairs be instructed to inquire into the
expediency of placing at the disposal ofthe
Governor ofthe State of Louisiana, for the
use ofthat State, cannon, carriages, and all
the necessary implements and appendages
thereto, for three companies of light artille-
~, so long as hostilities may be apprehend-
cd from the Indians on the Western frontier
Of said State.
Michigan and arkansas, juno 9. Alter
spending the morning upon various bills
Of little public interest, the House resolved
itself into Committee of the whole on the
bills for the admission ofN1ichigan and Ar
kansas into the Union. The Committee
remained in session throughout the day, all
night, and till after IL o'clock next day,
when it rose and reported the bills to the
House. In the course ofthe night MIR. A.
dams moved amendments to the Arkansas
bill that "nothing in this act shall be Con-
strued as an assent of Congress TO the arh-
Gle in the constitution of the said State in re-
lation to slavery and the emancipation Of
slaves" Lost by vote Of SO to 80. Mr..
Slade moved I'm amendment to prevent sla-
very in Arkansas. Rejected. State ofthe-
vote not given in the published report.
The National [ntelligencer in accounting
for this protracted session says:
The sitting of the House, however,
which began at 10 O'Clock A. Nj. on
Thursday, and ended at ii O'Clock yes
terddy, is absolutely without precedent
in our history, ifnot in all the history of
legislation. 1t was a, Herculean task for
those members who persevered to the end,
and a vexatious and painful trial to the
constitutions of those who were at last
obliged to seek repose, many of whom
were brought out of their beds in the dead
of the night, BY the officers ofthe House,
to replenish the House, and enable it to
keep quorum.
The purpose of this great effort on the
part of the Majority may, we suppose be
stated plainly here, without offence TO any
one, because it is purpose which no IN
viduaI in that majority would desire to con-
ceal. The bills which have passed the
Senate, for the admission of Arkansas and
Michigan as States into the Union, were
before the House as in committee OF the
whole: that is, the Speakers Chair is fill
ed, in such case, by another Member, who
becomes Chairman of the House, which,
by legal fiction is then called commit
tee. Whilst in committee, the Previous
Question is silent nor can the Yeas and
Nays be taken. There is no way, there
fore, of ending, any debate in committee
of the whole, if the minority persist in it,
whatever may be the will ofthe majority
but by sitting 1t out. The majority in the
case before US were determined to get
these bills out Of committee of the whole,
that, being reported to the House (as they
have been,) they might be subject to the
operation of the Previous Question. The
majority of the House is anxious, of all
things, that these bills should pass; and
that they should pass ,uithout amendment
apprehending that their hnal passage would
be endangered by having to 60 back to the
Senate with amendments. By resortIns
TO the Previous Question, the majority
having succeeded in forcing the committee
of the whole to report the bills to the House
will have it in their power, If they chose,
when the bills again come up, to preclude
both debate and amendment, and bring
the House at once to direct question on
the passage ofthe Bills,
Saturday, June II.
During the reading OF the Journal re-
porter named Wheeler made an attack
upon another reporter named Codd IN the
presence of the House. They were taken
in custody by the sergeant at arms; but
Codd was afterwards released, on the
ground that he had committed no breach
Of privilege.
The bills for the admission OF Michi-
Gan and Arkansas both passed their Sc
cond and third reading by large maJor'tles'
allamendments and discussion being cut
off by the previous question.