Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1836-01-28

Gocchland and other members Of his party finch the
hnal voter We told that the people suffering for
peutionswhere is the evidence of the anxiety of the
people ON the subject, DO the Democratic Republican
are their instruconsi Will five ten of those gentle
men rise in their seats and say ta they were
in regard toit at the Spring Elec,onsS
Mr. WATKINS said, that he declared Mt his clecticn
that he should take the earliest opportunity TO ende
to remove the stigma which had been cast on the Prrs
dent by factious Senate.
MIR. WfrcuKR This is but one Ay,o AL !.
'here i've or ten on this floor who will soy that they
were SO instructed, will they say that they are in
upon them 10 saw
The SrrAKER called Mr. w. to order 1t was out OF
order TO in,errogaie members in this way
Dir. WIrcnER wish to know who is and who is
not instructed on this subject.
Scvera aud said the yconsidercd them
subjcct] - N
The SPEAKER called vchemcntly 10 order.
Mr.. WircnrR. | understand that nine gentlemen
have risen to my call and say they are instructed
MIR. HAYS rose and sad--and the member from Levi,
makes the tenth.
mr.. WIrsos of b, rose, and said he had expressed
himself in favor OF this measure, publicly ut home both
before and after the election last spring: and thn, he no
heves ms opinions on this subject were there fully
The SpKAKER again called 10 order The gep,Ic,,,
hau no right to discuss this question.
nir. WrrcnEn ! wish to remember the gentlemen
VINO nave avowcd that they instructed i'm order
they may be reported back to the people
Inc SPEAKER demonstrated with Mr. w for HAVING
ri mon,
mad nothing to do with the pospone,ncnt of the order
the day. " - ,'S o'"s' "
MIR WircuER said he had argued that members ,vc RI
no instructed on THIS SUBJECT 10 shew that there was no
evidence OF the anxiety of the people on the sbct md
therefore that the objections offered to the n,
were groundess lie thought when the Legislature had
SO much TO do and when little had already been done
that the businesses of the Legislature ought NOT 70 h
neglected without strong reasons were pven for il IT,
gentleman from Botetourt SAYS that his n,r b,s 10Y
consumed the time of the House, that we have made the
speeches which occasioned it, But who made The mo
uons which caused the speeches Go TO the
ana you VIII sce-besides, had the Democratic Kcpub
ca party seen ut, they might have prevented the de-
lay ny the strength of their majority.
MT. SARrER rose merely to make a remark in conse
qucnce OF the allusion of the gentleman from Buck;n
nam 10 the shiDgDg the country with Ranks md
obcr corporations Mr. c. did not stand here Tho odvo
cate Oh BANKS lie represented people who had as l,le
interest In Banks or Banking, any in the Common
wealth But he acting in the capacity of cnirmap
Oh acommee, TO which he had been appointcd-and n.
suci' had duty to perform. The gentleman from Il
saiu una. the petitions did not from the coun.
try out from the towns Mr. C. supposed that the
had right to petition the Legislature and thai tbe
Peons were entitled to equal respect with those o
olher citizens But the gentleman was mistaken in s,n
posing that the petitions which had been received
extensively from the towns The petition of the czens
OF berkeley, Tor instance, signed almost mani
niousiy by the citizens of the whole COUNTY Tho rcr
ue'iah aiuson to the panic not of much WEIGHT
lie seems to think that the towns were tho n, nc mn,
OF former day. But this ord panic was c,h,i;,;o
term, which had exercised necromanc mover
IL was entitled TO, and which Mr. c. hoped would soon
become obsolete in the in which it had been so nc
ten used. 100 " % o'-
The Ayes and Noes were then taken and tho MOTIF,
10 postpone was rejected, as formerly reported