The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1837-09-09
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
"WEDNESDAY, September 9th

WEDNESDAY, ocPtcihoef
On motion of Mr. ALLEN, Of Vermont the clerk
directed to furnish each member with printed dia-
PRINTER TO THE HOUSE
The House having then resumed the unfinished bust
Of yesterday, which the election Of Printer
this House.
Mr.. BRONSON, of N. York, offered a resolution
that the farther ballong be suspended until the third
Monday Of September instant and that in the mean
while the Clerk of the House be authorised to employ
somebody to execute the printing ordered by the House.
the same terms as heretofore prescribed
Mr.. GUSHING opposed the resolution, proposing
do indirectly what the House. by avote Of l25 to iOO
had yesterday refused to do.
Mr.. GRENNELL moved to lay the resolution on
the table.
On this motion Mr. HAYNES demanded the yeas
and nays; which. being ordered and TAKEN resulted
follows, viz. Yeas l09, nays ia the motion to
lay the table rejected.
The question then recurring on the resolution,
Mr.. PICKENS Of South Carolina, offered amend
ment requiring that the contract for printing should be
given the lowest bidder under the regulations hereto
fore prescribed for the execution Of the work in the
luton Of 1872 and that this arrangement should continue
until the House should otherwise direct Mr. p depre
Gated with great warmth, the connexion subsistng be-
the House and the political press through which
the public money employed to defame and blacken
the best and purest men Of the country, and urged that
more favorable time than the present could be pre-
scented for eectng entire and perpetual separation of
the Press from this House
Mr. SHERROD WILLIAMS moved an amendment
to the amendment, containing proviso that the work
should be let to person who not editor OF
any newspaper.
After brief discussion, however, Mr.. WILLIAMS
withdrew it.
Mr. COLES, of Virginia, offered an amendment to
the amendment to strike out all the latter part Of and
substitute the appointment Of committee inquire in
the expediency Of separating the emolumens Of the
printing done for this House from the newspaper presses
of the country; but it rejected without debate.
Mr.. WISE opposed the amendment. The effect Of
it, he said would be to give the whole Of the patronage
of the House to the Globe in addition to the patronage
Of the Senate and of the Executive which it had,
for the Globe could well afford become the lowest
bidder for the work. He wished, moreover he said,
continue the ballong, and give the CONSERVATIVES,
proud and honorable name for party-a chance.
He wished also to who will give way in this strug
gle.
After discussion, in which Messrs McKENNAN,
WISE, UNDERWOOD, ROBERTSON, PICKENS,
BRIGGS, GLASCOCK, and HOFFMAN TODD part,
Mr. REED moved an amendment requiring that the
quality Of the paper used be provided for in the contract,
which agreed to,
The amendment of Mr.. PICKENS was then carried
by yeas and nays as follows; Yeas liz, nays 100.
Mr. WISE moved q substitute for the resolution
amended, proposition, for the equal distribution
Of the printing during the present session, between the
Intelligencor and the Madisonisn
Mr. McKENNAN moved to lay the whole subject
on the table; agreed to-
The House then resumed the ballotings for Printer
Messrs l.. WILLIAMS, HUMEN and CLARKE act
ing as Telers, and the results were as follows