Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1837-02-08

propriety.
Mr.. Grundy moved that the Senate pro-
coed 10 The election ola President pro tenn
pore, which was agreed to.
The ballots being counted, the vote
stood as follows; For W. r. King &C.
S. l.. Southland III Clay II. Buch- !
anan 1T. Ewing, of Ohio, Is. Prem
tiss |.
So that Mr.. King, Of Alabama, was de-
cIared du! y elected.
MONDAY, Jan. 3O.-In Senate, Mr..
Clay moved to take up the memorial Of
the Colonization Society, praying for a
charter Opposition being manifested, the
yeas and nays We're ordered, and the
question being taken was decided as fol-
lows: yeas lG, nays e.
In the House abolition petitions were
presented by several members from Maine
and Massachusetts.
Mr.. Adams rose and said he had sever
! al petitions from different quarters, some
praying for the abolition OF slavery and
the slave trade in the District of CoIum.
bla, and others praying for the prohibition
Of the domestic, internal, and coast-wIse
slave trade in the United States.
He asked leave of the House to address
; them in favor of a motion to have these
petitions read. Objections being made,
Mr. Adams said he wished to have ii
recorded on the Journal, that he asked
! leave to address the House in favor of the
reading Of these pctitons-and he wished
to have the yeas and nays on the motion.
j At the suggestion Of the Chair, Mr.
Albums moved the suspension ofthe rules
for the purpose above indicated, and
thereon he asked the yeas and nays, which
were ordered.
The question being taken, it was de-
Cldpd IN the negative, yeas s., nays l2j.
Mr.. Adams rose and presented 4 me-
mortal from sundry citizens Of Philade-
phia, not for the abolition of slavery, but
In opposition to the annexation of Texas
He asked that it be read.
The Chair said, as it did not appear
that the memorial related to slavery, it
did not come within the rule recurring
certain papers to be laid on the table.
Mr.. Adams wished to be understood
on that point. He had no; undertaken 10
say that it did not relate TO the slave
; question.
Mr.. Hays objected to the rea ling ofthe
petition
Mr. Adams asked the yeas and NAYS or
the question whether the memorial should
be read.
, The Speaker here said, that having
looked into the paper, he found that it dix
relate to the question Of slavery, and there
fore 1t must lie on the table, under tn,
order of the House, without reading.
MIR. Adams appealed from the decision
The Chair said that it was only neces
cary to 6 Iance at the petition to See that
falls within the order.
Mr.. Adams" deny it.
! The Chair Order."
e Mr.. Adams asked for the yeas ane
), nays on his appeal, and they were ordered
= Mr.. Philips asked the reading Of tn,
petitiOn-it it was not read, he asked t
. be excused from voting on the question
The Chair stated the question again a
length.
:, Mr.. Robertson moved to lay the app, a
and the whole subject on the table
. The yeas and nays were ordered, anc
5 Mr.. r. then withdrew his motion.
/ The Speaker directed the memorial t.
}, be read, in order that the House Nigh
t. decide upon the appeal.
The memorial was read. 1t is from al
Ants avery Association Of t>> city an
y county of Philadelphia, remonstratin
d against the recognition of the indepen
dence of Texas, as a violation of the i'm
mutabie princi pies of national justice-an
representing that the insurrection in Texa
was instigated and supported by citizen
= of the United States; and that its mail
Y. object was 10 open vast slave market l.
that country, and to give a new impuls
'e both to the foreign AMI the domestic sIav
S. trad-.
Of MIR. Mercer stated it as his opinion thu
rs the memorial did not come within tn
spiriu of the order Of the House, and thu
n the decision of the Chair was erroneous
h Mr. Halves renewed the motion to la
V the appeal and the whole subject on tn
d table.
p The yeas and nays were ordered o
IS this motion and were-yeas 1871, nays 6;
n Mr.. Adams presented a petition fror
- 200 citizens Of Kingston, town in hi
Of district, praying the abolition of Saver
r IN the District Of Columbia. He move
that it be read.
le The Chair remarked that the order di
b. not permit the reading OF the petition
le MIR. Adams. appeal from that deci
H. ion. Not one word in that order direct
IN that the petition shall not be read.
- The Chair stated the ouesticn
Mr.. Jarvis moved that the appeal lie O
n the table-agreed to-
re MIR. Adams presented several other pc
d, tltlons OF the same sort, the reading {
le which he uired. and the SPEAKER ha,