Litchfield enquirer., 1838-02-15
WASHINGTON, Feb. 5, 1888. MISSISSIPPI ELECTION.

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 The battle is over! the Mississippi contes- ted election decided! Mississippi disfran- chised, and the State not represented, and ac- cording to the discussion of the House, can- not be represented during the present Con- gress. The House, from three to seven o. clock, was like Bedlam of rcigning Bed lamites, where man might as well attempt to preserve order, as among the representa- tivoe of the -Foople--A cull of the House designed to drum up recruits, and bring in the members from all parts of the capitol and from all quarters of the city-bcgun between three and four o'clock. Of 24O members of Congress, 236 were in the city. Horses and carriages, messengers and officers, were sent in all directions to bring in the lost and scat tered flock. The friends of the claimants, in the city, to man, were early at their posts, and ready to bring the vote 10 trial, and to close the discussion. Not SO the Ad- ministration members. A Mir. Fletcher of Vermont, the only Administration member from the Green Mountain State, appeared in the Hall looking like the ghost of Hamlet's father, declaring that tho importance of the question, and nothing more, had brought him from his sick bed. MT. Murray, from Ken lucky, whose physician had given him or ders not to leave his room or his bed, was led in by two members, looking more like ono who had been taken from under the earth, than living man upon it's surface.- Pale, dejected, seemingly from his death bed, with no power to lift his hand to his head or to support his weight, he had been dragged. apparently from the burial-place of his res- urrection, for the purpose of lending himself to the services of, his party. By and by came Mir. Snyder, from Illinois, as was told, with his grave clothes upon him, pale, wan, and woe-begonc, looking us though he too had been
 Doomd for certain time to walk the night,
 And for the day, confined to fast in fire"
 Thus the lame, the halt, the blind, the sick of the palsy, the deaf, and the dumb were all brought in. The doors were opened, and af- ter prolonged and hideous cries of "question" and "order," "order'' and "question," MT. Towards Resolution come up for action, reading thus:
 Resolved, That Sergeant s. Prentiss and Thomes c. Word are not entitled to seats in the twenty-fitth Congress" The question came up on the adoption of the Resolution, clouds und thick darkness being over the re- suit. and breathless silence reigned through out the Hall. No loud voice or even whis- per was heard among an immense crowd of persons who filled every part of the House. The decision was announced precisely at quarter to 5, and the vote stood 117 in favor of tue Resolution, and IF against it! A loud and satisfactory expression of applause went through the Hall from the friends of the Ad- ministration upon the floor of the House, and from two or three friends of the party and the sitting members in the galleries of the House. moments intermission followed, and the Speaker said, The Chair potes tn tke gD;rnGtire! TIE RESOLUTION IS ApoPTED!"
 Mr. Wise. of Virginia. here sprung for tho floor, and caught the Speakers eye. Ad. dressing hin,self,o the Chair. he poured forth torrent ofindignant dcnunciatlon--not per. soMll, however-upon the Speaker and the party for tho votes they had given, and the decision that had been made.
 Mr. Boon, Of Indiana-the solitary and alone, wholc.hog, snapplng turtle, halC.horee. and.hnlf.allgal0r V. B. member from India. nn-foll0wed next with boast thai tho de. clslon had beon made on party grounds, and throat Co those of hls party who had not gono tho whole with him. 4 leEen members followed the "collnr man." Tho loud r0ar' Ing. Buckeye from cinclnnRll, endoaV' ored lo ApeRk first by tho force of his lungs with Q hlonlOrlAn V0lc0 he clled--" Mt, bpeAkerA" aud began . speech. An0th' ei eaElIqHaka Pumbllng SFy of aqNss. ton." glissIaOA." 1" 0sDss." eipER," follow.