The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1840-05-28
CONGRESS.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
SATURDAY, May %.

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,,
SATURDAY, May 80
The SPEAKER suggested that, by general con-
sent the business of the morning hour should be dis
pensed with in order to proceed to the disposition of
the business ON the Speakers table, Of which there
Mr.. UNDERWOOD asked to be discharged from
further service the Committee of Privileges, for
reason which the Reporter could not hear
The motion was rejected
Mr.. LINCOLN, (by leave from the Committee
on the Public Buildings reported the Joint resolution
from the Senate in relation TO the statue Of Wash
ington by Grcenough, with amendment, striking
| out the words COMMITTEES on the Library" and in
sorting the words " Secretary Of the Navy"
The amendment concurred in, and the bill
read a third time and passed
| The suggestion Of the Speaker having been ac
ceded TO- the House proceeded to the consideration of
| private bills on the Speakers table
The next business in order the motion sub
mited by Mr.. TuRNEY last evening to reconsider the
vote by which the motion to commit the presumption
bill to the Committee of the Whole the state of the
| Union had been rejected.
| Mr.. TURNEY now moved to postpone the further
consideration OF the motion to reconsider until the bill
now under consideration in Committee of the Whole
on the state of the Union had been disposed of.
i This is the bill commonly known the Sub
treasury bill
Mr. CRABB invited the House to bear in mind
the distinct character of the proposition it was to
|
treasury bill had been disposed of
Mr.. BRIGGS surrexit ad inquirendum, motusne,
81 prevalent esset de vero equals ad indefnitum
postponendum
Mr. SPEAKER replicavit ad berum hominem de
Massachusetensc Mr. Briggs i'd eert,m est qod GER
| turn reddi potesf.
Some further conversation passed. but SO great was
the confusion that the Reporter could hear nothing
| Of it.
/ Mr. CASEY said that the effect Of the motion to
postpone must be to defeat the bill. He wanted to
know who would sanction such motion, and there
fore called for the yeas and nays, which were ordered
and, being taken were yeas %, nays lag,
So the motion to postpone the motion to reconsider
| was rejected.
And the question recurring on the motion TO recon-
slider
Mr.. CHAPMAN moved the previous question !
4 And the main question was ordered to be taken.
Mr.. CRABB asked the yeas and nays; which
were ordered.
And the main question (being on the motion to re-
consider the vote by which the motion to commit the
emption bill to the Committee ofthe Whole on the
state OF the Union had been reected) then taken
and decided in the negative-Yeas SO, nays 81
So the vote not reconsidered and the bill comes
up as the first business the Speakers table the
question Of engrossment.
EVENING SESSION.
The bill to refund fine imposed on the late Mat
thew Lyon, under the sediton law, to his heirs and
Mr.. LINCOLN was proceeding with much ear
nestness in opposition to the bill the ground that
the fine to be RENTED had never been paid by Mr..
MI W. THOMPSON broke in with an express
SION of regret that Mr. L. should waste his acknow.
lodged talents on such ground, when he would UNI
dertake TO demonstrate the contrary as to satisfy
every the floor and to obtain the gentleman
own vote He then went into the evidence before the
committee, including the sentence Of the court inn
posing the fine and imprisonment, and the sheriff
discharge of Mr. Lyon, whence he inferred that the
fine must have been paid he never could have been
discharged, Mr.. t.. with his accustomed ardor, pro-
tested against having the Treasury polluted by retain
ing the money; whence, indeed he traced the caami
ties which had fallen that treasury the just ven
/ geance OF God
i Nj. WELLER, after expressing his hearty assent
in the conclusions of Mr. I. moved the previous
question: but consented to withdraw it at the request
4 Mr.. POPE who stated his having been personally
intimate with Mr. Lyon, and acquainted with the
facts Of the 1t was generally understood that
the money had been made up by Mr. Lyons friends,
and paid TO or for him. Mr. P then, according to his
pledge renewed the motion for the previous question:
4 Mr.. PETRlKIN moved call Of the House, but 1t
was not in order
Mr.. SLADE earnestly appealed to have the motion
for the previous question Withdrawn, when
Mr.. WELLER consented to have the previous
question withdrawn and
Mr.. SLADE went into statement Of the facts of
the case the conviction Of Lyon having taken place
in Mr. SIS district He stated the circumstances of
indGnity accompanying the imprisonment-his being
paraded through the district thrown into loathsome
JAIL and deprived of the Of pen, ink, and paper
The democrats of the day gatheredin great assembly
round the jail-an assembly not cqualled by any Mr..
s. had seem the grand convention at Balti-
more-and voluntary contribution called for and
taken up but before it could be applied the fine had
been paid, either through the intervention Of Col.
Lyons friends in another county, by his own
means AS soon Lyon was at the Jail door, he
proclaimed that he on his way to Congress. The
cavalcadc which attended him was half mile long
stopped at his fathers house and there all parook of
cakes and hard cider in true democratic style. Mr.
s. did not believe the fine had been RENTED by
Jefferson or by Congress.
Mr. S. concluded by renewing the motion for the
previous question.
A question of order arose to the time when the
bill should have its third reading.
The previous question was seconded, put, and car
rcd and the bill ordered TO be read third time
now it was read accordingly, when
| Mr. TURNEY moved the previous question, which
was seconded put and carried, and the main question
being ON the passage of the bill, it decided by
yeas and nays Yeas ia, naysl 10.
So the bill passed
And then the House adjourned.