Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1840-1842, 1842-01-07

Now, Mir A. said, he did no, wish to tsansgtess the
rules of the House, but he should like TO know from
which of TIE dis,insu shed persons he had named,
the seGueman from New Hampshire (Mr Butke)
drew his lineage.
MIR BURKE said he would answer the gentle
mans question in the Yankee way, by asking him
another. lie would ask the gentleman from Ten
nessee II he drew his lineage fson Benedict Ar
4 mold.
MIR ARNOLD regretted to see the gentleman SO
sensitive.
lie, tho CALLED jade vince. our whi,hers are un
wtung" They should be well wrung, though before
he was done. The gentleman did not choose 10
answer his question, and he should therefore take il
for granted that he claimed his lineage from the
Scotch Burkc-thc rcsurrectionsi, who, when he
could not get dead body, took living one, and
made corpse Of IL. The gentleman, however, in
T attempting to Burke him. had been exceedingly
unfortunate, for he had Burked one of his own
friends MIR Dew Of the Tennessee Legislature; he
"resurrecifcned" him and had been under the
sity oi buryng him again. He wished TO show q
few of the discrepancies Of the honorable member
from New Hampshire, and with that view would
begin with his distns uished friend in the Tonnes.
see Legislature.
MIR BOVINE there rose to question of order.
lie was at Il loss to conceive what relation the
marks Of the gentleman bore TO the question of re-
consideration. The dignity and dccosum of the
House, as well rs the public business, required that
| &c. III
the gentleman was out of order, as he verify be.
evod him TO be, he called upon the Speaker TO
confne him to the question before the House,
| Mr. BURKE appealed TO his friend from New
| York TO suffer the gentleman from Tennessee to
proceed.
Mr. BOVINE said that from domestic misfortune
he was no: present when the discussion on this SUBJ
ject took so wide range. lie thought this latitude
OF discussion exceedingly improper, and that JUS
ticc TO the country required that /, should be put
! stop to- lie regretted that he could hot accedc TO
the request of the gentle nan from New Hampshire.
| The SPEAKER said that the debate was GER
tainly very irregular and OF order and the ques
| ton OF order had been raised by his colleague mir
Andrewsl but he then decided that he could not
rest the discussion after every gentleman who had
addressed the House had been INDUCED in the Ut.
most Latitude Of debate lie thought that for similar
reasons he could stop the remarks oil the gen.
! tlcman from Tennessee now.
| Mr. wM. q. BUTLER said that, very reluctant
| ly, he would appeal from the decision OF the Chair
IL was time, he thought, that this Irregular mode of
discussion should cease.
| MIR CASEY wished to remind the House, before
| taking the question on the appeal, that the gentle
man from New Hampshire MIR Athertonl did not
FIRST nssail the gentleman from Tennessee; but that
It was his reply TO the assault made him and his
noble State that the gentleman from Tennessee
| now sought again TO reply 10.
| MIR WISE suggested that the House, by sustain
ing the call for the previous question on MIR Fill
more's resolution, ard the amendments thereto.
decided that the desutory discussion on that ubect
should cease; and If the debate was again opened.
| by allowing the gentleman from Tennessee TO pro-
coed IN the same irregular manner, there would be
no knowing where IL would stop
| MIR GILMER had understood the Chair 10 de-
eide that this debate not IN Order and nu uired
if he was mistaken III this ?
The SPEAKER said he had decided that str city
| speaking, the de bate was rrevelant and would he
| out of order, except for the indulgence TINT had
| been a ready allowed Ivy the House. The debate
had been permitted to take such latitude that the
! Chair now overruled the question of order
MIR GlLNER said when he arose he was under
the impression that the Chair had decided that the
debate was out OF order and was intending TO sus-
| scst that the member could not proceed without the
leave OF the House; and that the question of leave
would he frs, in order, before the question on the
| appeal.
| MIR CHARLES BROWN said this was merely
question whether they would reconsider the
| vote, and this discussion was not now in order He
trusted the course OF debate would be stopped and
then when the House had ngreed to rccons der thew
would be IN their original position; the question he
! open TO debate, and he should wish to debate it
| MIR ARNOLD sand, OF all gentlemen he had ever
seen on this floor, he thought the gentleman from
the precincts OF Philadelphia, (Mr Brown ought to
be the las, to raise the question Of irrelevancy He
| had heard him (Nlr b make many speeches. and
| his own friends had generally said they had nothing
\ 10 do with the subject.
MIR FILLMORE desired to call attention TO the
80 rule of the House, which he read, TO SHOW. that
| the question not debatnbe.
! The SPEAKER, IN reply, referred to another
] rule winch, as he considered, authorized members
wishing, 10 speak once on the subject.
Mr. GIL MER said, with perfect Difference TO the
| Chair, he would PROFOUND a single question: He
had understood the Chair decide that this debate
was strictly out Of order, and NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. the
Chair permitted it TO proceed. He would inquire
OF the Chair where he derived the authority 10 rer
NIT debate strictly OF order 10 proceed nj el7
Mr. SFANLN called the gentleman from vi sinia
! (Nr Gilmer) to order.
The SPEAKER would state to the senteu,o
from Virginia. that II wss not on his responsibility
that the lrregulaTty OF debate proceeded One cen
tieman after another had, in addressing the House
taken the widest rage in debate without single
member objecting, until the debate had consders. |
oily progressed AT the stage of the business tina,
the Objection was FIRST raised the Chair thought il
would be unfair 10 arrest tn. debate.
After some remarks from Mr. ARNOLD.
MIR WILLIAM W. IRWIN observed that be |
would vote 10 sustain the decision OF the Chair in. |
asmuch as he wished every gentleman to have the
liberty Of saying what he pleased on the cucs,ion
lie should then perhaps have an opportunity of rs
plying 10 some half dozen Of gentlemen who wen,
off half cooked a: him
Mr. SMITH Of Virginia asked if he was 10 un
derstand that the debate to be opened in order
10 allow the gentleman from Tennessee 10 sette liz
private differences with the two gentlemen from
New Hampshire. Are we, said he assembled hero
under all the forms OF the Constitution to hear the
differences between twoindiv.dus discussed; or were
they 70 thhe new departure ana discuss the whole
subject in rs widest limits that had Just been dec.
ded under the previous question.
Mr. STANLY observed that i, was only in |
tended as an exia allowance for the gent.emanirom
Tennessee; when that was done, the debate he pre-.
sumed, woud cease.
Mr. SMITH Of Virginia supposed. from the 70 |
mark OF the gentleman from North Carolina. tim,
ne had not ye. received the extra allowance, |
which he 50 much needed; but he pro uised the zen
temln that. before the enI Of the session he should
receive his full share ofihem.
Some further remarks were made bv Ness,s
PROFIT, ARNOLD, and BOVINE, when
Mr. BARTON moved on adjournment, which
was carried; aud
The House adjourned.
lCorr,spondsHcs If The Ns,r YorL iD,ytco11
CITY o. WAsHIscroS, Dec. 80, Is1.
Both Houses having to-day, according to custom.
adjourned over New Years day TO Monday. After
ihnt we arn Lnrnr IN 60 N Nm.