Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1840-1842, 1842-01-19
rwENrY-sEvENrm CONGRESS-.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
SATURDAY, Jan. is. 1912.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.
} SATURDAY. Jan. is, lsis.
, MIR SrANLY asked leave to in,roiuce a resolu
! Won authorizing Committee on Public Expendi
| lures to employ a clerk
Mr. CAVE JOHNSON objected.
Mr. LINN asked leave to introduce rcsolutio
IN relation To the investigation into the affairs OF IN
new York custom house
MIR GAVE JOHNSON objected.
VII oiLMER asked leave to nIoiucc a rescu
"on rom the Committee on Retrenchment.
". iioPhlNS objected, and said that he mu,
object TO everything out OF tho regular order {
business. tie was happy, in this instance, to ex
h'oT proof OF his determination, inasmuch as III
eSv,uuon came from friendly quarter.
Mr GlLMER asked that the resolution mich
DC read ior information.
Mr. iOPklNS objected to that also.
MIR LEWIS WILLIAMS also objected.
me SPEAKER then announced the order OF tn
Iouy 10 be the previous question pending upon tn
re,oluton (of instructions TO the COMMITTEE on tn
judiciary Tor the extension Of the Bankrupt Law I,
corporations issuing paper money! moved yesterday
| On the question "shall the ma question be now
Ipuu-thc yeas and nays being ordered at the cal
OF Mr. Athcrton,-thc vote stood Yeas III, nay,
So the House ordered the main question TO be
put without debate.
MIR ANDREWS of Kentucky, called for the
yeas and nays. Ordered
The instructions were then rejec,cd-ycas 9s
nays i09.
The presentation of petitions was then resumed
at the point where interrupted yesterday.
MIR BOY II presented a petition from Kentucky,
Tor repeal of the Bankrupt Law. lie moved To
refer u TO the Committee the Judiciary. with in
structions To report bill TO repeal the Bankrupt
Law, at O'Clock this day.
NJ WINTHROP moved to lay on the table.
Nntlnns points oi order were made by Messrs
GRANGER, IRWIN, BARNARD, and L.
WILLIAMS, all OF which were oycrruled bv Tho
Chair. wv
MIR GUSHING asn made an objection to the
proceeding rs out OF order, which, after remarks
from Messrs. Gushing aud Irwin, and from tho
Srs,keri Wis ,M,I by the Speaker
fusion followed for ten or iitcOn minutes; and tic
House then sustained the judgement of the Speaker
almost unanimously.
The House refused to lay on the tablc-yeas 1903
navs Il5.
The previous question was then seconded; and
on motion OF Mr. GRANGER, the yeas and nays
were ordered on the queslon-'Sha the main ques-
ton be now putt"
MIR SrANLY suggested thDt if the yeas and
nays were now taken, it would be two O'Clock be-
fore the question decided
MIR GRANGER said they (ihe friends of the
bankrupt Law,l had been brought to the scvcrcs,
rules OF order tina: this House Gould furnish TO
push this question; and he would now avail him
sell OF them, TO put 1t of.
At the suggestion of Mr. WISE, MIR BOYD
modified his resolution as 10 ditec, the Commit
tee 10 report ms nn,cr.
MIR GRANGER then moved to lay the modified
resolution on the table.
The House refused 10 Inv on the t,blc-,o,s o.
nays lis
MIR CHlrTENDEN moved tina, the House do
now adjourn. w
MIR PROFFlr asked the yeas and nays on the
motion OF adjournment. Ordered.
The House refused TO aGlourn-Yeas GO. NAYS
1914.
The question then recurring on ordering the
main question TO be now put, upon which the yeas
and nays had been previously ordered the House
ordered the question TO be lmmediaIey taken-yens
ll3, nays $. '
MIR GRANGER moved that the House d., now
"dlourn-upon which motion the yeas and NAYS
were ordered. 10y
The House refused TO adiourn-vc,se 81 ,,
las. ''
MIR GRANGER rose, and after some confusion
IN the House, With loud cries of "order- and "oues
ton," made a point Of order; which the Spcoke,
were ;hcn ordered
The main question then put on the p,ss,cc
OF the instructions, and the vote stood thus: Yeas
ll6. nays 90.
So the House referred the petition to the Commit.
tee on the Judiciary, with instructions 10 rennr "a.
peat ct the Bankrupt law nstanter.
scene OF most unparalleled and indescribabc
confusion then ensuec, IN which the question was
made by MIR WISE. that that committee mnst moo, J
report, while Mr. JOHN CLARK insisted tha,
I'LL
trnns, under the order previously given by two thirds
which could not DC suspended without a vote of
two thirds.
MIR WlSE'S position was sustained by Mcssrs
Marshall, Hopkins Gently, Profit, and others.
MIR CLARK was supported by Mcssrs Granger.
Fillmore. Winthrop, Cos; Johnson and Barnard.
MIR BARNARD expressed his willingness, 10 re
port under the order OF the House. He had been
ready to do so under the previous order of the
House, ever since last Tuesday, whenever reports
should be called for.
MIR SAUNDERS interrupted MIR Barnard with
point OF order, and took that opportunity to thrus,
IN volunteer report on the subject, which he sen,
to Inc table by boy
The SPEAKER however. took M no,;co =, :,
nor did the House.
MIR BARNARD resumed
MIR ARNOLD, IN the midst OF a scene of renev
ed confusion, noise, and violence secured the floor
and moved to adjourn.
On motion, the yeas and nays being ordered. the
vote was-yeas 81 naysIis. ~"
The SPEAKER gave his decision that the Chair
man OF the committee must now report
Mr. CUSHING appealed
MIR FILLMORE also appealed. nnd con,and.J
that 1t must require vote Of two thirds 10 SCI aside
the established order. He referred to tho od;,,,.
New jersey case, and 10 the recent decisions nj ,h
Speaker himself in support of the appeal.
MIR WELLER moved the previous question.
Mr. bOttDhS moved 10 adjourn. The House
The SPEAKER then gave his reasons.
After many more inquiries and much confusion
the House sustained the decision of the Sne,ke,
yeas l0I. nays 90.
Mr. ANDREWS moved an adjournment.
Mr. PltOFtlf asked the yeas and NAYS, ORDER
ed.
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