The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-01-06
gmentp=Aeoemth GomgreSs.
SECOND SESSION.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,,

o. the House provided the Clerk procure with
out additional charge, for the use of the plates which
have been procured and paid for BY the Senate
AMENDMENT or the CONSTITUTION.
MIR. HUNT asked leave at this time to introduce a
JOINT resolution providing for an amendment to the
Constitution 4 the Upted States limiting the Prcsi-
dent TO one term Of Office.
The resou' on having been read for iuformat ion
MIR WELLER inquired Of the Speaker if Do re-
solution was now in order
The SPEAKER said no; not If objection was
made.
Mr.. WELLER said he objected then, for the rea-
son that the resolution was not now IN order. lie
hoped that the House would proceed with the regu-
lar business.
Mr. HUNT said that he hoped no objection would
have been made to the reception of this resolution,
nasmuch as was toiiden rerbis the submitted
by him a year ago, December, ls4O) At the short
session he became satisfied action could not be had
upon it without injury to other great and important
interests,
MIR, WELLER rose to order
The SPEAKER said the question was not debatea-
Bile
Mr.. HUNT said he did not desire to debate itnow.
But he would give notice that when IN order, he
should present the proposition, and should al ear
y day Of the session, call it up for consideration.
COAST SURVEY.
On motion of Mr.. ADAMS the House proceeded
TO the consideration of a motion submitted BY him
just previous 10 the adjournment of the House yes
erday to print 0 additional copies of MIR Rassers
report of the coast survey for the benefit Of MIR
Hassler.
Mr.. HOPKINS would like to know, he said, be-
fore he voted, what would be the expense
The SPEAKER was informed by the Clerk, he
said, that the expense would not exceed S25,
After some conversation
Mr.. Hopkins suggested that the motion should.be
modified to say "provded the expense does not
exceed S25." Laughter
The question was then taken on the motion Of MIR
ADAMS, and was decided in the negatye-ayes &C.
noes 81,
SO the extra copies were not ordered,
Mr.. ANDREWS, of Kentucky called for the
ders of the day, being petitions and memorials,
ABOLITION PETITIONS.
An animated conversation took place between Mr.
ADAMS and the SPEAKER as to the nature of the
motion pending on certain petition heretofore pre-
sented by Mr.. A. for the repeal of the DIST rule.
II was extremely difficult for the Reporter owing
10 the noise III the Hall and the number Of members
standing on the floor TO report with any thing like
accuracy the proceedings which foll3w. He gives
them, however, as he finds them on ms notes and
without reference to tie Journal.
After the conversation above alluded to between
the Speaker and Mr.. Adams had Terminated
And the statement Of the question being called
for
II vas stated 10 DC on the petition OF D. H. Nelson
and 81 citizens Of Hamilton county Ohio against the
adoption OF any rule, order regulation mpairing or
limiting the constitutional right Of petition, and against
dsparaglng or stigmatsins abolition petitions or
placing them a different footing from other petit
tions
And the question was stated to be on the motion Of
Me- Adams, to refer the to select comInittee
with Instructions to report repeal of the DIST
rule [old edition. and which said rule is in the fol
lowing words:
..No petition memorial, resolution or other paper
the abolition slavery the District IF
lumbia, any State Territory or the slave trade
between the States Territories of the United
States in which it exists, shpll be received by
this House, or entertained in any way yhaever."l
ION whose lntiMaton of de-
bate the question had gone over on a former day)
took The floor, and after few predatory remarks
which the Reporter could not distinctly hear he
moved to strike out so much of the motion of Mr..
Adams as proposes instructions for the repeal of the
2lst rule, and to insert in lieu thereof the following
words
''Wth Instructions to report a General system or
rules and to take into consideration the expedency of
aboshlng the previous question: 10 rc-estabiish he
tne hour rule, and that bills may be taken out of
COMMITTEES OF the Whole the state of the Union at
a convenient period"
Mr.. WISE raised the question of the congrlity of
these instructions with the subect-maer of the pro
position of the gentleman from Massachusetts, Mr.
Adams
Mr.. ADAMS here rose, and said the Clerk in sta
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