New-York daily tribune., 1844-02-08


headong wherever the party pushes him. tie
says if he gets the nomination for the Presidency
he will accept it with thankfulness though with
rcluctance-if for the Vice Presidency he will
take it with gratitude and pleasme-lf iornelther
he does not say he will be thankful pleased, but
he promises not to grumble.
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.
BY THE REPORTER OF THE NEw-YoRK TRIBUNE.
WASHINGTON, Tuesday, Feb s.
In the House of Representatives, the question
of the claims to seats of the members elect by
general ticket, made the special order two or
three weeks since for to-day, was first announced
bv motion from Mr.. DRoMGooLE, to discharge
the Committee of the Whole on the Union! and
bring the question directly into the House. This,
as Will be seen below, was effected by the ON
npotent fiat of party, and this with wanton
and unblushing disregard, even of the usual for
malites of procedure, the consideration of this
vitav important Constitutional question is en-
tered upon in circumstances restraining the free
dom of discussion and involving the liability at
any moment at the pleasure of the majority to
terminate debate and formerly to pronounce and
register the ud gment already and long since de-
termined on in the counsels Of party.
The question Of rules first came up, and Mr..
HAMMET of Mi. occupied his hour in spirited
and bitter speech in favor of the 2lst rule and on
the South side of all the collateral questions. He
denied the right of Congress Or of the State Le-
gislatures to abolish Slavery and the right of the
People to petition for any thing Congress had not
the power to grant. He instituted comparison
between the situations, moral and physical, oflthe
slave at the South and the free black at the North
or the laboring classes Of any other country,
claiming decided preference in the former. He
denounced the Worlds Convention (and its Pres
ident as a German beggar pensloned on the pe0-
pie of England on account OF It's reprehenslble IN
reference with the domestic institutions of the
South. He saw in the papers that person
named Brougham, an English Abolltlonlst,
an upstart aristocrat, mountebank politician, a
traitor to his principles, and degrader of him.
self by assailing every thing which had brought
him into power, had seen fit to assail the Pres-
dent of our United States for expressing his OPT
Mon favorable to the cause of Irish Re
peal. This could not be tolerated, while the pro-
ceedinqs of the Worlds Convention and its
President were passed over in silence and with
ont disapproval He defed the Abolitlonists,
and endeavored, by exhibiting the natural re-
sources of the South the aid it was receiving
and could receive from other States, as we'll as
from Ia and Ill.,, adjacent ones, which were with
them in interest and feeling and more than all,
from Texas, which, once swept from us was will
limo 10 come home, and which was identified with
us in soil, climate, interest, feelings, and which,
thus married by God, all the fanatlcism of aboli-
tionists could not separate-to show that the
South were as well prepared for dissolution of
the Union as any portion of the country. He,
however, discaimed desire for it on their part
unless compelled to it by the disregard OF their
rights &c.
The subject was laid over.
Mr.. DRoMGooLE moved to discharge the Com
mittee of the Whole from the report OF the Com
mttee on Elections, in favor fthe claim to seats
on this floor of the members elected by general
ticket 1t being question Of privilege 1t should
be decided by the House itself.
Mr.. ScHENcK opposed this, expressing surprise
that with SO little notice the recall to the House OF
the resolution should be attempted and inquired
whv it was 1t was in vain to endeayor to Sh%-~-
tn and free debate in Committee or tne " hoie
it would be discussed by the Committee OF the
whole people and be determined upon according
to truth and Justice.
Mr.. DAVIS of KY. concurred with Mr.. S. in the
injustness of this unprecedented proposal to take
from the Committee without any consideration
thereon so important question, and requiring the
fullest freedom of discussion allowed in Commit
tee in order to bring it into the House. what
was the necessity for it at present when with
their two-thirds majority the dominant party
could terminate debate at any time IN committee
or could do the same as was now proposed
Mr.. BARNARD earnestly opposed this motion,
insisting that the full consideration would be re-
stricted in the; House, where, TO the power under
the rules would soon be Joined the disposition TO
act upon the subject, &c.
Mr.. HOLMES was not prepared to act on the
subject, and hoped consequently it would contin-
ue in Committee.
Messrs CAMPBELL of S. C. and HALE of N. H.
advocated the motion the latter moving the pre-
vious question.
Mr.. ScHENcK raised the point that the general
ticket Members could not vote, (the rule prescrib-
ing that no Member shall vote on question in
the event of which he is immediately interested y
The SPEAKER pro tenn. (Mr. BEARDsLEY) over
ruled the point of order; and Mr. S. appealing,
the decision was sustained Yeas III, Nays 62
the members interested thus, with others, their
friends, deciding that they are proper Judges in
their own case.
Mr.. DReMGooLE's motion was then carried
Yeas 107, Nays y; and thus the subject brought
from the Committee into the House.
Some confusion and delay arose in addition to
the excitement which had attended all these pro-
ceedings and an Intellectual attempt was made
by MIR. ELMER, Chairman of the Committee on
Elections, to postpone the subject.