The Whig standard. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1843-1844, 1844-06-05
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.


Mr.. C. J. INGERSOLL submitted resou-
ton, which was received by general consent,
calling for the correspondence between this Gov
eminent and Great Britain in reference to the
article OF rough rice.
The resolution was about to be adopted, when
Mr.. G. JOHNSON moved an amendment, en-
bracing call for the Texas correspondence.
This amendment was resisted by Mr.. WHITE,
of KY, on point of order, as irrelevant.
The CHAIR overruled the objection.
Mr.. WHITE appealed, and showed conclu-
sively that the amendment was directly in con-
fct with the rules of the House.
After some conversation, the amendment was
withdrawn, and the first resolution adopted.
Mr.. MCKAY moved resolution that all de-
bate in committee on the Civil and Diplomatic
Bill should cease tomorrow (to-day( at II
o'clock.
Mr.. WHITE hoped the. gentleman would ex-
tend the time another day, but Mr. Mex. de-
clined.
G. J. INGERSOLL moved to lay the resolution
on the table, and called for the yeas and nays,
which were ordered.
The motion was rejected by yeas 81, nays lO4.
The resolution was then adopted.
The House then went into Committee OF the
Whole, and Mr.. DAVIS, of Indiana, took the
Chair.
Mr.. RATHBUN then took the floor, and
LAUGHED at once into political speech
Mr.. HOLMES, of s. G., hoped the gentleman
would not continue the political debate, and that
it would not be prosecuted further but that the
merits of the bill would be discussed. Mr.. H.
called Mr.. II, to order for irrelevancy, but tho
Chair decided that the largest liberty debate had
been tolerated, and could not now be restricted |
Mr.. K. proceeded, and pronounced labored
eulogy upon the late Mr.. Van Buren,, shielding
his memory from the odium which the wicked
Wings had cast upon it, and, as if by natural as
socaton, he turned with unwonted bitterness
upon Mr.. Clay, whom he concluded to have no
more chance tor the Presidency than the man in
the Moon. Nobody believed that he would be
elected
Here there was general laugh at Mr.. r. IS
ehfronery, in the midst of which he sunk into his
seat.
MI. SUMMERS, of Va, obtained the floor, and
remarked that SO long as he had had the honor
of a seat on this horr he had never yet made an
essentially political speech. There were occa-
sions, however, when it might be proper to de-
part from particular line of duty, and the pre-
sent seemed to be one of these. We are on the
eve of great political conflict. One OF those
struggles is at hand which he feared would one
day be disastrous to our Union.
The distant roar of the ocean wave as it reaches
the beach is already breaking upon our ears
the voice OIL the hHeTlCdh peoPe lido uceh 3 idu-
uay rising until it has become loud and earnest.
The gentleman from New York (Mr. Rath-
bun) seemed to have come to "bury Cesar, not
to praise him." Others of his party had spoken
of the enthusiasm with which Mr.. Folks nomi-
nation had been received, and the alarm which
it had spread in the hig party. Mr. Chair
man, appeal TO you, said Mr.. s., if yon were
present when the Telegraphic oracle revealed
the name Of MIR. Polk to the crowd about it, if
any enthusiasm on the one hand or any trepida-
ton on the other, was manifested in that collec
ton. The prevailing sentiment was incredibly.
And how was it elsewhere ?-he was told by a
gentleman from Tennessee, that the people of
his State never would believe that such a nomi-
nation has been made, that Mr.. Polk himself will
not believe it, unless under the certificate and
sign-manual Of Andrew Jackson! He, himself,
had received letters stating that in the District
represented by his colleague, (Mr. Steenrod) the