Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1845-01-23
HOUSE OF DELEGATEs.

message received from the Senate stating that
they had agreed the join, resolution Tor the election VI
United States Senator on this day. The resolution wss
BsoApus. Of Cul ross to move to postpone the sx.
ecuon VI the Joint order until Saturday the Of Febsua
~. Mr. b. in making thu motion, had dissuisss. He
wished tho Hosss sna sss sesa1y sadsrssnd his
lives. Neither he the party with which hs acted had
any design o. hrowns ocse' ~ the wy q the perform
Of election of this session. aud 10 far
depended upon them. there shosd Be election. But
they wished tor full and fair expression Of the Wishes Of
the General Assembly. It.lI .tt fttttrt l
The object Of joint resolution TO sppriss membss
Of the day and give them time Zoe pcparaon-to enable
the sbeent TO return TO their poss and those in their
to select the person agreeable them The Houss
had acted In THE spirit and with this Intention when they
appointed distant day. Bot the Senate had not respond
ed IN this spirit They had declined acting the joint
resolution until this morning-,lus defeating one OF the
main objects in designating day. Mr. B. repeated tina,
ms only object was full and fair expression of the voice
of the Legislature This could be obtained to-day.
as three WhiEs detained from their by sickness
But ON tho day he now proposed. oil present,
tuition. To 60 into election.
Mr.. GokpoS surprised a, the backing out by the
Wings now after having vsianty challenged the Demo-
cratic party to this election Mr. G. wished Il be known
on whom the responsibility for defeating this election should
rest The Democrats ready, but the Wings
We heard nothing the other day Of absen, members, when
the day liked by this House, Then said
election must be made Mr. c. said that he party
maintained that the Democracy who had carried the State
by COCO, Justly entitled the and he had
been willing postpone election popular voice
could be truly represented in this House. But the Whgs
had determined otherwise, and the Democrats had deter.
mined TO meet them And they met by back
lie hoped the House would refuse To postpone and
that the country would bear in mind those who attempted
/ TO defeat election. F.L 8.
Mr. RowpEs called the ayes and tho motion to
postpone which were ordered, and wsre-Ayes g. Noes
| 90, as follows:
AYn-Messrs. southal. Cspeaker) Pitts, Brown. Full
Pcndlc,on, Myers. Flood, Moseley Beuhrng For Toer,
Boadds OF Caroline. Lacy, Broadus Of Cupeper. Hob
son. Wood, Garnet. Grgsby. Marshall Of Fauquier, Ed
Phcrson of Greeubrier Winston Lee McRac Of enrico
Woouon, Turner of Jefferson, Towncr, Smith, Wallace,
May" Farley. Ramsy, Grobb Taylor Of Loudoun. Par
riot Hail. Preston, Ferral. kilby, Cabel Taylor Of N
Borough. Watts, Happier, VERIFY Oliver, Edgngton Tur
nsr Boiling. wcher. Lanier Cooke Dcy. Suoiher. Dam
ie OF r. City, Moore, White, Minor Stephenson. Rice,
Jackson, Fulton Of w. & P.-69.
NoKs-Mcssrs. Poulson. Layne Harvic. Powell, Thomp-
Of Bo,tetouIt. Hays Miller Bick, Harrison, Marshall
OF Charlotte winrce Thompson Of Din~iddie. Carson,
Iovet Leake Parks Bate Edmunds Of Halifax SoyalI
Blue, Ward, Basseli Goodwin Bowden, Davis OF X. g. O.,
Hawes, Flanay. Gordon. Blackwell Banks Ridwel. Bill.
lups, Pool Baskerville, Wade, Hamilton OF Monroe Mid.
deton. Davis Of .. & c.. Mcpherson Of Page. Hiner,
Cay Hamilton of Preson Anderson, Daniel Of p George
Maerac OF r. William. Sturm, FrantI, Coores, MartI,
Cowsn. Kane, Den.on, Suckey, Tate, Sebre Hedgman,
billiard, Freeman, Newton Peery. Funston, Goodson-62.
So the motion to postpone the joint order agreed to.
and Mr. BHoApus was dcPuted to inform the Senate there
Of.
The SrEAKER then vacated the Chair until 1 o'clock
when Message received from the Senate stating tina,
they had disagreed To the proposition Of the House for
posponing the joint order 10 tho LIST Of February.
Mr. STovAlL forthwith nominated r. NJ r Hunter, Esq.
| To the office of Senator.
Mr. wIrcuER offered amend the joint order by post.
poning the order the 3Oth Mr. W. reviewed the
novel and extraordinary the Senate The House
had proposed, in all fairness day. which
able to suppose both parties would be prepared The Sem
ate instead OF acting forthwith the resolution had post
poned action until this morning-wheu they found that
more Wings were absent, through sickness than Demo-
MIR. w. the uniairness Of such con-
IN The
its adoption by the House, and thus taken the chances
absentees he for would have been willing 60 into
the election But he could not by his vote, give aid
and countenanee to such untairncss. Mr. W. referred
the gallant remarks OF the gallant gentleman from Louisa
who last week was much afraid Of coming fight.
when the Wings WELL but very valiant and
for fight, when he knew his adversary was disabled
by sickness Mr. w. also adverted the
Democrats were entitled 10 the Senator, because they had
majority nj the November election. Mr.. w. utterly re-
pudlated any such princPet abhOrrent the whole
genius OF institutions and subversive the fundamen
ta principles at Government. BY the Constitution
MAJORITY 81 the General Assembly. and OF the people,
had the right, and in duty bound elect Senator
The delegates here elected make Senator, and
their election. turned their choice Of Senator The
issues the Spring elections different what
they the Presidential election Mr. w. declared that
he would into election, until he could
give to the representatives OF the people fair chance to
have their voice carried into eiiect-tha ii this could
be done before the vacancy lie would agree
an election. while gentlemen absent from Sickness
who might probably he brought here perform the
! cav, gcn,om.n 4, understand VS. Tho .,,rs 10 o,i
| nnrsne lie had no ronce,ln.n,s H. h,d a,,,I =,
| Gain mn ,dv,n,age NJ, W. ia 4, ,,,s ~ ,"s,ff IL;
for the Legislature To postpone ioini ord, I, uv,s
common occurrence Ru never within h,s rncn,,v had
II huppen.d that either body had refused n, nos,n,ns
when a enforcement .ns asked 10, Inv m. ob.r I'd
And than the absence Of ,nctnbors an ,conn, az
| no better reason couIJ l. Offered ar reoni,eJ c ,
nen As liberal and inst man he could no, ,rI,.s h,
| opoonens such delay under ,ncb circnms,,n,.s - r.
a day had been fairly agreed upon MIR w repeated ,ha
he had no concealments lie was determined on making
an election of Senator hut he youd moi L mi
his friends should be cheated out of their ducs lie wa.
mo-, quite soft enough for that e knew ,ba, were M.
rights and he intended TO MAINTAIN them lie knew what
was due 10 his constituents and he would no, fail IN ,e,
those dues If upon fair no,ce-, d,v sci ,n,r, far
ahead for all parties TO be ptepared and Gentlemen were
| no, n,evened Inv scL ,c.s ron, Nam !, ,hi, 80 h.
wouid If beaten subn,,, ,it Ru, r. would no, .ons.n
To be beaten by ou pay-by the adversary taking undue
ao''n'ges. re olet'ed ia'r play h'"se ana ne would
| 'e &C, .o"S o WIN 'T,'',',s -
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