Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1845-01-10

Mr., Tibbetts, Of Ky, moved to 60 into com
mittee of the whole to take up the annexation
question. Negatved
No further attempt was made to bring up Tex
as 1t is understood now, that unless some
method can be devised on which the Democratic
party can all unite, so as to push it through the
House, it will not be taken up, but Iie'oyer to
the next Congress. | hear nothing that leads
me to think, that in such an event president Polk
will call an extra session Of congress. The fact
is, there are difficulties in the way of annexation
that appear to be insurmountable 1t is an old
established republican doctrine, that there is no
constitutional method Of making national com
pact with a foreign government but by treaty, &
this requires the concurrence Of two-thrds OF the
Senate The debts of Texas are serious bar,
seeing both parties are SO fully committed against
the assumption Of State debts. The shareholders
have boldly avowed that they want Texas for the
benefit slavery, and to grant it to them is to
sanction the object, and you can make nothing
else out of it. Unless the people of the North can
be eGectuaIly drugged to sleep, so that their rep
resentatives here will feel relieved from all SUI
pervision, it will be impossible to carry Texas
this winter
The Wing eter-writers and editors have at
last succeeded in the object for which they have
inflicted so many paragraphs on me-that is, to
deprive me ola reporters seat. | received no.
tice to-day, that there was no desk assigned to
me, | shall do what can to recover my seat,
and if I fail, shall go into the gallery, where |
can do very well, and where, of course, | shall be
quite free.
Jan. 81 waited on the speaker this morn
ing, with my complaints in regard to the loss of
a reporters desk, but found him entirely inexora-
BILE, offering the same reasons as last year, to wit,
that there were many more applicants than
desks, and the rules of the House gave him no
right to admit reporters to whom he could assign
mo seats, and he was therefore obliged to select
according to his best discretion, and he had done
so he had been obliged to deny many whom he
wished to oblige he had denied the writer for
the leading paper ofhis own State and his own
city, the Richmond Enquirer, &c, &c. The
day will doubtless come that one reporter for the
Liberty party can find seat in the House.
The result of the Democratic caucus last eve
ming, holden to agree upon some plan Of annex
alton, was that it was impossible to harmonize
the views Of the friends of annexation in favor of
any one Of the numerous schemes; but they
came to an agreement to run for luck, as it is
called to.bring up the question and debate it, &
try the several schemes, in their order, and see
whether any Of them, and which one, can carry
a majority Of the House, and let that stand 1t
is comical conclusion, but the only one they
could come to, except the abandonment of Tex
as, and think it will come to this at last.
The Texas debate was opened to-day on Mr..
Ingersols bill, or joint resolution, for annexa-
ton, with the proposed amendments of Weller's
and Douglass different schemes-naking the
proposition three stories high. Mr.. Ingersoll and
Mr. Belser of Ala, spoke in favor, when the
House adjourned