Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1846-01-23

States shall have been transmitted to Con
gress, uniform balls, equal in number to th
whole nunlbero of members of the Senate an,
House Of Representatives shall oe depositet
in an urn 4; ard, before the depositlng thereof
the name of each State in United States shall
be inscribed on as many Of said balls as shall
be equal to the whole number of its member
in both branches of Congress. ball shall b
drawn out by lot, and the candidate elected b,
the State the name Of which is upon the bal
drawn out. shall be the President. All of thu
remaining balls having upon Jthem the nam,
OF that State shall then be withdrawn from tn,
urn, when, from those still remaining, anothe
ball shall be Immediately drawn out, in lik'
manner as the first, and the candidate elected
by the State the name Of which is on that ball
shall be the Vice President.
The times, places, and manner Of holding
elections in the several States for candidates
the manner Of ascertaining the result, and O.
choosing by lot, when, on second vote, thu
two persons voted for shall have an equa
number of votes, shall be prescribed in eact
State by the Legislature thereof; but the Con
gress may, at any time, by law, make or alter
such regulations. or any part thereof. Con
gress shall, by law, regulate this mode of Ger
tifying to it the election of candidates, and Of
conducting the choice by lot of the President
and Vice President in the presence of the two
houses thereof. ..-.-
The second and fourth sections of the sec
ond article of the constitution Of the United
States, and the twelfth article of the amend.
ments thereto, shall become null and void or
the taking effect of this amendment. HE
CONSTITUTIONAL TREASURY.
Mr.. c. J. Ingersoli offered the following
resolution, which lies over for debate. ... (.
Resohred, That the Secretary of the Treasu.
~ report to this House the plan of consttu.
tlonaI treasury as suggested by the Presidents
message, by supplementary provisions to the
organic act of 1889, without the unnecessary
machinery and expense Of the repealed sub
treasury law, and with an earlier establish
men: of coin payments than proposed by the
bill reported the 18th Of December, this ses-
sion of Congress, by tho Committee of Ways
and Means. s%e -=
Mr.. Graham, of N. c., introduced the fol-
lowing: E...: 49,, -..' :",-s=
ResOlosd, That the Committee on Military
Affairs be instructed to enquire into the expe-
dIency of establishing national boundary in
the western part of North Carolina.
JANUARY IA.
The Senate to-day. had before it two sets of
resolutions, both of them deeply important in
their bearing, upon the present state Of our
foreign relations:
INTERPosITIoN OF FOREIGN POWERS. ....f
Mr.. Allen, in pursuance of notice given YES
terday, asked leave to introduce the following
joint resolution, which Was read by the secre-
tary, as follows, viz:
JOINT Resolution declaratory If principles BIZ
achtch the government IF the United States
UiN be governed, TN regard TO the interposil
tion # the po,0ers Of Europe in the poitica-
affairs IF america.
Resohred by the Senate and House of Repre-
sentatiucs Of the United States Of .an,erica in
Congress assembled, That recent manifesto
tons of disposition by certain powers of
Europe to interfere in the political arrange
men:s of this continent, with view to the
enforcement of the European principle of the
''oalancc of power" upon the independent ma
lions OF America, having made it, in his judg-
ment, the duty OF the President of the United
States to call The attention of Congress to this
subject in his annual message, and TO an
nounce, on the part Of the United States, the
counter principle Of non-nteryention, it is the
judgment Of Congress that the announcement
thus made by the President was demanded by
the manifest hazard TO which such inference
would inevitably expose the relations Of peace
now subSlstlng between the old world and the
new. ..-
Resolred, That Congress thus concurring
with the President, and sensible that this sub
haS hoo foro 10 Al
United States by recent events so significant
as to make it impossible for this government
longer to remain silent, without being ready
TO submit to, and even to invite, the enforce
ment of this dangerous doctrine, do hereby
declare to the civilized world the unalterable
resolution Of the United States to adhere TO
and to enforce the principle, that any effort of
the powers of Europe to intermedde in the
social organization or political arrangements
OF the independent nations Of America, or fur
ther to extend the European system of gov
eminent upon this continent by the establish
ment OF new colonies, would be incom patble
with the independent existence Of the nations,
and dangerous to the liberties of the people of
America; and therefore would incur, as by
the right of self-preservation it would Justify,
the prompt resistance of the United States.
Mr.. Allen asked for the second reaing of the
resolution by its title, with view to reference.
MIR. Calhoun said that the preliminary ques-
ton was, "shall the Senator have leave to in
troduce the resolution %
The President stated this to be the question
before the Senate.
Mr.. Calhoun opposed the reception of the
resolution. urging that, before we adopted such
resolution as this, that We should be prepa-
red to take the whole continent under our
charge. That the passags of tho resolution
at this time, would embarrass the already COM
pIicated state of our foreign affairs, without
producing any good practical result.
Mr. IarnariU nooy1I hot H. 1