The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-02-08

We invite the attention of our readers to the report IN
another column OF the proceedings that took place this
day in the House of Representatives, IN reference to
portion of the Congressional report which appeared IN
the Union of last Saturday evening.
In reference 10 this matter have, in the first place.
to saw that we have endeavored from the commencement
of the last session of Congress up to the present me to
give reports of the proceedings and debates OF that body
which should be at worthy of the national legisa-
ture and of the position of our journal.
To this end, we have engaged what suppose to be
the best corps OF reporters in the country We have in
structed them to give full accurate and impartial reports
and with this instruction. we have left the whole matter
in their hands We do not at all intermedde in the bust
ness of our reporters. We presume TO breathe
wish that their reports should be shaped the slightest
degree to please party, or to please ourselves. We
never see any portion of their congressional reports
before they are published We never read line
of the passage in our Saturdays report referred to
till we read it this day. after having learned that it had
been made the subject OF animadverson in the House
As to its accuracy we can for ourselves express pn
ion, because we were not in the House when the
scene which it describes occurred. Some painful nte
gence from family in Virginia prevented us from at
tending the Captolat all on Saturday But upon the
racy of this report must refer to the statement OF our
reporters above given, and to the declarations made to-
day upon the floor of the House. 1t is proper
also to add that il the committee appointed TO in
vestgate this subject SHALL in the of their inves
legations, find report to be in any degree inaccurate
we shall deem it duty at TO make the proper
correction To bring sense OF this duty, however,
action of the House of Representatives upon the sub
jec was at all necessary. We should have done it at
once, and of in very next publication after
had become assured in any manner, however informal,
of the alleged inaccuracy.
In this view of the matter, and on the assumption
which we must be permitted to make, that any intention
al misrepresentation in reports of the proceedings
of Congress is, on part, entirely out of the
question, we cannot but ask whether it would
not have been becoming in any member
OF the Democratic party, TO have given us some
intmaton in the first instance, Of the alleged inaccu
racy of our report, Ito the end that we might without
delay have volunteered the proper correction and
toned the reporter in the most emphatic terms agant any
similar inaccuracy) rather than to have had at
once TO the very summary proceeding which the honorable
member from Illinois has fit to propose. We had oc
cason during the past week submit to readers and
to the public, testimonials from very distinguished
gentlemen OF both parties, in both houses of Congress-
to the capacity of reporters and the athfuness and
adequacy OF their reports. Having entertained up
to this moment, what we understand to be the
general sentiment of both houses of Congress as to
The character OF reports, and the ability of our
reporters, now learn, we confess with no small
astonishment, that motion has been made for their
immediate expulsion from the House The whole mat
Ter however has now gone into the hands of the com
m'tee We respectfully ask from them full and
searching investigation OF it. We shall most cheerfuy
acquesce in the conclusions at which they may arrive
upon the evidence before them
49, perhaps, unnecessaryo say that we regard this
question as entirely dstinc, from the question of the
course of this Journal in its editorial columns In rea
ton to the editorial articles upon which the PERSONAL ex
PLANTATION of Mr.. Wentworth arose, we have already
stated that we have taken final leave OF the subject
lHE GREAT MEETING, TOMORROW EVENING, for the relief
of Ireland will, we hope result in great practical good
The Hon Messrs. Hannegan and Corwin and others
will deliver addresses Let the ladies of the CITY give
their presence and aid Let the effort be worthy of the
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