The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1848-08-05
Matters and Things in Wash
ington.
THE VOTE ON THE TERRITORIAL
COMPROMISE BILL.

/ lioNsc, us WE hhlcipatOU, ms promptly lNN
it upon the table, which is tnutnmouut to its
defeat. II will be interesting to many TO know
the eNnct state of the vote, and us tho state
ment by Telegraph, was full of errors, we
now proceed to give II corrected statement
of the vote, in both Senate and House. The
bill passed the Senate 10y vote of33 to 90.
Those who voted for the bill were (Whigs in
aalics) Athcrton of N. H., Brocse Of Illinois,
Bright oflndiana, Douglass oi'lll., Dickinson
oiN. Y. fIannegan of Indiana, Phelps Of VI.
Sturgeon OF Pa, Atchison Of Mo-, BeJ9jeH of
Ga, Borland of Ark. Butler offs. c., Calhoun
of n. c., Clayton ofDelaware, Davis of Miss.
Downs of La. Foote of Miss, Houston ofTeX-
rs, Hunter Of Va, johnson Of Md, johnson of
La, johnson of Ga, King of Ala, Lewis, Ala,
Nlangum of N. G., Mason of Va, Rusll of
Texas, Sebastian Of Ark, SpriiaHce Of Del,
Turncy of Tenn, Westcott of Fla, Yulec of
Fu.-33.
OF these, arc Democrats from Free
States, aud Wing; Democrats from Slave
States, 10; Wings from Slave States, q.
Those who voted against bill were Wings in
aaiics) Allen of Ohio, Baid,oin Of Conn, Brad
bury of Me-, Ciarke of Il. L., Cor,cim of Ohio,
DayiS Of Mass, Dayton IN. J. Dix of New
York, Dodge of Wisconsin. Fitzgerald of
Mich, Fech of Mich, Greene of r. l., HALE
of N. II. llamlin ofMe., Miller ofN. j., Niles
ofConn, Uphan Of VT, Walker of Wiscon-
sin, Balger OF n. c., Bell of Tenn, .Nricny6
of Ky, Underwood ofky.
! Democrats from Free States, 9; Demo
Gratis from Slave States 0; Wings from Free
States, g; Wings from Slave States, 4; hide
| pendent (IIale) |.
( THE COMPROMISE BILL IN THE HOUSE.
| The Bill came into the House, on Tuesday,
and MIR Stephens, Wing member from
Georgia. moved to lay it on the table, and
upon his motion povcd the previous question.
/ This caused considerable excitement, and
several members moved call ofthe House.
| Linn Boyd, of kentucky, and McCernand
appealed to tie House 10 pass the bill and
settle this exciting question. Caleb b. Smith
spoke against the bill, and said it would be n
waste Of time to discuss it, Bnyly, OF Virgil
hia, replied. His voice was drowned amid
the confusion and noise. a call ofthc house
was Ordered, 200 members responded.
MIR Stephens said that the bill involved
grave questions, which there was no time at
this stage ofthe session to discuss, us it was
time the House had adjourned. He wished
his motion 10 lay on the table to be regarded
as test vote on the bill ut this time. The
question was then taken by yeas and naysand
the motion to lay on the table was carried
nyes II, nays 81. So the Compromise Bill
was rejected.
The following are the yeas and nays:
s-Abbolt, Adams, AslImun, Belcher,
Bingham, Blanchard, Buckner, Butler, Candy
ClGPp Collins, Collamer Conger, Cranston,
Cro2icr CroweII, Dmimg, Dolley, Dixon,
DonneIl, Duer, Duncan, Dunn, Eckert, Ed
wards, Embree, Evans, of Ohio, FHrdn, Fish
en-, Fries, Fourney, Farrely, Giddings, Cot,
Gregory, Grinnell, Hale, Hall, Hampton, N.
j., Hampton, Henley, Henry, Holmes, n. Y,
Hanmons Hubbard, Hudson, IugcrsoIl, Irwin,
Jen6iRS, Kellogg, King, Mass, Ldhm, w. T.
Lawrence, :. Lawrence. Lincoln, lord, LlHl-
de, 1Iac'GH .NcC2cl,ond, Mcllvuinc. Mann, of
Mass. Marsh, Marvin. Morris, Mullin, Mel |
son, Newell, Ness, N'coH, Paliiey, Pc1S'eC, /
Peek, Pcndleon, Petrie, Pollock, Putnam,
Reynolds, Rockwell. Of Mass, Rockwell, of
Mass, Rockwell, of c., Rose Rumscy, ST.
John. Shcnck, Sheriff. Sylvester, Slingcrland,
Smart, Smith, of Ia, Smith, of CT, Strohm,
Starhlceoiher, Stewart, Stuart, Strong, FALL |
mndge, Taylor, Thompson, ofPa., Thompson,
Ia, Thompson, of Ky, Thompson, of Iowa,
IH'~Sion, Tuck, Van Dyke, Ninton Warren,
UcntroHh White, HUCy, Hi'mot.
NAYs-Atkimsom, Bauingcr, Barrow,
BayIy, BeaIc, Be,Iingcr, BirdsaIl, Rnbcoc,,
Bolts, Bowdcn, Bowlin, Boyd. Brodhcad, /
Brown, of Va, Brown, of La, Burt Cabcl. !
Cathcart, Chapman, Clark, Of Me-, Clark, of |
Ky. Clingnan, Cobb, of Ga, Cooke. Crscld, |
Daniel, Dickinson, Evans, Of Md. Feathers |
ton, Ficklin, t'lournoy, French, Fulton, Gayle,
Gentry, Goggin, Greene, Hall. OF Mo, ElRral-
son, lIarmanson, Harris, Hill, of Tenn,
Holmes, OFFS. c., Houston, of Ala, Houston,
of Del, billiard, lngo, c. J. mgersoll, Iycr-
son, Jameson, Johnson, of Tenn, johnson,
of Ark, Jones, of Tenn, Jones, of Ga, Kauf-
man, Kcnon, King, of Ga, La Sere, Lyon,
Lumpkin, McCIernand, Mcdowell, Mckay,
McLanc, Mann. ofPa., Meade, Miller, More
head. Outlaw, Petit, Poyton, Pillsbury, Pres
ton, Rhct, Richardson, Rockhll, Robinson,
Sawyer, Shepherd, Simpson, Sims, Stanton,
ThibodeauX, Thomas, Thompson, of Miss,
Thompson, of Va, Tompkins, Toombs, Turn
err, Venable, Wallace, Wick, Williams, Wood
ward.
The vote to lay OH the table was carried
Yeas ll2, Nays 81. The Locofocos who vo-
ted for laying the bill on the table, we have
placed in Italics. There were % of them
Seven members (all Whigs) from Slave States
voted to lay on the table. Sixteen members
were absent.
Ege'Y Whig member from. free States rotcd TO
tag the bill on The table.
The correspondent of the Express says:
MIR McLane, ia Cussite) of Md, hesitated
to vote for long time upon the BILL but af-
ter long conversation with the Presidents
Private Secretary, gave his vote against Law
ing upon the table. The long pause before
voting, the importance ofth question, the
breathless silence in tho hall. gave marked
interest to this incident, and it was the COM
mon talk of many in the hall. | mention il
to note how closely everything was observed.
! doubt ifany vote ever caused SO much or
such anxious interest among the members.
After this question was settled, tie House
went into Committee of the Whole, and took
up the.
OREGoN BILL. We quote from tho cores
pendent of the Express: