New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-12-29

under solemn conviction OF their duty that By az
they were compelled n make vrs' trey did he
knew tia, there were great inequalities IN u
M LAHx sad be resided near the Ohio Canal sixty
miles south Of Cleveland sni bis colleague on the other
side Of the House NJ. DCNcAS. resided on me same
cans. some fiy or sixty niles farther fcutn sna le
Knew Of no route by which that gentleman could get
the lake without gong either through west Of ns
.Mr Is district Yet that gentlemen, residing - much
farther sway from the iaEe was allowed mileage y
the axe and got $50. while be Nr. resided near
the axe and got but So He would therefore Ike %
know by uhst process Of calculation the Committee
arrived AZ this conclusion
Nj HrxrEr resumed Il the object Of the article
wss 70 show that the law needed Amendment ne did
not object % III on the contrary BE- was IN avor OF r.
strictns the mileage the distance BY the mail routes
In Ill cases BE had 50 voted AZ every congress o.
which he had been ulember and he would azsin vote
for nat or snv other proposition calculated . make the
az more equal IN ifs operation.
Ire SrEAxrH made the statement % The House, ana
said Inst the question would - whether me HOUSE.
would entertain this as A question Of privilege
And the question being taken ne arirmatiF. loie
stood = and when tns negative vote was op-hlei '
appeared thst quorum had not voted
Nr Toosss IN the interim between me annlnelston
of the Affirmative vote ard the counting OF The negative
vote. mad demanded ne Yeas and Nays
In making this demand be sad Ihis ma'isr = ilsi
simply ridiculous that il al
The yeas and NAYS were then ordered
The call Of the roll having been commenced
Mr.. CoILANEE rose 70 inquire o. ne -. =
what rss the question upon which the House |ss 70
NJ c J. IxsrzsoIr submitted that the inquiry came
too ste member having already answered 70 Dis
I name
The s7EAKER restated the question
And the roll having been called through, the vote re-
su'tcd-Yess -. Nays so-ss follows
Trsr-Messrs bsvIv, helirger blnk am DO
-,cs Bovvlr Brady Brdg-s, william u Brown. 0hsr -
Brown Bur Csnby. Chsse. Cs1p Franklin Cars 5ryery
l.. Clarke, Williamson r " COBB Slmmln. p yn
D.csev Dickinson, Alexander Evans Feahersi0n flcSln
Fisher. French. Fnss Fulton, 6ossin' Gr-en Ir5s-ey
. WI ara Hal. Hs-mon', ha-Inanson Henley ieufy'
George Houston Hubbard. HUDSON lnge. lrvin vefson
/ jameson. Andrew Johnson. George Jones. halimsl'
wrpo,reI lob Mann Horace Mann. Miller, Morrs. Morse
Newell Pslrey Pess.ee. Pe,rie. Peiui Peyion' hcaey'
Ro-khi Ross ~sryer. shepperd. Robert smith s,anlou'
'r,-fvresf.4r Charles stuart Thomss. James Ihomp-
s0u Robert A. Thompson TompEins IucS' Iufn-r, en-
] able Wslsce, Warren. Wentworth. WICK Nhlam- ara
E.vs-Me.sr. Abbott Adams Ashmun. Rarrnger. BLACK
n,-r ,vto1 Albert O. Brown. B1ckne- Butter Csthcari,
] Cirersr CorEe C0liamer Conger. Crsrsion, Crov-i-
I croker Dixon Dunn Edwards, Em5ree, Nahal Evans
Fs-sn FsrreIv F.ourrey. Gaines Gentry. GlL Dnnrel'
Ace Nathan Hall Jsmes Hampton iii. Elise b
Holmes Ior1 " Houston. Hunt Charles j. ingefsol'
/ I~.ens ingersou James u Johnfon, John W. Jones,
DANIEL P kine LncorMcC LELAND. McLsne. Marsh. Mar
Ricss-s51 Robinson julius Rockwell John A Rockwell.
Pors Rumsev 81 John Schenck = vesier smart Caleb
3 smith, Truman - Iih stephens, Strong Tay.or kich-
I srr "a Th1mps1n Iohn Thompson, Thlrsion, loonhs,
zen Dyke Ninton White and Wilson's.
So tie House decided that the question raised ~
Mr. TrHNER should be entertained A. a question OF
privilege
/ Mr TrnSTH oppressed bis acknowledgements o. the
Housa for sustaining his question Of privilege and said
be- considered il matter ~ considerable moment when
m individual was cha ged with poculstion of any
kind whether the charge was intended 10 nIure him al
the time some subsequent time - BE- allowed an OPP
p0rtunty o. exculpating himself
he now wished O. call the attention OF the House
prr4 arlv % these charges made by the editor o the
New York Tribune most II not All of which charges he
intended % show absolutely false and that the
individual who hlf made them had either been ac
tsted by the ioT. grovelng base and malignant
sire % represent tho Congress OF the Narn 10 ia.e
and unenvi4le light before the country and the world
or that be- hal boon actuaicd by motives still more base
by the desire of acquiring cphemernl rot1ricty.
hv baz0n'ul forth tD tho world what the writer si
tempted 90 show Was fraud The whole article abound
90 in gross errors aud w.iuy false staten. MS and
was evidently prompted BY motives "a base unprnci-
ped and corrupt ~ ever actuaied an individual l
welding his pen fCr the public press Tie would read
one extract from the editorial article Introductory n
the list Of the members who appeared 20 be shown up
charged aad received contrary O. law TIE set j.
Otherwise The members are at honorable men-.i any
rroreren iride shoud doubt H. silence him by
1 .h H.. .i,.r.i t,.t yisf The ai io,gs hini
Gould any man. asked Mr. r. mistake The character
1f sn Article which st out wifh nguage Ike thatf
Re speaking Of the Editor of TIE IfbHH'-t
made no matter who That man wRf-whether the PEG
pie had elected him by their suhagcs u take scat
On this door or whether he was an individual sitting
behind n desk In the City ct New-fork he should |
speak of the publication ani o ts author with the same
freedom whatever the position be might occupy. he
had only o. say that when that article was p"nned mo
individual who wrote % was either ignorant grossly
ignorant ~ the facts OF which n treated nr WI |
fully, corrupty lied from beginning % end lie had
charged him Mr. n with ov-rcharge of mileage !
to the amount of eli- aud he article sted that he
Mr. r resided, By he most direct route eight nun
dr.f miles from Washington Now. 10 was known /
% every gentleman this floor that he re.idrd |
n the extreme North west that until Iowa ant /
Wisconsin admitted. his district wss the ev- /
rene north western corner ot the Union and that by
IN air line 10 eight hundred miles 20 Wash
ington He said farther that there was not mer- /
chant not an individual who Travelled hy public con. 1
f4ff faa from nfr.1
ton Baltimore Philadelphia New-l 0rk that could |
come by any different route. unles he took hs KNAPP
sack biz back and swan rivers and wsd0d marched
20 come by An air line and then IN would iH little,
II any short of Thousand miles But there wss no
public conveyance, no stage-coschgs no railroads
or steamboats,, by which any man. from the town
In which be- resided could reach the seat OF GOV
eminent without travelling over two thousand
miles Perh .ps tho gentleman, he begged pardon
or rather the individual perhaps the hing that
penued that article not aware that HE (Mr.
+ 's portion OF the country not up by railroads
and Travelled BY stagec0aches and other direct
Of public conveyance Ike the omnihuses In the City Of
New York between a points they hAd no other cnan-
uel Of communication except the mighty lakes or the
rivers of the West he could get here 10 sny other
way The law the subject OF Mileage authorized the
Members 10 charge upon the most direct usually trsT
eed route Now he venturcd the assertion that there
was not IN individual In his District who ever came 10
this City any OF the North eastern cities Who did
not come by the way OF the lakes or tire rivers
Mr GREEN ssid be was member Of the Committee
on Mileage and the Chairman was not present. BE-
telt called upon with the leave of the gentleman from
Illinois % state the process By which that Committee
msde their estimates of what each member was ent-
ted D..
The SPEAKER intsrposed sni said the gentleman
could proceed only By general consent
No objection being made
Mr. GREEN said the Committee on Mileage had their
duty pointed out 5y rule Of this House That duty
was % ascertain and report the distance % the Ser
geant Al arms for which each member should receive
pay.
10 order o. ascertain the number Of miles tor which
the members should receive pay they must nrst look
a. the law That provided that members Of Congress
should receive certain smount-S- Tor every twenty
miles irave upon the usually Travelled routes IL had
been the custom for the Committee be- believed time
of mind call upon the members them selves for
evidence 20 their own case % this was the only
evidence before the Committee. they were governed
by exclusively but 10 there other evidence they
compared the vita the other. and drew such
conclusions seemed warranted by al the eTi
dence before the Committee i the usual .trav.
eied route the post route. they sscertained
the distance by obtaining the certrcste o the Post
master General 10 the members residence was .
a distance from where sny Dostroute run upon which
be could travel they ascerained. from the Member
himself from other thsi distance. snd added
i t0 the certified distance of the Postmaster General
lf the route not pest roufe. but great public
highway they bad % rey upon general Information 10