The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-12-24
House d Representatlves.


The day after the exciting debates in the House
which we quoted so freely on Saturday-vyas COM
paratively calm. We have summary of the pro-
ceedings, but it is not important to chronicle the
various attempts to make Speaker, knowing as
we do, by telegraph, that they were unsuccessful
for several days after the dates by mail The 18th
is the latest of which we have full accounts. The
debate Union and Disunion have given such a
promise of personal recrimination and sectional corr
troversy-idle and mischievous in every respect in
the present state Of the House-that the members,
with great unaninity at the close Of the day, re-
solved to proceed to vote, and continue to vote, for
Speaker, without interruption, and qcithout de5ate
until one should be chosen.
Mr. Clingman, of North Carolina, who has been
voting all the time for Mr.. Winthrop, made a
speech, in which he declared his full adhesion to
all the sentiments expressed by Messrs Toombs and
Stephens, of Georgia,-only deeming them not
properly applied in the election Of Speaker.
The position occupiedby the th1eeparties, at that
time, is thus described IN the Washington cores
pondence of the Baltimore S
The wings have agreed to scatter among their
candidates, for the present, till they have seen the
tactics OF the other parties and find who is their
strongest man. They are now reservng chiefly on
| winthrop, Stanley Morehead and Duer. The
Southern democrats will not vote for a Northern
man without pledges, and scarcely with after what
has happened. They had as it appears from Mr..
| David Hubbards statement a verbal pledge the
other day, which was satisfactory to many, but
which was subsequently found to be insufficient
| They Will now present their most unexcepdonable
man, Mr.. Linn Boyd, and adhere to him with great
tenacity 1t will be seen, in day two, whether
! he can carry more votes than Mr.. Cobb
The freesoilers had a caucus last night ard
] hat oh
! they first commenced, to wit To vote for some of
their own men, and not 60 of upon the wing or de-
mocratic candidates without pledges as to the CON
shtuton OF certain committees. In this state of
things there be election until the six sece-
ding wings, now voting for Mr.. Morehead shall 90
for Mr.. Boyd until the freesoers shall give way
and vote for the regular wing candidate-an event
| not likely to happen"
The correspondent of the Charleston Courier
writes
=" l learn that the Southern democratic members
have determined to present Mr.. Boyd as the most
unexceptiOnable man in their ranks. He will OBJ
tain as many of the Northern democratic votes as
any Southern man can. If the Southern seeding
wings should vote for him. as some suppose they
will do, he viii be elected. 1t is confidently assert
ed by some that he will be chosen tomorrow II
so, it must be by the assent Of of the Southern
wings. The calculations made on the votes of Mr.
Toombs and his four friends for the democratic can
his speech yesterday, that he was not impatient to
organize the House. He does not see how the in
terests OF his constituents to be promoted by
giving the House the control Of the Treasury for the
purpose Of expressing the South. No wing candi-
date be elected for it is impossible to combine
more than l02 votes upon any man in their ranks.
SO either Mr.. Boyd will be chosen, there can be
no organization Of the House at present The !
wings viii probably, after trying several candidates,
again concentrate upon Mr.. Winthrop. Every one |
seems to desire that this protracted struggle should
terminate"
The result Of the several ballotings Afterwards
up to the l9th-wheh we have by telegraph state
that the triangular conflict is maintained with the
same obstinacy.
One plan of settlement within the power of the |
two great parties, without compromising their own
distinctive political principles has not yet been |
tried. 1t is this. The great stumbling points
Of the free soilers, the House Committees on sew
eral subjects into which the free soil question enters
This out of the way, they would have no pretence !
to resist the organization of the House and would
probably vote each with the party to which his |
general preferences attach him. Now, as organi- |
zaton IS needed for the expedition of other public
business, 1t seems to us that it might be effected bv
an agreement among the two great parties 10 take
the appointment of these committees from the
Speaker, whosoever he might be, and make them
elective by ballot in the House This being deei-
ded' the question of Speaker might be settled at
once, and the business of Legislation go on leaving
the disputed committees, for distinct issue, to be
settled by itself, in the House, when organized In
this way-whieh seems to US practicable at once
the dead lock into which the Government has been
brought by this controversy, will be loosened, and
the public business be permitted to proceed without
compromising the individual opinions Of any MEM
Der on this one subject. Il would be infinitely bet
Ter that no committees at all on this subject should
be elected, after three months ballotng than that
all public business should be arrested BY failure
TO organize in consequence OF the conflicts Of opn-
ion on this one subject