Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1849-12-22

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sion OF every particular about the matter
Inc committee 'ay that the debt is well
secured, and further thmnthat they could
not Know Hc said he felt assured no nc
ton OF enc House coul change the public
m'nu, II there was any excitement there,
some further discussion was had upon
thc subject and amendments offered bv
MessIs Towncs and b + Perry, when, on
mote 81 hcmminger, the resolutions
napo acnts were laid upon the ta-
Mr 2" VI ,DeSaussure offered a resoIu-
''oh 'nstrucung the proper committee to
report a Dl'i altering the time for the next
election Tor Representatives to CONGRESS-
unti'i the new appointment under the IT
. cencus be made; nprecd to,
- ~ message was received from his ex
cel'ency the Governor, requesting the
House to apponta specia, committee to
examine the accounts of the Executive
Department..
On motion Of Mr. NIommingcr. said
committee was appointed.
AIR Aver gave notice that he would
ask leave to suspend the 74th rule, in Or
der to present petition.
On motion of Mr. Nc nmingerrthc House
proceeded TO the general orders.
MIR hlemminger called up tLe tax bill
for its second reading.
MrB Z Martin offered the following
amendment, which produced some discus.
sion viz:
"one dollar and fifty cents upon every
hundred dollars of interest or profits re.
cclyed or derived on money loare e or cm-
ploycd by private individuals in sl,avino
or d'scounting any note bonds judgments
or executions"
Ihe bill finally passed its second read.
ing, with an amendment, offered by the
chairman o. the committee of ways and
means, supplying an accidental omission
Some other bills had their second rca.
ding, when shortly after the House ad-
journed until half-pa:t six o'clock this
evening.
oorcspondenoe of the Columbia Telegraph
WAsufNGroN, Dec. l2, IS49.
a scene was presented to-day in the
House OF Representatives whchsmust be
humiliating and mortifying toioeery pa
triot. The Southern Democrats. after
inefectual ballotings for seven days, and
dcspalring of electinga Southern man to
the Speakership, thought they had dis.
covered Northern man whom they could
trust in W.J Brown of Indiana.
Every inquiry was made as to his for
nier course, and as to his present opinions
on the question of paramount Importance
to the South;a and the result only tended
to confirm their confidence in his honesty
and soundnesso nthc slavery question.
This was the condition of things this
morning when the House assembled, and
onthc first ballot IHr Brown received ll2
which would have been votes, sufficient to
elect him, being a majority of the votes
glven-but Mr.. Wallace of South Caro-
lima, having received some intmntion du-
ring, the progress of the bal oting that all
was otrlght and fair, voted against him,
and informed two other gentlemen of his
fears. who likewise voted against him, and
fortunately for the South defeated his
election.
81 Immediately after the announcement
OF the ballot by the Clerk, it came to light
that a correspondence had taken place re-
tween Mr. Wilmot and Brown, in which
Brown had pledged himself to constitute
the committees on the District of Colum-
bla, the Judiciary, and Territories, ofsuch
members as would be entirely satisfacto-
ry to Wimot and his friends.
This pledge was made when Brown
knew that his friends were recommending
him tothe South as opposed to the VIII,
mot Prosiso, andin every way sound up
on the slavery qucstion-vand he positive
ly asserted to Southern Democrats, af-
ter this letter was written, that lie had
madcno pledges to the North or the Free
soilers7;-7thus adding falsehood to treach-
cry.
Brown madea speech attempting to
extricate himself from the difficulty in
which he was involved, but oppressed
with the consciousness Of detected treach
cry, he only more inextricably entangled
himse'f-ho concluded his speech by
WithdrnNyino hiS nnnan from hoco,o AZ.