Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1850-04-05

shcaid know whetLer he was
oid "t young He had never made soy,
avowas or disav0wal of the obiigatingi
force of the laws Of honor, and he had
claimed any Scna,oriai privileges. If
'he Senate would not protect itself from
such language. he would have 10 protect,
himself, COS, what il NAV
Mr.. Foo:e replied, admitting that he
had taken the no.es Of the reporter, as
he always did, AMI had revised his
speech. One portion of what he had
said he said he omitted. at the sugges-
tinn of sever7i persons. He repeated
all tha: could be offensive in his remarks
Of Yesterday, and reiterated every thing
which appeared in his speech.
In conclusion. he repeated. shat he
had done with the Senator in the SEN
ate. lie now asked that the Senator
would say ave or no to the QUESTION, was
he ready to- meet responsibility. or did
he hold himself bound TO observe the
laws of honor.
The matter then dropped.
Mr.. Hale made an explanation of re.
mark made by hi some time ago. that
Mr. Buchanan had said, that the natural
allies of slavery were the Northern dem
ocrats.
Nr. King rejoined. and the matter was
dropped.
Mr.. Chase resumed his anti.slavery
speech. and continued his remarks until
3 o'clock,
Whom the Serate adjourned.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.
Mr. Winthrop at the private request
of NJ Speaker ;;obh, took the chai'
Nr. Holm 5, ON the part of the select
committee, aptainted yeste day. to in
vestigate the charge made by Mr. Pres.
ton King, of muiilation Of the Journal BY
he Speaker, asked and bt,ined ie;,yr to
sit during the session Of the House.
Mr. Norton asked leayed 70 introduce
a resolution instruc'iug the Committee
on the Judiciary 10 inquire into the expe-
diency of establishing Dssuict Court
i'm the city of Alex ndria, Va.
M. Thompson, OF Pa, called foi the
regular business.
Afr. McLane moved that the rules
be suspended. and .hat the House resolve
into committee of the whole on the
state of the Union.
The motion was disagreed 10.
The Honse then resumed the consid
e1iiioN of the motion heretofore made by
M. Gongcr, TO reconsider the vote by
whiah the report made by the commit
tee on patents, further .xt-nding the
patent Of VIM Woodwork for pln-
ming machine. was referred to com
mitiee of the whole House.
The House resolved itself into com.
mittee of,hc whole. on the state OF the
Union, (Mr. Boyd in the chair) and re-
sumo the consideration of the Pre>i.
dents special message enclosing the con
sii'uton Of Califo mia.
Nr. Ashmun addye sci the committee
in favor of the admission of California,
and said that the Presidents recommen.
dalion with regard 10 the remainder of
the territory was wise.
Mr, Avefell cn,ered into an argument
TO prove that Congress had wandered
from lis functions by legisloting on the
slavery q esiion Itwas not warranted
by the Constitu ion. Before concluding
he gave way fora mo'ion that the co n
mittee ii e. which prevailed.
The Spe lker laid before the House
he report Oft. B. King on the aft lis of
CLlifo,ni'. wbic', was lail on the table
and o dered TO be printed.
4 motion io pint twenty thousand cx-
ira copies wa' refer ed TO the Commitic
on Printing. The House then adjourn,
cd. 5a"4 1 4 b
a Foor RAcE.-Two honorable mem.
b;r Of The LegiSl ,turc 1T Frankfort. a few
days ago. went out to make % vn,ionS
and got into The tunnel as the cars were
coming. They to.k 10 their heels and
did pretty well; To- they I'D lo'h some
expc. ience in running last August.
They never ran ag inst II locomotive be-
foe. howayer, and were about TO hc
ovcrhaulcd. when they threw themselves
against the sides of the tunnrl-thei lii
craliy spre,d them,eles. Never were
two honorable members 80 perfectly fiat.
The cars vhsrlrd Ly without I uchirg
them, Tl.cy l',oksd inl,, each othe@'s
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