Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1852-12-23


N which | have served as long as care
o serve--the Committee on Revolutionary
Claims, the Committee on Agriculture, and
he Committee to Audit and Control the
Contingent Expenses of the Senate. |
nave bestowed upon the affairs Of The first
committee good deal Of attention. The
subject which came before it we're of a
great deal of Importance. 1t was of more
importance, however, to ascertain whether
the Government really owes anything or
not on the grounds of revolutionary claims,
and came TO the conclusion, as chairman
of the committee, that the Government had
pad for revolutionary claims about all 1t
ought to pay, or that the committee had al
ready reported those cases on which Ia
vorabe report ought to be made. AS to
the Committee to Audit and Control the1
Contingent Expenses ofthe Senate, lthink
our Secretary is far better qualified TO ia ke
charge of the subjects committed 10 Its
care than any committee we can appoint
| wond, therefore, asked. to be excused
from serving on either Of the committees |
have named, aud that other names may be
substituted inthesl5Iace Of my own,
My proposition, in whatever waYsypnl
take it, is to be relieved sftom serthg on
the committees have named. + do not
wish to be elected ASA member of those
committees. | was ndtpresent at the eau
Gus which drew up the list.whicb has been
submitted to Us. | have heretofore been
present at the 8ererak Eauruses when the
fiefhiOg Mr. y55as Siss5 ts1 6 6siag 1Ie-
banner State"i the Union at the late cleo
ton, she has sodle important interests which
should be attended to- She is an agrcul-
turaI State--a State with larger agricul-
tural interest than any State Of her popua-
ton and age in the Union She is com
mercial State; she has important Indian
relations; she has a vast amount Of public
lands; and yet, nnder 1he constitution Of
these committees, Wisconsin has but one
place on an important committee, and that
is on the Committee of Commerce. do
not know how this originates. 1t can be
from no invidious design; but yet such is
The fact, while Senators whD are in their
places here for Il second session only, are
put not only on Que, but on numerous
leading committees in the Senate
For one, | have sat still as long as | feel
disposed to do. Wisconsin has interests tt
be attended to- 1t may be that the Senate
think we are unqualified, five were on the
committees, to attend to those interests
but perhaps if the Senators from Wisconsin
are not to be studionsly excluded from pc
sitons in which they can make an effort tC
attend to the interests Of their State, they
might make an exhibition of thtnselve
quite equal to thal of those who think i
proper thus to class them in the Senate.
Mr.. HALE--I hope that the suggestion
OF the honorable Senator from Wisconsin
will be listened to, for it strikes me tina
there is force in his suggestion, thong
perhaps he did not see the whole of it -
There are two or three members here VIII
belong to an unhealthy organization, and
ought to be remembered, as a general fac
that Wisconsin has been rather rickly 0
the question alluded to, and | think tina
there has been at least one vote from VIII
coasin with nost fanasical Of the fana
les, more than nine tenths of the time.
think, therefore, she ought to feel the rod
little Why, if we, for our sins, shall b
communicated, shall not they, for the
i Wisconsin, gs.ziaatf 81 being 10 a posltio
in which she ought to fud fault, is in on
where she ought to take it as an indication
that she may return and initiate that oil
patriarch Of whom it was said
" Job feels the rod
Yet bletses God"
1t seems to me that would he the part of WIS
dom in a State so eIigibIy situated as Wis
cousin, sir have been there and ac
cord to her everything which the honorobI
Senator says OF his state | think it is
great State, glorious State, with a fin
soil, large prairles, and some excellent PEG
pie and to her credit it ought to be said
that there are some counties in which thes
fanatics are actually in The majority Tn
der these circumstances think full iuslic
has not been done to Wisconsin.
Mr.. WALKER.-l put my objection t.
the constitution Of these committees on NJ
such ground as tibet stated by the honorable
Senator from New Hampshire SO ia
as Wisconsin, has been in an unhealthy con
dition, | am happy to say that she has near
! y recovered, and has returned to prett
sound and healthy condition Of her polite
CONSTITUTE on. II is true the Senator from
New Hampshire has been to Wisconsin
lie had an opportunity Of looking at he
soil, and of viewing her topography, her fin
pralres, forests, and farms, He passet
along the borders Of one of mine Tn
Senator, while there, was endeavoring t.
administer some medicine, which, accord
ing 10 his notions, ought to restore tn
body-poitic Of Wisconsin to a more health
condition. Butthe dose did not operat
as he intended twill say nothing OF tn
ability OF the physician, but certainly tn
quality Of the mddicine was bad, and in
stead of he efieci hedesred, it had an op
posite one,
AS to the counties in Wisconsin, whel
the Senator says he has the majority,
know nothing, i believe that every count
voted for PisrcelsAd King, e&sept one, an
there think iha vote was tie betwee
Scott and Pierce That is the condition q
Wisconsin now, md if there is anything
in that for the gehlIemansto congratulate
himself upon, bell So Bot put my oh
lection to the Organization of thes commit
tees of tho SENATE, upon the ground tina
Wisconsin has not tbe position there whic
she ought to have Wisconsin hot her Sena
tors For one, | stand here TO represent il
part that State and | say that 3e has beef
neglected in the organization of those com
mlttees in view Of every important interes
which she has. Why, sir, we have scarce
a revolutionary soldier in Wisconsin
doubt whether we have one Those mel
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