The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1854-05-24
'ITY OF DUBUQUE, IOWA, MAY "a, 1856
HOU Sc OF REPRESENTA- les y

o54.
HoU Sc OF REPRESENTA- les -MAY'
The House met at Ia o'clock, M
Prayer by the chaplain of the Senate.
The journal of Saturday was read and approx
ed.
The SPEAKER said the business in order wa
the calling on the committee for reports.
NEBRASKA AND KANSAS.
Mr., RICHARDSON. | move to suspend the
rules, and that the House resolve itself into
COMMITTEE of the Whole on the State of the
Union
Mr.. BENNETT. call for the regular order
Mr. RICHARDSON. | avow my purpose in the
House shall resolve itself into the Committee Of
the Whole, to move to take such action if sus-
tanned by majority of the committee. as will
lay aside all the preceding business on the cal
ender in order that We may reach the bill for
organizing the Territories Of Nebraska and
! Kansas.
i Mr.. CAMPBELL. Will the gentleman allow
me to prop und question.
i Mr.. RICHARDsoN. | have made the motion
Mr. CAMPBELL. hope, after the gentleman
from Illinois has had the benefit of making a
statement, that will be allowed to PROFOUND a
question.
Mr.. CLINGMAN. No; object to all irregular
| discussion.
[Cries Of &c leston," "qneston,' with much
confusion in the hall
Mr. CAMPBELL. The gentleman from Illinois
was permitted 10 make a statement and now
simply desire to propound question, in order
that we may have information as TO the propos-
ed plan of action [Cries Of "No,' "no."]
wish to understand whether the gentleman in.
ton dc n E.I.. -
tn move to set aside or pone rhe defce ncy
bill, which is matter of great Importance.
\ Cries of "Order, 'sorder'']
MIR. CUTTING. This question had better be
disposed of at once without further delay about
it. Cries of"Question'1
! MIR. WHEELER asked leave to present re-
monstrance of several thousand citizens of New
York against the repeal ofthe Missouri Compro.
! mise.
Mr.. HAMILTON. object. [Cries of : Put it
under the rule."l
from Maryland would like to object to that
also.
Mr. STEPHENS, Of Georgia, in order to have
a full attendance, and dee ping this to be a high.
| ly interesting question, moved that there be a
call the House.
The question was taken and agreed to-yeas
lG5, nays IL.
The roll was then called, and, 1877 gentlemen
answered to their names.
| The doors were closed, and excuses made or
the absentees. Some we're reported to be sick;
others to have sickness or death in their fami-
lies, while others were absent from the city on
| important business.
The following gentlemen, it was stated, had
paired off-that is, an opponent with friend of
the BILL both parties agreeing not to vote on the
| Nebraska blll-an arrangement made 10 accom-
modate gentlemen necessarily ABSENT Mr.. APP
pleton with Mr. Aiken; Mr. Bliss with Mr Ewing,
Mr. Cnruihers with MIR Chase; Mr. Caskie with
Mr. Seymour MIR Chastain with Mr. Morrison;
Mr. Grey with Mr. PrngIe: Mr. Harlan with MIR
Hill, Mr. Hester with Mr. Jones of Pennsylva-
MIA; Mr. McMulien with Mr. Nichols; MIR Pow
ell with M Mace; MIR Stanton, Of Tennessee,
with Mr. Yates.
/ Mr. STEPHENS, Of Georgia, moved that al!
further proceeding in the call be dispensed
with,
The motion was agreed to, and the doors were
I again opened.
The question recurrAd on the motion to 90
/ ito COMMITTEE Of the Whole on the state of
The Union.
i Mr. HAMILTON demanded the yeas and nays;
which, b:ng ordered, were taken, and resulted
yeas l09 nays S3-as follows
! YEAS-MtsSrs. Abarcrombie, Aiken, James
G Allen, Willis Allen, Ashe, David Bailey,
Thomas H Bayly, Barksdale, Barry, Bell, Bo-
c,ck Boycr, breckenridge, Bridges, Brooks
Chrisman, Churchwell, Clark, Cllngman, Cobb,
Colqui,t, Cox, Crage, Cumming John G Da-
Wis, Dawson, Disney, Dowdell, Dunbar, Dun
ham, Eddy, Edmundson, Elliott, English FL
ltehce. S1oo"" s..een, Greenwood, Hamilton
Sampson w Harris, Hendricks. Henn, Hibbard
Hilyer, Houston, Ingersoll, George w Jones
Roland Jone Keitl, Kerr, KidweI, Kur
Lamb, Lane, Latham Letcher, Lilly, LindIey
Macdonald. McDougalI, McNair, Maxwell, May
John G Miller, Smith Miller, Nilsson, Noble
: Olds, Mordecai Oliver, Orr. Packer, john Per-
kins, jr., Phelps, Philips, Preston, Puryear
Ready, Reese, Richardson, Riddle Robbins
! Rogers, Rutfin, Seward, Shaw, Shower, Single
ton, Samuel A Smith, William Smith, William
Smith, George W smyth, snodgrass, Richare
H Stanton, Alexander H Stephens, Straub
r David Stuart, John J Taylor, Trout, Tweed
Vail, Vansant, Walbridge, Walker, Walsh
Warren, Wite, Daniel B Wright, Hendrick /
Wright and Zolicoffer-109.
NAYS-Messrs. Ball, Banks, Be'o.-- :.
nett, Benson Ben'on - =, n''e.' oeh
Ter, Chamberlain, Chandler, Corwin, Croker
, CuIlom, Curtis, Cutting, Thomas Davis, Dean
Dick, Dickinson, Drum, Eastman, Edgerton
r Edmands, Thomas d Eliot, Ellison, E,herid re
f Everhart, Farley, Fenton, Flagler, Franklin
, Gamble, Giddings, Goodrich, Grow, Harrison
, Haven, Howe, Hughes, Hunt, Johnson, DAME
T Jones, Ki,redge, Knox, Lindsey, Lyon, Nc
= Culnch Macy, Ma,teson, Maurice, Mayall, Mea
ham Middleswarth, Murray, Norton, Andrew Oh
4 yer, Parker, Peck, Peckham, Pennington, Bi.ho
a Perkins, Pratt, David Richie, Russell, Sabin
Sage, Sapp, Seymour, Simmons, Skelton Ger
e rlt Smith, Stevens, Stra,t,n, Andrew Stuart
4 John l. Taylor, Nathaniel G Taylor, Thurston
, Tracy, Upham, Wade, Valley, Elihu Wash
, turne, lsreal Washburn, Wells, John Went
e worth, Tappan, Wentworth, ard Wheeler-SS
p Tie House then went into Committee of The
4 Whole, and proceeded (Mr. OlDs in the chair
to the consideration Of the bills on the calender
r Mr. RICHARDSON moved to lay aside bill No
J. 45-being the civil and diplomatic bill.
S M CAMPBELL asked whether it was in orde
0 to read that bill first,
> Mr.. HousroN supposed that al sides of the
House were unwilling to go through the for
maity of putting the motion to lay aside eac!
bill separately He therefore proposed 10 take
E the vote upon laying aside ali the bills upon The
r calender down f. the Nebraska and Kansas bill
lCries of mo, no.
. Mr. HAVEN rose to a question OF order. |
: he remembered Alright, the deficiency bill wa
last under consideration. A resolution had beer
adopted making it the duty of the committee t.
! proceed 10 vote upon the amendments of III,
Dill OpIOT6 any BUSINESS was TAKEN up
!, After some debate on the point of order,
II Mr. RICHARDSON withdrew his motion to la!
= aside the civil and diplomatic bill He hat
supposed No 4S was the deficiency bill.
!. The CHAIRMAN The Chair decides TINT th
> rule closing the debate operate when the .Hous'
: : 90 INTO committee on that bill, and it not be
: : ing special order, it can only apply when th'
committee chooses to take up that bill
: Mr. HAVEN did not wish to get into any &c
bate about it, but, as it was desired 10 test tn
sense the committee upon this question, h'
appealed from the decision of the Chair.
> After some further debate on the point of or
der, the question was taken and the decision o
IS the Chair sustaned-ayes 100 noes SO
= The question then taken on laying aside
$ the deficiency bill-ayes lO2, noes 80.
The seventeen bills the calender wer
then successively laid aside, the vote on layln.
U aside each bill being taken separately by tel
3 lers, and decided in the affirmative.
= When the Nebraska and Kansas bill cam
Z up, the -endng of its title by the Clerk was re-
ceiveu with loud and triumphant applause.