New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-12-21
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no tllIu week Cl tetusn scnemtng, usele1l
wraDglipg and fruitless balloting dra~ 70 to cloe
with no Speaker chosen and no hope Of any. |
low spprehend shat more viii be chosen until the
Executive shall be obliged, by the need If Appro
priations, TO have enough Richardson votes With.
held to let Bsnks be elected. AMI, as this dis
graceful anarchy is caused solely by the rec- ,aucy
Of men elected on the strength of Ant-Nebrast.
professions and pledges some Of whom are now
voting for Banks while plotting to defeat hin-I
feel impelled to undertake once more the unpleal
ant duty Of letting the wroDged and betrays Cd
People know why aud under what pretexts this
game of faction 10 persisted in.
Let me cay at the outset that con ,ede fally
the right of every man, in or ont of the House, 10
prefer whomsosver he will for Speaker. pre-.
ferred Mr. Banks originally, because of his decided
and universally conceded fitness for the post, Asd
because he came into the Anti Nebraska movement
from the Democratic party. Asa majority Of tie
Anii.Nebrasks men come from the Wing side, and
q msjcrity of the AntiNebrasks Members were
formerly Wings, it seemed to me the clearest do
tate of good policy to tender the Speakershp TO
Democrat, ard thus prove that the Anti Nebrssks
Movement was not merely "Whig trick'-a de-
vice to put Wings into power. Now, Mr. Banks
was the early and decided choice Of most Of tho
Anti Nebraska Democrats in the House-of peariy
every one wb" b not himself (sub ross) an Mpt
rant for the Speaker,hip had very strongly
condemned Mr. B,nkss vote on particular sts::
of the Nebraska BILL just as had condemned Ger.
rit Smiths failure TO vote on similar occasion.
still think each of them was wrong on the occt
sion referred to; but / do not stand quar-, linz
about BY cones in the face of VITAL pressing sslss
and as to the pretense that Mr.. Banks is "nct ~
LIABLE I simply answer that the man preferred
for Speaker by GitdiDgs and Wade, Mott md
Grow, De Witt and Tappsn, Morgan and the Wssa.
burnes, is not likely to be Doughface, nor /, Il
probable that any candidate more acceptable to
Broome and Whitney, Scott and SCOTT Harrison,
Dunn and the remains Of John Wheeler, would DO
trl,,r and safer on the Nebra ka issue.
Whiir the Anti Nebraska Members were casting
about for candidate and comparing notes with
each other, wrote nothing AID said very little on
the subject. cannot remember that / ever
named the Speahership to any Member who did
not first suggest the topic. I preferred Mr..
BoDks, but deferred to the judgment ofour friends
in the House. When they had made their dscis.
ion, Of course concurred in it all the more cor.
daily that it agreed with my own original predi.
lection
coy again that any Member has clear right
10 prefer airy body else to Mr.. Bsnks. Bas If he d
elected to represent and Uphold great csuse-f
the success Of that cause requires the concentrs.
ton of Its friends in the Hou,e upon single csndi
date for Speaker in order to his election, aud IL hs
nevertheless says by word or deed, I won't unite
with my compatriots in selecting common car
didste-I won't be governed By the Judgment Of q
msjority-I won't support the candidate Of thst
majority, but they shall drop him and take up
somebody else, or will oppose and defeat them"
-csn be mistaken in concluding that those who
90 act are false in heart to the cause which has
honored them, and which they are every way
pledged faithfully to server
The supporters of Mr. Banks have tried every
way to harmonic with his professedly Ant-Ne
braska opponents, except that Of letting twenty
men rule hundred They have constantly sid:
LET us meet IN friendly conference there
state freely your objections to Mr.. Banks or your
reasons for preferring anOther-and if majority
of the Anti-Nebraska Members shall concur With
you, we agree to waive our preference and deter
to yours, proridsd you agree to do likewise il tie
msjority decide against you" Is not this huf'
Could more be reasonably asked' Yet the NAL
contents won't agree to it; or, II they do, they
repudiate, as Dunn did with regard to the lat
caucus. What then
Here is another plan, which has been and u
open to their acceptance:
Set aside all caucus nominations, all commlttss
all pledges have no particular Anti Nebrssise
date, but let each Member go into the House soA
vote first for precisely that person whom he prefers
to have Speaker When the result is declared, let"
be agreed beforehand that ali candidates having
fewer than ten votes shall be dropped and tho wno's
vote concentrated on those candidates having lar
ger number respectively On the thirdosilos, crop
the lowest of these after this, the nexs unsii '0'
" hole Anti Nebraska vote 10 thus concentrated GU
one car didate, the choice of the largest NUMBER
who of course il elected. Thus, without . cane"
or party candidate, by tho simple force OF
jority preference-tbe preference OF none eise ea'
Members the struggle would be Terminates
day and the choice Of the majority ekced
But this does not suit tho eishs or ten voting 'H
Mr. Banks who mean to compass his deiess ~
more than the ten or twelve vIting against IN
who mean the same thing. They will nat allow
msjority to govern-they will not have acho'ce eJ'
,,luv .l;,v-th av will have rothioq bat the WV
drawal Of Mr.. Banks and tho substitution Of ess
didate virtually dictated BY fifteen or twefsy ~"
to nearly hundred. Ard they hope IN n0s
wear out the patience of the hundred sna dfH"
them into submission. Perhaps they val W.
question for the Members entirely; bat iof