The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1855-12-20
Monday, December II, 1885.

Monday, December II, 1885.
Nothing was done in the Senate beside the
usual presentation of memorials and notices OF
bills, &c.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
Mr.. Dunn, by consent, made an explanation.
He referred, with severity of comment, to the
remarks in the New York Tribune and Times,
upon the refusal of himself and friends to vote
for Mr.. Banks, and then read extracts from
those papers, dated as far back as the Nebras-
ka struggle, condemning certain vote of Mr..
Banks on that occasion. If gentle.aen really
desired an organization of the HOUSE let them
call off their dogs and send them to their ken
nels.
Mr.. Banks, in reply to portion of the re-
marks of Mr.. Dunn, declared that Re was not
responsible for what had been said, (sther for or
against him, by the Times and Iiibtsne of New
York. He had never solicited thea. support,
had never apologized to them wher they had
denounced him. In his brief career, which had
not been altogether quiet, he had relied upon
himself alone. He ever did that which his
conscience taught him was right he had ever
thought and acted for himself; and whether the
gentleman of the New York Tribune or those
of the New York Times, should see fit either to
blame or to compliment him, he wot;ld concede
to them, under the institutions of our country,
the largest liberty to do either the one or the
other. He desired the House and the country
to understand that he was Independent of the
gentlemen of the New York press in every re-
spect whatever
He then explained the vote in Connection
with the Nebraska bill for which heShad been
censured and declared that he had Jtever yield
ed in his opposition to that measure. He rep
resented men imbued with the stro gest senti-
ments of hostility to a peculiar INTUITION OF
this country. He might say that he represent
ed the strongest Anti-Slavery dist ct in the
United States. The appeals agait vt him, to
which the gentleman had referredE were re-
printed i'll the Massachusetts presii and an
nounced by his opponents during tb. late can.
vass in his State. He had explained % his con.
stituents, face to face, the circumstaI ces under
which he gave the vote which had cen urged
against him; and, instead of defei,ting him.
they gave him majority of seven thousand
votes Applause the largest major ty, with a
single exception, that any man had ever re-
ceived in the political history of Massachusetts
MIR. McMullen moved, that after the organiza
tan of the House, and the passage of the ap.
preparation bills, all the members resign and
go home. Some conversation, to pass time, en-
sued, when the motion was laid on the table
and the House proceeded to ballot Mr.. Banks
| received LOG votes and los votes on the sixty
second and sixty-third ballots, and then Mr.
Broom, of Pennsylvania, rose, and moved that
whenever the House should be organized, a
joint resolution should be passed, submitting
the whole question of the constitutionality oil
acts prohibiting Slavery in the Territories, tothe
Supreme Court, for final decision. The mem
bers seemed disposed to make merry over the
| proposition, and Mr.. Broom withdrew it.
On the sixty-fourth ballot the vote stbod-
Mr.. Banks, of Massachusetts, 1876
Mr.. Richardson, of Illinois \, 73
Mr.. Fuller, of Pennsylvania 3S
For Mr.. Letter, Of Ohio.-Messrs. Dunn and
Moore.
For Mr.. Harrison, Of Ohio.-Mr. Fuller of
Pennsylvania.
For M. W7nslOw, Of ". C.-Mr Richard
! son.
For Mr.. Williams, of N. T-Mr. Wheeler
For Mr.. Orr, Of S. C.-Mr. Williams.
No choice having yet been effected
Mr. Thorington submitted the following res
| olution:
Resolred, That the House will proceed i'm
mediately to the election of Speaker ciUC
c0ce J; and if after the roll shall have been call
| ed three times, no member shall have received
| q majority of the whole number of votes the
roll shall again be called, and the member who
| shall then receive the largest number of votes
| provided it be majority of quorum, shall b,
declared to be chosen Speaker.
| Pending the question on its adoption, the
House adjourned.
| Tuesday, December Is, 1855.
| SENATE.
Two or three unimportant petitions and othe