Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-12-15
THIRTY-FOURTH CONGRESS.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.


| SATURDAY, December ID, 1908.
4 After the House met and the journal was read,
| Mr.. HICKMAN offered resolution 70 the effect
that after the 60th ballot all the candidates should
be dropped but the two highest; and that, after
this, the one having the highest number Of votes,
| if majority of a quorum, should be elected also,
that no new candidate should be selected as one Of
| the two.
Mr.. ENGLISH OF Indiana, addressed the House
and charged the want Of organization upon the
American party.
Mr.. II. MARSHALL, Of Kentucky, replied, and
ayowed himself member Of the American party,
and denied the assumptions of Mr.. ENGLISH
| Mr.. DUNN, of Indiana, spoke in emphatic terms
| In regard to the Influences which were at work to
prevent organization.
| Mr.. WHEELER, of New York, remarked that
! since he had been daguerreotyped here a. an OBJ
; tacle why the House was not organized, he would
sts, the reasons why he would not be made the
;nstrun ent or a corrupt and designing lobby.
ne can. . into the last Congress as a National
namocrat. mt measure was introduced here
which he could !, ot sustain although It was an adj
min;strat;on measure. He re turned home, and was
sustained az an anti-Ne .braska Democrat, and as
such received the votes Of all par lea. On ms TO
turn to Washington, he was ready W support any
man for Speaker who was opposed TO ~ ISsa1Cn
of the slavery question. He alluded TO Mr. bANKss
vote in bringing the Nebraska bill out of c. mmit-
tee, and condemned it.
For this reason he would not support him. Ate
was accused of being an aspirant for the Speaker
ship because he had received few scattering votes
for Speaker He would say that the House might
90 further and fare worse. Laughter
He alluded to the structures on his course by the
New York press, and characterized them as false
and malicious.
Mr. SMITH, of Tennessee, alluded to the speech
of Mr. CAMPBELL, of Ohio, on Withdrawing his
name as candidate. He thought it was due to
the country to know from whom the propositions
alluded to by Mr.. O. had come They had not
come from the Democratic party. Whence, then,
had they come He had no complaint to make Of
the opposition, but he wished his friend from
Ohio to state to the House what those pledges
were.
Mr.. CAMPBELL, of Ohio, said that he would
not be placed on the witness stand. He was re-
sponsible to his constituents for his course hero,
and he preferred to bde his time. The first busi-
ness of the House organization that was
effected he had no explanations to make.
Mr.. +. G. READE, of North Carolina, (Ameri-
can) proposed that the Speaker should be selected
from the North by Southern men, or from the
South by Northern men, and the Clerk in the Same
manner He thought there would be no difficulty
in arriving at organization, if proper national
spirit were thus observed. He then moved to ad-
journ. Lost
MIR. HIcKMAs's proposition was then laid on the
table.
The Goth ballot for Speaker was then taken, with
the following result
Banks, l0b Richardson, IA Fuller, 40; Orr,
1 Harrison, l.; Williams, L Pennington, /; Lei
ter, Il Kelly, l.
Whole number of votes, 225. No choice.
The 6lst ballot was then taken as we went to
press.