The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1856-01-24
THlRTf-F0URTH CONGRESS,
First Session.
Tuesday, January Is, 1855.
Senate not in session.

Mr.. Pennington, OF New Jersey 9
Scattering 8
2O9
No election.
| The plurality proposition, moved by Mr.
Washburn, of Maine, r. was as follows:
Resotred, That the House will proceed i'm
mediately to the election of Speaker rira coce
and it, after the roll shall have been called three
| times, no member shall have received a major
ity Of the whole number of votes, the roll shall
again be called, and the member who shall
then receive the largest number of votes, pro-
vided it be a majority of quorum, shall be the
Speaker of the House of Representatives of the
thirty fourth Congress.
Mr.. Trippe, of Georgia. moved that it be laid
on the table; and the motion prevailed, as fol-
lows:
YEAs-Messrs Aiken Allen. Barksdale. Bell,
Bennett of Mississippi, Bocock, Bowie, Boyce,
Branch, Broom, Burnett, Cadwalader, Camp
bell of Kentucky, Campbell of Ohio, Garlic,
Caruthers, Clingman, Cobb of Georgia, Cobb of
Alabama, Cox, Craige, Cullen, Davidson, Da-
Wis of Maryland, Denver, Dowdell, Dunn, Ed
mundson, Elliott, English, Etheridge, Eustis,
Evans, Faulkner, Florence, Foster, Fuller of
Pennsylvania, Fuller of Maine, Goode, Green
wood, Hall of Iowa, Harris of MARYLAND, Harris
of Alabama, Harris of Illinois, Harrison, Her.
bert, Hoffman, Houston, Jewett, Jones of Penn
sylvania, keitt, Kelly, Kennett, Kidwell, Lake.
Letcher, Lindley, Lumpkin, A. K Marshall of
Kentucky, Humphrey Marshall of Kentucky
Marshall of Illinois, Maxwell, McMullen, Nc.
Queen, Miller of Indiana, Millson, Millward,
Moore, Oliver of Missouri, Orr, Paine, Phelps
Porter, Powell, Quitman, Reade, Ready. Ricaud,
Richardson, Rivers, Ruffin, Rust, Sandidge,
Savage, Scott, Smith of Tennessee, Smith of
Alabama, Sneed, Stephens, Stewart, Swope,
Talbot, Trippe, Underwood, Walk, Walker,
Warner, Watkins, Wells, Wheeler, Williams,
Winslow, Wright of Mississippi, Wright of Ten
nessee, and Iollicoffer-l05.
NAYs-Messrs. Albright, Allison, Ball, Bar
bour, Barclay, Bennett Of New York. Benson,
Billinghurst, Bingham, Bishop, Bliss, Bradshaw,
Brenton, Burlington, Burlingame, Campbell of
Pennsy lvania, Chafiee, Clawson, Colfax, Co
minis, Cragin, Cumback, Damrell, Davis of
Massachusetts, Day, Dean, De Witt, Dick, Dick
son, Dodd, Durfee, Eide, Edwards, Emrie, Flag
Ter, Galloway, Giddings, Gilbert, Granger, Grow,
Hall of Massachusetts, Harlan, Hickman, Hol-
loway, Horton of New York, Horton of Ohio
Howard, Hughston, Kelsey, Knapp, Knight
knowlton, Knox, Kunkel, Letter, Mace, Mat
tesOn, McCarty, Meacham, Morgan, Morrill,,
Nichols, Norton, Oliver of New York, Parker
Peck, Pelton. Pennington, Petit, Pike, Prngle,
Purviance, Richie, Robbins, Sabin, Sage,
Sapp, Sherman, Simmons, Spinner, Stanton,
Stranahan, Tappan, Thorington, Thurston,
Todd, traitor, Tyson, Vail, Wade, Walbridge
Waldron, Washburne of Wisconsin, Washburne
of Illinois, Washburn of Maine, Watson, WEIGH,
Whitney, Wood, Woodruff, and Woodwork -lOl.
SO the resolution was laid on the table.
Four Administration mea-Barclay, Hick-
man, Peck, and Vail, and Mr.. Whitney, X. N,
of New York, voted against laying on the ia
BILE. The Fuller men and the body of the Adj
ministration men voted to lay it upon the table,
assisted by Dunn and Scott of Indiana, Harri
son, Moore, and Campbell, of Ohio, Wheeler
and Williams of New York. A change of three
votes, from the affirmative to the negative. would
have defeated the motion to table the proposi
tion.--Ed. Era
Wednesday, January l6, 1856.
The Senate did not sit to-day.
HOUSE
The Clerk called the House to order at IL
o'clock, and the Journal of yesterday was read
Mr.. ThoringtOn, of Iowa, did not expect, i'm
Offering the resolution which he held in his
hand, to effect an organization by the election
OF Speaker; but he proposed to contribute
his mite towards it, and to aid, as far as his
feeble efforts could, in obtaining presiding
ofhcer OF the House. He had not consulted the
gentleman whose name he had embraced in his
resolution, but he wished it understood that in
submitting this name he took no exceptions to
the gentleman for whom he had now voted IN.
wards Of one hundred times So far from that
being the case, he was yet disposed to continue
voting for that gentleman, if no practical result
should follow the resolution which il was his
intention to offer. He had named the gentle.
man from Ohio, because he had heard that
gentleman spoken of in such terms as induced
him to believe that he would not be "a ob;ec.
tlonable to some portions of the House as the
gentleman who had received the suffrages of
those with whom he had been acting. His
resolution was as follows, and upon its adop-
ton ne demanded the previous question:
Resotoed, That Lewis ID. Campbell be de-
clared Speaker Of the House of Representatives
of the thirty-fourth Congress of the United
States
Mr. Morgan, of New York, moved that there
be call of the House.
Mr.. Jones, of Tennessee, moved that the
resolution be laid on the table, Cries of &" oh,
| no; let's have direct vote"l
The Clerk ruled the motion out of order, pend.
| ing the motion Of Mr. Morgan.
The question was then taken on the motion
for call of the House, and it was decided in
the negative.
Under the operation Of the previous question,
the resolution Of Mr.. Thorington was then dis,
agreed to, by the following vote:
fEAs-Messrs. Allison, Banks, Barbour. Ben
nett of New York, Bishop, Bradshaw, Brenton,
Campbell of Pennsylvania, Chaffee, Clawson.
Colfax, Cumback, Dean, Dickson, Dunn, Durfee.
Eide, Edwards, Harrison, Haven, Holloway, Hor.
ton of Ohio, Houston, Knight, Knox, Kunkel,
Letter, Mace, Millward, Moore Norton, Pearce,
Pelton, Pennington, Petit, Pringle, Purviance,
Ritchie, Robbins, Roberts, Scott Sherman,
Ihorington, Thurston, Todd, Tyson, WEIGH,
Wheeler, Woodruff, and Woodwork
| NAYs-Messrs. Aiken, Albright, Allen, Bar.
clay, Barksdale, Bell, Benson, Billinghurst.
Bingham, Bliss, Bocock, Bowie, Boyce, Branch
Broom, Burlington, Burlingame, Burnett, Cad.
waiader, Campbell of Kentucky, Garlic, Ca
ruthers, Chngman, Cobb of Georgia, Cobb of
Alabama, Comins, Cox, Cragin, Craige, Cullen.
Damrell, Davidson, Day, Denver, De Witt Dick.
Dodd, Dowdell, Edmundson, Elliott. Emrie.
English, Etheridge, Eustis, Evans, Faulkner.
Flagler, Florence, Foster, Fuller of Maine,
Galloway, Giddings, Gilbert, Goode, Granger.
Greenwood, Grow, Hall of Iowa, Hall of Mas.
sachusetts, Harlan, Harris of MARYLAND, Harris
of Alabama, Harris of Illinois, Herbert, Hick.
man, Hoffman, Horton of New York, Houston.
Howard, Jewett, Jones of Tennessee. Jones of
Pennsylvania Keitt, Kelly, Kelsey, Kidwell.
King, Knapp, Knowlton, Lake, Letcher. Lindlev'
Lumpkin, A. X. Marshall of Kentucky, Marshall
of Illinois, Matteson, Maxwell, McCarty, Nc
Mullen, Mcqueen, Meacham. Miller of Indiana.
Millson, Morgan, Morrill,, Nichols, Oliver Of