Washington telegraph., 1856-12-17
TUESDAY. Dee. ID, 1886.


TUESDAY. Dee. 2d, 1886.
The House met pursuant to adjourn
ment-
Mr.. Poone offered the following;
WHEREAS, The preamble and resolu-
ton adopted by the House yesterday init
mating that his Excellency, Elias n Con-
vav, was holding over and refusing to be
inaugurated, with a view thereby to pro-
tract the term for which he had been cleo
ted. and calling upon him to know wheth-
er he had been inaugurated as Governor of
this State or not, was voted for by many
members of this House under a misappre-
hension of their true intent, meaning and
puTort, and,
IFaereas. It Is known to nearly all the
members of this General Assembly, that
his ExceIIcncy is in exceedingly delicate
health, unable to be publicly inaugurated
Us Governor. and,
H-hcrcGs, ]; is believed that the init
nation made in said preamble and resolu-
tion is unwarrantef by the facts and I'M
lust to his Excellency. Therefore, be it,
ReSoIred. That the preamble and reso
IEtion adopted yesterday. intiuiating that
the Governor OF this State was holding
over with view OF protracting the term
for which lie has been elected, and calling
upon Lita to know whether he has been
iraugurated. je and the same are hereby
cXpuuged fronl the journal of this House
Mr Butler offered the following amend.
mclt to said resolution:
Amend by adding, - and the clerk OF
the House be required to defaee that part
Of the record by drawing black lines across
Il"
Mr. Gibson called for the yeas and nays
on the adoption Of the amendment, which
Jeinm sustained, 33 voted in the atfirna-
. tive, and - in the negative
So the amendment WAS adopted.
Nr Graves moved reconsideration of
the vote taken upon the amendment, which
prevailed
Mr. Douglas moved to lay the amend
ment upon the table-which motion pre-
vailed
Mr. Gibson moved to amend by insert
lug with the original resolutions
Mr. Boone moved the previous ques-
font on the adoption Of the resolution,
which prevailed.
Mr.. Gibson called for the ayes and nays,
which being sustained, the roll was called,
when 81 voted in the affirmative, and in
tie negative
Mr. Block in voting on the above reso-
luton, made the following remarks:
Mr. SPEAKER-i arise sir for the pur-
pcse Of explaining to this honorable body
the vote am called upon to give upon
the resolutions offered yesterday by the Sc
Nor gentleman from Pulaski. He has
dlsclaimed that they reflected or that they
were intended to reflect upon his Excel
lency- | cannot see anything in those reso-
iutions of an offensive or reflective charac-
ter, and | would here remark that under
no circumstances, whatever, would | east
vote which would reflect upon his Excel
Iency, or any gentleman upon this floor.
The honorable member from Pulaski |
look upon as high-toned honorable gen
tleman, and being satisfied he meant no
diSrespect to his Excellency or any one
else, in those resolutions offered and adop-
ted by this House on yesterday, cannot
vote for the resolution offered by the gen.
teman from Washington, to expunge
them without in my judgement rejecting
upon the honorable gentleman from Pulas-
81 which [ am unwilling to do, and con-
eeiying as do that his Excellency's mo-
tlves were not impugned, | shall, therefore,
Ar. Speaker, vote in the negative and a.
galnst the expunging resolution offered by
the gentleman from Washington.
Mr. Gibson gave notice that he would
enter his protest against the adoption of
said resolution
Mr. Lea of Dallas, offered the following
resolution:
ResoEged, That the two House bills
which have been introduced into this
House, relative to swamp and oyeraOwed
lands of this State be now taken up and
read a second time by caption, and be re-
ierred to the committee of the whole, and
made the order of the day at 10 o'clock,
A NJ on Thursday next. --------
Which was read and adopted
The bill to carry out more perfectly the
OBJECTS of the swamp land grants and e.
quallze the benefits thereof in the several
districts and counties of the State, was ta-
Zen up and read second time.
The bill to lessen the expenditures and
hasten the reclamation of the swamp and
e'erftoved lands was taken up and read a