Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1857-11-29

by authorised to appoint Commttee Of three, 70 I
whom oil propositions to print shall be referred"
Mr. CARTER vas willing to ACCEPT the resolution !
In lieu he said further by way Of freeing himself
from the attitude Of censuring the House, that ne
himself had voted for every proposition to print
Mr.. R0NLES was unwilling for tbs House TO 20
upon the record in any such shape
Mr. STANTON. That was the best part Of it. 1t
was frank acknowledgement Of wrong doing.
Mr.. ST. JOHN esteemed the fault to be with mem
bers 10 refusing to send out their documents. He
was in favor Of the resolution in lieu.
Mr.. CARTER alleged that no man could gainsav
the fact stated in the preamble; and unless We wan
ted to disguise the fset-keep It back from the peo
people, there could be no reason for striking it
out.
After further debate by Mr.. st. John, Mr. Stan
ton, Mr.. Bayless, Mr.. johnson, Mr.. Williams and
Mr. Rowles, turning upon the urgency and import
snce Of the printing which has been ordered by this
Legislature.
MIR STANTON. Mr. Speaker: That part which the
gentleman from Bradley proposes to strike out is to
me the most acceptable part of the whole resolu-
ton. think, SIR that the declaration embraced in
the words proposed to be stricken out contains moth
ing more than that candid acknowledgment which
this Legislature owes to the peOple-an aeknowledg
ment of the wrong which We have committed, BY
ordering frivolous bills be printed and thus sub
jecting the State to useless and unnecessary ex-
pense. Il is true that it is acknowledgment upon
part, that we have acted imprudently in printing
so much matter and sending it out; but, sir am
of those who believe that confession of SINS is
of the most important conditions of repentance
in order to obtain pardon.
And if we wish the people to forgive us for the
udiscretion intmated in the preamble, we had bet
ter come up and openly acknowledge to the people,
the wrong, and resolve to do better hereafter Sir
l am not opposed TO publishing important bills but
in view of the industry aud efficiency of the report
err who has been kind to the authors of bills as
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in his reports of proceedings of the House. copies
of all important bills introduced except in cases
where the same were ordered TO be printed see no
use in pursuing this indserimiuate course of pub
fishing at the expense Of the State bills that would
according to their merit, receive such competent
means by the hand of the reporter for their publea
tion.
Now, SIR, look round at the desks of members in
this House, look at the copies of published bills and
other documents, are they doing the people any
good?
Mr. JOHNSON. Perhaps we had better postpone
this resolution until Monday morning, in order that
we may make confession to the Pope
Mr. STANTON. Yes, as democracy has the con-
troll of this House and this sin attributable to their
misrule and it will be in keeping with their par
TALLY for Catholicism, perhaps it will be best to
postpone and give them time to confer with their
Pope, who claims exclusive jurisdiction only over
Piritua! but even temporal AFFAIRS but would prefer
the people, and Eot the Pope.
Mr.. JOHNSON. We could afford to confess even
to the Pope Our conscienees are in such cond-
ton that We could appear before the Inquisition.
Unlike the gentleman from Jackson, and his party,
myself and myparty friends have never been alarm
ed about the Pope or the lnquisitOn.
Mr.. JOHNSON proposed to amend, (which propo-
silion read for infOrmasion being out of order)
viz: 'And said committee shall determine how long
and how often any member shall speak on the sub
ject of printing"
The question was now taken by yeas and nays on
Mr.. Rowles' motion, with the result-yeas 80, nays
19-as follows:
Ayes-Messrs. Algee, Bate, Bayless, Bentley,
Blackburn, Bulloch, Caldwell, Carter of Hardin,
Copeland, Davidson, Davie, Dobson, Dunlap, Gam
mon, Golladay, Griffith, Hamilton Harvey, John
stoa Lamb, Low, Maris, Mickey, Newbern. Polk,
Rose, ROWles, St. John, Savage, Sehmittou, Stovan,
Summers, Taylor, Turner of Roane, Turner of
Sumner, Williams, Wood, Vaughn, and Mr. Speaker
Donelson.-39,
Nayss-Messrs. Anderson, Beale, Benton, Bick-
nell, Brazelton, Carter OF Carter, Ewing, Holmes,
IEie, Kendriek, Keeney Lloyd, Randolph Raulston,
Renshaw, Saunders, Shrewsbury Stanton, With
OF Knox.-l9.
So the preamble was stricken out
Mr. P0LK'S resolution in lieu, now being in order
it was read again by the Clerk.
Mr. BULLOCK proposed to amend by adding,
'Said committee shall report upon matters referred
to them within three days, and failure SO to do
they shall incur the censure of the House.
Mr. BATE would like TO move tolay the whole sub
jeet the table.
Mr. POLK affirmed, that there was not a legislative
body in the Union with the exception of Tennessee
that had not Committee on Printing.
Mr. BATE considered the object of this legislative
printing. 1t intended for the information of
members themselves more than their constituents
1t was necessary that members should have full in
formation Of subjects before them. An error here
might result in grave consequences and mIschievOus
tendencies to the country. He availed himself Of
the advantages Of the printing ordered here, and
sent wha: he pleased to his constituents The dis
tributiOn Of documents was matter of personal
nature between him and them. In the Congress of
the United States he believed, the bills and reports
were printed in every instance. He saw nothing
for the proposed committee to do and moved to lay
the resolution and amendments on the table
The House divided on this motion, and there was
no quorum voting
So, the subject lies
MORGAN & co.
On motion by Mr. POLK, the Senate bill directory
to the Comptroller of the Treasury, for his warrant
in favor of Morgan Co. for 81 l43 for carpets for
the floors Of the Senate and House of Representa-
tives, and in favor of the Secretary of State for S34
for making and putting down the same.
Mr. DAVE proposed to amend by authorizing the |
warrant to the Secretary of State for
S257-being the amount of coal purchased for the /
use of the General Assembly by James Hughes
The amendment adopted and so the bill |
passed the first reading.
The House then adjourned till Monday morning, /
ten o'clock