Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1857-11-16
LEGI~LATURE OF TENNESSEE.
SENATE.
SATURDAY. ~

SATURDAY, Nov IA, 1851.
{ Mr. HeiskelI, from the Committee on the Code
[ ported that portion of th- Code was ready for
the consi teratiOn OF the Senate and made -ome
verbal gg stions to the best means of consiG-
| erin. h.. same.
Mr. Davis, from Internal improvement Commit
I e, reported Senate bill to amend the chart. of
! the Nashville and Henderson Rsilroad Company
it'll bill in lieu, aud written report indic ting
! tlt hae of policy which the Committee should re-
| commend in regard to State aid-exprs ssing the
opiion that the STATE had already gone too far aud
comm aiding that no further State aid be granted
| and that in al instances when no sted right
| eXistrd, previous grants should he lopp.d off
whereby the prospeclvr d. bt could b. curailed by
| sew raj millions. The granting further time the
peculiar "ondition Of thu road claiming should D.
| Considered, and ahaEdoned ioster-d as the in
| t:rrsts OF thr Stat. seemed TO demand.
Mr. Bratcher introduced bill to amend the law
| il 'jeetm-rt cases.
Mr. Whithorne bill to amend the Criminal
Laws, il regard to killin= hogs, horses ana cattle
generally; TO oartering giving poison to a slav,;
making these offeGc S punishable by five yeirs in
the p ntentiary.
Mr.. Denton, Till 70 amend the law in relation
to the rendition OF rd-m against Sherifs Cor
Olers, AID Con~t,ni. ;.
Also, bill to Incorporate Spring Hill Academy
il White county
sent r.~ou'io1s directory to the Clerk in r.
gard 70 the journals and 10 the S-orrtars of Stat.
il regard 10 geological m p5 were ,iopted.
Several Senate and Hous. bills pass second
reading.
MIR Walker Introduced the following preamble
aId resolutions:
WHEREAS. TIE Act of 1920 commonly call
the HIs~Ouri Con promise Act ucOu sIStrnt with
tie pri' cplr declared and ai down IN the Act OF
1850 b tier k own as the Compromise Act Of that
y.ar; and,
WHEREAS The Missouri Compromi-s At was
a pa pab.. wrong done to the peuIl- OF re We
holding Statrs, an should ave been repeaIel;
ann,
WHEREAS, The principles of tn Kausa- n brtska
bill meet urquaid-d ,pprob4tun, and should
nav. iV-d tn, ror ih support of our Senators
and r pres, .tiv $ III Cnngr IS.
HEREAs, On OF these Senpt'rs, Hon John
Bell, H. "a speech oliver agaiust tn K ns,s Ne
u "a ka bill NJ 28th, 1854, laid:
"A noble, geu.roIs aud iIEh-mnd d Sen tor
from tn South wit in the ST few 1avs brfor. the
Fl IaI vute taken on the hill ,ppe-lr to m
"a manner which | C iuHOt nrrrnte, and whic. IF =
e ! m most dc ply. The recollection OF it Affects
ana IL hu+nce- my f. Hngs now, and ever sin. |
t,ll Iha houorto- Senator thai there ODr f. =
tire in IN. bill ch made it impo.siul that |
Ouli vote for 1t, if | w-ived all other obi ctOns
| = id To others al made appeals 10 th,
sIbct, that whilr it wouI ford gr- pie sure
l. b sustained by my constituents, il Was 10
| woul. resign my Seat h' re IN mOmrnf | tUun1
Ply cours. upon tn subject not ptabi- to
| tlen. As for my standing IS public nan, aud
hatrvtF pro poets public man OF long sTvlce IN
t., councils OF the country might be- supposed TO
! have would resign them all with peasur / told
nat gentleman th if, upon thi- other great
lestiou afrct the inter St. of the SOutr, Guild
fud nv views CO.. citing rally with what should
appear to b. the Settrd sentiment of that section.
! | ould el it my imperative duty 20 retirr. Il"
J declarr her to-day, that il my coun-
tymeu Of Tennessee State shall declare against my
cIurse this su9 Ct and that-shall be ascertain
t" a reasonable CERTAINTY, will not be seen in the
! Ssnrr" day afterwards"
WHEREAs, The voice of his ''couutrymen OF
| eun~~s T." on three srverl occasions, lS55-6-7
has be. pronounced adv rsey so t,r ). naIor',
'c'urs on that vital question to he South; tuere-
fore be it
ResoIUed By tile General assembly Of tic STATE
a. T. ameSSee, TnaL the ion. JOAN Bel be, and he
Is hereby respectfully rtqu's sled to redeem tn
pel sol mnly made by him. set forth il tie
IRE mblr to this resolution.
Resolved, That copy OF this preamble and res,
0 utr'r. forwarded to our Senators ana present
a ives in Congress, and that the Governor OF the
: sat- furnish copy of the same.
The resolution made the sp cal order for
ondsy % instant.
Adjourned