The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1858-04-28
CITY, WEDNESDAY,, APRIL Isl, 1858.

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MraPErITT also, from the same committee, sabnitr
ted The following resolution s,,-e /, + .l,f = = -
Reas a, compensation stenographers employed by
eomutscer s authority Of he House be paid as audited
by tho Committee on Accounts .,r II y, tss
Mr. JONES OF Tennessee said II there had been any
usual compensation he not aware OF IT,
AIR, BURNElT saii II the same compensation that
tho Globe pays The committee Ind followed that rule
assured that would meet the approval OF the Hous"
Mr.. JONES asked what amount would be paid ut that
price.
Mr. BIJisNEIT replied that tho COMMITTEES had en-
poycd two senographes nearly the whole umc' ana iha'
the gross amount would bc 81 ,0l0
n Mr. SEWARD moved that the resolution be laid ON
| the table which motion was not agreed to, trtf3a
The resolution was then adopted.
QUESTION OF PRIVILEGE.
Mr. HUGHES, of Indiana. desire to bring before the
House a matter wish to propose a resolution ---
4 Mr.. Campbell. Of Ohio. call the gentleman 10
order, and ask for the regular order Of business
The SPEAKER. The gentleman rises to a question Of
privilege 8
Mir. HUGHES propose to offer a resolution to cen
sure member Of the House. and which will send to the
Clerks desk to be read
Whereas FaAxos srSsxx Of this ouso from ihc
s s S s ss% % aasn a and md action q th
resolution which was ruled op, order by the Speaker and when
swhercas Darlington Iwkeye newspaper published IN the
state q Iowa % has recently psshei nc the % ,Mas =, , ss "as WV Un
During the second week after tho one had opened an order
Indsns With out n the regular
Office hours and thus the honorable senator got nice sea e
public land while the rest Of Ind TO take our turn nj ho m
peculiar position which rchs
occupies the administration had anything TO 90
with ths piece Of party fnvoitismr g MIRA ~ a't.
nlcS At Council btas il said State under Ap H. 1885,
PARRY rAvorrrss correspondent burlington awcye
Of party yoritsm and alleges that twas
nearly Of bnd cuiered but is sadly
a. fault q. 70 The person entering the same @ 1 y Thousand % = 'To N ua
WM H. EycSi, and JANr FoIhr BRIcar entered Aso Eng
u,trucon the General Land oce The
innuats that the allowance Of the entry was the price paid
compton constitution but his base nnuoton VIII lese M rs force
when is known that Esan and Foiss voted aers ID" adms
low estimate upon The honor and integrity q the President
c,en Of Council Bluffs the wang doodle Of the black republican
Therefore BE- resolved That committee appointed
inquire into the facts and
once Whereby the Hon Jass D. lscr,
and the Hon JAs fo permitted y enter about ooo
entry aud that said coinni'ec
have power to send for persons and papers, and to report by bill or
whereas a preamble ana rsouAea gcSs' @ spon ls ,p,,s
members q the house. without containing any charge Or matter
Resolved Tint the offer Introduce said preamble and resolution
w breach % the vsge orS and q the s,r louss @
Mr. HUGHES said he would have preferred to say what
he had to say upon this subject without the introduction
resolution but the privilege of making very short
gentleman from New York [Mr. srNNEnl attempted to
introduce resolution rejecting upon the character and
integrity Of senator from the State OF ndana and hc
had reason to believe that he could be permitted to
yndcatc the character of that senator except by bring
Ing himself strictly within the rules of the House thorc
fore be had introduced the resolution, and should ask
vote upon It.
Mr. Campbell. raised point OF order that the rcso
luton not question Of privilege. IL every member
of the House who imagined that senator from his
State had been rcvilcd through the public press OF The
country should be allowed to make ii question of priv
lege they should have nothing but questions Of priy
lcge
| The SPEAKER overruled the question Of order The
Chair of opinion that it question OF privilege
inasmnch as it proposed to ccnsurc member OF the
| House
| Mr.. HUGHES proceeded Having been driven to the
necessity of introducing the resolution by the unsta-
BILE attack made not only upon that senator but upon
members of Congress and public officer from Indiana
he expected to press the resolution to VOTE aud he be-
leyed when all the facts and circumstances which he had
to apprchcnd susceptible of proof the
lution would pass y sufficient majority to place upon
the record the emphatic. condemnation Of the House
against the effort of imbodyng in the form Of its official
proceedings the newspaper ISLANDERS of the day The res
oluton appeals to the House not only to rcpe that
ustfable and malicious assault upon senators, function
aries and members and calls upon the House to maintain
its own dignity and character and set the seal Of its
domination upon tho abuse Of the privileges of the floor
by mbodyng in the form OF judicial procecdings scada
lous matter So far his colleagues iessrs. ENoLsI
tion in their hands. They present and he had
no doubt would defend themselves. He read from the
laws Of the land to show that is made the duty of the
Commissioner of the General Land Office under such
regulations may be prescribed by the Secretary tho
Interior to cause to be located, free OF expense
any Warrant which the holder may transmit to the
General Land Office for that purposes in such State
land district the warrantcc may designate The
tor and two members of Congress fit to invest their
money in land and to avail themselves of the public
statute of the country and have their land located and
entered by the General Land Office That the whole
of it, and out of that the whole matter had been
fact,red Ignorance Of law for the course
pursued by the gentleman from New York and he pre-
sumod gentleman of sufficient character to be honorcd
by any constituency with scat IN this House would rise
In his place and plead Ignorance of the public laws He
had objection that the resolution should bo referred
committee who should have power to investigate both
the charge which made by Mr. SKINNER and the
charge which he had made against him Hc undertook
TO say that when the committee raised it would ap-
pear in proof that the resolution which the gentleman
from New York proposed yesterday concocted by
some outside person. maciously, for the purpose Of get
ting it in the official proceedings of the body II
kcttlcd around the House and offered TO number OF gen
tle,ncn before il given to the gentleman from New
York Notwithstanding that tho Speaker had ruled it
out of ORDER it Immediately tccgnphed to the New
York papers, and would be brought back by ths eve
ming mails. II would appear further that tho gentle
man from New York, after the House had adjourned
had said that he did not desire another committee and
that his purpose mpishcd That resolution had
been gotten in under false impression and was dc
signed stab at two members OF the House. senator
and the Commissioner of the General Land Office and