Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1858-02-18
Three Ruckeyes FaI.e.

We give the Yeas and Nays on the pro-
position of Mr. Harris to refer the Presi-
dents Message and the Lecompton Consti-
tuition to = select committee of fifteen.
| The names of Ohio Democrats who, to
their honor, would not bow to the behest
of the Administration, are in itGlics.
The Ohio members who were false to
Freedom and false to their constituents. We
put in Black letter. They number one
less than made themselves famours by yo-
ting for the Kansas-N Nebraska act.
YEAs-Messrs. Abbott, Adrain, An
drews, Bennett, BilIinghurst Bingham,
Blair, Bliss, Brayton, Burlington, Burlin-
game, Burroughs, Campbell, Case, Chat
fee, Chapman, Clark. jr.. of Connecticut,
Clawson, Cochrane, CockereH, Colfax,
Comins, Covode, Coz, Cragin, Curtis,
Damrell, Davis of Maryland, Davis of In
dian, Davis of Massachusetts, Davis of To-
wa, Dawes, Dean, Dewart, Dick, Dodd,
Durfee, Edie, English, Farnsworth, Fenton,
Foley, Foster, Giddings, Gilman, Gooch,
Goodwin, Granger, Groesbech, Grow, Hall
of Ohio, Hall of Massachusetts,, Harlan,
Horton, Howard, Owen, Jones, Kellogg,
Kelsey, Mlgore, Knapp, Kunkel of Penn
sylvania, Laurence, Leach, Letter, Love
Joy, McKibben, Marshall of Illinois, Mont
gomery, Morgan, Morrell, Morris, of Penn
sylvania, Morris of Illinois, Morse of Maine
Morse of New York, Mott, Murray, Nib
lack, Nichols, Olin, Palmer, Parker, Petit,
Pike, Pottle, Potter, Ritchie, Robbins,
Roberts, Royce, Shaw of Illinois, Sher-
man of New York, Sherman, of Ohio,
Smith, of Illinois, Spinner, Stanton, Stew
art of Pennsylvania, Tappan, Thayer,
Thompson, Tompkins, Wade, Walbridge,
Waldron. Walton, Washburn of Wisconsin,
Washburn of Maine, Wilson, Wood.
NAYs-Messrs. Ahl, Anderson, Arnold,
Atkins, Avery, Barksdale, Bishop, Bocock,
Bowie, Boyce, Branch, Bryan, Burnett,
BURNS. Caskie, Clark of Mo-, Clay, Glenn
ems, Clingman, Cobb, John Cochrane Of
N. Y, Corning, Craig of Mo-, Davis of
Miss, Dimmick, Dowell, Edmondson, e.
lott, Eustis, Faulkner, Florence, Garnett,
Gillis, Goode, Greenwood, Gregg, Hatch,
Hawkins, Hill, Hopkins, Houston, Hughes,
Huyler, Jackson jenkins, Jewett, Jones of
Tennessee, j. Clancy Jones, Kiett, Kelly,
Kunkel of Maryland, Larner, Landy, Let
cher, Maclay, Mcqueen, Marshall of Ken
lucky, Mason, Maynard, Miles, MILLER,
Millson, Moore, PENDLETON, Peyton,
Phelps; Philips, Powell, Quitman, Ready,
Regan, Ricaud, Rufin, Russell, Sandige,
Savage, Scales, Scott, Soaring, Seward,
Shaw of North Carolina, Shorter, Sickles,
Singleton, Smith of Tennessee, Smith of
Virginia, Stallworth, Stephens, Ste 7enson,
Stewart of Maryland, Talbot, Taylor of
New York, Taylor of Louisiana, Trippe,
Underwood, Ward, Warren, Watkins,
White, Whitley, Winslow, Woodson, Wir-
tendyke, Wright, of Georgia, Wright of
Tennessee, ZoIltcofer.
The proposition of COL Harris, as adopt
ed was as follows:
That the message of the President, con-
cerning the Constitution framed at Le-
compton, in the Territory of Kansas, by
convention of delegates thereof, and the pa
pers accompanying the same, be referred
to select committee of fifteen, to be ap-
pointed by the Speaker.
That said committee be instructed to in
quire into all the facts connected with the
formation of said constitution, and laws,
if any, under which the same was origina-
ted, and whether such laws have been COM
piled with and followed.
Whether said constitution provides for
Republican form of Government, and
whether there are included within the pro-
posed boundaries of Kansas sufficient popu-
lation to be entitled to Representative in
this House upon the basis now fixed by
law, and whether said constitution is &C
ceptable and satisfactory to majority of
the legal voters of Kansas.
Also, the number of votes cast, if any,
and when, in favor of a Convention to form
Constitution as aforesaid; and the places
where they were cast, and the number cast
at each place of voting, and in each county
in the Territory.
The apportionment of delegates to said
Constitution among the different counties
and election districts of said Territory, and
the census or registration under which the
same was made, and whether the same
was just and fair or in compliance with
law.
The names of the delegates to said Con-
vention, and the number of votes cast for
each candidate for delegate, and the places
where cast; and, whether said Constitu-
tion received the votes of majority of the
delegates to said Convention.
The number of votes cast in said Terri
tory on the 4th day of January last for
and against said Constitution, and for or
against any parts or features thereof, and
the number so cast at each place of voting
in said Territory.
The number of votes cast 10 said Terri
tory on the day last named for any State
and Legislative officers thereof and the
number SO cast for each candidate for such
offices, and the places where cast.
That said Committee also ascertain, as
nearly as possible, what portion, if any, of
the votes so cast at any of the times and
places aforesaid, were fraudulent or illegal.
Whether any portion, and if so, what
portion of the people of Kansas are in
open rebellion against the laws of the coun-
try.
And that said Committee have power
to send for persons and papers.
Kansas FraUds...Rcquis
Lawrence dates of the 4th state that the
Delaware Crossing forgery of election re-
turns rests between Calhoun, Isaacs, Hen
derson, Franklin, and Dieffendorf, and that