Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1859-11-04

-A'' .1 INAUGURATION OF GOVERNOR.
Mr. PAYNE. from the joint select committee ap
ro;n.ed tolmake arrangements for the Inauguration
Of the Governor elect, reported the order Of exer
cises 10 be observed. as,.
REPORT FROM THE BANK COMMITTEE.
Mr.. LANE submitted the following report d.
The Committee on Banks to whom was referret
Senate bill No. 16, 20 amend section 8l4 of thu
Code have had the same, with an amendment and
bill 10 lieu. under consideration, and jority o
said Committee recommend the rejection Of the orig;
nal bill with ..its amendments, and recommend III,
ad option aud passage of the bill in lieu.
TIE Committee on Banks have also had undel
consideration Senate bill No. ~. Ito authorize the
Banks to pay out the notes of each other,) upon
the recommer dation Of which there ives a tie vote
They have had also Senate bill No 80, Ito estab
lish a General Banking Law in the State of Ten
nesseeJ and upon its Recommendation had also ii,
vote
THE CONTESTED ELECTION.
The specia! order, being the question upon th'
adoption of the resolution offered by Mr.. Stanton
in lieu OF the resolution of the majority of the spec
ial committee was taken up. and
The ayes aud nones upon the ADOPT ton of the re-
solution iIvlied,. having been demanded by Mr.
Stanton, were ordered and taken as follows:
Ayss-Messrs. Allen, Boyd, Bumpsss Hern, Nash
Richardson, Stanton, Stokes, StOkely, and Trim
ble-l0.
Noss-Nessrs. Hildreih, Hunter, johnson. Lane,
Mickey, Mcclellan ATcNeilly, Stovall, Thompson,
Wood and Speaker Newman-1I
So the resolution in lieu was rejected.
The question then recurring upon the adoption Of
the resolution offered by the majority ofthe special
committee,
Mr. STOKELY said: merely want to OK:
plain my vote upon this resolution that is now be
fore the Senate 1t IS very true that have been on
the floor quite often during this session. but have
never occupied it long at any one time When
do rise sir, feel perhaps little like the Speaker
when distinguished gentleman from Washington
and. Louisville visit these halls, little embar'
rassed
Speaker NEWMAN. 1 would say that if the gen
tleman feels the way the Speaker does on those
occasions, he would not speak at all.
Mr. ST0KELY: Well, sir, | came very near
not speaking at all; and, sir, on rising here, feel
much embarrassed and not at all capsule of speaking
my opinions fully as in conversations with my
friends on my farm at home.
Bat it has been said that would De bound &C
cordug to the vote that gave in convention, when
the for Governor counted, 90 vote for the
admission of Mr. Minnis to his seat on this fl cor.
did not haye.au opportunity to explain my vote ia
convention. II wish now TO explain the vote shall
give here and to show that there is no conflict be-
tween the two votes. Ia that convention there
was a motion made by the Representative from
Wayne, Mr.. Morris, to exclude the official vote Of
Sequatche county. voted to exclude Sequatch-
lie county in the vote cast for Governor. Now ii
is right aud proper thst should explain my action
in this particular.
l went II the Representative from Wayne and told
him that wanted 10 amend his motion SO as to ex-
clude the vote as the official vote of the county but
so to admit the vote the vote of the fractions
counting them with the counties from which they
were taken. He informed me that such was his in
tention, and that as the resolution exclud-
ing the voie was passed, he should introduce re-
solution TO bring about such result. You sl kuo
he ~ we were excluded from this as out Of order,
sfter the other vote taken. You also recollect
that made motion then to reconsider the vote,
excluding the county VOTE and that that motion was
laid on the table. My intention to exclude the
vote Of Sequatehie as an official county, but that
the fractions should be counted with counties from
which they were taken in accordance with the Coz
stitution Of the State 1t can be plainly understood
by the Constitution that votes polled by the citizens
of new counties shall be counted With the votes Of
the counties from which they are taken. Even if
all the Lawyers from Maine to California should
preach To me that the county of Seoustohie is not
new county they could not make me believe it. If
it is new county, the citizens are bound to vote
with the counties frOri which they are taken accord
ing to the Constitution.
If they had done So according 10 the Senator's
own adm ssion, there nineteen vOles east for
Mr.. MINIS in the GruGdy fraction, and these being
deducted, leave a clear majority Of one for Mr.
Tlbbs. For these reasons voted for the admission
of MIR. Tibbs, and shall vote sgsinst the right of
Mr.. Mnnis to a seat l am not going now to in
vestigate TO argue the question wish every
one to be settled IN his own mind. Not a single
feeling of dislike nor OF luminosity, nor Of malice
influences me in this vote at ell. No Senator on
this floor ought to make any choice to the person
Who shall occupy it with him. That is wisely left
to the people. We have only to decide on whom
their CHOICE has fallen. .-.......
desire that all the Senator's should Cxplqic their
votes. When the question vas FIRST brought into the
Sepate it was he'd by the leading Senator of the
0pposItlon--no, ! will not say that--but by the
Senator from Shelby, that the vote Of Sequat3hie
shold not be counted in the vote Of the State, as
he couuty had no legal existence. In the vote in
the Convention, he voted to recognize the county as
an official county, and think he will recognize il
such in his vote to-day
Mr.. NASH said, in explanation CT the ve.e he
should give: did vote at all in convention rel
alive TO Sequatchie, from the fsct that did not
know how to vote. | was asked to receive or
ject Sequatchie county in that convention as | I'M
derstoodit was not asked to vote how that oouu-
ty should have voted constitutionslly. | was
oaught up momeutarially and | could not decide
If had been asked whether it was constitutional
for Sequatchie county to vote separate county,
could have voted easily, and should voted no.
But was not aware of the fact that it was proposed
to count the vote in fractions. If L had been, l
would have voted to exclude Sequstchie and to ad-
nit the vote in her fractions. l am compelled ct
present to give my vote in favor of Mr.. Tibbs /
only ask that you Keep your eye single to this
thing; that in voting for Alr. Minns, You are vots
ing 10 do indirectly what you cannot do directly.
Let your eye be singy directed to the constitution
al question under consideration, without reference
to man, party or anything else.
Mr. STANTON demanded the ayes and noes up
= e .l,,t.o~ L.
dered and taken as follows:
Ayss-Messrs. Hildreth, Hunter, johnson, Lane,
Aiiexley, Mcclellan, McNeiy, Payne, Stovall,
Thompson, Wood and Speaker NeWman-l2.
Noss-Messrs, Allen, Boyd Bumpsss, Horn, Nash,
Richardson, Stanton, Stokes, StOkeley and Trim
be-l0.
NJ BRADFORD said deave being grsnted) that
be noticed that Peters was absent, and that
previous occasion when he (Mr Brsdford) was to
be absent, Mr., Peters had agreed to pair off with
/ i'm upon this question, H therefore desired TO
/ the same now for Mr.. Peters, end desires that
such intention might be recorded on the journal
Mr.. STANTON, when his name was called, said
In as much as some explanations hsve been made
COUGHING the votes of Senators in the convention
which comp red the votes of the Gubernatorial
election upon the proposition throw out the votes
IF Sequstche county from the returns Of said cleo
ion, perhaps ought in that connection, as long as
be subject is up to say few words explanatory OF
he apparent contrast between the vote which cast
here and that which | am about to give this !
,ues,ion In that convention | looked to the fact 4
hat S.qustchie had been made up Of Hamilton |
md GrundV countless hut that in the returns from /
Hamilton and Grundy the votes Of theiF respective
REACTIONS composing Sequatchie had nat been inoor-
GRATED or embraced. By mistake Of returning Of
icers thsy had been left out Of those old county
,orts and reported under the name of Sequatchie.
The question before the convention was not IS to
vbether those votes in Sequatche should be thrown
.vav Il was un willing to vote to threw away
hose votes and thus disfranchise citizens whose
ace was as sacred to item as if they composed
he whole State And although there may have
zen and was an nformality in holding the election
nder the officers Of SeqHatcnie still 1t was not such
n pformaIity as could not have been corrected and
nede 10 have conformed 10th TO the statutes and
he constitution And as to where they were count
q VAS n matter of no importance to the Guberns-
orisl election; if counted with the old counties,
bar through those old county returns would have
ntered into the aggregate vote Of the State and if
oanted as Sequstchie They also enter into the game
ggreoate returns Of the State and count ss much
n turning or effecting that result one way or the
Their. Had they voted by fractions with their mo-
her counties they would have voted for the same
len for Governor as ifthey had voted as aequatchie
o their votes were given oonstitutionaly correct,
ut informal as to some legal CT Statutory requisi-
ons which are directory and not imperatiVsi the