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PROCEEDINGS OF THE THIRTY.SIyTT CONGRESS
WASHINGTON, December Is. 1889
SENATE

SENATE.
The VICE PRESIDENT announced the Committee
called for under Mr.. MssoN's resolution of inouirV
relative to the Harpers Ferry invasion, which was
! adopted yesterday. The Committee consists of
Me5SrS Mason, Davis, COamer, Fitch and Doo-
| little.
! Mr.. PUGH submitted resolution, which lies over
inStructng the Committee on Territories to inquire
| INTO the expediency of repeating so much of the
ACT lor Inc organization of Territorial Govern
ments IN New Mexico and Utah. as requires all laws
passed by those Territories to be submitted to Con
gress for approval or rejection.
Mr.. MALLORY gave notice of his intention IN in
troduce bill to regulate and increase the paw of
the navy. F' -
The Senate then proceeded to an election for
Chaplain. The first ballot resulted in no choice:
on the second, Rev. DR.. Gurley was elected receiv.
ing 80 votes out Of the 80 Senators present
Several petitions were presented when, without
lurtner business, the Senate adjourned till Monday
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.
Mr.. NALLANDGGHAM resumed his speech remark
ing that the courtesy he extended to others at all
times he was resolved to exact fer himself at every
hazard, and therefore, last evening had right 70
expect the courtesy Of an adjournment, as he did
not then wish to address the House. He repeated
what he then said that the man who endorsed
Helpers book, containing sentiments of an iusur-
rectIonary tendency, and intended or tending to
SOW the seeds of discord and strife aud civil war
was not fit to be Speaker or member of the House
The gentleman from Virginia Mr.. Millson) the
"tHcI udl went lufther, and SAID that such man
was not mt to live, vet the Republicans received
TINS remark mute as fishes and gentle as lambs and
they must regard the observation from him. not as
menace but as sober truth. He had been served
with notice from the Republican side of the House
that they were determined not to listen TO any
further remarks from him. For this he did not
care He would tell them that the country holds
its breath in suspense and listens To the slightest
word which falls from the lips of gentlemen here
present.
This Union has been threatened. He occupied
the position OF armed neutrality He was not
Northern man, and had no sympathy and very little
good feeling for the North. lie was bound to it
by no ties whatever except by the strongest of all
ties-a common language and a common country
and least OF all was he Northern man with South
ern principles. He was Il United States man. with
United States principles.
lie was for giving to the South all that belonged
to 1.-THE fugitive slave law, a right to slavery in
the territories, and whatever rights the Constitu-
ton conters. Our fathers made the cOmpact and
he would yield to it-nOt grudgingv but ready
obedience IN all its parts. TApplause He was not
u ProslaVery man or nonpro-Slayery man, but
had a serene indifference on the subject. He
thought he occupied the constitutional Ground of
our fathers, in whose days people were animated
by patriotism, and had not, as some have now, an
antEslavery God, an ant-slavery Bible, and an
anti-slavery Constitution.
He avOwed himself Western man nv birth
and sentiment and education, while, at the same
tlme avowing himself Constitutional man. He
said Mr.. COrwin had been detailed to lead the for
be
at the Malakof He could never conoucr
He said that the next census would show A ma
lorlty OF the people in the valley of the Mississippi
who would administer the Government for the ben
elt OF the whole country He appealed to the
Western men to cut off from the Northern sectional
party, which, if they should obtain power. would
divide the patronage, to the exclusion of the West
Alter some further remarks he proceeded to sneak
OF dSunOn-a word which had become az familiar
as the most ordinary words of salutation The doc
trnes of Seward, Hale, Sumner, the New York
Tribune, and Others were the sentiments of the ma
Jority of the people at the North, and Of but a mi
nority of the West. He said he had proved that
there was great and most imminent danger of the
disruption Of the Union and said that the Republic
cans used antlslavery more means of acouirinO
power than from hostility to slavery He said that
gentlemen dare not dissolve the Union-he was
against dissolution now and forever He held TO
one Union, one Constitution, one destiny which
cannot be fulfilled hut by united people, and by
DISCRIMINATING the sectional and Republican party.
[Applause.
Mr.. PENNINGToN offered a resolution-that until
Speaker shall be elected, the House shall vote
three times every day, commencing at one o'clock,
and that no other votes shall be taken during the
day.
Mr.. CRAWFORD said his friends around him OBJ
jected to the introduction of the resolution
Mr.. CLEMENS appealed to gentlemen to adopt the
resolution saying that otherwise, the Republicans
might vote in the absence of Democrats.
Mr.. CRAWFORD, Of Georgia, then proceeded to adj.
dress the House lie said that he should hold up
10 pubIlC, MI sherman as the exponent Ut the
anti.Slavery feeling in sentiment. In further de-
Tending the South, he said that while the North
believed that slavery crime, and while the
South believed it was right, there never could be
an adjustment of the question. He denied that the
North had violated any Of its Obligations; and in
concluding his remarks, said he was authorized to
speak for the Georgia Democrats when he said that
| they would never submit to the Inauguration of a
Black Republican President For himself he pre-
terred independence out rather than in the Union.
bFh!' f'5G@2hf,was aEnlaudcd % the other side.l
CLEMENS, who moved that the House proceed to
vote for Speaker.
Preliminary to this there was a call Of the House.
Two votes for Speaker were taken DIR. Sherman
each time swing 10, and Mr.. Bococl So; Mr..
Giimers last vote lS and Mr.. Boteler received
). There were some scattering votes.
Whole number ofv cast 226-necossary to a
choice ia.
Messrs. Haskin, Hickman, and Schwartz, went
over to Mr.. Sherman. Some gentlemen who did
not vote to day had paired off
No other business transacted, and the House
adjourned