Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1860-01-26
9 4 z = 2 2 : .
Proceedings of Congress.
= tracts from tho Letters Of Oliver OIdSchool pui
n-hcd III the Philadelphia Daily News.


Why cannot a speaker be elected? One
r,,,5n is, because there are fifteen or twenty
members from the South, who really do not
Ja.ire an organization. In my opinion they
YynuH rejoice if they could break up our gov
eminent, bring the country into state OF an
or,hy. and out of this chaos and confusion
Lr;,, about Il Southern COnfederacy. That
!. ,.. !agIiag object Mr.. Pugh, of Ala
rta, was honest enough to say that he did
It raut sne house to organize. There are
,tnsr- yho have the same feelings but who
h4g, nut the badness u ayOw them The
..5;er hypocriticaly profess attachment to
fin. UHinn ana desire to organize the House.
vpt SHOW their determination to prevent, hy
infarminab!e debate, the adoption of any
measure calculated to bring about an organi
zir,1n.
Il vernon Pennington submitted a rcsolu
lion 90 Friday, declaring that the body would
g- .wi.e ;hat day, and if no Speaker were
.f.et.I g gata should be taken at one o'clock
yu Monday lycsrerday,) when he who should
receive the highest vote should be Speaker.
Mr.. LeaAc. Of Virginia, secssionist, inn
medlatciy raised point of order. that this
resolution could not he received The Clerk
has decided that this point Of order was de-
bat"ahle
Mr. Grow contended that it was only de
bateaGlo to a limited extent.
Mr. Huston, Of Alabama, said that as it
is debateabe, it was 50 to the same length and
breadth rs any other proposition Jcfore tic
House.
The Clerk said it would be for the House
to determine the length and breadth of the
debate admissible upon it,
Mr.. tlustOn-exa2tiy so and the question
IF rnf,rripr tho Sul,iaft = tho IIouSo NJ
,debateuble
The dHintus, or intention of Mr.. Huston,
stands out here so prominently and markedly.
tha, it cannot he mistaken. His object is con
fusion au5 anarchy. He virtually gives no.
tice tnat upon mere question Of order,
whether resolution is admissible or not, he
and those who are with him are determined
to talk about every thing and ali things be
SIDES all things upon the earth and all
things und"r the earth ali things visible and
all things Invisible; all things true and all
things false: all things pertinent and all things
'mpertinent. Talk talk talk is to be inter
posed and kept up, for no purpose but to pre-
~ent an organization of the House; and those
Nno do this, Huston Mt their head are the
diSorganlzcrS, and responsible for the block
lng Of the wheels of government. They don't
want the government to go on, and are de
t.rmlned it shall not if they can prevent it.
WAsHINGroN, January II, 1860.
Il has tranSpired that Il debate took place
in the Senate on Monday in secret session,
which WAS most Incorporate and bosterous
in its character. Without quoting Senator's
am authorized to say that it was more threat
cning and mere disoyal to the Union than
perhaps had ever been heard before in the
Capitol. 1t is reported out of doors that Mr.
Il IN
elected by Northern votes, sooner than that
be should be inaugurated, there shonld not
one stone 0f the Capitol rest upon another. |
nave reason to SUPPOSE that this was not the
particular form # his remark though it was
scarcely less threatening.
The debate t'ok place upon the nomina-
ton Of Mr.. Faulkner, of Va, as minister to
France. Some one said that he understood
that Mr.. Faulkner was a dsunionist Mr.
bombs thereupon pronounced the change to
DE a lie. The Senator who had made the
charge said be was not in the habit of handy.
my epithetS in that Hall, but would give the
proof and have the he to rest where the testi-
mony should leave it.
The proceedings Of the House yesterday,
were of a boi-terous and acrimonious cnarac-
Ter Nr. Curry, of Alabama, made what is
here technically termed Spread Eagle
sion and l.snni.n in rase :. bIark RennlIi-
el7"-t.i. i tha L.,I;tmoI So.;r,,ot;,,,, rf ,Lo
Rarpboan nar. 49, <u''' u.s. 'no'' II 70 ,''I
l., niarroG p!n.;io p;iI - ''1''''' = -'''''
tTa,r 49,. '''''o''t' Guy. r
man 49, IT.. p,.s '''c't1 H,: "''e,,,:' = sII''
,.la.t.5 pras;lont ,-i1 2,.,I'u ~
sHf,ant co,,sa "GGIu 1J,,Sitsi 'e' -
,n"y tLsc III ~, ,-,,sonr',' 'Ac Cl''D.
,r.or r, f "Je cu. ~ LHS
say ~. ,l 's' V, 't'e 'o"u'', WIN
bin1 ,ta,,+ s',t, I','r',i, ,et no
MI, s.,o r ,t ~ 'e' ''S r;II oos aS4"1en 3os
the tw,.a,o, '.>'IIs Wy l,:,~.sn '' i,eo,o o.
in n So, NJ .,i. ''''Ii'i'' !" me Si'e@cn
~" -i3l''!' S.iu 'nat tu"I Wa