The Mountaineer. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1859-1861, 1860-01-07
CONGRESSIONAL.

city, with this week express, we have
been favored with later eastern new
/ than that received by the residue Of the
I fortnightly mail CSlltgress had sisse M.
bled on Monday the 5lh bee. and seemed
/ from all accounts u Je sweet and sour
enough for anything Shaking hands,
scraping, bowing and complimentinp were
1.-The entertainments Of Representatives
outside, and in the inside Of the House
/ they we're in glorious confusion over the
balloting for Speaker, threatening the
dissolution ofthe Jnion, and all that sortoi
harmless braggadoeia. Two hundred
and thirty one members being prese /,
BY way Of experiment, they divided their
/ first vote for sherman. Ga: Bocock st
Grow ,ls; Boteler, / A; Davis, q; Phillips /
Gilmer, 5; Nelson, 5; Corwin and Adrian.
/ each; Hill, Il; Hickman, /; Pennington
y llaskin, 2. Mcqueen I'll II. Clark,
4 Grow nedestly withdrew from Tie
coHtestto advance the interests of Sher-
man. whereon Mr. CLARK 10 Hill OH Sher.
man, offered the following. Whereas
certain members of this house, now IL
nomination Tor Speaker, did endorse and
recommend the book hereinafter named:
therefore. s-.l5 I. I'D
Resolved that tho doctrines and SEN.
timents Of acertain book called z The
Impending Crisis Of the South, and How.
% meet III, puTporting To have been
written by II. r Helper, are incendiary
and hostile 10 the domestic peace ana
tranquility Of the country. and that IL,
member ofthis House who recommended
Or endorsed i Or the compend Is iii Is be
Speaker Of the House, Il
Following thiswas universal confusion.
which, from the telegraph before US, We
Judge must have been lengthy enough
Every body had something to say, and
the House adjourned without any direct
action. The squabble was not, at latest
adYices, over. sherman and Bocock
were the principal candidates. The
Leayenworth Herald Of the 9th says,
- The House look another vote for Speak.
er late Thursday evening. Sherman.
Rep. stood 1tl1%haYing gained all OIL
Grows Votes except tySoy Bocoek, Dem,
IS. Boteler, of al, is off the track
and Gilmer, III ISL Of, another South
American, carries the vote of that wing
The. Democrats do not ballot their full
vote BY 10; they probably being among
the a scattering, mentioned in our dis 1
patch and 2 or 8 absent. The Republic
cans only lack 8 Of their full vote: proba. |
bly, part absentees and part scattering
posslbl " one or two Of the stripe aflvocat-
lllg 8 fusion q Republicans and KIN :,
= e. porting 9ilmers From th 9 vote,
= l'Peafs we south Americans have ralli-1
81 9 ~, Their Is iull strength on Gilner.
y, y, Inc number OF votes necessary; to a !
n Is 81 ] 70 The Republican strength
al .old ls ~ !, and they have but 8 to gaint
y eject Their candidates, provided they I
rally their own men to afuh vote!
z Inns tiley VIII certainly do before many |
more ballots are taken. They have the
so lll,l Americans 70 work upon, as well
y !. lhe - scattering from whom to draw
me. equlslte AID; and we lock only to al
illeh q Inc n and South Amer H
cans ans 70 defeat sherman We do not be- /
leYe the latter will join the Republicans; III
nut y Y they persist in forcing i minority {
,a anu Into the lists Republican i
'lctofy :gIll be the result 2 ..2. ffs
4 through Gapt. Miller we learn that i
Vhen he lett. ;Iea YenWorth City, ON tIlels
5tl, there was no telegraphie intel i
Igenee Of the election Of the Speaker. Etj
addition to what we publish above, Is
sherman is credited with receiving ll0tti
otes and Bocock 66-a gain 10 the form
ROT three and loss 10 the latter oftwolp
otes: The contest for Speaker III the +
louise, promises 70 be as interesting this 4
easoii as It was four years ago. when d
,peaker Banks Of Massachusetts was d
l 81 PM we hardly think the contest la
~ ! ~. g q the same duration. Iir
~. eneial reauers may not fullyun- 4,
Iastiap ny ~ =, Il por.ahce q ne Speaker s q
arty1R anl,hl;eaa s - = aad that the q
esstal n the election has q mighty iuflu- Isl Il
nee IN all the affairs of the House, /. THEFT