Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1861-07-16

Expulsion Of umIted BtAteq sonnfo orc.
Mr.. Clark; move nov 70, take up the rsso-
luton which ESuhnitted yesterday In regard %
the expulsion Of certain members Of the sen-
ate.
The motion was agreed to; and the Senate
proceeded 10 consider the following resolutions:
WHEREAS, A conspiracy has been formed against
the peace, union, and hbetties Of the people and
Government of the United States. and In luther
ance Of such conspiracy portion of the people
Of the States Of Virginia, North Carolina, South
Carolina, Tennessee, Arkansas, and Texas, have
attempted to withdraw those States from the
Union, and are now in arms against the Govern
ment; and whereas ] James NJ. Mason and Rob
ert M. T. Hunter, Senators from Virginia;
Thomas L. Clingman and Thomas BraggS SEN
ators from North Carolina; James Chesnut,
Jr, Senator from South Carolina; A. 0. p.
Nicholson, Senator from Tennessee; William
X. Sebastian and Charles b.. Mitchell, Senators
from Arkansas; and John Hemphill and Louis
T. Wigfall, Senators from Texas, have failed
to appear In their seats In the Senate and To aid
the Governments In this important crissi and IL
is apparent to the Senate that said Senators are
engaged in said conspiracy for the destruction
of the Union, and GoverHment, ors with full
knowledge of such conspiracy, have failed to
advise the Government Of Its progress or aid In
its suppression; therefore, r-,uy ~, -,
Resolped, That the said Mason, Hunter, Cling
man, Chestnut, Nicholson, Sebastian, Mitchell,
Hemphill, and !Wigfall, be, and they hereby are,
each and all Of them, expelled from the Senate
of the United States.
Mr., Latham !: i move to strike out the word
.'expelled," and to insert the words "that their
names be striken from the roll, and their seats
declared vacant.o r } ~ z .It-i + r.
The resolution, If amended as proposed, will
read as follows: Ghf
Resolued, That the names of the said Mason,
Hunter, Clingman, Bragg, Chesnut, Nicholson
Sebastian, Mitchell, Hemphill and Wigfalb be,
and they hereby are, stricken from the roll, and
their seats declared vacant.
/ The question being taken by yeas and nays,
resuted-yeas ii, nays 80, as follows:
YEAS -Messrs. Bayard, Breckinridge, Bright,
johnson of Missouri, johnson of Tennessee,
Latham, Nesmith, POLK, Powell, Rice and
Sanlsbury-ll.t EftfFg ttgEbgl kf lA
NAYs-Messrs. Anthony, Bingham, Brown
ing, Chandler, Clark, Collamar, CoWsn, Dixon,
Doolittle, Fessenden, Foot, Foster, Grimes,
Hale, Harlan, Harris, Howe, King, Lane of In
diana, Lane of Kansas, McDougall, Morrill,,
'Pomeroy, Sherman, Simmons, Sumner, Ten
,Eyck, Trumbull, Wade, Wilkinson, Wilmot
and Wilson-32. - -tLt fASEEs@i <
So the amendment was rejected.
Ire Presiding Offcer: The question now is
,on the adoption of the resolution.
The question being taken by yeas and nays,
resulted-yeas 80, nays 10, as follows: ~ =
Chandler, Clark, Collamar, Cowan, Dixon,
Doolittle, Fessenden,- Foot. Foster, Grimes,
Hale, Harlan, Harris, Howe, King. Lane Of
Indiana, Lane Of Kansas, McDougall. Morrill,,
Pomery, Sherman, Simmons, Sumner, Ten
Eyck, Trumbull, Wade, Wilkinson, Wilmot
and Wilson-32.
NAYs--Messrs Bayard, Breckinridge, Bright,
Johnson of Missouri, Johnson OF Tennessee,
Latham, Nesmith, Polk, Powell and gRioe--l0.
The Presiding Officer: On this question
the yeas are32, and the nays l0.T Two thirds
having voted for the passage, the resolution is
agreed to.