Daily national Democrat., 1861-03-24
1ailp NatlOnal 1rmufrat
The Senatorial Question.

State Senate, on Friday, the following re-
mort by the Union, as a matter of record
which may he important hereafter, Mr.. Lo
gan, of Tehama, one Of the Tellers in the
count of the votes for Senator, arose to
question of privilege, and said:
7 noticed in an editorial of the Bee vester-
dav. speaking in relation to the election of
ITnit ed States Senator, it stated that upon au-
thority of the report of the Tellers and Clerks
ofthe Convention, the President of the Con-
yontion announced that James A. McDougall
was duly elected by majority of the votes
oost | desire to say that such statement is
incorrect in this, that the Teers of the Con-
yentiop never made report of the last bal
Loft IT. will be remembered that two tally
l,sts were kept in the Convention-myself
and the Secretary of the Senate kept one
and after all the votes had been polled and
all the changes made that members wished,
tha LIST was called over in order that if there
was onv mistake it might be corrected The
next thing that was done by the Tellers and
clerks was to foot up the votes cast. aud for
whom cast and having ascertaned that the
two tally lists were alike, to take from one
of the lists the result of the vote and send it
70 the President of the Convention but the
result of the last ballot was handed to the
President of the Convention without any ref
erence to the liet | was making and
from that list, thus handed up, the announce
,nent of the result of the vote was made. |
made no objection at the time to the an
uonncement from the fact that had not the
time sufficient to make calculations as to
whether it was correct, and before | did it
the announcement was made. Now, as to
the vote upon the last ballot, | will state that
of the ll5 members of the Legislature, ll3
votes were cast, according to my list of which
McDougall received Sc; Nugent, Al; Weller
g. Cassery, / Maor Anderson, Cream
or |; Phelps, making ll3 votes-absent
aud not voting, Edgerton and Haynes-nnd
making 81 votes necessary to choice-Mr
Sorrel, the other Teller appointed, did not
act as Teller during the last ballot. | did
not make report upon the last ballot, for
the reason | have stated; and make this
statement in justice to myself, as don't want
it to go to the world that it was upon account
of the mistake of the Tellers that the vote
was thus announced.
Mr.. Irwin would inquire if it was not the
duty of the Senator, one of the Tellers of
the Convention to ascertain that the result of
the vote was correctly given before it was
handed to the President to be announced as
the result of the vote.
Mr.. Logan-I had not time-I had no
chance under heaven to do it,
Mr.. De la Guerra-From the manner in
which the Senator from Tehama has explain-
ed this matter, it may leave some doubts in
relation to my conduct as the presiding Off
Ger of the body The Senator says he did
not make report upon the last ballot !
ask the Senator ifhe ever, during any of the
ballots, came to my desk, or in any manner
informed me, or gave me any inlimation as
TO whether or not his list agreed with that
kept by the other Teller.
Mr.. Logan-Upon the previous balotings
the lists were compared, but the other list
taken upon the last ballot was not compared
with mine. 1t is not to be presumed that
the President took any notice OF the fact
whether it was compared or not The Clerks !
standing inside the desk handed the result of
the vote to the President did not suppose
for moment that the President noticed tha,
Che lists were not compared. did not intend
TO intimate that the President Of the Con-
vention had acted otherN se than in the most
perfect good faith.
Mr.. De la Guerra-lf ! understood the
Senator from Tehama Alright he further 'ated
he had no time to fully examine and foot up
the list before announced the vote. | will
etate this fact After the Clerk handed me
the vote upon the last ballot, | took 1t, aud
the Speaker of the House Mr.. Burnel) asked
ine TO let him see it, Accordingly handed
it TO him, aud it was about that time that Mr..
Thornton got up and asked leave to address
the Convention. Cries of ono" and cries of
leave were heard, and iu order to preserve
order--to avoid diticuity-I perhaps went a
little further than ought to have done as
the presiding officer of the Convention /
allowed the gentleman to speak-made some
remarks addressed to Mr. PheIps-Mr. Phelps
answered him. That took up several minutes.
Then Mr.. Conness rose to point of order,
and there must have been five or eight, or
perhaps ten minutes spent in that way and
all that time had the result of the vote in |
my hand as given to me, and had not an
nOunced it. | think it must have been thus |
IN my possession nearly ten minutes think |
there was time upon that ballot, as on every |
other ballot, to give the Tclers an opportuni- |
ty to do what was their duty, which was TO
count and ascertain that the vote thus hand !
ed 10 the President was correct.
A TENNEssEAN REroRTs HIS IMrREssIoNu OF
Mr. LINCoLN-.We find communication in
the Nashville Democrat, addressed to the
voters of Tennessee, and signed IS. w. ADJ
risen, mechanic from which we make the