Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1861-02-23
Pennsylvania Legislature.
HARRIsBuRa, Feb. 16, lS(


read, Mr.. Ball moved to proceed to the
consideration of bills upon the public cal
endar on third reading, which was agreed
TO.
The first bill in order was the bill to
change the name of the Sunbury and Erie
Railroad Company.
Mr.. Williams called for the reading of
the bill, and it was ordered.
Mr.. Ball spoke at some length in ad-
vocacy of the bill,
Mr.. Hofus called the previous question,
and the call was sustained. r...f
The main question being ordered, the
yeas and nays were called on the final
passage of the bill. ......
When the name of Mr.. Tracy, of
Bradford, was callod, he rose, much ex-
cited, and said he considered the bill an
act of villainy. .- r. ....
The, vote on the bill was then anncun-
,ced--yeas 70, nays 26, as follows; -.
Z YEAs.-Messrs. Acker, Abbott, Ander-
son, Armstrong, Austin, Ball, Barncsley,
Bartholomew, Beisel, Blair, Boyer, Brcss-
Ter, Brewster, Butler, of Carbon, Butler,
of Crawford, Byrne, Caldwell, Collins,
Covan, Craig, Douglas, DufReld, Dun
can, Dunlap, Edenberger, Gaskill, Gre
ham, Happier, Harvey, Hayes, Hillman,
Hood, Hofus, HUM, Kline, Lawrence,
Laisenring, Lichtenwallner, Lowther, Me-
Donough, McGencgal, Maniford, Mar
shall, Moore, Morrison, Mullin, Ober,
Osterhout, Pierce, Preston, Pugh, Ran
dali, Reilly, RhOads, Ridgway, Robinson,
Roller, Schrock, Seltzcr, Shafcr, Shep-
pard, Smith of Berks, Smith of PhiIadel-
lphia, Stehman, Strong, Teller, Thomas
Walker, White, Wilder, and Davis,
Spsaker-72. ...
sNAYs.--Messrs. Alexander, Baxter,
Blanchard, Bliss, Brodhead, Burns Clark,
Cope, Dismand, Donley, Elliot, Frazier,
Gibbony, Goehring, Hack, Hill, Irwin,
Myers, Patterson, Reiff, Stoneback, Tay'
lor, Tracy, Williams, and Wilson-26.
So the bill passed.
The bill for the communication of the
tonnage duties on the Pennsylvania Rail
road, was then taken up on third read
ing. -. ....
Mr. Sheppard, in a somewhat lengthy
and able speech, advocated the passage of
the bill, supporting his arguments by
statistics, and contending that liberal
policy towards all her great lines of i'm
provement was the true policy of the
State.
Mr.. Tracy denounced the bill as an
abomination, and earnestly appealed to
his Republican friends to vote against it.
Mr.. Leisenring-Does he desire to make
it political question by appealing to his
party friends here
Mr.. Tracy-I say again, emphatcally,
that it will be made political question.
The debate was continued until clock,
when the previous question was called and
sustained, and the bill passed-yoas 60,
nays SO, as follows:
YEAs.-Messrs. Abbott, Acker, Ash
comb, Austin, Ball, Bartholomew, Blair,
Bressler, Brewster, Burns, Butler (Car-
bon,) Butler (Crawford,) Byrne, Caldwell,
Cowan, Craig, Douglas, Dufield, Duncan,
Dunlap, Edenberger, Gaskill, GibbOny,
Goehring, Graham, Harvey, Hillman,
Hofus, HUM, Kaoch, Lawrence, Leisen-
ring, Lowthcr, McDonough, McDonegaI,
Osterhout, Pierce Preston, Iigh, Ran
dali, Reilly, Ridgway, Robinson, Roller,
seltzer, shafer, Sheppard, Smith, of
(Philadelphla,) Taylor, Teller, Thomas,
Walker, White, Wildey and Davis
(Speaker)-6O.
NAYs.-Messrs. Alexander, Anderson,
Armstrong, Barnsley, Beisel, Baxter,
Blanchard, Bliss, Boyer, Brodhead Clark,
Collins, Cope, Dismant, Donnelly, Elliot,
Frazier, Happer, Hayes, Hook, Hill,
Hood, Irwin, Kline, Lichtenwallner, Man.
fold, Myers, Patterson, Reiff, Rhoads,
Schrock, Smith of Berks, stehman Stone
back, Strang, Tracy, Williams and Will
son-3s.
The House then adjourned till Mon
day.