Daily national Republican. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1862-1866, 1863-01-28
HOW CONGRESS DISPOSED OF Ian
MANS OLD DICTIONARY
BOLD ATTEMPT TO DECEIVE THE MEN
BEERS OF THE HOUSE.
TIE DETECTED.


when We exposed Charles Lanmans treaCh
cry to the party under which he Is serving, =
few days since, We stated that he intended to
induce the members Of tho House, IL possible,
10 authorize the reprintlng Of his old book, con.
iAining large number OF unreliable and use
Ices paragraphs about Congressman. We did
Otsupposo, however, that he was knave enough
to attempt to palm of upon the Government
such mess Of trash under any other than the
name It originally bore, certainly not under the
cover Of the language employed In the follow
ug resolution, Wis ga 'cork prepared by The
L1BRARTGE, whieh he Offers az an dgpropriats
rider 10 DC public dooinaeRh in he Librdry"
Bat, without any further comments, we ask
the readers careful attention to the following
record of the House, and leave him to Judge
whether the attempt to get the House to adopt
an old book Of names as an indcr 10 library
was not an attempt to swindlo tho Government
IN the broadest sense;
IASNAS's DICTIONARY OF CONGRESS.
Mr.. BAlLY, from the Committee on Printing,
reported the following resolution:
Rtssirti That there be printed for the use Of the
present House Of Representatives the regular
number Of copies Of work prepared BY the Lii
bTariSn, which he offers As an appropriate index to
the public documents In the Library the copyright
Of said work TO be vested in he name Of the com-
PileT Prortdsd, That no demand for compensation
he made by him for the use of said number OF
oopies.
Mr.. HUTCHINS. / move that the resolution
be laid upon the table.
Mr.. ALLEN demanded the yeas and nays.
The yeas and nays were ordered.
Mr.. STEVENS. Is this a catalogue Of the
liz N I m = sNfh
eketches Of Members Of Congress
Mr.. BAILY. hold copy Of the book In
my hand.
Nv. STEVENS. l ask my colleague To post
rono his resolution until we can look into ii.
Nj. Rally. l am willing TO do that.
Mr.. HOLMAN. ] understand that this Is a
book Of biographical sketches Of members Of
Congress, written by themselves, and which il
d. now proposed to publish at the Government
expense.
Mr.. MORRILL,, of Vermont. l ask the gen
tleman from Now York, Mr.. CLARK, who is
a member of the Committee on Printing,
whether this Is really an index of the books In
tho library, or a sort Of biographical dictionary
OF certain members OF Congress I If II be- the
lgtter, we do not want time 10 consider il.
Nj. CLARK. 1t is not a list of books In the
library, but the book 10 which the gentleman
rofsTs.
Tho question was taken; and IL was decided
I'D the hmfhatlNS-yeab e., nays %; as follows;
YEAs-Messrs Aldrich, Alley, Arnold, Ashley,
Baxter, Beaman, Bingham, Jacob b. Blair, Blake,
Campbell, Casey Chamberlain, Clark, Clements,
Frederick 4. ConklirE. crsyens, Davis, Dawes
niven, Dunlap, Dunn, Elgerton, Edwards, Eliot,
lily, Thomas 4. n, Frs-endcn, FTanchot, Goodwin
Granger, Order, Gurley, Harding, Harrison, Hol-
man, Hooper, Hutchius, Julian, Kelley, FranciF
w kellogg, killinger, Lansing, Loomis, Luy ejoy,
Low, Mcknight, Mallory, Marston, Mitchell,
MoOTheAd, Justin S. Morrill,, DIN, Patton Timothy
q. Phelps, Pike, Porter, Potter, John u. Rice Rid
die, Edward II. Rollins, Sargent, Sedgwick, Shsnks
shellabarEeT, sherman, sloan, Stevens, Stratton,
Irimble, Trowbridge, yallandighAm, Van Horn,
Van Wyok, VERGE, Walker, Wallace, Nashburne,
Wheeler, Albert s. White, Chiffon A. White WI
con, Window, and wOrcesteT-S2
HAYS-Messrs. Nllhsm Allen, William j. Allen,
AnoonA, Baily, Buinnton, Calvert, Roscoe Conk.
ling, Cox, Crisheld, Cutler, Frank, johnson, Knapp,
Law, Leary, Maynard, Noble, Norton, Nugen,
Price, Alexander r.. Rice, Robinson, Sheffield,
Shiel Smith, Spaulding, John b. Steele, William G.
steele, stiles, Benjamin =. Thomas, Francis
Thomas Abbard, Wieklihe, Woodruff, and Yea
many.
So the resolution was laid upon the table.
Mr.. HUTCHINS moved to reconsider the
vote by which the resolution was laid upon the
table, and also moved that the motion 10 re.
consider be laid upon the table.
The latter motion was agreed TO.