Register of Debates in Congress, Comprising the Leading Debates and Incidents of the First Session of the Twenty-Third Congress Page: 4,279

                                
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GALES": & SEATON'S REGISTER
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Coin BUI—Polish Exiks—Ke.nlucky Election.
[Mast 28, 1834.
State of Pennsylvania, to tire gentleman from South
Carolina, {Mr. I'ikckn-et,] for the interest lie had ex-
pressed for the diffusion of intelligence among her citi-
zens. If that gentleman had reflected that the motion
to print had come from the State of Pennsylvania, he
might have spared himself some portion of his sympathy.
[Mr. Pinckney wished to explain. It was not Penn-
sylvania alone which he wished to enlighten, but the
whole United States. Me was not before aware that the
.motion to print had originated with a member from Penn-
sylvania.]
Mr. SuTHEBXANi) said it was not in order to debate
the general question. He should not have risen, but
from the appeals which had been made in behalf of poor
Pennsylvania. The gentleman from South Carolina [Mr.
PustexsKi] would do well to look at home. The people
of South Carolina would not suffer from an increase of
useful information.
Mr. HA WES again moved to lay the motion to print on
the table; which was negatived without a division.
After some remarks by Mr. Cooitkti, the question
was stated on filling the blank with the highest number,
thirty thousand.
Mr. P1NCKNEY moved to fill the blank with forty
thousand; which was negatived without a division.
The question was then taken on filling the blank with
thirty thousand; which was carried; Yeas 93, nays 89.
The motion to print thirty thousand copies of both re-
ports was then adopted without a division.
THE COMMUTATION 11H.T,
Was then taken up; and, after a debate, in which all
the questions formerly mooted were rediscussed, the
pending motion to reconsider the vote by which the bill
had been recommitted w ■ i>: negatived, by yeas and nays,
as follows; Yeas 76, nays 104. *
So the bill remains in Committee of the Whole on the
state of tits Union.
TJIE COIN Hi 1,1,
Was then taken up; and the question beine on its pas-
sage
Mr. GOKILVM moved to recommit the bill, with in-
structions, making the dollars of South America a lawful
tender by tale, under certain conditions.
After a desultory debate-—
Mr. BOON moved the previous question; but the House
refused to second it: Yeas /,!, nays 80.
JVlr. JONF.H moved to commit the hill to a Committee
of tile Whole (in the stale of the Union, with instructions:
which prevailed; YrasKii, nays 82.
The House immediately went into such commit to.-, Mr
Biurtns in the, chair.
Mr. WIHTK moved that the committor rise and re-
poet the hill according- to the instructions; which wis
agreed to.
The bill was then reported as amended.
Mr. YVIIITB moved that the bill be engrossed and read
a third tone immediately; which was done—
When the bill was passed and sent to the Senate.
And then the House adjourned.,
Wiii>?«iisi>AY, May 28.
POLISH EXILES.
Mr. J. Q. ADAMS obtained leave to submit a motion
granting the use of the hall f'yi- a public meeting, to be
held to devise means for the relief of the Polish exiles'
on to-morrow evening-, the former meeting bavin"- failed
'"clemency of I he weather.
I he motion prevailed; and the use of the hall wis
agreed to.
Mr. CHILTON asked the unanimous consent of the
House to submit a resolution fixing ten o'clock, A. ? I. as
the hour for the House of Representatives to assemble for
the residue of the session.
Objection having been made—
Mr. CHILTON moved a suspension of the rule, and
called for the yeas and nays on his motion to suspend.
The House refused to order them: Yeas 20, nays 102.
Mr. CHILTON then withdrew his resolution, for the
purpose of modifying it; and the House resumed the con-
sideration of the n ports on
THE KENTUCKY ELECTION;
The question pending- being the resolution reported
from the Committee of Elections, declaring Thomas P.
Moore to be entitled to a seat in this House, from the fifth
congressional district of Kentucky.
The question being on the amendment offered as a
substitute by Mr. Banks, that the votes given in Garrard
county before ten o'clock on the first day of the ekction,
while Moses Grant, Esq. acted as one of the judges; and
the votes gtven on the second day, in the absence of
the sheriff, ought to be counted, in ascertaining the result
of the election—
Mr. VANDERPOEL rose and said:
He was too fully sensible of the impatience of the Hottse,
not to know that a long speech upon the subject now
under consideration would not find much favor; but, as a
member of the committee whose report had been so elab-
orately criticised, he felt it his duty to say a few words in
its vindication. But, said Mr. V.,'even this duty is ren-
dered almost superfluous by the very able, unanswerable,
and yet unanswered argument of'the gentleman from
Ohio, [Mi-. Hamkh,] who was bis associate on that com-
mittee—an argument so fair, so cogent and conclusive,
that, while it ntust have produced an influence upon all
listeners here in relation to the pending question, cannot
fail to secure to the honorable gentleman from Ohio a
proud and enviable place, not among tbc declaimed, but,
what is much more rare, sir, among- the logicians on thi3
floor. Yes, sir, this, bis first and very fortunate effort, is
a sure earnest n( that elevated rank be will one day secure
here, should iiis constituents continue to favor him with
tiie manifestation of their confidence.
Sir, said Mr. V., as a member of the Committee of
Elections, I was not unaware of the high responsibilities
connected with the station, of the great interest which
the contending candidates and their respective friends
felt m (be question submitted to us, and of (he importance
of establishing correct principles in eases growing out of
the exercise oi that; privilege which is so dear to'Ameri-
cans. We knew, sir, that whatever result we might
attain was doomed to encounter the severest criticism and
the most Sturdy opposition of a portion of this House; and
the course winch the- debate has already taken shows
hat, in th's particular at least, our expectations are. to be
Hilly rcuiizcff.
It is well, said Mr. V., that the House should under-
stand upon what grounds the respective parties based their
c aim to a decs,on m their favor. From the course which
tin; debate lias thus far taken, and the time that has been
consumed in the discussion of the votes taken at Lancas-
1 . • :  r-" — -'v "V.V.U upon soi
men, who have not looked critically into-this mass of
evidence which Ites upon your table, that this question
concerning the Lancaster votes is the controlling, if not
card0|hist,ertl0,V'V,heCaSe' 1 be* to dis-
m-litpi' iKit'on before we proceed another step in this
ti   r " ,l ;he,n&«>e only point in the case,
it u II appear, from a reference to the report of the M.
jori y of the committee, that, laying this point (which
feentlemen have seen fit to denominate and misname as