| Show d congie CONGRESS S S 41 e it 1 1 V a t k by the imo eno pony ny which arria arrived ed on monday bionday at pm a communication was received by preside president young from lion hon IV V H hooper accompanied by the presidents President 8 message and a dav few newspaper items relative to the proceedings ings of congress during the first two days of the session from voin which eavin eaven having 0 been courteously favor favored edwith with the perusal it appears that on the calling t of the roll on the meeting of a the house monday december ad one hundred and ninety six members answered to their names and that most of the senators were also in their seats at roll call in the senate the message was sent to both houses on tuesday the thi the ath k at about 12 and was received receive tl and read with the utmost attention in the senate immediately en cn its rea reading hin fin aa mr clin CI ingman clingman L man of north carolina rose and said that though the message was I 1 ia in general gedvil highly patriotic cef he felt feit elt eit constrained to say gay that it fell feil short of what he deemed the occasion demanded in his speech which was somewhat lengthy ae referred to the election of a sectional president to aggressions upon dissection his section of the union and to the nullification of the fugitive slave law by severah northern states he was quite severe on the president for kome some some bome of his allusions and said that in his opinion several of the states would secede and that within sixty days ile he thought the best way was to divide the public property and bhare share the public debt in a peaceable way which he ha had haa ad no doubt aoud be done though 0 he be deprecated secession if it could he be avoided mr crittenden of kentucky baid said he le had hoped that the members of the house would come together fully impressed with the them great dangers overhanging t the country coln coin and the perils to which the union was exposed and expressed a hope that the union would still be preserved mr A clingman CUng man maa replied and said north carolina was the last state but one to come into the unton union ifon and had hail always been devoted in her attachment tolt it but when the union urion fails falls of the purposes for which it t was established I 1 she I 1 is willing to bid it good bye it was resolved by unanimous consent that thab the usual number of Mess messages amea agea be published and the senate adjourned after atter the reading ot 0 the message in the house mr sherman of ohio moved chafa it be referred to the committee atthe of the iboleon whole on the state of the union and that it ithe be printed and moved the previous question uke subsequently withdrew his demand for the previous question and mr boteler of virginia Virgini aj offered an amendment referring the tha laes raes message sage or so much of it as related to the present perilous condition of tb the tha e country to a special c committee ommittee of one flom from each stats stata which finally prevailed by a vote of to 33 before the result was announced mr bir singleton of isaiA he declined to vote on the question because the legislature of his state had called a convention conventi onto to consider this matter andi andl he believed that the people should shoula determine it for themselves mr jones of georgia said his bis reason for not voting was his state had called a convention to decide de on the subject of Ie F deral derai relations and did congress 0 toi to decide for them mr hawkins of florid florida axe aye remarked marked that his state too had called a convention to take into consideration this very question the people of morida zorida ITI onida orida have decided to settle in fa convention the time mil mit manner and mode of redress it was for it and they will settle it in thir their sovereign capacity it WAS not for him therefore eto tio take any action upon the subject ile he might as well say just here he was opposed to all and ands every compromise now and in time past mr clopton gave as a reason why be he did not vote that his state alabama had also called a convention mr cartrell dar trell 0 f georgia did not rise nse to de bate but merely to state that as that state had called a convention he declined to vote oa on the pending proposition mr miles of south carolina said baid therele the dele gatlon gallon from that state took no interest in this question she was i out of 0 the bonfe confederacy deracy saving savins the mere re f form orm 4 mr pugh pub pu puh 0 b of alabama Af ahama sai sal adl as his state would go ont out of the union together with witha tenth of january 11 he would follow tah e example of the gentl craan ernan from irom south rin mr bir dill dili mues es asand land band and not vote ote after the result was announced mr boteler said 1 he we it was I 1 tiie tile the universal universal custom Q of f the house for the speaker to appoint the mover of a resolution for a special committee chairman ile he wf wished shed it to be understood that he fie could not serve on the committee he had no idea of it at about three the house adjourned |
