OF THE DEBATES OF CONGRESS, FROM 1789 TO 1856. FROM GALES AND SEATON'S ANNALS OF CONGRESS; FROM THEIR REPORTED DEBATES, BY JOHN C. RIVES. BY THE AUTHOR OF THE THIRTY YEARS' VIEW. VOL. XIV. NEW YORK: D. APPLETON & COMPANY, 443 & 445 BROADWAY. 1860. ENTERED, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1860, by D. APPLETON & COMPANY, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of TWENTY-SIXTH CONGRESS.-FIRST SESSION. BEGUN AT THE CITY OF WASHINGTON, DECEMBER 16, 1839. PROCEEDINGS AND DEBATES IN THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.* HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. taining to the legislative duties of Congress. We therefore begin with the eleventh ballot for Speaker of the House, which was the ballot that was effectual.] TUESDAY, December 16, 1839. Election of Speaker-Eleventh and Final Ballot. [This is the session in which a double return of Members from New Jersey prevented the organization of the House, and gave rise to lengthened proceedings not necessary to be related here, as not per-ston, Crockett, Curtis, Cushing, E. Davies, G. Davis, LIST OF MEMBERS OF THE SENATE. Maine.-John Ruggles, Ruel Williams. New Hampshire.-Henry Hubbard, Franklin Pierce. New York.-Nathaniel P. Tallmadge, Silas Wright, jr. Ohio.-William Allen, Benjamin Tappan. Indiana.-Oliver H. Smith, John Tipton. Mr. Foster resigned November 1839, in consequence of the passage of resolutions by the Legislature instructing him as to certain votes. Mr. Felix Grundy, present United States Attorney-General, was elected to fill the vacancy. It is understood that Mr. White will also resign, FOR R. M. T. HUNTER.-Messrs. Adams, Alford, J. W. Allen, L. W. Andrews, Bell, Biddle, Black, Bond, J. Campbell, W. B. Campbell, Carter, Chinn, Clark, Botts, Brockway, A. Brown, S. H. Butler, Calhoun, Colquett, J. Cooper, M. A. Cooper, Corwin, Cran LIST OF MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Maine.-Nathan Clifford, Albert Smith, Benjamin Randall, George Evans, Virgil D. Parris, Hugh S. Anderson, Joshua A. Lowell, Thomas Davee. New Hampshire.-Charles G. Atherton, Jared W. Williams, Tristam Shaw, Edmund Burke, Ira Eastman. Massachusetts.-Abbott Lawrence, Everett Saltonstall, Caleb Cushing, William Parmenter, Levi Lincoln, George N. Briggs, William B. Calhoun, William S. Hastings, Henry Williams, John Reed, John Quincy Adams. Rhode Island.-Joseph L. Tillinghast, William B. Cranston. Connecticut.-Joseph Trumbull, William L. Storrs, Thomas W. Williams, Thomas B. Osborne, Truman Smith, John H. Brockway. Vermont.-Hiland Hall, William Slade, Horace Everett, John Smith, Isaac Fletcher. New York.-Thomas B. Jackson, James De la Montayne, Ogden Hoffman, Edward Curtis, Moses H. Grinnell, James Monroe, Governeur Kemble, Charles Johnson, Nathaniel Jones, Rufus Palen, Aaron Vanderpool, John Ely, Hiram P. Hunt, Daniel D. Barnard, Anson Brown, David Russell, Augustus C. Hand, John Fine, Peter T. Wagener, Andrew W. Doig, John G. Floyd, David P. Brewster, Thomas C. Chittenden, John H. Prentiss, Judson Allen, John C. Clark, S. B. Leonard, Amasa Dana, Edward Rogers, Nehemiah H. Earl, Christopher Morgan, Theron R. Strong, Francis Granger, Meredith Mallory, Thomas Rempshall, Seth M. Gates, Luther C. Peck, Richard P. Marvin, Millard Fillmore, Charles F. Mitchell. New Jersey.-John B. Aycrigg, John P. B. Maxwell, |