FROM GALES AND SEATON'S ANNALS OF CONGRESS; FROM THEIR
REGISTER OF DEBATES; AND FROM THE OFFICIAL

REPORTED DEBATES, BY JOHN C. RIVES.

NEW YORK:
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1861.

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

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6.

TWENTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. FIRST SESSION.

PROCEEDINGS AND DEBATES

IN THE

SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.*

IN SENATE.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Monday, December 4, 1843.

MONDAY, December 4. This being the day fixed by the constitution The House of Representatives was called to for the meeting of the 1st session of the order precisely at 12 o'clock, by MATTHEW ST. 28th Congress, the Senate met, and was Clair CLARKE, their Clerk, who stated to the called to order at 12 o'clock by Mr. MANGUM, House that he would proceed to call the roll President.

of the members.

* LIST OF MEMBERS OF THE SENATE.

New llampshire.--Edmund Burke, John R. Reding, John Maine.-John Fairfield, George Evans.

P. Hale, Moses Norris, Jr. New Hampshire.—Levi Woodbury, Chas. G. Atherton. Rhode Island.--Henry Y. Cranston, Elisha R. Potter. Vermont.-Samuel Phelps, William C. Upham.

Connecticut. - Thomas H. Seymour, John Stewart, Geo. Massachusetts.-Rufus Choate, Isaac C. Bates.

S. Catlin, Samuel Simons. Rhode Island - William Sprague, James F. Simmons.

Vermont.–Solomon Foot, Jacob Collamer, George P. Connecticut.-J. W. Huntington, John M. Niles.

Marsh, Paul Dillingham, Jr. Nero York.--N. P. Tallmadge, Silas Wright.

New York.-Selah B. Strong, Henry C. Murphy, J. PhilNew Jersey.-W. L. Dayton, Jacob W. Miller.

ips Phænix, Wm. B. Maclay, Moses G. Leonard, Hamilton Pennsylvania.-D. W. Sturgeon, James Buchanan. Fish, Jos. II. Anderson, R. D. Davis, Jas. G. Clinton, JereDelarcare.-R. H. Bayard, Thomas Clayton.

miah Russell, Zadock Pratt, David L. Seymour, Daniel D. Maryland.-Wm. D. Merrick,-vacancy.

Barnard, Wm. G. Hunter, Lemuel Stetson, Chesselden Ellis, Virginia.-Wm. C. Rives, Wm. S. Archer,

Charles S. Benton, Preston King, Orville Ilungerford, SamNorth Carolina.-Willie P. Mangum, W. 11. Haywood, Jr. uel Beardsley, J. E. Cary, S. M. Purdy, Orville Robinson, South Carolina.-Daniel E. Huger, George McDuffie.

Horace Wheaton, George Rathbun, Amasa Dana, Byram Georgia.—John M. Berrien, Walter T. Colquitt.

Green, Thos. J. Patterson, Charles H. Carroll, Wm. S. Alabama.-William R. King, Arthur P. Bagby.

Hubbell, Asher Tyler, Wm. A. Moseley, Albert Smith, Mississippi.--John Henderson, Robert J. Walker. Washington Hunt. Louisiana.-Alexander Barrow, Alexander Porter. New Jersey.-Lucius Q. C. Elmer, George Sykes, Isaac Tennessee.-E. H. Foster, Spencer Jarnagan.

G. Farlee, Littleton Kirkpatrick, Wm. Wright. Kentucky.--John T. Morehead, John J. Crittenden. Pennsylvania.-Edward J. Morris, Joseph R. Ingersoll, Onio.-Benjamin Tappan, William Allen.

John T. Smith, Charles J. Ingersoll, Jacob S. Yost, Michael Indiana.- Albert S. White, Ed. A. Hannegan.

H. Jenks, Abrah. R. McIlvaine, Jeremiah Brown, John Ilinois.-James Semple, Sidney Breese.

Ritter, Rich. Brodhead, jr., Benj. A Bidlack, Almon II. Missouri --T. H. Benton, D. R. Atchison.

Read, Henry Frick, Alexander Ramsey, Henry Nes, James Arkansas.--Wm. S. Fulton, A. H. Sevier.

Black, James Irvin, Andrew Stewart, Henry D. Foster, Michigan.-A. S. Porter, W. Woodbridge.

John Dickey, William Wilkins, Samuel Hays, Charles M.
Read, Joseph Buffington.

Delaware.-George B. Rodney.
LIST OF MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF REPRE-

Maryland.-Not elected.
SENTATIVES.

Virginia.-Archibald Atkinson, George C. Dromgoole, Maine.-Joshua Herrick, Robert P. Dunlap, Luther Sev. Walter Coles, Edmund IIubard, Thomas W. Gilmer, John erance, Ilannibal Hamlin-3 vacancies.

W. Jones, Henry A. Wise, loughby Newton, Samuel Massachusetts.- Robert C. Winthrop, Daniel P. King, Chilton, William F. Lucas, William Taylor, A. A. Chapman, William Parmenter, Charles Hudson, John Quincy Adams, Geo. W. Hopkins, Geo. W. Summers, Lewis Steenrod. Henry Williams, Joseph Gripnell—3 vacancies.

North Carolina.-Thomas J. Clingman, D. M. Barringer,