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DEBATES IN CONGRESS.

PART I. OF VOL. XIII.

GALES & SEATON'S

REGISTER OF DEBATES
OF DEBATES IN CONGRESS.

TWENTY-FOURTH CONGRESS.... SECOND SESSION.

FROM DECEMBER 5, 1836, TO MARCH 3, 1837.

DEBATES IN THE SENATE.

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CONNECTICUT-John M. Niles, Gideon Tomlinson.
VERMONT-Samuel Prentiss, Benjamin Swift.

NEW YORK--Silas Wright, Nathaniel P. Tallmadge.
NEW JERSEY--Samuel L. Southard, Garrett D. Wall.
PENNSYLVANIA-James Buchanan, Samuel McKean.
DELAWARE-Richard H. Bayard.
MARYLAND-Joseph Kent.
VIRGINIA-William C. Rives.

NORTH CAROLINA--Bedford Brown, Robert Strange.
SOUTH CAROLINA--John C. Calhoun, William C.
Preston.

GEORGIA-Alfred Cuthbert, John P. King.
KENTUCKY--Henry Clay, John J. Crittenden.
TENNESSEE--Felix Grundy, Hugh L. White.
OHIO--Thomas Ewing, Thomas Morris.
LOUISIANA-Robert C. Nicholas.
INDIANA-William Hendricks, John Tipton.
MISSISSIPPI--John Black, Robert J. Walker.
ILLINOIS--William L. D. Ewing, John M. Robinson.
ALABAMA-William R. King, Gabriel Moore.
MISSOURI -Thomas H. Benton, Lewis F. Linn.

MONDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1836.

The Senate assembled at 12 o'clock, M.

from Maryland; Mr. Rives, from Virginia; Mr. KING, from Georgia; Messrs. EWING and MORRIS, from Ohio, Messrs. CLAY and CRITTENDEN, from Kentucky; Messrs. GRUNDY and WHITE, from Tennessee; Messrs. HENDRICKS and TIPTON, from Indiana; Messrs. ROBINSON and EWING, from Illinois; Messrs. KING and MOORE, from Alabama; Mr. WALKER, from Mississippi; Messrs. BENTON and LINN, from Missouri.

Mr. BENTON presented the credentials of Messrs. FULTON and SEVIER, Senators elect from the new State of Arkansas.

Messrs. FULTON and SEVIER were qualified and took their seats.

The following resolution was offered by Mr. BENTON, and adopted:

Resolved, That the Senate proceed to ascertain the classes in which the Senators of the State of Arkansas shall be inserted, in conformity with the resolution of the 14th of May, 1789, and as the constitution requires.

On motion of Mr. BENTON, it was then

Ordered, That the Secretary put into the ballot box three papers, of equal size, numbered 1, 2, 3. Each of the Senators from the State of Arkansas shall draw out one paper. Number 1, if drawn, shall entitle the member to be placed in the class of Senators whose term of service will expire the 3d day of March, 1837; number 2 in the class whose term will expire the 3d day of March, 1839; and number 3 in the class whose term will expire the 3d day of March, 1841.

It was accordingly so determined, by lot, that Mr. SEVIER'S term should expire in 1837, and Mr. FULTON'S

The VICE PRESIDENT took the chair, and the fol- in 1841. lowing Senators appeared in their seats, viz:

On motion of Mr. GRUNDY, the Secretary of the Senate was directed to inform the House of Representatives that a quorum of the Senate was present, and ready to proceed to business.

Mr. RUGGLES, from Maine; Messrs. HUBBARD and PAGE, from New Hampshire; Messrs. PRENTISS and SWIFT, from Vermont; Mr. DAVIS, from Massachusetts; Messrs. KNIGHT and ROBBINS, from Rhode Island; On motion of Mr. GRUNDY, a committee was ordered Messrs. NILES and TOMLINSON, from Connecticut; Mr. to be appointed on the part of the Senate, on a joint WRIGHT, from New York; Messrs. SOUTHARD and WALL, committee of both Houses, to wait on the President of from New Jersey; Messrs. BUCHANAN and MCKEAN, from the United States, and inform him that a quorum of both Pennsylvania; Mr. BAYARD, from Delaware; Mr. KENT, Houses of Congress are assembled, and ready to receive VOL. XIII,-1 50187

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