| United States. Congress. House - United States - 1844 - 702 pages
...adjourn. And the question being put, It was decided in the affirmative ; whereupon, Mr. SPEAKER JONES addressed the House as follows : Gentlemen of the House of Representatives : The period has arrived which, for the Congress, terminates our labor: as the representatives of the people... | |
| Luther Stearns Cushing - 1843 - 112 pages
...senior member of the delegation from Boston, the Hon. JOHN C. GRAY.1 Mr. GRAY, ou taking the chair, addressed the house as follows : " Gentlemen of the...Representatives : The hour has arrived, at which it has been the usual custom for the house to come to order, and, by the same custom, it is my duty, as... | |
| Michigan. Legislature. House of Representatives - Michigan - 1848 - 836 pages
...Messrs. Eldredge and Taylor, who performed the duty assigned them, and upon taking the chair, Mr. Buel addressed the House as follows : Gentlemen of the House of Representatives : The present occasion forms a new era in the history of Michigan. Here is a new assembly in a new capitol.... | |
| United States. Congress. House - United States - 1849 - 796 pages
...morning, March 4,) that the House adjourn; which motion having been agreed to, The speaker rose and addressed the House as follows: Gentlemen of the House of Representatives: The hour has arrived which terminates our relations to the country and our relations to each other, as members of the thirtieth... | |
| Illinois. General Assembly. House of Representatives - Illinois - 1853 - 768 pages
...its business and is ready to adjourn sine die. The hour of seven o'clock having arrived, the Speaker addressed the house as follows: Gentlemen of the House of Representatives: The time of the adjournment of this House has arrived, and with it the pain of separation. Aithough a few... | |
| Joseph Gales - United States - 1853 - 706 pages
...1. Mr. VARNUM having a majority of votes was declared elected, and conducted to the Chair; whence he addressed the House as follows: " Gentlemen of the House of Representatives : " The continued manifestation of the national confidence in me, expressed by the Representatives of the people... | |
| Iowa. General Assembly. House of Representatives - Iowa - 1862 - 144 pages
...Mahaska, Wilson of Chickasaw, Wilson of Pottawattamie, Wright, Young and Mr. Speaker. The Speaker then addressed the House as follows : Gentlemen of the...what the interests of a common constituency demand. When a million bayonets are clashing about the Nation's heart, our words may well be few. The mighty... | |
| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1869 - 824 pages
...duly elected Speaker ; wherenpon Mr. Morrill and Mr. Brooks conducted Mr. Colfax to the chair, when he addressed the House as follows : " Gentlemen of the House of Representatives: The reassembling of Congress, marking, as it does, the procession of our national history, is always regarded... | |
| John Herr Landis, Israel Smith Clare - Legislators - 1884 - 234 pages
...others. After being conducted to the chair by Mr. Maynard, of Tennessee, and Mr. Wood, of New York, he addressed the House as follows : Gentlemen of the House of Representatives: The vote this moment announced by the Clerk, is such an expression of your confidence as calls for my sincerest... | |
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