A call of the House was then ordered, on motion of Mr. Chilton Al lan, and the roll being called twice, 213 members answered to their names, viz. Mr. John Quincy Adams John Adams Heman Allen John J. Allen Mr. George Chambers John Chaney Thomas Chilton Rufus Choate Clement C. Clay Augustine S. Clayton Thomas Davenport Edward Everett Horace Everett John Ewing Mr. John H. Fulton Thomas L. Hamer Henry Hubbard Jabez W. Huntington Abel Huntington Leonard Jarvis William Cost Johnson Richard M. Johnson Noadiah Johnson Mr. Edward Kavanagh Thomas Lee Humphrey H. Leavitt James Love George Loyall Henry C. Martindale James J. McKay Thomas M. T. McKennan Isaac McKim John McKinley Jeremiah McLene Charles McVean Charles F. Mercer Mr. Jesse Miller Robert Mitchell Gayton P. Osgood Augustine H. Shepperd William Slade Charles Slade Jonathan Sloane Francis O. J. Smith The doors were then closed, and Mr. Jesse Speight Isaac B. Van Houten Excuses were offered and received for Isaac C. Bates, James M. H. Beale, Horace Binney, Joseph W. Chinn, Nathaniel H. Claiborne, Joseph H. Crane, Millard Fillmore, Benjamin Gorham, Thomas H. Hall, Micajah T. Hawkins, Albert G. Hawes, Willliam M. Inge, George McDuffie, John Y. Mason, John J. Milligan, Henry Mitchell, John Reed, Abraham Rencher, and Ebenezer Young. Further proceedings in the call were then dispensed with, and the doors were opened. The previous question was moved by Mr. Beardsley, but was not demanded by a majority of the members present. Mr. Banks then modified his said motion to amend, so as to leave the first resolution reported by the Committee of Elections entire, and to add to the said resolution his said amendment, viz. That all the votes given by qualified voters, which were received in Lancaster, Garrard county, whilst Moses Grant, Esq. acted as one of the judges on the first morning of the election in August last, and those of a like character given on the second day of the election, in the absence of the sheriff, ought to be estimated in ascertaining the result of the election. That the votes of David McKee, Alfred W. Buford, Elijah Mount, Clayton Fitzpatrick, William R. Preston, R. L. Berry, Blackburne Leffler, Robert McKeown, Giles M. Ormond, and Lewis L. Mason, given in Mercer county, be counted, the first nine for R. P. Letcher, and the last one for T. P. Moore. That the votes of John McHan, Reuben Young, Vincent Inge, Jacob Coffman, William Jenkins, and the Rev. David Robertson, be taken from the number of votes allowed by the majority of the committee to Moore in Mercer county, and added to those counted for Letcher. That the votes of Eli Williams and Wade Dawson, of Anderson county, and those of William Conner, Charles Welsh, Thomas Harris, Montgomery Vanlandingham, Joseph Murrain, Levi Nunnery, Richard Curd, Anderson Hulet, Hickman Evans, Henry Wood, Richard White, of Jessamine county, be counted for Robert P. Letcher. The question then again recurred on the said amendment; when And on the question that the House do agree to so much of said amendment as proposes to add to the first resolution reported by the Committee of Elections the following, viz. "That all the votes given by qualified voters, which were received in Lancaster, in Garrard county, whilst Moses Grant, Esq. acted as one of the judges on the first morning of the election in August last," [ought to be estimated in ascertaining the result of the election,] It passed in the affirmative, Yeas, 112, 102. The yeas and nays being desired by one-fifth of the members present, Those who voted in the affirmative, are, Mr. Harmar Denny William W. Ellsworth George Evans Edward Everett Those who voted in the negative, are, Mr. James Love Henry C. Martindale William McComas James J. McKay Thomas M. T. McKennan John McKinley Charles F. Mercer Jesse Miller Samuel McDowell Moore John M. Patton Henry L. Pinckney Mr. Charles Bodle Ratliff Boon James W. Bouldin Mr. Samuel Bunch Jesse A. Bynum John Chaney Philemon Dickerson Joseph Hall Henry Hubbard Abel Huntington Mr. Leonard Jarvis Richard M. Johnson Humphrey H. Leavitt Gorham Parks Mr. James Parker Franklin E. Plummer James K. Polk Patrick H. Pope Ferdinand S. Schenck William Schley William N. Shinn Aaron Vanderpoel The question was then put on the second member of the said amendment, viz. to add to the first resolution reported by the Committee of Elections the following, viz. "And those of a like character given on the second day of the election, in the absence of the sheriff, ought to be estimated in ascertaining the result of the election." The yeas and nays being desired by one-fifth of the members present, Those who voted in the affirmative, are, Those who voted in the negative, are, Mr. John Adams William Allen Benning M. Bean Jesse A. Bynum Churchill C. Cambreleng Mr. Nicoll Halsey Thomas L. Hamer Henry A. Muhlenberg Mr. David Spangler Mr. John Murphy Franklin E. Plummer Aaron Vanderpoel Daniel Wardwell Reuben Whallon Campbell P. White The question was then stated that the House do agree to the third member of the said amendment, viz. to add to the first resolution reported by the Committee of Elections the following, viz. "That the votes of David McKee, Alfred W. Buford, Elijah Mount, Clayton Fitzpatrick, William R. Preston, R. L. Berry, Blackburne Leffler, Robert McKeown, Giles M. Ormond, and Lewis L. Mason, (theological students,) given in Mercer county, be counted, the first nine for R. P. Letcher, and the last one for T. P. Moore." A further division of the question on this member was called for, so as to except therefrom the names of Blackburne Leffler and Giles M. Ormond. |