Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 4 (of 16)United States. Congress
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Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 4 (of 16)
United States. Congress
Law -- United States; United States -- Politics and government
_From New York_--James Emott, Jonathan Fisk, Barent Gardenier,
Thomas R. Gold, Herman Knickerbacker, Robert Le Roy Livingston,
John Nicholson, Peter B. Porter, Ebenezer Sage, Thomas Sammons,
John Thompson, Uri Tracy, and Killian K. Van Rensselaer.
_From New Jersey_--Adam Boyd, James Cox, William Helms, Jacob
Hufty, Thomas Newbold, and Henry Southard.
_From Pennsylvania_--William Anderson, David Bard, Robert
Brown, William Crawford, William Findlay, Robert Jenkins, Aaron
Lyle, William Milnor, John Porter, John Rea, Matthias Richards,
John Ross, George Smith, Samuel Smith, and Robert Whitehill.
_From Maryland_--John Brown, John Campbell, Charles
Goldsborough, Philip B. Key, Alexander McKim, John Montgomery,
Nicholas R. Moore, Roger Nelson, and Archibald Van Horne.
_From Virginia_--Burwell Bassett, William A. Burwell, Matthew
Clay, John Dawson, John W. Eppes, James Breckenridge, Thomas
Gholson, junior, Peterson Goodwyn, Edwin Gray, John G. Jackson,
Walter Jones, Joseph Lewis, junior, John Love, Thomas Newton,
John Randolph, John Roane, Daniel Sheffey, John Smith, James
Stephenson, and Jacob Swoope.
_From North Carolina_--Willis Alston, junior, James Cochran,
Meshack Franklin, James Holland, Thomas Kenan, William Kennedy,
Nathaniel Macon, Archibald McBride, Lemuel Sawyer, Richard
Stanford, and John Stanley.
_From South Carolina_--Lemuel J. Alston, William Butler, Joseph
Calhoun, Robert Marion, Thomas Moore, John Taylor, and Robert
Witherspoon.
_From Georgia_--William W. Bibb, Howell Cobb, Dennis Smelt, and
George M. Troup.
_From Kentucky_--Henry Crist, Joseph Desha, Benjamin Howard,
Richard M. Johnson, Matthew Lyon, and Samuel McKee.
_From Tennessee_--Pleasant M. Miller, and John Rhea.
_From Ohio_--Jeremiah Morrow.
_Election of Speaker, &c._
A quorum, consisting of a majority of the whole number, being present,
the House proceeded, by ballot, to the choice of a Speaker.
Messrs. N. R. MOORE, CUTTS, and PORTER, were appointed tellers of the
votes.
Mr. N. R. MOORE reported that the result of the ballot was, that there
were--
For Joseph B. Varnum, 60; Nathaniel Macon, 36; Timothy Pitkin, junior,
20; Roger Nelson, 1; C. W. Goldsborough, 1; blank ballots, 2.
Mr. VARNUM having 60 votes, it was submitted to the decision of the
House by the tellers whether the blank ballots could be considered as
votes; if not, there being but 118 votes, Mr. VARNUM having 60, had a
majority.
Mr. W. ALSTON conceived that there could be no doubt on the subject;
that blank pieces of paper could not be considered as votes. He
instanced the case which occurred in the famous balloting for President
in the year 1801; at which time, after a number of ballotings, the
State of Maryland, which was divided, gave in four blank votes, and
thus decided the election.
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