GALES & SEATON'S Register of Debates in Congress, TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS...SECOND SESSION: FROM DECEMBER 3, 1832, TO MARCH 3, 1833. DEBATES IN THE SENATE. LIST OF THE MEMBERS. MAINE-John Holmes, Peleg Sprague. PENNSYLVANIA--George M. Dallas, William Wilkins. NORTH CAROLINA-Bedford Brown, Wilie P.Mangum. Calhoun. TYLER, SMITH, FOOT, 15 3949 INDIANA--William' Hendricks, John Tipton. MONDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1832. At 12 o'clock, the Senate was called to order by the Secretary, Mr. LOWRIE, (the VICE PRESIDENT being absent, and the President pro tempore, Mr. TAZEWELL, having resigned his seat in the Senate,) and thirty-two members appearing in their seats, and there being a quorum, Mr. SMITH, of Maryland, moved to proceed to the election of President pro tempore, which was agreed to. ballat the third time, which resulted as follows: Mr. WHITE, TYLER, 16 12 3 1 A fourth ballot was then had with the following result: TYLER, 15 15 The Hon. HUGH L. WHITE, of Tennessee, having received a majority of all the votes, was declared duly elected PRESIDENT of the Senate, pro tempore, and being Mr. POINDEXTER said he understood it was the in-conducted to the chair by Mr. TYLER, of Virginia, retention of some of his friends to bestow their suffrages on turned his acknowledgments to the Senate, as follows: him for President pro tempore. He desired to state, in "To the members of the Senate, I tender my sincere advance, that his duties as Senator of the people of Mis- acknowledgments for the distinguished honor conferred sissippi would require his particular attention on the floor by their vote. VOL. IX.-1 |