Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1858 — ELECTION OF UNITED STATES SENATORS. [ARTICLE]

ELECTION OF UNITED STATES SENATORS.

As we anticipated last week, Governor Willard vetoed the bill prescribing the manner of electing United States Senators. On motion to pass the bill over the Governor’s I veto it was lost, not receiving a majority of ■of all the members of each branch. The I vote was as follows: Senate —yeas, 24; | nays, 23, and the President, making 24. House—yeas, 49; nays, 45. Mr. Snyder voted no. Inasmuch as the Legislature had already declared that the State of Indiana was not represented in the United States Senate, that Bright and Fitch were usurpers, and the Governor having vetoed the bill pre- ' scribing the method of election hereafter, I the Legislature, by concurrent resolutions, went into an election for Senators last Wednesday, in the election of Colonel Henry S. Lane (Republican) for the long term, and Judge William M. McCarty (Anti-Lecornpton Democrat) dor the short term, by a majority of each branch, as follows: Senate—-for Heniy S. Lane: ayes, 26; n,qys, 0—23 Senators refusing to vote, and one absent. The vote for William M. McCarty was the same as that for Colonel Lane. House —for Lane, 51; present and not voting, 45. The vote for Judge McCarty was tire same. Mr. Snyder was present ' and did not vote. Great cheering followed the announcement of the result by the Speaker. • In the evening Colonel Lane and Judge McCarty entertained their friends, irrespective of party, with a bountiful oyster supper at the Bates House. The crowd was so great that many could not gain admission. Hilarity and good feeling prevailed, and the Senators elect expressed their deterniiraI tion, as their friends had placed them in that j position, to use their utmost efforts to ob-! tain the- seats illegally occupied by Bright' and Fitch. Should they be successful, we will make 1 a bon-fire of our old hat. However, success- j fui or unsuccessful, had Bright and Fitch a particle of political honesty about them,' they have resigned their fraud-gotten seats long, long ago, if not, in fact, have declined them with scorn in the first place; andnow, since the State has repudiated them and chosen two gentlemen to contest their seats, had they a particle of manhood left, they would resign their present position and retire to private life, where they could hide tiie blushes of sh.ame that ought to mantle their cheeks from the gaze of honest men. However, we look for no such thing; but believe that they will cling to their miserable seats until kicked the people of Indiana in disgrace, unless the Senate will do us justice, which it is to be hoped will be the case. At all events, soone -or later, retribution will overtake them, and bitterly, hopelessly, will they lament, in anguish of heart, their attempt to outrage a liberty-lov-ing and justice-dealing people.