Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1859 — SENATORIAL QUESTION. [ARTICLE]

SENATORIAL QUESTION.

The United States Senate last Wednesday refused to admit Messrs. Lane and McCarty to a seat on the floor of the Seiinte until their case should be disposed of, by a vote of 31 to 22, Messrs. Bright and Fitch not voting. Ms. Douglas stated on Friday that had he present when the vote was taken, he would have voted to extend the courtesy to them. During the debate on the question Mr. Seward said: “The question was to grant two gentlemen claiming to be Senators from Indiana, the right to stand behind the desks of the ■two persons who occupy the chairs which they claim as their own. He had seen the Hungarian patriot, foreign ministers, and multitudes of others given the poor privilege of standing room on this floor, while the gentlemen claiming to be Senators, and whom the Judiciary Committee may at any time report to be veritable Senators, are refused the number of square feet they would occupy.” e