I ask the gentleman from Virginia if it is soup we want instead of solid sustenance?
if he would delude us with shadows?
if he would mock our suffering with an Oregonian specter?
I ask him if he can look upon the anxious faces around him, if he can gaze into our sad eyes, if he can listen to the beating of our expectant hearts, and still thrust this famine-stricken fraud upon us?
I ask him if he can think of our desolate state, of our past sorrows, of our dark future, and still unpityingly foist upon us this wreck, this ruin, this tottering swindle, this gnarled and blighted and sapless vagabond from Oregon's inhospitable shores?
Never!' [Applause.] "The amendment was put to vote, after a fiery debate, and lost.

Mr.
Harris was substituted on the first amendment.

The balloting then began.
Five ballots were held without a choice.

On the sixth, Mr.Harris was elected, all voting for him but himself.

It was then moved that his election should be ratified by acclamation, which was lost, in consequence of his again voting against himself.
"MR.