Yeas—Messrs. Applegate, Gray, B. Lee, McClure, and Newell—5.
Nays—Messrs. Hill, Smith, and Straight—3.
So the resolution was adopted. Messrs. Foisy, Garrison, Hendricks, and the Speaker were excused from voting.
On motion, the house went into committee of the whole, Mr. Applegate in the chair.
The committee rose, and reported, that the resolution of B. Lee having been under consideration, was laid upon the table.
It is but justice to state that the clerk of the house, J. E. Long, favored Dr. White’s and Mr. McCarver’s course, and allowed McCarver to sign the documents he well knew the house did not wish him to sign. A majority of the house were inclined to believe that White had been slandered; and had McCarver allowed the documents to go as per vote, White’s designs, as stated by his opponents, would not have been revealed; so the messenger was sent for the documents on account of McCarver’s course.
August 16, 1845.—The House met pursuant to adjournment.
The rules were suspended to allow the introduction of resolutions, when, on motion of Mr. McClure, it was
“Resolved, That, whereas the Speaker of this house has signed certain documents, ordered to be sent to the United States by a vote of this Legislature, from a mistaken sense of duty, and not from contumacy or contempt for this house; therefore,
“Resolved, That M. M. McCarver, said Speaker, have leave of absence, for the purpose of following Dr. E. White to Vancouver; and this house enjoins that said Speaker erase his name from said documents, to wit, the organic laws, and two resolutions in favor of Dr. E. White.”
On motion of Mr. Applegate, it was