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The Daily Dispatch: December 14, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 14 (search)
d appropriate testimonials offered by members to the memory of the deceased Senator. The greater portion of the day's session in the House was occupied by Mr. Pendleton, of Ohio, in a speech on his motion to refer back to the Judiciary Committee the memorial of the whilom Baltimore Police Commissioners, now resident at Fort Warren, Boston harbor. Mr. Pendleton wished to have the committee instructed that Congress alone has the power to suspend the habeas corpus writ, and declaimed at length against the President for its suspension in the case of these as well as other State prisoners. He was briefly replied to in support of the course pursued by thes, and that "it did not lie in the mouths of the memorialists to claim the benefit of the constitution, every provision of which they had trampled under foot" Mr. Pendleton's motion was tabled--108 yeas to 36 nays. A resolution was adopted requesting the Attorney General to furnish his opinion on the subject of the retrocessi