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The Daily Dispatch: February 25, 1862., [Electronic resource], House of Representatives. (search)
onvened at the usual hour, Mr. Speaker Brock in the Chair. Prayer by the Rev. Mr. Ford. Journal of Saturday read and agreed to. Mr. Curry, from the Committee on Rules, made a report with reference to the formation of committees. Mr. Swann, of Tenn., thought that the discussions of this House upon the present crisis were of such a characters as to require that its sessions should be held with closed doors. This he deemed proper, in view of measures likely to be submitted to the e highest respect for the judgment and patriotism of the gentleman from Tennessee, but that he had matters to submit to the action of this House which he could not, and would not do in open session, and he therefore concurred in the opinions of Mr. Swann, that the doors should be closed. Under a rule of the House requiring the doors to be closed upon motion of a member, seconded by another, the Speaker ordered the hall to be cleared of all but its members and officers, and the doors were c
The Daily Dispatch: February 25, 1862., [Electronic resource], Not captured. (search)
Congressional. Our report of the proceedings of yesterday in the House of Representatives is rendered necessarily brief by the House resolving itself into secret session, on the motion of Mr. Swann, of Tennessee. It is not our purpose to discuss the propriety of this action of the House, believing that the members of that body, with all the lights before them, ought to be most competent to decide whether or not this step was rendered necessary to the rapacious consideration of the public into, rests.