These  proceedings  took  place  on  Friday  and  the  Senate  adjourned
until  Monday.  Meanwhile  the  obvious  impropriety  of  Mr.  Stockton's
vote  upon  his  own  case  had  deeply  impressed  many  senators,  and  on
Monday,  directly  after  the  Journal  was  read,  Mr.  Sumner  raised  a
question  of  privilege  and  moved  that  the  Journal  of  Friday  be
amended  by  striking  out  the  vote  of  Mr.  Stockton  on  the  question  of
his  seat  in  the  Senate.  He  did  this  because,  being  on  the  defeated
side,  he  could  not  move  a  reconsideration  ;  but  Mr.  Trumbull  and
Mr.  Poland,  who  had  sustained  Mr.  Stockton's  right  to  a  seat,  both


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offered  to  move  a  reconsideration,  because  they  believed  that  he  had
no  right  to  vote  on  the  question.  Mr.  Poland  made  the  motion  and
it  was  unanimously  agreed  to.  Then,  instead  of  urging  the  correction
of  the  Journal  of  Friday,  Mr.  Sumner  proposed  a  resolution  declaring
that  "  the  vote  of  Mr.  Stockton  be  not  received  in  determining  the
question  of  his  seat  in  the  Senate,"  which  was  agreed  to  without  a
division.  The  original  resolution  being  again  before  the  Senate,  Mr.
