Columbus Democrat

Mr. ADAMS, who is made chairman of the meeting into which the House of Representatives has now resolved itself, with a view to fix some basis for a settlement of the New Jersey controversy, held the doctrine of the following resolution, at the last session of Congress:

"Resolved, That every member of the House of Representatives of the United States ought before taking his seat therein, to produce to the Clerk's table, or to deposit in the Clerk's office, the credentials by virtue of which he claims his seat; and in all cases of contested election, no member ought to be permitted to vote until the House, upon a report from the standing committee of elections, or by the vote of a majority of the members present, being a quorum of the House, shall have decided which of the claimants is entitled to the contested seat."

This was prompted (as we learn Mr. Adams admitted in his speech) by the then recent occurrence of the difficulty now before the House. It was thought then, that the exclusion of the members chosen by the Democratic majority of New Jersey would certainly give the Federal party a majority in the House. The unexpected overthrow of the opposition in several elections of this year, renders it necessary not only that the elected members should be excluded, but that the contraband members should be admitted, to give the opposition the power of the House.—Globe.