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 Washington Cdy, Narch 25H, 1916. Tp the Editor of tbe .4rtaRgas Baaaer:
 SlR-The Oregon question still continues pending in the Senate. So far as there is opportunity to judge, the close of ths diseus- sion is not vet near at hand, nor is it possible for any one to gay what will be the result.
 The opinion has been. by some, that no disposal will be made of this subject at the present session-that it will be suffered to go before the people as an issue in ISIS. ] In this opinion, cannot concur for several reasons.
 Entertaining the highest respect for the United States Senate collectively, and for most of its members indivdualrv, l cannot bring my self to believe thatthey could, from any mistaken motives of policy, adopt q course whose tendency would be to bring our government and institutions into contempt with foreign powers; nor that they would shrink from a responsibility which justly i falls on them in common with the other branch ofthe national Legislature, in order to impose it upon future members of these bodies
 Again the policy of delaying this issue, now once raised, would be most disastrous 4 delay of the issue could of course only be desired by that party who would prefer fcliAquishment of d portion of oar territory if accompanied by peace, to war under any circumstances. But would that party attain i their ends by delaying the issue until l84S IL strikes me, not. The People have already made up their minds to assert and establish their claims to the whole of Oregon, to (which their right has been shown to be ''clear and indlsputable.o They would therefore go into an election with view mainly to this point. choosing as their Execu- tive and as their Represetatives, men who would pledge themselves to carry ont their wishes to the fullest extent, without regard to lhe contingency of war.
 Agaln: the difficulty of adjusting, dis puted question of boundaries, increases in a sort geomeHical progression Witheyery year that the rival claims are permitted to sleep. Acts of encroachment, adverse possession, ,trespass, and border hostiities continually occur, and tend alike to confuse the question of title, and 10 embiter the feelings ol the in- habitants Old metes and boundaries are destroyed or lorgoten-and rights, prlyi- leges, and titles are insisted upon one year, which tweIve-month before would not have been hnted at. The question which in l81G may be peaceably and satisfactorily adjusted, could in l049 Gin all human probability only be settled by an appeal to arms and the God of hosts
 The debate in the Senate to-day on this all-engrossing subject, was continued by Col. SEVER. ltwould have been gratifying to the citizens of your State, could they have seen the crowds who thronged to listen 10 the remarks of your gifted Senator. have rarely seen the galleries of the Senate Cham- Der more crowded, or a more perfect and re- specful attention on tlle part of the audience with which they were filled, and of the Senators on the floor
 The Senator from Arkansas commenced by referring to the length of lime which this debate had already occupied-and the period which had been suffered to elapse before its commencement, in order to accommodate 1 the views, and in compliance with the wishes. of those who desired delay until the arrival of the expected Steam packet from England, and until the action of the House of Repre-. sentatiyes on the subject had taken place ! He referred to the vast amount that had been 1 spoken and written on the 0regan question since the commencement of the present ses- sion, and called the attention of the Senate to the disgracefu position which We should occupy. if after all that has been said and done, Congress should adjourn without ae- complishjng anything,
 He then took up the substitutes to the res olution of notice. proposed by Mr. Crilten- den and Mr. Colquitt, and showed, conclu- svely, that they agreed in one main feature, viz.-to throw the responsibility of the mea- sure from Congress, where 1t justly belong ed, upon the Executive, where it ought not to rest. Of these substitutes, he expressed his decided disapprova.
 IIesayowed his preference for the original resolutions of the Senate, but Expressed his willingness to vote for t4ose already adopt ed by the House.
 Col. Sevier declared himself thoroughly satisfied of the justice of our claim 10 the whole of Oregon, up to 54o l0' He also expressed his opinion that the question would not be settled without an appeal 10 arms, and went al some length into an exam nation of our resources, in case of such contingency, and satisfactorily showed that Tn very brief space, we should be equal to the emergency
 have not undertaken, in the space of this i necessarilyshrief letter, to give any thing even approaching to sketch of Col. Sever's excellent speech. Time and. space, as well as the utter impossibility of taking notes in agcrowded gallery. necessarily preclude me l from doing so, The speech will, however, soon be published, and will be read, am