Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1854-05-31
Thirty. third Congress. LIST. Session.

feet from june lst
Mr.. Chase gave notice of a bill to abolish II
ranking privilege and provide for the distribl
! tion of documents.
Il A message was received from the Presidel
communicating the correspondence relative to til
arrest Of DR.. King, at Athens, in 1922 'sas'
Mr.. Clayton debated at length, ibis resolution il
structing the Committee on Foreign Relations t
inquire into the expedency of Restricting the pow
ers Of the American consuls in Spanish Islands
so as to prevent them from protecting America
vessels engaged in the African slave trade. II
went on to show that negroes had been brough
from Africa to Cuba, principally in American ships
and that something should be done to arrest tn
evil. He thought if Cuba was Africanised,
would be through the instrumenality of ARerl
can vessels. Afler considerable debate the reso
luton was adopted.
| Houe-The House went into Committee o
the Whole on the Nebraska bill, when Mr.. Ste
phens moved to strike out the enacting clause ir
order to cut of all amendments. Great excite
ment, all sorts of notions points of ORDER calling
yeas and nays. sc. The minority seemed de-
! lermined to defeat the bill if possible.
After the various privileged motions were ex
hausted, the vote was taken upon concurring with
the Committee in striking out the enacting clause.
and decided in the negative
Mr. Richardson then Uttered his substitute, (the
Senate bill without the Clayton amendment, }
and under the operation of the previous question
the substitute was carried.
Finally, at near n'clock at night, the bill
was put upon its passage, and carried by a vote
of I3 to l00-absent 20, including those who
paired off. The yeas and nays are as follows:
YEAs-Messrs Abercrombie, James G.. Allen.
| kcLo I Doilav rrbnrnoc III
l}ayly, Barksdale, Barry, Bell, BococI, Boyce,
Breckenridge. Bridges, Brooks, Caskie, Chastain,
Chrisman. Churchwell, Clark, Clingnan, Cobb.
G. Davis, Dawson, Disney, Dowdell, Dunbar,
Durham, Eddy: Edmundscn, j. NJ Elliot. Eng
sh, Faulker, Florence, Goode, Green, Green
wood, Grey, Hamilton, Sampson w. Harris,
Hendricks, Hem, Hibbard, Hill, Illlyer, Hous-
ton, IngersoIl, George w. Jones, J. Clancy Jones.
Roland Jones, Kerr, Kidwell, Kurtz, Lamb, Lane,
Latham, Leicher, Lilly, Lindley, Macdonald,
MoDougal, .McNair, Maxwell, May, j. G. Miller,
Smith Miller, Odds, Mordecai Oliver, Orr, Pack
er, Perkins, Phelps, Phillips. Powell, Preston,
| Ready, Reese, Richardson, Riddle, Robbins,
Rowe, Ruflin, Shannon, Shaw, Shower, Single
ton, S. A. Smith, WIN. Smith, Wm r. Smith,
G. w. Smyih, Snodgrass, +. p STANTON, r. H..
Stanton, A. II. Stephens, Straub, David Stuart,
! John J. Taylor, Tweed, Vail, Vansant, Wall
bridge, Walker, Walsh, Warren, Westbrook,
Wife, d. B. Wright, H.B. Wright, and Zolli-
| coffer-ll3. a3- oal
NAYs-Messrs. Ball, Banks, Belcher, Bennett,
Benson, Benton, Bugg, Campbell, Carpenter,
Chandler, Crocker, Culom, Curtis, Thomas Da-
Wis, Dean, De Witt, Dick, Dickinson, Drum,
Eastman Edgerton, Edmands, Thomas d. Eli
OF, Ellison, Etherdge, Everhart, Farley Fenton,
Flagler, Fuller, Gamble, Giddings, Goodrich,
| Grow, Aaron Harlan, A. j. Harlan, Harrison,
Hastings, Haven, Hester, Howe, tlughs. Hunt,
johnson, d. II. Jones, Kittredge, Konx, Linsley,
Lyon, McCulloch, Mace, Matteson, MayalI,
Meacham, Middleswarth, Millson, Morgan, Nor
rison, Murray, Nichols, Noble, Norton, A. Oil
yer, Parker, Peck, Peckham, Pennington. B..
Perkins, Pratt, Prinele, Puryear. David Richie,
Thos: Ritchey, Rogers, Russell, Sabin, Sage,
Sapp, Seymour, Simmons, Shelton, Gerrit Smith,
EH T.. Stevens, Slratton, Andrew Stuart, j. L..
Taylor, n. g. Taylor, Thurston, Tracy, Trout,
Upham, Wade, VALLEY, f.. B. Washburne. Is
rae Washburn, Wells, John Wentworth, Zap
pan Wentworth, Wheeler. and Yates-l00.
TUESDAY, Seaaie-Mr. Mason from the
committee on Foreign Affairs, reported the follow
| ing resolution which was agreed to go i.,,t
! Resblped, That the President Of the United
States be requested to communicate to the SEN
ate. if in his opinion it be compatible with the
public interest, copies of all correspondence in the
| State Department relative to the slave trade In
the Island of Cuba, and Of any late DEGREES or 9th
er acts of the Spanish government in the Island
connected with the same.
The Nebraska bill was taken up and read the
first time. hr. Sumner objected to the second
reading. and the bill was laid over.
| IT, Indian hill 1yas then tax
up and considered @ .......-
House.-The consideration of Mr.. Bennet's
/ Land Bill was postponed for four weeks.
! The House then went int Committee on the
Deficiency Bill.
-Senate.-Mr. Benjamin pre-
scented the resolutions of the legislature of Louisi-
ana on the subject ofthe Authorization Of Cuba.
An interesting discussion ensued between Sena-
tors Clayton, Benjamin. Gwin and others, and the
resolutions were referred to the Committee on
Foreign Affairs.
! The Nebraska bill was taken up. Mr.. Doug
lass said it was the same bill as had been passed
| by the Senate with the words restored which the
Senate had stricken out of its bill on motion OF
| Mr.. CLAYTON lie hoped the Senate would now
vote on it. Mr.. Pearce moved, in effect, 10 re-
store the Clayton amendment, and spoke at length
on the subject The debate was continued by
Messrs. Brodhead, Atchison, Tombs, Mason and
Petit
Honse.-The Pacific Railroad bill was postpo-
ned till tomorrow, and the Deficiency bill taken
up. The difficulty to keep quorum. owing Ia
the proceedings on the Nebraska bill in the Sen
ate, finally induced the House to adjourn.
THuRsDAY.--Senate. -The Nebraska bill was
taken up Mr.. Bell entered into long exposi-
ton of his course on the Nebraska bill, expressly
denied that he had ever favored the repeal of the
Missouri Compromise. He wasquite severe upon
Mr.. Toombs of Georgia. who replied with much
warmth lie repealed the charge of alsehood
thrown out by Mr. Bell. The debate was con
tinued by other gentlemen till a late hour. The
Clayton amendment was advocated by Messrs
Badger, Brodhead, Bayard, Butler and others
but was finally rejected. the following Senators
only voting in the affirmative: Bayard. oil.
4 Brodhead, Brown, Clayton, Pearce, and Thomp-
son of Kentucky. At one O'Clock on Friday NOR
ming, the bill was passed by The following vote
Yeas-Messrs Atchison. Badger, Benjamin
/ Brodhead Brown. Butler, Cass, Clay, Dawson
Douglas. Fitzpatrick, Gwn, Hunter. johnson
Jones of Iowa, Jones of Tennessee, Mallory. Ma
sou, Morton, Norris Pearce, Petit. Pratt Rusk
Sebastian, Shields SlidelI, Stuart, Thompson o.
Kentucky. Thompson'of New Jersey, Toombs
Toucey, Weller. Williams and Wright-35.
Nays-Messrs. Allen, Bell, Chase, Clayton
Fish, Foot, Gillette, flamln, James, Seward
j Sumner, Wade and Walker-l3. - 7l9l sF
s. Absent Messrs. Adams, Bayard. Bright. Coop
er, Dixon, Dodge of Wisconsin, Dodge of Iowa
Evans, Everett, Fessenden, Geycr, and Houston
and two vacancies-l4.
The Senate then adjourned over to Monday.
House. -The Deficiency bill was taken up ant
debated t tH 99 @
FRIDAY.-House.-V amendments to tn
Deficiency bill were adopted, and the bill ha
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