Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-03-22
The NEBRAsKA.KANsAs BrIL IN The HOUSE,
AN IMPORTANT VOTE,

AN IMPORTANT VOTE
The vote of yesterday, by which the Ne
braska- Kansas Bill was referred to the Com
mittee Of the Whole on the state Of the Union,
10 important but not decisive. MIR. Richard
son, Chairman Of the Committee on Terrific
ries, who assumed the management of the bill,
with more rashness than discretion, saw proper
to make the disposition Of the measure test
question IL referred to the Committee on
Territories he said, it could be reported back,
and, if majority were in favor oft after neces-
sary amendments, it would be put upon it's
passage. That is the Committee on Terrific
ries, majority of which is in favor of the bill,
might strike out the alien clause at a mo-
ment preconcerted, and when all the friends
of the measure should be prepared, report it
back to the House; when the very able and
vigilant Speaker could assign the floor to the
Chairman Of said Committee; by whom the
previous question would be demanded under
the operation of which, the House would be
brought to direct vote upon the bill, without
opportunity for consideration or discussion
This, Mr.. Richardson insisted was the dis
position of the bill which q sincere desire for
its passage required-this was the policy Of
its real friends.
The other mode proposed was to refer it to
the Committee of the Whole on the state of
the Union. That, Mr.. Richardson declared,
would be "killing it by indirection. 1t was
useless to disguise the fact; the Nebraska
Kansas bill already reported from the Com.
mittee on Territories of the House, and referred
to tho Committee of the Whole on the state
of the Union, was the twentieth on the calen-
dar. Gentlemen need not pretendto him that
they were favorable to the measure, when
they were willing to place it in position
where it could not be reached again during
the session. The effort so to refer the bill was
an endeavor to defeat it altogether"
There can be no doubt that Mr.. Richardson
gave utterance to the views Of the great ma
jority of the determined supporters of the Bill,
and it ID fair inference that every one of the
ninety five members who voted with him
sgainst the reference to the Committee of the
Whole on tho state of the Union, not only is in
favor Of its passage, and intends to vote for it
but was willing to see it forced through the
House without allowing it's opponents time to
consider, discuss, or amend it,
Their names are as follows:
NAYs-Messrs. Abercrombie, Aiken, James
c. Allen, Willis Allen, Ashe, Thos. H. Bsyly
Barksdale, Bocock, Boy e, Breckenridge, Brooks,
Csruthers, Csskie, Chastain, Churchwell, Clark,
Clingman, Cobb, Colquitt, Cox, Craige, John
G. Davis, Dawson, Dent, Disney, Dowdeli, Dun
bar, Elliott Eoglish, Ewing, Faulkner, Flor.
ence Gcode. Greenwood, Grey, Hamilton, S.
w Harris Wiley p. Harris, Hendricks, HEM,
Hubbard, Hill, Houston, Ingersoll, G. w. Jones,
J. G. Jones, Roland Jones, Keitt, Kerr, Kidwell,
Kurtz, Latham, Letcher, Lindlcy, Macdonald,
McDougaII. McMulIen, McNair, Mcqueen,
Maxwell, J,hn q. Miller, Smith Miller, Mill.
SOD, Olds, Mordecai Oliver, Orr, Packer, John
Perkins, Phelps Phillips Powell, Preston,
Ready, Reese, Richardson, Riddle, Robbins,
Rogers, Rnfin, Seward, Shannon, Shaw, Show
or, Singleton, Samuel A. Smith, VIM. Smith,
VIM. r. Smith, Geo w. Smyth, Frederick P.
Stanton, vsnsant, Walsh, Warren, Daniel B.
Wright, H. B. Wright and ZollicoFer-95.
From the Slave States, 70, from the Free
States, "a These twenty-four are