Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1854-04-13
POSTSCRIPT.
ThihTfTHihD CoNGREss-Firss se.-ion.
WAssIsoros, April II, 1884.


ued, and II 30, ior what reason. Adopted.
MI Mason introduced bill authorizing the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad TO extend their road 70 tho Potomac
| river near Washington city. i ... ea'f- l5lI =
| Mr.. Mason moved an executive session.
mr.: badger said he bad notified the Senate that he
would necessarily be absent from the Senate for time
on duties railroad Iron imported into tho United States
He would like that bill to be taken up.
Mr. Mason said the Senate desired to heard on that
bill no would withdraw bis motion but IL IL was TO DO Ia
ken up and general debate take place H. no could not
| agree.
Mr.. Bright hoped that the bill would DO taken up 4,
important and had been reported unanimously by the
finance committee IL could certainly with no seri-
| GUS objection. ...-
The debate continued, and Mr. Mason's motion was re-
jected.
| The bill taken up and debated at considerable,
length, when the subject postponed ill Monday week
and the Senate adjourned.
| HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
The Speaker laid before the House message from thu
President, transmitting additional document, relative to
| tho Crescent City affair.
On motion OF Mr.. Hester resolved that the Sec
Rotary othe Interior communicate to the House such no,
nation concerning frauds the pension as arc men
| TONED In his annual report and any other similar
thereof
Mr. Bennetts bill granting lands equally to the States
to aid In the construction oil railroads aud the support of
schools came up 10 order when Mr. Bennett to post.
pone Its further consideration for several weeks
Mr. Wentworth, of H., moved postpone until after
the passage Of tho Nebrasks bill.
The Speaker-Such q motion il not I'm order ma tho oen
ueman from Illinois must be aware
Mr. Jones, OF Tenn moved to lay the bill the table,
| Lost. IS against SO.
The further consideration of the bill was postponed for
| two weeks
The House went into committee of the whole on the
| General Appropriation bill
Mr. Cullom said when he left Tennessee he had not
dreamed that he should be called on to partcipate In
veIed sectional question He had bher to contrib
ute bis mite to the construction Of the Pacific Railroad to
the improvement OF Western rivers aud TO the distbu
domain. tn fffaen hun rod
millions OF acres part Of which has been given away in
partial fragments to favored States lie had hoped
tend to thousands OF claimants including those under the
French Spolation BILL but appears all questions
arc ruled out OF court The streams OF legislation are
damned up by this nefarous project the Nebraska Kan
BILL which he denounced as the work of politicians 10
srange the legislation OF the country for personal sggran
dizeneut.
lie believed in the face Of God that he would be
coward IL he did not denouncc it, He would not be a
rennessean IL he did against Instantaneous plot
against the peace and quiet Of the country.
Yes, Nebraska and Kansas is the hue and cry with
which these halls made vocal. Amid the sound of
have governments forthwith and the compromise Of s2U
the work Of Our fathers who pledged their honor its sup
port, must be troddcn under foot.
Gentlemen might talk him about bad faith and
outraged Southern honor but he would tell all sections
this mixed question Of reputation reputation
Hid had no personal unkinduess towards any one but
he would rather tread the verge OF rules
thaa on the crumbng verge Of the Union defence CT
the schemes Of demagogues.
The question sprung OH him. startling him like the
Ere hell at midnight.
Whence came it where are the public meetings of
citizens North or South the petitions asking Congress
TO bring these sections by tho cars the fountains
Of bitter waters and to revive the controversy which
well nigh severed this Union?
Did the appeal come from the South! MOI The re-
possibility devolyes Presidential aspran-a defeated
Presidential aspirant of 1850 This Is the starting pont
and the country should know It.
Where have been the South Have they been sleeping
the watch tower for thirty -four years that was peces
nv bip liz
tie giants? Laughter.
Mr.. Douglas Is the great Sanhedrim OF the State of
llnose, renewed laughter overshadowing everything
lie (Cullom) had never read tho bill, did he ever
expect read it. He demanded response to the ques-
ton how this bill to DO introduced by the Senator
from lnoe, who has out Heroded Herod and out South
erned the South.
lie said he had looked into law book and there
found that in constructing law it necessary look
the surrounding circumstances of its passage Now he
wanted to know the intent and leading power which
prompted this great question, and he would look
surrounding circumstances.
The Senator in 1919 and 1885, proposed enact or
extend the Missouri Compromise 10 the Pacific pending
the controversy growing out Of the Mexican acquisition
At the commencement of this session the little giant put
out his Nebraska bill n feeer. There was no earthly
idea up to the time that he would assal the Missouri
Compromise, but he did consent to the insertion of a
claus, that the principles of the compromise $780, rem
der the Missouri Compromise imperative slightly nope
raive. Laughter.
The administration journal advocated the bill al intro
duced originally and the Washington Union came out on
isl
souri, compact, Mr. Nicholson the editor said Ob looi
There is whig from Kentucky and an abolonsts, (Mr
Summary attempting TO break down the of $780, tie
time honored compromise"
When he mentioned the name Of Douglas, he felt as
though he ought to ask pardon Of the committee Laugh
ter What was the next moyementY The insertion OF
the repeating clause. The tender from suspicious
source-from one OF our ancient enemies He thought he
could show that there big tom under the meal
! tub. Laughter
The administration to recover its lost strength at once
aJad n If lain itaat
back the Little Giant Let 60 n little deeper il
said; and the Little Giant gives the one re turn,
and eIcaims was always for the repeal considering the
Missouri compromise damnabe evil. (Liughter.) Doug.
las when he first proposed his Nebraska bi said this
Missouri compromise too sacred Tor the committee ON
territories to touch, but it is not Oh, mol
Mr.. Cullom denied that the North repudiated the
compact and although they have always had the msory
they have proposed to repeal line Of thry-sx
thirty, applicable to Missouri IL could not be shown.
As the bill, it was non intervention In Its Cbar-
| acier
He defended those who and passed the Mis-
souri, Compromise and in speaking OF CLAY IN connection
with this measure replied to Breckenridge quoting from
that gentemans euogy on the death OF Clay the following
| sentence:
"who does not remember the three periods when the
American system Of government exposed its
trials aud who does not know that when history shall
relate the struggles which preceded and the disasters
which averted by the Missouri Compromise the t.
riff Compromise Of 1882, the adjustment $780, the SANG
page will record the genius tho eloquence and the hero
| ism OF Henry Clay"
While Mr.. CuIom was reading the above, members
greeted the Of Clay with the capping Of hands
Mr. Cullom next turned his attention TO Mr. ClingmaB
who he said had defended the administration and the au
thor OF the bill, The gentleman had while doing so de-
carcd himself outside the PSIo Of heShul party organ
iZaton.
Mr. Ciugman interrupting-I did not say hesl,hml.
Mr. Cullom-I think 1t takes outsider TO defend
this administration Tie preachers have sent lots of &c
tOps here against this BILL but there preachers n
the galleries, you'd tell them their circumstances will
do good They must send lots Of prayers TO him.
Laughter
The Chairman-The gentlemans hour has expired.
Mr. Cullom replied with such apparent grave surprise
a. to occasion general laughter.
Before Mr.. Cuilom resumed HE seat, Mr. Benton and
Others approached him and extended their hearty con-
CALCULATIONS. The handshakiug continued Tor some min
utes.
The committee then took up the land graduation bill
but as there was evidently indisposon consider Il
now, the committee without making progress.
Various Senate bills referred to appropriate com.
mees, and at an early hour the House adjourned.
FATAL RAILROAD ACCIDENT
LANCASTER, Pa, April 1.-THE train Of passenger
from Pttsburg, when about nine miles from this city
last night encountered rail which was out Of place Ii
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