Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-02-16

Alter considerable conversation, without Ia
king the question on the motion to reconsider,
The House adjourned.
Senate, Thursday FEB. l6, 1854
The Chair laid before the Senate letter from
Messrs. Tucker Oyerton, publishers Of the
Sentinel, proposing to assume the contract late
y given up by the Union, for publishing the
Senate debates and proceedings.
Mr.. Hamlin presented copy Of Vattemare's
report on system of international weights
and measures; which was referred to the Com
mittee en- the Library.
Mr.. Chase presented four memorials, pray.
ing that no act be passed repeating or abroga-
ting the Missouri Compromise.
Mr.. Sumner presented memorials from Mas
sachusetts and Illinois, OF q similar character
Bills Of the following titles were considered
and passed:
A bill to authorize the laying off the town Of
Council Bluff, in Iowa.
Bill making Brunswick, in Georgia, port Of
entry.
Bill for the relief Of George P. Welsh and
Clark H. Wells Of the United States navy.
Bill to confirm the title Of Charles g. Gunter
to certain tract Of land in Alabama.
The Senate proceeded to the consideration of
the bill to establish Territorial Government
for Nebraska
Mr.. Badger said that as the bill was first re-
ported, the provisions it contained with refer
ence to the Indians presented to his mind in
superable objections; it did not then, he thought
contain provisions sufficiently eficacious to
preserve the plighted faith OF the nation to the
Indians. IL gave them no practical power Of
refusing to cede their territories These In
dIans had gone to this Territory under SOL
10 L..
sessed. Since then, the amendments made BY
the Committee on Indian Affairs had provided
all the precautions which could reasonably be
made, and the difficulty had been removed
The want Of population was also an objection
to his mind, bat he had come TO the conclu-
sion that, under oil the circumstances, that
question was one of time only
IL was said that the Missouri Compromise
was solemn compact, and that to repeal It
would DO q violation Of the plighted faith Of the
two sections Of the Union. He designed to
show that the language already put into the
bill that il was inconsistent with the legisla-
ton Of $780, was true and correct and that
the declaration that the Missouri act is mop.
erative and void was q true and proper declara-
ton, and the only one that ought to be made.
The Senator from Connecticut had argued
that the Missouri prohibition was Intended
only to apply TO Territorial organizations, and
not to States He considered that that prohi-
bition was intended to apply to the Territories
for all time 10 come, whether under State or
Territorial organization.
IL was intended also to apply not only to all
the territory Of the United States at that time,
but to all the territory which the United States
might thereafter acquire. This was shown by
the Texan resolutions whore, upon the annexa-
ton Of Texas the Missouri line was taken up
and applied to that Territory, as matter Of
course II was clearly thought, in 1920 that
Congress had tho power to apply the prohibit
ton to all organizations State or otherwise,
above SO deg. 80 min. The principle on which
the Legislation Of 1920 was based was abso-
lutely set aside and rcpudiated by the legisla-
ton OF 1850.
The Missouri Compromise was dsregarded,
within one year after its adoption, by the
North. BY the Compromise act Missouri was
10 be admitted upon the adoption Of her Con-
stitution. When she applied with her Consti-
tuition, for admission, the House Of Representa-
tives rejected the application.
During the tendency Of the Oregon bill and
the acts Of 1850, the South asked for nothing
sought for nothing, but the recognition OF the
Missouri Compromise, and it was refused He
read from the Journal Of the Senate Of the SEES
sion of 1850, to show that the South had uni
tedly stood upon that line, and that those who
now insisted upon its observance refused to
give IT,
Houv of Representatives., Feb. is, 1854
Mr. Millson moved TO reconsider the vote by
which the House bill from tho Committee on
Invalid Pensions under the act OF February
30, 1853, was yesterday committed TO the Com
mittec OF the Whole and spoke at some length
upon the merits Of the bill, denouncing IL as
partial in its bearings and oxorbitant in it's
demands. He stated that it's passage would
entail upon the Government disbursement of
not less than two millions Of dollars IL pro-
vides for pensions to widows OF Revolutionary
soldiers, though married since the year 1900.
MIR. Millson stated that pensions would thus,
in many instances he granted to very young
widows Of very old and dccrepd men, and that,
too, until these widows shall become old, and
pass away. The original object Of tho pension
lave, evidently was to reward the woman who
shared the tolls, tho privations and the dan.
gers Of the wars.
The bill also proposes TO give tho pay pro-
posed from lS4s, and thus creates arrcarages, to
the amount Of twelve hundred thousand dol
lars.
The vote was taken on the motion Of Mr..
Millson, and il was decided in the Affirmative
yeas 6S, nays 65.
So the motion to reconsider was laid on tho
table
Reports from various committees were then
presented
Mr.. Mike Walsh arose, he said to question
Of privilege, and asked il it was in order for
distinguished members Of the House TO intro
duce spirits in the rooms below, and to question
them ON the subject Of the Nebraska bill.
This Of course, elected some laughter and
much disorder