Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1854-02-09
WAsu1yGTov, Jan. 81, 1854.

WAsuIyGToN, Jan. 81, 1854.
Mr.. Douglas moved that the Senate pro-
ceed TO the consideration of the Nebraska
bill
Mr.. Norris hoped that the bill would not
be taken up until the Senators had had an
opportunity of reading it.
Mr.. Douglas said that he had been told
by several that they had not read the bill.
He thought the best way to have the bill
read by the Senators was to take it up and
discuss it. Territorial business was al
ways postponed till late period of the
session, and he desired now to get this
subject advanced at as early a day as pos
sible.
Mr.. Chase hoped that the Senator would
not press his motion. The bill originally
reported by the committee had been greatly
changed by the subsequent amendments re-
ported by the Committee. 1t had not been
laid on the table OF tie Senators till this
morning. It involved questions of the
greatest Importance end time should be
given for their examination. There was a
question of privilege depending, which
ought to be first disposed Of.
Mr.. Jones, COZ Tenn..) said he did not
care how soon the debate on the bill CON-
mences. But he suggested 10 Senators the
propriety of allowing the Chairman Of the
Committee on Territories to explain his bill
to-day, and then the subject could be post
poned till another day.
Mr.. Cass thought that under the circllm-
stances, the bill might be laid over for a
day or two. There ought not even TO be
a seeming desire to prccipitatc Senators in
10 discussion of this subject.
Mr.. Douglas said that, as such seemed
TO be the general desire, he would move 10
postpone the bill till Monday next, then TO
be the special order from day to day.
Mr.. Dixon said that he had been charged
by paper in this city with having pre-
sented an amendment to this bill for the pur-
pose of embarrassing the Democratic party.
1t had been also said that he vas Wing
from Kentucky, and tlat any proposition
coming from him should be looked upon with
suspicion by the democratic party. On this
question of slavery he knew no whiggery,
no democracy. He was free to ovow that
he was a pro-slavcry man; that he repre-
sented slave State, and his constituents
were Shareholders, and that he intended to
promote, as far as he could, the interests he
represented. His amendment, had, how
ever, been adopted in substance, by the
| Committee on Territories, in their new
bill, and he had nothing more 10 say of it.
He would support the bill cheerfully. With
the principle of his amendment incorpora-
ted in tie bill it would carry out the object
he had in view, which was to establish nom
interference on This question. He had nev-
er approved the Missouri Compromise line,
and was sure it never met the approval OF
Mr.. Clay's head or heart. That gentleman
! Huu ucCIl IOiCCu W S4lSNlHNN"IlSSS lIAlO is
adoption, and not by dictates Of his judg-
ment.
Mr.. Douglas said he was glad to hear TIE
Senator say that the bill met his approval.
The committee, however, had not under
stood his amendment as the Senator seemed
to do himself. They understood it, and such
seemed to have been the construction placed
upon it generally, that it legislated slavery
into the Territories whether it existed there
before or not. The Committee did not de-
sire TO do this; the object they had in view
was that Congress should remove what OBJ
stacles its former legislation had thrown in
the way, and then leave the question of
Slavery in the Territories free from all Con-
gressional intervention.
Mr.. Dixon explained his amendment and
denied that its language could justify any
construction such as the Senator said had
been placed upon it.
The ILL was taken up and postponed till
Monday next.