Weekly national intelligencer., 1854-04-15
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
| The SPEAKER laid before the House communication
from the President of the United States transmitting
report from the Secretary of State, in to reso
luton of the instant calling for all correspondence in
regard to the Crescent City affair Referred to the Com
mttee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed
! RESOLUTIONS.
On motion of Mr.. JONES, of New York. Il.
Resored That the Joint Committee Printing be request
ed to inquire into the propety Of publishing such Of the
Of 1850 a relates vital mortality statistics for dis
ibution among the medical faculty of the United States
] On motion Of Mr.. HESTER,
Resor That the Secretary of the Interior be requested
this Houie such information concerning the
frauds upon the pension Office mentioned in the late annual
port the Commissioner Pensions and other similar
Frauds that may been since discovered will exhibit
the nature and extent thereof.
Mr.. WELLS by consent presented resolutions Of the
Legislature of Wisconsin in favor OF cheap ocean postage
which referred to the Committee the Post Office
| and Post Roads and ordered to be printed.
Mr.. NICHOLS by consent, from the Committee
Private Land Claims; which referred Senate bill
the relief John Gusman of Louisiana reported the
back without amendment with the recommendation
( hessrs. PERKINS, Of Louisiana, and NICHOLS briefly
explained the bill when it read the third time and
passed.
/ PUBLIC LANDS.
4 The House then resumed the consideration Of the biz
granting lands equally the several States aid in the
of railroads and for the support Of schools
the consideration of which had been postponed until
to-day.
Mr. BENNETT moved that the further consideration Of
/ the bill be postponed until this day two weeks
/ Mr.. McMULLEN moved to amend the motion as to
postpone the further consideration Of the bill until the 3D.
day Of june
Mr. JONES' Of Tennessee moved lay the bill on the
table; which motion was disagreed to by the following
YEAsMessrs Aiken, James Allen, Willis Allen, Barks-
dale, Benton, Bocock Boyee Bridges Chastain chrsman,
Drum, Dunbar, Dunham Eddy Edgerton Edmundson, FL
lott Ellsou English Fuller Goode, Hamilton Sampson W.
Harris Wiley Harris, Hbbard George Jones' CLANCY
Jnnas Ke LAM Lathe Tiphx xlavM Mav
Smith Miller Nichols ods, Parker, Phelps Phillips. Rich
ardson Thomas Rchoy Robbins Run, Supp Shaw shower.
Walker Warren, Eiihu E. washburne, Wells, John Went
worth, Daniel B. Wright, and Yates-65.
NAYSMossrs. Ball. Belcher, Bennett, Benson Bssell,
Bliss Bugg, Campbell Carpenter Chandler Chase Church
well, Corwia Crocker Cuom, Thomas Davis Dickinson Ed
Goodrich Grey, Aaron Harlan Harrison, Hastings Haven,
Hester, Howe Hughes, Hunt Daniel T. Jones' Kerr, Kit
asdgs, Kurt. Letehe5 Ii dey MSMuIs9 Mace Maya.
Andrew Oliver Modeeai Oliver Peck John Perkins, Pratt
Ready, Riddle David Ritche Rowe Sabin Sage. Seward
Seymour, Shelton, VIII lam r. Smith, snodgrass Frederick
p Stanton, H. L. Stevens Andrew Stuart John j. Taylor,
John L. Taylor, N G. Taylor Tracy, Uphan, VAIL Wade,
Israel Washburn, and Zollcofer-76
The question then recurred the motion of Mr. No
MULLEN, and it decided in the negative
| The motion of Mr.. BENNETT was then agreed to.
CIVIL AND DIPLOMATIC APPROPRIATION BILL
On motion of Mr.. CAMPBELL, the House then went
into Committee Of the Whole the state of the Union.
Mr. FuLLER, of Maine, in the chair and resumed the
consideration Of the bill making appropriations for the
civil and of the Government for the
year ending June 80, 1855
] Mr. CULL0M condemned the Nebraska Kansas bill Of
the Senate nefarous scheme introduced for personal
aggrandizement. He believed this before Almighty God,
and would be coward if he did not assert it. He would
be Tennessean he would not have descended from
his mother State Of Kentucky if he did not here in his
place, denounce this scheme nearious plot against
the peace and quiet Of the country.
Yes Nebraska and Kansas the hue and cry. These
halls of legislation made vocal with the sound OF
these phrases and they told that Territorial
Governments must forthwith be given them They
told also that the compromise Of 1920 the work Of
fathers which projected in time Of great conster
nation when the Union of these States in jeopardy
they gravey told that that work. for which
fathers pledged their faith and public honor to be
repudated and trampled under foot and gentlemen
here with their dogeared statutes and quilts behind their
to make shrewd speeches and to file special pleas
get round this legislation of fathers But he pro-
claimed to-day that it naked question Of repuda-
ton and reputation Gentlemen might talk to him
about bad faith and about the outraged honor of tho
South" but he would tell North and South, East and
West that naked question whether they the de-
scendants of patriotic fathers who pledged their honor
great and momenous OCCASION should repudiae tho
those fathers upon qubbles and special pleas
| This was the naked question.
He hoped to be respectful to every body for he had
personal unkindness towards any the face of the
earth but he had high public duty to perform, and
although he should every body connected with this
question respectfully yet he would rather tread upon the
ouermost verge Of parliamentary rule than stand upon
the crumbng verge Of discovered Union through dema
gogical measures thrust in here.
/ But whence this question? Who had petitioned
Congress to break down the act of 1920 and to tho
North and the South by the again upon the slavery
question? Had petition from his people been present.
ed here in favor Of this movements He demanded to
know who had made power Of attorney institute this
vexed question and it aoat in the forum oflegslaon
to reopen the fountain of bitter waters to stir this ag
ation which had wellngh destroyed this glorious Unon9
The voice for the repeal of the compromise had
from the South In the language of the gentleman from
Louisiana the South jealous Of her honor The South
knew how to guard her honor and interest and if it had
been outraged they told it had been, the
South would know how to remedy the matter. What
gentlemans constituency had petitioned Congress GO
back and wipe from the statute book the act of 1920
which was enacted by fathers, and to the mane-
nance Of which they pledged their honori 1t had de-
yolved upon Northern to spring this question upon
the country it had devolved upon defeated Presiden-
tia candidate in 1852 revive this agitation and he
wished the country to understand it, Why the Sem
ator from Illinois tenacious Of Southern rights and OF
Southern honorl Did he love the South than the
South itself2 Where were the chivalrous Of the
South always jealous of their rights and ready to
defend themr How it that they had been sleeping
on their watchtowers for thrtour years. and had at
last TO DE walked up by little giant? Laughter. In
introducing this bill the Senator from Illinois had out
/ Heroded Herod, had out-Southed the South
He then contrased the opinions heretofore expressed
by Senator Douglas the Missouri compromise with
those entertained by him and replied to the
ment that the compromise of 1920 forced upon tho
South This he denied declaring that it received tho
votes Of n majority of the members from the South
lie expressed himself in favor of the principle Of
intervention but declared that the bill contained such
doctrine