Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-04-22
WASHINGTON, ID. C.
SATURDAY, APRIL %, 1854.
THE NEBRASKA BIIL--A SURPRISE IN
TENDED.

THE NEBRASKA BILL-A SURPRISE IN
TENDED.
1t is understood that the consprators who
have been working SO hard for the repeal OF the
Missouri Compromise, have matared plan
for effecting thoir object next Monday. A
new Bill, embracing this object, is to be sprung
upon tho House the member to whose care
it is intrustod, is recognised by the Speaker;
on motion, majority diapenses with the usual
order Of proceedings; the Bill is read twice,
and under the operation Of the previous qnes-
ton, ordered to be engrossed for a third read
ing and at last it is forced through, without
debate, examination, or time for amendment.
The Bill will be Invested Of Clayton's and
Badgers amendments, and be modified in it
verbiage, 10 as to afford pretext for the wa
verng or dishonest, to vote for it, and then, il
necessary, plead misunderstanding in cxten
uation of the act; but, tho great and only oh
ject of the whole movement the repeal of The
Missouri Compromise and The opening Of Ne
braska TO Stare immigration, will DO carefully
secured.
1t is stated that the plotters have counted
heads, and have no doubt Of their power to
carry through the movement There arc seven
ty absentees, a large proportion Of them being
opponents Of the Bill, and the Nebraska mon
do not scruple to take advantage of their abb
sence. The Administration, too, has been at
work. It is now understood that adhesion to
the policy Of repeating the Missouri Compro-
mise is made o test Of fitness for Office Mem
hers are approached in various ways We
know one from the West, who voted against
the reference of the Bill to the Committee OF
/, the Whole on the state of the Union, and is
now committed to it's support, who we are in
formed, was hostile to the measure when it was
first introduced Some three qoeeks after us M
Production, his brother aOas appointed 10 CAPT
tai cierkship IN one Of the Bureaus How fai
his change Of position is to be attributed I,
fraternal love, the public must judge
Meantime, wherever we turn, rumors NEE
. ms that an active trade has been going on
Executive Intervention with Congress being
unscrupulously used to establish what may in
mockery be styled the policy of Non-Infsrven-
tion. The grand result is, that the repeal mer
relying upon an accidental majority, propose,
if Madame Rumor do not terribly belle them,
to take the House by surprise next Monday,
and forcc through measure which could not
be passed were all the members present and
which is notoriousy odious in the eyes Of nine.
tenths Of the People of the United States
The plot is an insult to the People If at
tempted, it will DO q fraud and cheat Il il
difficult to conceive how any man with one
grain Of honesty or fair dealing in his compo-
stion can harbor the base idea of participating
in it. The friends Of good faith in the House
should make mp their minds to battle 80 abom-
Unable . scheme, at all hazards. There are
enough OF them, at least, 70 put in execution
the extraordinary means authorized by the
rules of the House, to defeat scandalous at
tempt TO carry it by surprise and storm. Their
constituencies, the country, will expect them
10 employ these at all hazards, and to
the last extremity, until the People be effectu-
ally aroused, and the telegraph has summoned
careless or recreant Representatives to their
places If there be the right kind Of spirit
among the opponents of repeal the plot must
fail
Meantime, let us call attention to tho fact
that seventy members are now absent--s fact
disgracefal to them, and evncing disloyalty
to their constituents. No member has a right
70 absent himself, pending so vital measure
~ this Repeal Bill and when he has been
warned tf the desperate purposes Of its sup.
porters, unless q matter OF life and death calls
him away.
A prominent characteristic Of Congress Is its
fugncity. Sometimes quorum cannot be mus
tered to do business During the protracted con-
sijeration OF the Gadsden Treaty--a measure
of vest magnitude, and strcnuously opposed on
the ground Of its gross corruption-only about
two-thirds Of tho Senate have been present.
Tho newspapers recorded twenty. eight votes
Tor its ratification, sixteen for its rcjection-so
that there must have been eighteen absentees
Private interests arc never treated in tIi,
manner. A clerk who should absent himself
from his post in mercantile establishment
for weeks during the pressure of important
business, would receive his quietns Tho Rep
rsscntative who neeects his public business, to
look after his private affairs is unfit for his
place. II this outrageous plot to force through
The repeal Of the Missouri Compromise should
succeed, in consequence Of the absenteeism q
its opponents, they should be bapished from
public life, until they have learned to under
stand its grave responsibilities.
THE HOMESTEAD BILL
We observe that MANY people are under the