Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-02-20

aloO, CoiihttAI4tlVn from tne DccfttAfy OF the
Navy, transmitting three hundred copies Of the
official Navy Register for the ensuing year, for the
use Of the members.
| The House then resumed the consideration Of
the bill granting lands equally TO the several States
to aid in the construction Of railroads and for the
support OF schools, the question being sustain
| ing the demand of Mr.. HAMILTON for the previous
| question, on his motion to refer the same 10 the
| Committee Of the Whole on the state Of the Union.
| The question being taken, no quorum OF the
House was present, and the rollwa called, and 1l8
| members answered to their names, and, upon mo-
| ton, further proceedings were dispensed with.
Mr.. WASHBURNE, OF Illinois, moved TO lay the
bill on the table, and
MIR. WENTWORTH demanded the yeas and
nays; which were ordered.
The motion 10 lay ON the table was agreed to-
yeas 80, nays 81.
Mr.. WENTWORTH moved to reconsider that
VOTE and TO lay that motion on the table, and the
yeas ana nays were again ordered
Inc motion was agreed to--yeas 81, nays 90,
and the bill is efectuaIy crushed
mr.. COBB, OF Alabama from the Committee on
fuphc Lands then reported bill to graduate the
price OF public lands to actual settlers, and de-
manded the previous question.
MIR. HAMILTON desired to offer an amendment
to the bill, which was objected to-
Mr.. JONES, of Tennessee, spoke in favor Of the
BILL especially as it provides for the authenticaton
Of claims before justices Of the peace instead at the
Land Office, which is sometimes hundreds ofmilss
from the land proposed to be entered III q
Mr4HAMILTON again appealed to Mr.. Conn to
| allow him to offer his amendment, but the latter
renewed his demand for the previous question.
which was not seconded. !.
Mr.. COBB then offered an amendment which
facilitated the purposes contemplated by the BILL
| and permitted the amendment of Mr. HAMILTON to
be read for information
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brief and forcible speech, and demanded the pre-
vious question.
Before taking the question
Mr.. HAVEN, from the Committee on Ways and
Means, reported back the Indian Appropriation
bill, and it was referred to the COMMITTEES of the
Whole on the state of the Union, and ordered to
be printed.
Mr. HAMILTON then moved that the House re-
solve itself into Committee of the Whole, with
view to prevent vote on Mr.. CoBB's bill. This
motion was disagreed to-
The demand for the previous question on Mr.
CoDB's amendment, was then renewed and sus-
tanned, and the main question ordered upon the
adoption. The question was taken by tellers, and
less than a quorum voting, the amendment was
lost.
The question then required on passing the orig
nal bill to its engrossment and the question being
taken by telers the bill was read third time and
passed-95 to 80.
On motion of Mr.. ORR, the House then resolved
itself into the Committee of the Whole on the
state of the Union, Mr. HUBBARD in the chair
The first business was the amendment of Mr.
CRAIGE to the Civil and Diplomatic Appropriation
bill, which appropriates 100000 toward the COM
pletion Of the Treasury building.
& Tellers having been demanded, vote was TAKEN
the CHAIRMAN calling upon all gentlemen to VOTE
that the Committee may not be without quorum
The amendment was adopted-ayes 83, noes 81.
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ment, which was ruled to be out of order.
Mr.. DISNEY offered an amendment, fixing the
salary of the Land Commissioner at $4,000
Mr.. HOUSTON rose to a point of order, that
this amendment was not in order.
The course of the Richmond Enquirer and some
other Of the leading Wise organs of the State, in
the present canvass, reminds us of the efforts of
parcel OF birds trying to lead the passer by away
from their nests. They throw themselves in the
dust and limp and whndle, and whine and yelp, at
what they call foreign influence in Virginia cleo
TONS The interference of outsiders in Virginia
affairs They call upon Virginia to put down the
interference of the New York Herald and the
American Organ, at Washington City, in the con-
test now pending. And thus they try to dodge
the great issues before the people. This shallow
trick we shall endeavor to expose
While these prints are crying out against foreign
influence and cursing few newspapers in the
Union because they feel interested in the result of
the Virginia election, they are defending and hug
cling to their bosoms all the convicts and paupers
that are thrown on our shores from the jails and
poor-houses of Europe; not only So they are open
ing the ballot-box to receive their votes, in oppo-
sition TO American votes, for throwing open the
Offices State and Federal to all the scum and filth
of European radicalism, infdelity, and red repub-
icanism. that they may be sought after as prizes
by the mercenaries and agents of all the hellish
combinations of Europe, from the Pope of Rome
down to the lowest dregs OF foreign pauperism and
crime.
But TO return to our own land. The very num-
Der of the Enquirer now under our eye, containing
one or more of those urgent appeals for rebukc
to those outside Of Virginia, who feel an interest
in our election, contains letter from this same
Washington city, written 10 influence the people OF
Virginia in this canvass, and directly and inten-
tonally bearing on this very subject Again, the
same number Of the Enquirer contains letter from
Fall River, Massachuse It's, having the same object
In view, and written for the same purpose. But
In connection with them, not one word IL said Of
outsiders and foreign influence Not a whimper.
Moro than this, while the Enquirer is holding up
for execration and rebuke the Organ at Washington
II has no rebuke, no word Of warning TO the people
Of Virginia against the daily Efforts Of the Wash
ington Sentinel and Washington Unisn to infu-
ence matters in. Virginia o no, they are for
Wise, and they have perfect right TO do an they
can, and NEEDLE as much as they please in the
matter. Why does the Enquirer not execrate and
rebuke the Union with Forney at it's head-For-
ney, the wretch who cooly laid plan to get man
drunk, that In his drunkenness he might be made
10 say something derogatory to the character Of a
woman, that on the ruins Of her character, thus
and by him secured, her licentious husband might
obtain divorced This beast may, day after day,
write column after column, for the same purpose,
and be paid for 1t out Of the public funds besides
And yet the Enquirer says not word, nor are the
people Of Virginia warned against him, neither are
they called on to rebuke his impertinencc.
We well remember the game played in our last
gubernatorial canvass, day by day was this same
thing done by the Unioap and other prints,
without rebnke from the Enquirer. Why does not
the Enquirer now demand and hold up for rebuke,
Horace Greeley, that most notorious black hearted
disunion abolitionist, for his interference in tho
contest. We remember that, in the opinion OF the
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