Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1855-06-19
The Next Congress and the Repeal OF the
Nebraska Bill. f


The Journal Of Commerce has prepared com
resentatives, SO far the elections in the States
have been completed, with the object Of showing
how hopeless would be the attempt to obtain the
repeal cf the Nebraska BILL The Senate when
full comprises 90 members, of whom SO have been
elected. Ofthese So there are sc Democrats, IS
Wings, and 3 Abolitionists. OF the complexion
of the Senate the Journal says:
Ofthe So Senators elected, 26 voted for the
Nebraska bill. To which,. add Bayard Of Della
ware, Yulee of Florida, Iverson of Georgia,
Bright of Indiana, Crttenden of Kentucky,
Adams OF Mississippi, Geyer of Missouri, Biggs
and Reid Of North Carolina, Pugh of Ohio, and
Evans of South Carolina, (ll,) all of whom are
known to be favorable to the Nebraska measure,
and we have total of 81 already elected, who
are in favor Of it. Then add Clayton of Della
ware, who, though he voted against the bill, has
since declared himself opposed to its repeal, and
we have SO Nebraskaites already elected. Ofthe
four vacancies, one in Alabama and one in Mis-
souri,, will almost to certainty be filled with
Nebraska men, making total of 40, without IN
GLIDING any chance which there may be for Ne
braska men in the remaining two vacancies, one
in Indiana and one in Pennsylvania In round
numbers, it may be said that two-thirds of the
new Senate will be in favor of the Nebraska
measure, and still larger number against its re-
peal. Among the latter, we presume may be in
cluded Bell of Tennessee, and Houston of Texas.
So far as the elections are completed, the
House Of Representatives is composed of 10 Ad-
mnstration Democrats and lO4 Opposition.
Sixty members arr yet to be elected from dis
tricts represented in the last Congress by 90
Wings and 40 Democrats. The position of those
elected on the Nebraska question is thus stated
by the Journal:
Of the 81 members who voted for the Nebraska
bill from the States which have already chosen
their delegation to the new Congress, % (if we
include Mike Walsh) are reelected. Ofthe SO
in the same States who voted against it, IS are
reelected OF the members elect to the new
Congress who were not members of the old Con-
gress, or were absent when the vote was taken,
considerable number are understood to be Ne
braska men, among whom are Rust, of Arkansas;
Hall, of Iowa; Kenneth, Porter, and Caruthers,
of Missouri; Denver and Hobart, of California;
Cadwalader, of Pennsylvania; M Queen, Aiken,
and Keitt, Of South Carolina; Peck, of Mchi-
gan; Harris and Marshall, of Illinois; Walk,
Williams, and Edwards, of New York; McMul-
len and Carile, of Virginia, (l9) which, added
to the % above mentioned, make total of AZ,
believed to be in favor of the measure from the
above mentioned States The States yet to elect
gave 46 votes for the bill, and we know of no
good reason for anticipating less number favor
able to the measure in the delegations about to
be elected. On the contrary, the probability is
that most or all of those southern members who
voted against the bill, or abstained from voting,
WILL Oh the question of repeal (they their sue
cessors) be found in the negative.
Let us see, then, how the account stands In
the States that have thus far chosen, there have
been reelected who voted for the bill. ...... %
The nine States which have not yet voted,
all being slaveholding States, gave for the
bill. 46
Absentees from said nine States when the
vote was LdkeU.. - 4
New members thus far elected who are un-
derstood to be in favor of the bill, or at
least opposed to its repeal. .............. 10