Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-09-02
XXXIV CONG RESS.. Extra Session.
CONGRESS ADJOURNED.
Passage Of the Army Bill by Ihree MAJ
jOFISy,

jOrIsy,
SATURDAY, Aug. 80.
SBNArE.-On motion of Mr.. Clay, of AL
ALBANIA, resolution was adopted, REQ uirine
the secretary of the interior to report next
session the amount required to paw the AL
lowances OF the House bill, providing for the
settlement OF the claims of the Ulcers of the
Revolutionary army, and widows and children
OF those who died in the same.
Mr.. Houston, OF Texas, said that although.
he had taken very little partin the discussion
which had been INDUCED in in the senate re-
Gently, he had not been an iuattentve or uu-
concerned listener. He had seen ten years
OF service in the senate, and thirty wears ago
was in the public councils Of the country /;
but during the whole time of his service, he
had not seen crisis like the present, portend-
ing such evil to the peace, and even threat
enIng the perpetulty OF this republic He
wished 1t was III his power to pour oil on the
troubled waters, and should be glad to see
senators cooperating in different work than
exasperating the irritable feelings OF the north
and producing more alienation than now ex
lists. 1t was evident to everybody that the
times were sadly out of joint, and there must
be come occasion for it. There must be some
latent disease that required a remedy, and
thus the hrst step in seeking to produce bet
ter state OF things, and give peace and TRAN
guilty to the country, would be to go back
TO hrst principles, and seek the root of the
evil In doing So he deemed he had found
the Pandora box, whence all the difficulties
orignated-the repeal of the Missouri Com.
promise. Before that step was taken, all was
quiet, tranquility and harmony; but since
all had been diScord and contention. blood
shed and strife.
L his result was predicted by him. At that
time, he made the remark that the aged might
witness the comm encement of the evil conge.
quences that would flow from that Iepeal. but
the youngest child then born, would not live.
to see their termination. He hoped, however
and believed that it would terminate without
any fearful disaster to the Union, and that the
wisdom OF the American people would devise
some remedy for those struggles which had
sprung from the ambitious views of indiyidu-
ais, and that Providence, which had guided
THIS nation through perils in past days, had
rlch blessings IN store to lavish upon us.
Ii the Missouri Compromise could be re-
pealed alter having oeen regarded as a sacred
compact for third of century, the organic
act by which the territories Of Kanzas and
Nebraska were organized, were also repeala-
bic, and consequently all acts of the terrtorl-
al Legislature when they had been made in
pursuance OF that organic act.
lie presumed that no one would DENY that
the people of Kanzas did not of their own
unbiased free will and accord enact the laws
now SAID to exist IN that territory. 1t was
done by extraneous influences, and those laws
were proscriphve and contrary to the spirit of
the constitution, disgrace to the age, and
ought not to be suffered to remain ON the stat
ute book.
Mr.. Crittenden's bill TO alter and amend the
Kanzas Nebraska act was then tabled by twen-
ty two against eleven.
Yeas Adams, Allen, Bayard, Bright,
Brodhead, Brown, Butler, Clay, Douglas,
Geyer, Houston, Hunter, Iverson, johnson,
Jones of Tenn, Mason, Pratt, Pugh, Reid,
Toucey, Weller, and Wright.
NayS-Bell of Tenn, Crlttenden, Durkeo,
Foot, Foster, Harlan, Seward, Thompson of
KY, Turnbull, Wade, Wilson.
A message was received from the House.
informing the Senate of the passage of the
Army bill, which having been taken up on
motion OF Mr.. Hunter, the Senate struck out
the proviso attached to it by yeas 20, nays 7.
The bill was then passed.
A vote of thanks to the President 2,yo tenn.
was unanimously ADOPTED and the usual com.
mittee appointed to wait on the President of
the United States and inform him that Con-
gress was ready tn adjourn.
The committee subsequently reported that
the President had fuI liner comm unIcatIou
to make when the Senate adjourned sine die.
HoUsE.-Mr. Campbell of Ohio, obtained
unanimous consent to report, by direction of
the Committee of Ways and Means, bill
making appropriations for the army. He said
it was the old army bill with the following
proviso: "That no part of the military force
OF the United States for the support of which
appropriations are made by this act, shall be
employed in aid of the enforcement of any
enactment heretofore passed in the bodies
claiming to be the territorial Legislature of
Kanzas." Mr.. Campbell demanded the pre-
Vious question.
The bill then passed as originally reported
BY vote of ninety mine (99) against seventy
nine (79).
The bill having been sent to the Senate. a
message was received from that body return
ing the Army bill with an amendment strik-
ing out the proviso. The House, under the
operation OF the previous question, then con-
Cured in the Senate's amendment, striking
out the proviso, by yeas one hundred and one
GOD, nays ninety light (9S).
The Senate bill, txins the time for the elec-
ton in Delaware of representative to Con-
gress, was passed.
Mr.. Whitney asked, but did not obtain,
leave to introduce bill to repeal certain enact
ments OF the Kanzas Legislature, and to define
and secure the rights of the people in the ter.
ritory.
A message was here received from the Pres
ident, stating that he had signed the army bill.
Mr.. Grow of Pa, offered resolution that
the President be respectfully requested to di-
rect the District Attorney for the Territory of
Kanzas, to apply for leave to enter nsle pros
on all the indictments now pending for trea-
son or other political offences alleged 10 have
been committed in that territory. The ques.
ton resolve was defeated by calling the yeas
and nays on motion to adjourn until the time
concurrently fixed for the termination of the
session, half past three o'clock, when the
Speaker declared the House adjourned sine
DE, before the committee to wait ON the Pres
ident was reported.
| WASHINGTON, Aug. 30.-During the hear
ing of excuses from absentees in the house, to.
day, the following members were not repre-
scented as HAVING poirad Horb,~t H..