Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-08-09
THIRTY-FoURTH CONGRESS.

SENATE.-A resolution was adopted calling
on the President for information touching the
refusal of Honduras to receive a commercial
agent from this country.
The Senate then took up the Army Appro-
prlation bill, which was reported from the
Finance Committee, with an amendment
striking out Mr.. Sherman's proviso, offered in
the House, that no part of the military force
OF the United States snail be employed to aid
IN the enforcement of the alleged laws OF the
Legislative Assembly, convened at Shawnee
Mission, until Congress declares whether
those laws were passed by the legislature,
chosen in conformity with the organic law,
and until Congress declares so, that it shall be
the duty of the President TO use the military
forces to preserve the peace, suppress insur-
recuon, repel invasion, and protect the per-
sons and property of the citizens of the Terri.
tory on the highways of Missouri and else
where, against unlawful search and seizure,
and that the President disarm the present
militia, recall all the U. S. arms, and prevent
armed men from going into the Territory to
disturb the public peace Or enforce real or
pretended laws.
Mr.. Hunter said the proviso was irrelevant,
and If for no other reason should be rejected.
Mr.. Wilson said if the bill failed to pass,
the responsibility would rest on the Senate
and not on the House, which had made a
thorough examination of the affairs in Kan.
zasl and ascertained that there had been a
violation of the organic law and trampling
down OF the rights of the people. The House,
he said, had acted with intelligence and pa
triotism.
Mr.. Wade maintained that the invaders
made unjust and tyrannical laws to which no
citizen ought to submit. Pierce, the traitor,
sits n tho Eynpntiyo al, nv
the people, as fast as he can do it, to civil
war. The object of the House amendment
was to prevent outrage in Kanzas, and should
meet the appreciation of every patriot.
Mr.. Butler thought the proposition the
most unconstitutional one that ever had found
Its way into a bill. Inflammatory violence
ara illegal means are resorted to for the pur.
pose Of attaining improper ends. 1t was has
tenlng the country to a crisis, when the South
would have to take care of itself.
Mr.. Fessenden justified the action of the
House, which had made appropriations tor all
the purposes of the army, restricting only ex-
penditures III Kanzas, II the Senate defeats
the bill on account of this, the responsibility
is theirs. The Senator from South Carolina
had not informed them how the exercise of
such right had violated the Constitution.
Mr.. Douglas said the proviso withholds
money for the execution of certain laws. If
the Judges of kanzas are so corrupt that JUS
uce cannot be meted out is so frequently
asserted, why do not Mr.. Wade's friends,
who have majority in the House, iInpeach
them
Mr.. Wade--If we have majority. they
were culpably negligent of duty.
Mr.. Fessenden said perhaps the House had
not confidence in the tribunal that would have
to try them.
Mr.. Wilson said the Republicans had not a
majority in the House. If he were a member
OF that branch, he would vote for the impeach-
ment OF Judge Leeompte, but with the fullest
conviction that majority of the Senate would
never convict him.
Mr.. Trumbull replied to Mr.. Douglas, in.
sisting that the proyiso does not interfere with
tie present execution of the laws. If the
laws OF Kanzas are legitimate, there was no
need OF an army TO enforce them.
Mr.. Douglas responded. Ii, as some said
the Republicans have not a majority in the
house, how did the bill with the proyiso now
under consideration
Mr. WALDO said they were assisted by a doz-
gu righteous men outside.
Mr.. oherman's proviso was thon stricken
out by vote Of 20 against 0.
feaS-Messrs. Adams, Allen, Bayard. Bell
Oh Aeh"t DrBbs' DrlBht, Droadhead, Butler,
Clayton, Douglas, Geyer, Hunter, Iverson,
Jones Of Iowa, Jones Of Tenn, Mallory, Ma.
son, Pratt, rugh, Reid, Sebastian, Slidell
Stuart, Thompson ofKy., Thompson of N. XII
Weller, Wright, Yulee,
Nays-Messrs. Colamer Fessenden, Foot.
Foster, Harlan, Seward Trumbull, Wade
Wilson.
Owing to this decision, Mr. Seward said he
could not vote Tor the bill, and justified at
length the action Of the House in the after
noon on the proylso OF Mr.. Sherman He
spoke Of the successful usurpatlon aud tyran-
ny III hanzas, and SAID the mere fact Of an ar
my being necessary to enforce the laws there