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-N-tSiIISEToS, Feb. ~.
SESATE.&The Chair laid before the Senate
several Executive communications, including
one from the Secy of State in answerto the res
folution calling for report of the adjndications
made by the Board of American Commissioners
in Paris, to liquidate and audit the Spoliation
claims of American citizens against France; the
I ec'y says there is no such report III his Depart
tinent now, and he thinks there never was any
there.
The Senate then resumed the considerations Of
the Kansas communication.
Mr.. Geyer asked Mr.. Wilson on what author
ity he stated, yesterday, that Mr. Atcheson ever
went into Kansas armed, so as control the cleo
ton.
Mr. Wilson replied, on the authority of Cien.
Pomeroy, that on the Both Of March last Mr..
/ Atcheson entered the Territory, armed with a
bowie knife and revolver, ready to shed the
( hearts blood of any man who would not do his
| bidding
| Mr. Geyer did not suppose Gen. p made the
| statement on his own authority, but some one
| had reported so to him. Mr. Atcheson never
crossed the border, so far as he had been able to
learn, during the late disturbances, an account
! of which was read yesterday. at that time it
twas apprchcndcd there would be a serious coll
lision and loss of life. Then Mr.. a., with or 4
other gentlemen, went into Kansas for the pur-
pose of persuading those assembled ut Waxan-
sa to forbearance and moderation;.he went there
to counsel peace, not to excite to violence
| That was the only time Mr.. Atcheson ever went
| thither.
I Mr. Wilson remarked that he had simply laid
! before the Senate the statement of Gen, Pom
trov in opposition to the statement of the Sena-
tor from Missouri The document which hohad
read was prepared by Gen. p, and signed by
him and several others well known throughout
the Union. Since the receipt of the document
he had been assured by Gen. p that every state
ment was true landcOuld be proved before acom-
mittee of either House.
| Mr. Wilson said he regarded Mr.. Atcheson as
as the moving spirit in all the Missouri excite
ment, from which these disturbances had arisen.
| He spoke in emphatic terms of the character of
! Gov Shannon, saying that he was the compan-
ion of drunkards and gamblers in California, and
J thatwhen MisSourian shot down an inhabit-
/ ant of Kansas, Gov. Shannon was so much intoxi-
Gated that he could not attend to his duty
| He could prove these and hundred other dis
reputable things.
Mr. Jones next obtained the floor, when the
consideration of the subject was postponed till
Monday, and the Senate add
| HoUSE.-Mr Hickman, from the committee
on elections, offered resolution empowering it
to send for papers and persons in relation to the
Kansas contested election case.
Mr. Phelps thought the attempt to exercise
such power, would be an act of usurPatiOn, as
Mr. Reeder does not claim to he!elected.by ylr-
| tue of a law passed by the Kansas legislature.
He defended his constituents from the charge of
being border ruffianS, which had been repeated
here and elsewhere, and by one Senator, Viii
/ son, who comes from State where men warrcd
ion defenceless women, and burned the Grsuline
! Convent He condemned earnestly the anti
= l. Al A.,
souriaus desire was not to shed blood, but to
lsustlin the laws.
Mr. Washburn of Maine, regretted that Mr..
Phelps had INDUCED in such remarks which
were exceedingly exciting, not to say iailamma-
tory. large majority of the people Of this
country believe in their hearts that there was no
| legislature of Kansas. no law, nor nothing hav-
ling the vigor or effect of law under which the
election was held, and by which Whitfield
claims his seat as a delegate, This matter should
be investigated, and how is this to be done un-
Hess power is granted to the committee to send
for papers and persons
! Mr. Stephens remarked that Gov Reeder him
self commissioned the members of the legiSla-
| tive Assembly who had passed the law under
which Mr.. Whitfield was elected, the validity Of
which Gov. Reeder now call on the House to in
Evcstigate: out of his own mouth therefore Gov.
Reeder had stopped further proceedings, by his
own official act.
Mr.. Campbell of Ohio, in replying said ii. was
a well-settlcd principle of law that any statute
of law may be violated by fraud, which forms
the subject for a thorough investigation. The
House should be satisfied on this point. lie
desired something more than newspaper report
and telegraph dispatches on which 10 form a
Judgment.
Mr.. Hickman thought that newspaper reports
had exaggerated or magnitied one or the other
side ofthe question, and therefore the Importance
of the investigation proposed by Gov. Reedcr
who had done all the act Of Congress required
of him in the premises
The question was taken on Mr.. Stephens
motion that the resolution be referred back to
the committee on elections, with Instructions to
report the ground on which they ask power to
send for persons and papers-negatiyed by the
casting vote Of the Speaker.
Pending the question on resolution the House
adjourned.
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