Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-05-14
THIRrY-FOURTH CONGRESS.

SENATE.-Mr. Crittenden moved recon-
sideration of the vote by which the Iowa kali
road hill was passed on Friday After debate
on the subject, it was postponed.
The President sent to the Senate the docu-
nents relative to hostilitles on the Pacific
coast.
Mr.. Cass addressed the Senate on sauatter
sovereignty. He said this term originated rel
alive to the first settlers of California, who.
having no government, made one for them
selves, and asked the General Government to
recognized it, but they were derisively called
"sqnatter sovereigns,' as il people who are
thrown as waits upon distant strand, where
there were no laws, had no right to make
regulations for their own government. Mr..
Cass proceeded to crticise Mr.. Douglass re.
pot on Kanzas matters, dissenting from ma
ny OF It's conclusions. 1t did not allude at all
to the true object for which governments
were instituted, and contained many ideas
that are erroneous in theory and dangerous in
practice.
The Committee say the organization of
Territory is emineutly necessary and proper as
the means of enabling the people thereof to
form and mould their local and domestic in
terests, and establish State Government,
under the authority of the Constitution, pre-.
paratory to admission into the Union, and
thus argue the right of Congress to pass the
organic act included in the provision which
authorizes the admission of new States; but
Mr.. Cass thought the doctrine that Congress
has power to pass any measures they consid
cred as tending to promote the prosperity of
the Territories would lead to false conclusions.
Congress might think the Wilmot Proyiso
would be good thing, but there would not
be any limit to their discretion, if they pro-
ceeded on such loose grounds. He also said
the bill of the Committee on Territories did
not allow the people of Kanzas to regulate
their affairs as they pleased; hence they did
not carry out the doctrine of the Constitution
relative to that subject. Adjourned.
HoUsE.-Ihe Speaker announced the first
business in order to be Mr.. Clingman's reso-
luton for the better protection of American
citizens upon thoroughfares or lines of travel
between the waters of the Atlantic and Pacific
oceans.
Mr. Campbell of Ohio, said he had no OBJ
lection. if he (NIr Campbell) could offer
substitute, requesting the President to nego-
tate, through the Department OF State with
Great Britain and Russia, for the acquisition
of Canada, and all other British and Russian
possessions on this continent, and with Spain,
for the acquisition of Cuba, consistent with
the honor and with the consent of the people
thereof; provided, if said possessions be an
nexed, there shall be neither slavery nor iu
voluntary servitude, except for crime.
The question on suspending the rules to
enable Mr.. Clingman to introduce his resolu.
ton, was negatived by a vote of 80 to rs.
On motion of Mr.. Barbour, it was resolved
that the President be requested to inform the
House whether United States soldiers have
been employed in Kanzas to arrest persons
charged with violation Of supposed laws,
passed by supposed Legislature in said Ter
ritory, which assembled in Shawnee Mission,
and if such soldiers have been so employed,
that the President inform the House by what
authority they were employed.
The House passed the bill to enlarge the
| Post Office, and Court and Custom House
buildings, in Milwaukee; also the Senate bills,
appropriatng 100000 to deepen the channel
of the st. Mary's river, Michigan; and $780,
| 900 to keep open the channel OF the mouth of
| the MisslssiDni