Indiana American. [volume] (Brookville, Ind.) 1833-1861, 1856-03-28
CON G RE SsI0E L.
WAsnrNaroN. March 2o.

WASHINGTON, March 20.
SENATE The Senate was crowded
TO sufocation this morning by a large
number Of ladies. who came in early,
crowding the gallery, and pre- occu-
plying the reporters seats, thus rem
dering note taking next to impossible.
in consequences of the dense pres
ure on the reporters.
After some unimportant business,
Douglas proceeded to reply to Trum-
bull. .4
Douglas regarded his colleagues
opening the debate the other day. as
a violation of that parliamentary .cour-
tesy which gives a chairman ola COM
mittee that privilege. .t-e
Among other points in the minority
repoi { on Kansas affairs, he referred
20 tie charge that the Legislature Of
Kansas was a spurious body and cleo
ted BY fraudulent and illegal votes,
and The people Of Kansas invaded and
conquered by-armed Missourians.---
Douglas admitted that in seven dis.
tricts there was illegal voting and
Reeder denied the members certificates
for that reason, but in the other ff-
teen districts there was no protest mol
proofs Of illegal voting Then adj
hitting, Tor the sake Of argument. the
allegation 20 be true as to seven dis
tricts, there was a clear Majority
The report shows that after the Leg.
islature assembled at Pawnee and or
ganized. resolutions were adopted By
which every person, whomsoever,
was authorized to contest the right o
any member holding a seat. on giving
notice TO the sitting member. sll
This was more than three month";
after the alleged invasion. II th,
people were. SO much inundated NJ
has been stated. il was supposed they
would recover from their fright in tn
course Of three months, but at ,ha
lime no man was found who desired
to contest seats with any of the fifteel
members. and il was universally nd
mitted. The fact that Reeder ha
given them certificates was conclusive
regarding the legality Of the election
Douglas charged that tie minorii'
had suppressed evidence in order 4
make out their case.
The minority report had declare'
the Topeka Convention justi6able o
the ground that under clause of tn
Consiitutin the people have right 4
assemble peaceably for redress G
Of grievances.
Douglas characterized the Topek
Convention as an act ofrebellion.
itresult in a bloody issue. it would b
high treason, and traitors ought to b
hanged.
Trumbull. replying. said be ha
learned most of his Democracy fror
Douglas and he little tho't at the tim
he was cherishing Black Republican
ism with which Douglas recent
charged him.
He was sitting at the peoples gat
and would not bow down and worshi
his colleague. If on the soafold erec
ted byDouglas for him. there be ar
another hanging. il would not be b
[Trumble's fault. As TO the absur
proposition Of his colleague. that bot
now resign and go'home, he had onl
to say, the people had sanctioned biz
recently; FIRST by electing him Repre-
sentative, then Senator. Let he Ser
ator himself resign. and If after goin
back 10 his constituents he should ;
reelected, TrumbuIl would join biz
in resignation. Thus they woul
stand on equal terms. The people
{ Illinois stand on the Democratic pla
form erected by Douglas and othel
in 1850. The proposition to resig
remained. Trumbull was an unsucccs
full client in court; having lost b
cause he was ready and asked for
new trial. Laughter. Trumbu
maintained the Kansas Legislatul
was fraudulently elected. He said:
my colleague speaks of hangir
traitors, and thinks they may be four
without going to Kansas. If the PEI
: pie there committed errors, is it not
consequence of falling into my co
leagues lead? Has it not been pr
claimed in the majority report that Il
people shall settle their own atfai
their own way? If they committs
error. no one was more instrument
in bringing it about than my &C
league" After replying to some otl
er points. he said when the questis
here was threatening civil war ar
disunion, the peace and happiness
thirty millions was at stake, and d
cause of Republicanism througho
the world involved, into what Insight
! icance do these squabbles sink. (
hoped the members of the Senate wo
I never be drawn into them again.
On motion Of Hale resolution W
/ adopted inquiring of the Preside
/ whether the boundary according,
+ the the treaty with Mexico in 1876
, had been established, and whether Il
: remaining three millions Ihad be-
a paid, and to whom.
, Seward submitted a substitute {
Douglass bill. for submitting Kans
into the Union as a State. sH ~
New MISUNDERSTANDING ha
been received from all but about dc
: en- small towns in this State, WIFI