Daily American organ., 1856-08-19
The Adjournment Of Congress.

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for the sake Of tse american Union
The Adjournment of Congress.
At half past eleven on Monday, ii being appre-
hended that the Military Appropriation bill would
be lost for want Of time, Mr.. Milson of Virginia,
moved to suspend the rules to enable him to offer
a resolution extending the session TO ?. M. On
this the yeas and nays were ordered, and the re-
suit was as follows:
YEAS-Messrs. Aiken, Ball, Barksdale, Bennett Of
Mississippi Bocock, Bowie, Boyce, Branch, Brenton,
Brooks, Broom, Burnett Cadwalader, Campbell Of
PENNSYLVANIA, Campbell Of Kentucky, Campbell o. o.
Georgia, Cobb of Alabama, Colfax, Covode, Coz,
Craige, Cullen, Davidson, Davis Of Maryland, Davis
Of Massachusetts, Denver, Dickson, Dowdell Ed
mundson, Elliott, Etherage, Eqstis, Evans, Faulkner,
Flagler, Florence, Foster, Fuller of Pennsylvania,
Fuller of Maine, Goode, Greenwood Harris OF Mary
land Harris of Alabama Harris of Illinois, Harrison,
Haven, Herbert, Hickman, Hoffman, Houston, Hugh
ston, Jones of Tennessee, Jones OF fennsyiyania,
Kelly, Kidwel, King, Knapp, Knight, Knox, Kun;
kel, Lake, Letcher Iindley Lumpkin, A. r. Marshall
of Kentucky, Humphrey Marshall of Kentucky, Mar
shall of Illinois, Maxwell, McMullen, McQueen Mil
b4er of Newly ork, Miller of Indiana, Millson Mward,
Moore, Mott Orr Parker, Peck, Pelton, Phelps Pike,
Porter, Powell, Puryear, Qutman, Ready, Ricaud,
Rtchie Rivers Roberts Rufin, Rust, Sage, Sandidge,
Savage, Scott Seward Shorter, Smith of Tennessee,
art stranahap, swope, Talbot TaPpap, Taylor,
Walk, Wakeman, Walker, Wells, Wheeler, Whitney,
Williams, Winslow, Wright Of Mississippi Wright Of
Tennessee and Zollicofer-13l.
NAYS -Messrs. Albright Allison, Barbour, Bar
clay Bennett of N. York, Benson Billinghurst Bsh-
op, Bliss, Burlington, Chaffee, Clarke of New York,
Clark of Connecticut Clawson, Comins, Cumback,
Damrel Dick, Dodd Durfee, Edie, Edwards, Emrie,
Galloway, Giddings, Gilbert Granger Grow, Hall Of
Massachusetts,, Harlan, Holloway, Horton of New
York, 'Horton of Ohio, Howard, Kelsey, Knowlton,
Letter. Matteson, McCarty, Morgan, Morrill,, Murray,
nington, Perry, Petit Prngle, Robson, Sapp, Sher
man, Simmons, Spinner, Stanton, Thorington, Traf-
ton Wade, Walbridge, Waldron, Washburn of Wis
consin, Washburn of ILL.,, Washburn of Maine, Welsh,
Wood, Woodruff and Woodworth-6s.
So the motion was negatived, two-thrds not
voting in favor thereof
1t appears, therefore, that sixty-eight members
of the House prev ented prolongation of the ses-
sion for the short space of two hours, and thus
prevented any possible action on bill of the ut
most Importance not only to the safety of the
country, but to thousands of officers and soldiers,
who are, by its failure, deprived of their scanty
pay and support. A measure 30 thoroughly rev.
olutionary and disgraceful has never been adopted
by either branch of any previous Congress; and
when we state that it was effected by those who
call themselves Republicans" the people will be
enabled to form an opinion of the probable course
of this party if it should attain the control Of
the General Government If with the moderate
force of sixty votes in House of Congress,
it is enabled to defeat important appropriation
bill, indispensable to the preservation of the or
ganization of the American Army, what would IL
not be able to effect with President of its own
party and majority in one or both Houses
OF the impropriety of attaching such conditions
to an appropriation bill, as were attached to the
military appropriation bill by the House of Repre-
sentatiyes, there can be no doubt in the mind Of
any man not totally ignorant of the duties ofa leg
islator or thoroughly blinded by partisan maigni-
ty. II the laws Of Kansas were unconstitutional,
and Congress refused to declare them SO, the mi.
nority had no just alternative but to submit to ts
decision. 1t certainly had no right to revenge it
self for its defeat on this question by venting its
indignation upon body of brave men who had
not the slightest agency in producing the unhappy
state of affairs in Kansas and whose sole duty is
to obey the orders Of their superior officers.
With these remarks we dismiss this subject for
the present, with the hope that, on the reassem-
bling of Congress on Thursday, better counsels
will prevail, and with full confidence that those
members who are responsible for the loss of the
military appropriation bill, will be held to rigid
accountability by their constituents for 80 shameful
derelction of duty.