Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-07-30
THLRrK-FoURTH CONGRESS-.


the Senate whether any application has been
made to him by the Governor of California,
to maintain the laws and peace of the State
against the usurped authority of the Vigilance
Committee of San Francisco, and also TO com.
municate whatever information he may have
respecting the Vigilance Committee.
Mr.. Clayton presented the petition Of Mr..
Vanderbilt, praying for the passage of law
authorizing the Postmaster General to con-
tract with him for carrying the mail in the
steamship from New York to Southampton.
Mr.. Clayton also introduced bill which was
referred, proposing monthly trips for ten years,
at compensation of $40, $50 round trip, the
government having the power to increase the
same to semi. monthly, by giving sufficient
notice, and TO appropriate to its use any or all
OF the steamships at price to be agreed OH
by the Secretary OF the Navy and MI. Van
derbilt, and in of disagreement their
price to be determined by valuation.
The bills making appropriations for the con-
struction of harbors at the mouths of Grad
River and Beach Lake, Michigan, were
passed. Adjourned.
HOUSE. The House passed the bill appro-
| priating $4,000 for continuing the improve
| ment of Des Moines Rapids, il the Missis-
| sippi The vote stood II to 49,
| MI. Dunn moved to take up the Senate bill
|
the Union, his intention being to offer sub
stitute recognizing the Territory. restoring
the Missouri Compromise, and dlsmisslng in
dictments for treason, &c. The motion was
negatived by vote OF l03 against 81 not
| two thirds.
The Senate resolution, approprating $4,000
for modification OF the plan OF the Custom
House at Ellsw orth, Me-, was passed.
The House then went into Committee of
the Whole on the Army Appropriation bill.
Mr.. Sherman OF Ohio, offered an amend
ment, that no part If the military force of the
| United States snail be employed to aid in the
enforcement Of the alleged laws of the Leg
isauve Assembly convened at Shawnee Mis-
sion, until Congress declares whether those
laws were passed by the Legislature in con-
| formity with the organic law and until Con-
| gress so declares, that it shall be the duty of
the President to use the military force to pre-
serve peace suppress instruction, repe in
vasion, aud protect persons and property of
the citizens of the territory, on the highways
OF Missouri and elsewhere, against unlawful
search and seizure, and that the President
dlsarm the present militia, recall all United
States arms, ard prevent armed men from
going INTO the Territory to disturb the public
peace, or enforce real or pretended laws.
The chairman, Mr.. Letter, decided the
amendment out of order, but was overruled
by majority of two.
Mr.. Sherman said his amendment was lust,
fair and honest, and would do more for the
settlement of the Kanzas difficulty than all
the bills for that purpos put together.
Mr. Stephens Of Georgia contended that
Congress had no right to decide on the validi-
| ty Of the laws Of kanzas. That was a ques-
ton for the Judiciary. He was for the people
OF the territory governing themselves.
Mr.. Grow OF Pa, insisted that it was the
bounden duty OF Congress to protect the citi-
| zens IN all the rights guaranteed them in the
| organic act They were controlled by des.
| potism and usurpation, and he was not will.
ing that the Federal troops should coerce them
| after they had been trampled down by marau-
! ders.
Mr.. Stephens replying, said he believed
| that the Neoraska-h anzaS bill was proper
one, and would have admirably answered the
! purposes for which it was designed, had its
| operation not been INSTRUCTED by those who
| opposed it in the beginning, and clamored
against it throughout.
Mr.. Phelps OF Missouri remarked that Mr.
Sherman's amendment was violative of the
T Constitution.
Mr.. Giddings was opposed to giving the
executive funds to. support despotism and
Ar Smith of Virginia ,visl,a1 el-~ ,,,,,..,..y
80 hDo7r thaV a party in the House designed
to stop the wheels of government, and force
the Senate into cooperation with measure
not practicable, the only effect of which would
be revolution.
MI. Davidson of La, said the representa-
tiyes proposed attaching to this bill an obiec
tonable feature to which they knew the Sen
ate could not and dared not agree. 1t was
treason thus to pass appropriation bills.
Mr.. warner OF Ga, maintained that there
was no power IN Congress to pass on the va
hbity of the laws of Kanzas, that it was for
the Judiciary to do so.
Mr.. Sherman's amendment was adopted bv
IS against 40, when the committee rose.
len thousand extra copies of the report of
the Pacific Railroad were ordered to be print
ed.
The House then took recess until 7 P. NJ.
E0e't"g SeSSt0H.-Mr. Whitney OF n. Y,
entered INTO an argument TO show that the
Roman hierarchy claim supremacy over the
civil laws OF every country, vet, for this there
are apologists and advocates in Congress
Mr., Craige asked what practical LEGISLATION
the American party proposed against the
Catholics ''''
| MIR, Whitney repied--"None at present.
| but they wish to amend the naturalization
laws, winch, to great extent, would reach
the evil He contended that the Papal now
| er opposed civil and religious liberty. aud the
| spread OF Intelligence. 1t, therefore. ought
not to De encouraged as a political element.
MY. Burnett OF KY, said in his Judgment
the Republican party was purely sectional,
and II successful, the result would be the de-
| stluctIon OF the Consultation and the Union.
! On the heads Of members who formed the
! Congressional Aid Society," including Messrs,
| Banks and Mace, rests the responsibility of
all acts of outrage in Kanzas The Republi-
cans do not desire the bleeding wounds of
that teraitory to be healed. They want to
keep them open tol political excitement
North. Nobody supposes Fillmore stands
chance OF election. He believed that the
Know Nothings prefer Fremont to Buchanan.
Mr.. Talbot of KY, avowed his confidence
in the Democracy tharacterizng the Know
Nothing and Republican parties as revolu-
tionaIy and antagonistc TO the best interests
| of the country.
Mr.. Dowdell of Ala, eulogized state
rights doctrine as a remedy for the evils re.
sultlng from anti slavery fanaticism. He
| preferred that the whole slavery institution be
abolished at one tlow than its boundaries be
| prescribed by legislative acts. He advocated
| the acq uistion Of Cuba.
! The Springfield Republican has the follow
ing IN relation to the -" Faneul Hall mob -
"These facts deserve consideration in con.
necton with the history of this convention
thnt Notwithstanding the special personal