The weekly Minnesotian., 1856-01-26
LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY.
MONDAY EVENING, Jan. 81.
The Evening Session.

1ue dOuSe was Calleu TO OrQer az 4 O'CLOCK,
P. NJ.
The Speaker requested NJ. Hull to take
the chair for the evening.
Mr.. Gere moved call of the House.
Messrs. Buck, Holland, Mcleod and Knauft
were absent.
Mr.. DeLavergne moved that all further
proceedings under the call of the House be
dispensed with. Lost. The Sergeant-at-
Arms was instructed to require the attend
ance of absent members.
Mr. johnson moved to reconsider the vote
by which the House was under call. Lost.
Mr.. DeLavergne moved that the roll be
called again. Absent-Mr. Buck and Mr..
Knauft.
Mr.. MOBILES moved that all further proceed
ings under the call be dispensed with. Lost.
Mr.. Mcleod here rose and said he hoped
soon to hear report of some of the Black
Republicans 46 pound guns.
Mr.. Galbraith said that he would not re-
ply to any such low, petty and scurrilous at
tacks as that made by the gentleman-but
i that he would inform him that they were
ready to meet him and his associates at any
time, at any place, and in any way which
they might wish.
The Sergeant-at-Arms reported Mcleod
and Holland in their seats.
Mr.. De Lavergne moved that the ma jor-
ty report be adopted.
Mr.. Holland offered substitute for the
maj 'rity report, the following resolutions:
Resolted,. That the principles of the Kan
sas-Nebraska act, giving the people of these
Territories the right to make their own laws
and form their own domestic institutions, in
their own way, and the repesl of the Mis-
souri, Compromise, to secure this right, was
eminently just and Democratic, and in ac-
cordance with the long-cherished principle of
the National Democracy, of "non-interven-
ton" on the subject of Slavery.
Resolued, That the sentiments of the Pres
ident of the United States, as enunciated in
his late Annual Message, on the subject of
Slavery, and agitation of the subject, meets
our cordial approval.
| Resolccd, That the sentiments uttered by
Gov. German in his last Annual Message to
this Legislature, on the subject of the Kan
SASH Nebraska act, and the repeal of the Mis-
souri, Compromise, meets with our cordial
approval.
On offering the substitute, Mr.. Holland
wished the gentlemen who made the major
ity report, and those who favored it, to un-
derstand the precise attitude in which they
stood. He concurred in some portions Of
the report, but SO far as that portion of it
which relates to the doctrine Of the election
of the occupant of the Gubernational Chair,
and of the judiciary, by the people of the
Territories was concerned, he said that the
gentlemen were acting strangely inconsistent
with the principles they hitherto professed,
and the principles which had been sustained
and advocated by the leaders of the Nation
al Democracy in Congress. lie called their
attention to the fact that when the bill for
organizing the Territories Of Nebraska ana
Kansas vas before the I. S. Senate, that an
amendment embodying the same doctrines as
those in the majority report was offered by
that great Mogul of Abolitionism, Salmon
P. Chase-that it was advocated by Sumner
and Wade and the whole Abolition party,
while the Democracy voted against it to a
man, with the exception of Gen. Shields.
He said that there were certain features
in the majority report which would compel
him to vote for it, but that he would prefer
voting for the substitute, which embodied
the sentiments of the National Democracy
of the Union. He gave the authors of the
majority report great credit for lodging the
issue, and at the same time denounced them
for stealing Abolition thunder.
| After this Mr. Mcleod rose and said that
this was great country for fish-and that
he would present them with brawlirg
''lamprey;'' Mr.. Holland,) he
wanted grease; (holding aioft tallow can
die, with tremendous expression of counte-
nance;) he stood there as Democrat in ev-
cry sense of the term-a Democrat who
''played on harp of a thousand strings."-
After calling the attention of the House, in
poetic and affecting strain, to his fighting
qualities, birthplace, &C., he took his scat.
Mr.. Holland said the majority report pre-
sented suggestions, not princples-sugges-
tions that were supported in the United
States Senate by Chase, Wade, Sumner and
other Aboltionists; that they were opposed
by Douglas and other leading Democrats in
the u S. Senate.
Mr.. Wilkinson called for his previous mo-
ton on the passage of the majority report.
Mr.. Galbraith rose to point of order, he
said that both reports were accepted and
made the special order for the evening, and
that they could not act on one and let the
other lie where it was.
Mr.. Norris moved that Mr.. Hollands sub
stitute be adopted in lieu of the majority re-
port.
The reading of the majority report was
called fer.
After which, Mr. Wilkinson moved that it
be adopted.
Motion decided out Of order.
The minority report was then read, and
Mr.. Holland moved that it be adopted.
Mr.. De Lavergne moved that the previous
question be now put. Ayes Is, nays l9.
Lost.
/ Mr.. Wilson now made some remarks
about his Democracy being the same as Il.
| NJ Rice's and George Washington's--that he