Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1856-03-07
THE LATEST MEMS
RRGRKYeD ny.
MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.
CONGRESSIONAL.

SOnStFucllOu OF a ralIfoaC-5 and Telegraph line
from point on the Mississippi, south oflat. 81,
to the Pacific ocean at San Francisco.
The bill grants 90, OO0, Goo acres of land, for
which the company is to pay soc. per acre be
lore obtaining the title; and also requires them
TO deposit bali million us security that they
will faithfully carry out the work according to
the provisions of the bill, and for the compile
ton of 100 miles within IS months; the Govt
to pay $500 per mile for carrying the mail until
the road IS finished and for ten years thereafter
and such reasonable sum as the Sec'y CT War
may determine forcarrying troops. munitions of
War, &c; the road 10 be foEfei if not Luilt in
10 years; half the land paid for to revert IN that
event TO the L. s.
The bill grants the right of way 400 yards
wide but gives no exclusive privileges, allowing
any company to construct the reads when and
where they please and obtain such favors from
the Cow as they cGn. Tt was referred to Com
on Pacific r. R.
NJ. Weller said the committee would endeav-
or to report next week.
The Senate then resumed the consideration of
the fertilization bills.
The Senate passed the usual fertilization bill.
Mr.. Summers resolution directing the COM
mittec on Foreign Relations to consider the. ex-
pedicncy of some act of the Legislature having
tho concurrence of both Houses order to eff
ttctr ally cb cg tie the trelty with Denmark re-
pudiating the payment of the Sound dues Mr..
Sumner agreed that the notice given by the
President, by the direction of the Senate in the
executive session of the termination of the trea-
ty, defective iuasmuch as treaties are part of the
supreme law Of the land, and can only be abro-
gated by action of both Houses of Congress, ap-
proved by the President
Messrs- Seward, Fessender, Collaner, Crit
tended and Stuart sustained Mr.. Summers
views Messrs. Mason, Toucy and Cass appro-
we'd them, theresolution was passcd-1djourned
till Monday.
HousR.-rhe Speaker laid before the House
communication from the Court of Claims, cncIo-
sing bills making appropriations for the pay
ment ofcertain private claims, together with the
! the first case the kind originating under the
act creating that tribunal, and some debate arose
regarding the proper disposition Of their bills,
as precedent was now to be established. One
side contended that they be sent to the committee
on CLAIMS for examination while the other ar
gued thilt the action ofthe Court succeeded such
necessity. The subject was passed by inform
ally.
The House then took up and passed the Mill
tary Academy and Invalid bills.
The House then proceeded to the considCra-
ton of the resolution of the resolution empow-
erinS the committee on Elections to send for
persons and papers on the Kansas contested
Mr.. Boyce thought that the effect of irreve-
lent matter in the report of the majority would
though it might not have been intended, serve
more to infiame the public mind in this agitating
questionable com. had given undue confidence
to runlors.
Mr. Boyce did not believe the taking of testi-
mony in Kansas by commissioners would be at
tended by such Sanguinary consequences as the
TInI Oh,
granted, we should have brought hithcra swarm
of witnesses, whose testimony should be taken
would be many who had something else to do
| than running about here on a crusade of evil
dence.
1t was contended that the Legislature of Kan
SaS, which passed the statute under which Mr.
| Whitfield was elected, was legal; besides the Of
nee of delegate was created by the Kansas-Ne-
braSka act, and whoever claimed it should show
he was elected under the former law, which was
not the case with Rceder, who was traitor If he
gave the members of the Legislature certificates
of election, not believing them entitled to seats
Better for him to have rctrcateI to Fort Leay-
enworth than falsitied his position.
Mr.. Bingham said the committee of the e.
s., asking for power to send for person and pa
pers, was desired to elicit the truth, which can
wrong no man. This was demanded by the in
tereSt of nations and saCredneSS of law, which
'A1u oeell NIoIalet- II Is not clalneo the report
of the minority that this power is not within the
discretion of the House, the only question is
whether such case is made out as authorizes
such investigation, if apparent from the memo
rial, either Whitfield or Reeder claims the seat
in violation of law. The simplest and most
cretlulous man in the House cannot believe that
it was legal to hold two elections within the
same month That after voting for Whitfield,
legal voters went through the force of voting for
Reeder. In one Of these elections organic law
was wantonly trampled on and disregardetl In
this case it concerns all the people in the land
to know it The question is, have the people of
Kansas chosen Whitfield, or have they been in
terfered with by invading armies, ana is Whit
tie!dhere in violation of the laws and by the act
oflawless invaders