Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-12-31

What Will Congress- do Ws.h Kansas? Is q
question often asked, but not 30 readily answer.
ed. There Is some doabt Of what will be done
with It, and it is almost useless TO speculate on
| the chances of its admission at this session,
though pretty strenuous effort will be made to
that effect Of what IS thus far done. is set
forth in tho following from the New Yerk Tri-
bune:
"Kansas seems likely to afford congress a
fruitful subject Of debate, if not of legislation
The Senate has adopted resolution calling for
the correspondence Of Col. Sumner, whether
addressed 20 the War Department or to Gov.
shannon, not hitherto published while Mr.. VIII
son has introduceda bill into that body for set
ting aside the whole, or at least part, of the
bogus laws As these laws, or some Of them.
have been condemned in the most emphatic
terms by some Of the administration Senator's.
and As President Pierce in his Annual Message
confesscs that some of them are unconstitutional.
We do not see how the bill in some shape and
some extent can fail to pass Possibly, howe.
yer, 1t may be anticipated through the influence
OF Coy. Geary with the new bogus legislature
elected since his arrival in the territory. It is
not unlikely that he may induce that body to
repeal the whole, or at least the most objection
able parts, of the bogus code. This, perhaps,
would be, in some points of view, the best dis.
position that could be made OF ii. The bogus
laws would then stand repealed by the same au.
thority by which they had been passed. 1t would
be case of dog eat dog, to which, we think,
nobody would object Whatever may be thought
Of the competency Of Geary's legislature to en-.
act laws, nobody, we apprehend, is likely to
dispute its entire competency to repeal the acts
OF its bogus predecessor; and in that way 1t
might secure general acquiescence in its pro.
ceedings, which otherwise, perhaps, might MT
be so readily yielded.
A still more important step has been taken in
the House in the call on the President, proposed
by Mr.. Washburne-and which the House can
hardly refuse to vote-for a statement of all
the moneys expended and liabilities incurred,
pending the disturbance in Kansas, for the pay
and support of persons called into the United
States either as militia or to serve as possies to
civil officers, including all the expenses incur
red in the prosecution, detention and arrest of
persons charged with treason or other violation
of the so-called laws of that Territory. We
must, however, give the palm to Mr.. Whitfield,
the sitting delegate from Kansas, who, whate-
yer may be his motive or particular object, has
certainly discharged but his obvious duty in the
introduction of bill to indemnify the citizens of
the Territory for their property destroyed du-
ring the recent disturbances. Whether Mr..
Whitfield has particularly in view the destruc-
ton Of the Free State Hotel and the printing
presses at Lawrence, the burning of the houses
Of Gov. Robinson, Capt. Walker and others, or
the plumber OF the properly of the free state
men during the border rnfian occupation of
Leavenworth, does not appear; but certainly
these are cases for which speedy and abundant
compensation ought to be made. As the per
sons who destroyed this property were acting
under the authority and pay Of the United
States, the United States is in all equity liable
for all the damages they committed-indeed,
doubly liable, not only from the original COM
plicity with the outrages, but from tho Presi-
dents long and inexcusablc delay to interpose
for the protection of the inhabitants and the
preservation of order. We shall watch with
much curiosity the progress and fate Of this
bill.