Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-08-27
THE EXTRA SESSION OF CONGRESS

Both Houses met yesterday, and received a
Message from the President informing them of
the objects of the Extra Session. The Telegraph
line being out of order, we failed to receive a
full report of further proceedings. The follow
ing is as much of the Message as was transmit
ted over the wires:
"Fellow citizens of the Senate and House of
Representatives In consequence of the failure
of Congress ut its recent Session to make pro-
visions for the support of the army, it became
imperitively incumbent ON me to exercise the
power which the Constitution confers on the Elk
| ecutive this extraordinary occasion and
promptly to convene the two Houses, in order
to afford them an opportunity of reconciling a
subject OF such vital interest to the peace and
welfare Of the Union. With the exception of a
partial authority vested by law in the Secretary
of War to contract for supply of clothing and
subsistence, the army is wholly dependent on
the appropriation annually made by Congress-
The omission Of Congress to act in this respect
before the termination of the present fiscal year.
had already caused embarraSsmcnts which were
overcome only in expectation of appropriations
before the close of the present month. Ii the
| requisite funds be not speedily provided, the
Executive will no longer be able to furnish for
transportation the equipments and munitions
which are essential to the effectiveness of il
military force in the field. ....
With no provision for the pay of the troops,
the contract of enlistment would be broken and
the army must in effect be disbanded, the con
sequence OF which would be so disastrous as to
command all possible efforts to avert the calam-
ity. 1t is not merely that the officers and en-
listed men of the army are to be thus deprived
of their nay and ptnolnmnntS IN which tbov oro
entitled by standing laws, but that the construc-
ton OF arms at the public armories, the repairs
and construction of arms at the arsenalS and
the manufacture of military clothing and camp
equlpage must be dscouutcnanced and the per-
sons connected with this branch of the public
service thus be deprived suddenly of employ
ment essential to their subsistence. Nor is it
merely the waste consequent upon the forced
abandonment of the scaboard Notifications, and
OF tho interior military ports and other estab
llshhents, and the enormous expense OF recruit
ing and recognizing the army and again dis
trlbuting it over the vast region which it now
occupies.
These evils which it is true may be re-
paired hereafter by taxes imposed upon the
country, but other evils are involved which no
expenditure however lavish could remedy, in
comparison with which local and personal in
Iurles OF interests sink into insigniicance. A
great part of the Army is situated on the remote
frontier
The New York Tribune's Washington cores
pondent telegraphed to that paper on Tuesday
night, as follows:
"Thcre are various rumors atloat as to the re-
suit of the extra session. Some think the Army
bill will be hurried through both Houses without
any proviso, and that Congress will then adj
journ. The Republicans now in Washington are
determined to resist the passage OF the bill in
that form to the last. Some think the real OBJ
jcct of the Administration, in having the extra
session, is to force through Toomb's Kansas bill.
doubt if Mr.. Buchanan will want the respous-
bility of such legislation"
In relation to the newly appointed Governor
Of Kansas, the same correspondent telegraphs
as follows:
"Goy. Gea;y has taken the oath of Office to
support the Bogus laws of Kansas. He is ex-
pected to remain passive, and only keep the
peace until after election. The Border Rutiians
won't permit this. There is no middle ground
in Kansas. Geary will be forced, as Reeder
was, to become Border Ruilian or leave, and
that quickly. | have conversed with him, and
he does not fully realize the horrid state of al
fairs in that Territory. No man can, this side
of seeing and hearing for himself. If Governor
Geary acts as he talks, the Border Rufiians will
catch tartar. President Pierce viii find his
passive instructions disobeyed. And Mr.. James |
of Rhode Island, and Mr. Biger, who is Buchan-
ans mouthpiece, will discover that they had bet
ter kept their promise without consulting their |
Southern masters, and presented Geary's. bill |
abrogatng the Bogus Legislature and laws, and |
leaving him free TO organize q new one The |
Governor leaves for Kansas in few days