New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-02-04
lrty-Fourth Congress---First Session.


CHAs. CLAIBORNE, sec'y
Thlrty-Fourth Congress---Eirst Session.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 25-The Senate was not in ses
sion to day. "HE.
House.-Ar. Bennett, of New York, asked leave to
offer resolution declaring that as neither party in the
House has majority Of votes for the election of a
Speaker that the adoption Of the plurality rule is the
only fair and practicable mode left to effect organ
ization. g .u Ar
Mr.. Dunn wished to amend by a substitute--that
| no man ought to be elected who does not fully har
monte with the sentiment of majority of the
American people in Reproduction of the act of the last
Congress repeating the restriction against slavery in
Kansas and Nebraska, as imposed by the Missouri
compromise.
[These resolutions were merely read for informa
toni s4.
Mr. Smith, of Tennessee, moved that the resolution
precludng debate during this week. until Speaker
is elected, be rescindcd The motion was laid the
tabe-yeas l04 nays 81. w.
The House then proceeded to vote for Speaker and
soon after adjourned.
Jan. 26-House.-Nr Dunn, of Indiana, submitted
the following resolutions:
Resoiued, That regarding the political complexion
of the present House of Representatives. indicating
che undoubted sentiment of large majority OF the
people OF the United States against the act of the last
Congress repeating the restriction against slavery i'll
the Territories of Kansas and Nebraska, imposed by
| the Compromise of 1920, no man ought to be chosen
Speaker of this body who does not fully and heartily
harmonize with that sentiment, Or who will hesitate
to exert himself earnestly for the restoration OF that
restriction, in terms or in substance.
ResoUed, That said restriction oughtto be restored
as act of justice to all the people Of the United
States, as proper vindication OF the wisdom, pa
trotsm and plighted honor of the great statesmen
who imposed it, and as necessary and certain means
of reviving that concord and harmony among the
States of the American Union which are essential to
the welfare of people and the perpetuity of our
institutions. -
RosoroJ Tbot an ,1raess and factous aritatiop of
the slavery question: out of Congress- unwise,
unjust to portion of the American people, and, to
some extent injurious to every section of country,
and therefore should not be Counenanced; but until
the Missouri restriction of 1920 shall have been
stored in fact in substance, to the said Territories
of Kansas and Nebraska, fully and completely, to that
extent and for that purpose it is solemn duty to
the past the present. and the future, steadily and
| firmly to persist in our efforts.
| Mr. Knight, Of Pennsylvania, moved to lay the re-
solutions on the table; which motion was not agreed
| to.
| Mr. Stephens of Georgia, moved that the vote be
was agreed to.
The question was accordingly taken on the first
solution and it was not agreed to-yeas lO2; nays
1903.
The question was then taken on the second resolu-
ton and it was agreed to-yeas l0l nays 100.
division of the third resolution was asked for, so
that thesquestion might first be taken on the clause,
That useless and tactious agitation of the slavery
question, in ont of Congress- is unWse, unjust to
portion of the American people, and, to some extent,
injurious to every section OF onr country and there
| fore should not be countenanCed =" and then on the
succeeding clause, But until the Missouri restriction
of 1920 shall have been restored, in fact or in SUBJ
stance, to the said Territories Of Kansas and Ne
braska, fully and completely to that extent and for
that purpose it is solemn duty to the past, the
present, and the FUTURE steadily and firmly to persist
| in our efforts
The House decided the resolution not diyisble and
the question taken on its passage, and it was not
| agreed to-ycas 100; nays l03.
Mr.. Fuller, of Pennsylvania, submitted the follow
| ing resolution
Resoued, That any agitation Of the question of
slavery in or out of Congress, is unwise unjust to a
portion of the American people, injurious to every
section of our country, and therefore should not be
countenanGed.
Mr. Ball. of Ohio, moved to lay the resolution on
the table; which motion was not agreed to-yeas 81;
nays ITO.
The question was then taken on the resolution
and it was agreed to--yeas 101 nays 100,
The House then adjourned
FROM TExAs-A letter of the 23d, from San An
tonic to the Galveston News says:
Since the LIST of January the regiment Of Mounted
Riemen has been concentrated for the purpose OF re-
cevng the recruits recently sent and the horses re-
Gently purchased for the regiment.
Eight companies are encamped on the San
Antonio river, numbering about seventy men each
and are drilling four five hours daily, for the pur-
pose of putting the companies in readiness for the
spring campaigns with the Indians, whose visits
generally commence about the LIST of March.
If these companies are kept in the vicinity of the
settlements, at which places the Indians have induce
ments for theirysts for the purpose of stealing stock
there is no doubt of the good effect Of the presence
of the troops even should their pursuit sometimes be
unsuccessful
The Galveston Price Current has the following
paragraphs
The sloop Eliza, from Sabine, reports that the
steamer DIR. Masse was snagged and sunk i'll nineteen
feet water Fnear Green's Bluff, few days since She
was bound up the river, and had cargo Of Merchan
disc, from New Orleans, on board. The amount o
loss is uncertain.
News of rise in Trinity river was received here
on Tuesday. The water had risen ten feet at Liberty
and a very strong current running into the bay
| amounting almost to 4 freshet.
In the Corpus Christi Advertiser Of IA late date
: we find the following:
The schooner Rome, now lying at or near Arkansas
We understand, has been chartered by gentlemen 0
Galveston and this city, for the purpose of transport
ing Eemgrants to Central America, there to join til
rapidly increasing colony under Henry L. Kinney.