Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1856-03-15
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" WASHINGTON, Msrch II.
/ SESATE-Pelitioas were presented from mer-
chants and importers ofBoSton, New York and
} Philadelphia asking revision Of the tariff. /,
Mr.. johnson reported in favor of printing 81
thousand copies Of the report of the majoTity
and minority committee on territories, in the
Kansas case, being five hundred for each metl--
/, iIcT. 81.
Mr. Trumhull opposed the motion; ne thought
the minority report presented the slavery ques-
tion in mastery Inanner-its positions arc
unanswerablc, but il does not enter into details
as the majority report, and hence he was Ut
willing to send out with Senate endorsement. a
f! document containing so many understandable
assumptions, erroneous deductions and incon-
| sistcncies.
/ Mr.. Wade asked Tr9lmbull TO yield the tiooE
| for adjournment.
| Mr.. Douglas-I hope NOT. The courtcsies of
the Senate have been taken advantage OF on ae-
count of my known abseace, 10 make an assault
| on me.
Mr. Trumbull.-sir! knew not whether
you was present OF absent was commenting
on the report | did not introduce the subject
nor know il would come up to-day.
Mr.. Douglas-My colleague darcs to say in
| the face of the fact that he did not know was
absent. He acted with unfairness in attacking
the report when | was detained from the Senate
| by i'll health. l would ask him within what
reasonable time will his speech be printed!
| Mr.. Trumbul-I think it will bepuLlished by
Monday.
| Mr.. Donglas-If I can ask fora postpOncment
of the question till Monday, l will reply to Mr..
Tvs speech on Tuesday.
Mr. Seward-.Iake your time.
Mr.. Douglass, Quickly u understand that
game-"takc your own time The Senator
| from Massachusetts ''took his own time to
write and circulate libel on me, about the time
the Ncbraska7bi was reported. understand
my colleague to say he came here as Demo
crat. That will be ncwS to the Democracy Of
| Illinois, and is a libel upon the Democrats OF
that State. F-s' F}t
Mr. Crittcnlcn interposed, saying the debate
was transccmding the rules Of decoruni. The
Senator had charged libel on Mr. Trunbuil.-
| (Sensation.)
| Mr. Douglas-I should have been better salts
| fed if the Senator from Kentucky had, when
the Black Republicans denounced us in the
coarscst terms, rcbuked them for their want of
courtesy.
Mr.. Grittendcn-what do you allude to?
| Mr. Douglass-When they made vulgar,
coarse partisan assaults on the democratic side
of the Senate.
Mr.. Crittenden-It is no more my business
than that of others to call Senators to order for
personalities This is not the place where vitu-
pc.ation should he settled.
Mr.. DougIaSs-T do not regard the Senator as
good authority in Illinois politics. Twas speak
ling Of events Of which anu better capable of
Judging than he is.
Further collo1uy ensucd when the chair de-
cidcd Mr. Douglas remarks not personal.
Mr.. Douglas said, so far as he was advised,
Ibis colleague was candidate of the Missouri
Bsect of Aboltionists and Know Ncthings-Onc
and the same thing.
Mr. Crittenden-T wish the Senator to under
stand that IcO-opcrate with the American par
Of
absolute independence, and claiming all the re-
Spect due to honesty freeman. IrePcl with
iycorn every imputation Of that kind, as intended
Ito embrace me and my political associates.
Mr. DOuglas-I spoke of what. Know Moth
iugim is in Illinois, and saiditmight be otherwise
lin The South. Every X. n lodge in Illinois has
:adoDtcd the Abolition creed and thai is the mis-
cradle faction which sent ,lny colleague here
irhc Senator from Ky. misunderstood me, else
ne would not have considered my remark as per-
<onal to him.
| Mr.. Crittenden-The gentleman did not make
the qualification be now does
l=Nr Douglas-Eycry gentlemen must have
understood me as making a distinction. l said
nothing about Southern Know Nothings.
!! Mr.. Trumbull-T shall not permit such re-
marks as these from my colleague to pass I'M
noticed shall suffer no man mere or else
where to state of me, things which are absolute
v and totally unlounded. 1.-The means to say /
am or ever have beea a Know Nothing, or
connected with any secret political organization
the charge is base. will not violate the rules
of the Senate hut will say untrue. He proceed
cd to speak of the politics of Ill, claiming that
she has always been democratic.
HousE-Nlr Washburn, of Maine, argued in
favor of the resolution empowering the com. on
elections to send for persons and papors in the
Kansas case. He said Reeder was removed be
cause he would not be the slave and tool of the
President, who had offered him the mission to
China or Great Britain if he would resign the
Govcrnorship.
Mr. Smith of va.-Do understand the gen
tlcman to make that charge:
NJ WaShburn-I have seen it in newspapers
y correspondent made it, and dared the Wash
ington Union to deny it dare the gentleman
from Va to make the denial.
Mr. Smith: bclieveit to be bold unmitti-
gated fAisehood and is unbcconsing any member
TO repeat such newspaper statements.
+ Mr. Washburn: lJbclicvc every word of it
There arc gentlemen here who can speak for the
executive
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