The Placer herald., 1856-09-13
Congressional Affairs.

HtW OF August 9tI', nave passed the senate
Only a small portion of these have reached,
the House. Three of the latter have become
laws by two-thirds vote over the Presi
dents veto. The total amount proposed
to be appropriated is over $4,000, 900 is ap
propra1ed.
The Senate, August 5th. passed the House
bill to run a boundary line between Washing.
ton Territory and The British possessions
The petition of Charles Robinson and other
Kansas prisoners, under the charge Of trea,
son. praying for relief, was presented by Mr.
Seward, and referred to the judiciary Com
mittee. The petitioners set forth that the'
trial is to take place on the second Monday
of September at Lecompton, and believing
they cannot there have fair and impartial
tial, such as the Constitution guarantees
every citizen, pray the venue may be chan
ged and they tried by the Supreme Court OF
the United States. The action against these
persons will probably be dismissed No
Kansas parifiration measure, beyond this, is
like y to pass the present Congress. The
appropriation bills are all hampered with
amendments in the House, providing for
the renewal of the Missouri mpromise. or
prohibiting certain appropriations unless pro-
visions for Free Kansas are encompassed
therein. Committees of Conference in the
last hours of the session will settle the fate
oflhese bills.
In the House on the 9th August, Mr.
punn's amendment to the Legislative, Judi
cial and Executive Appropriation Bill, pro
posing that no part OF the money appropria-
ted be drawn until bill shall pass Congress
and receive the Presidents sanction. which
among other provisions, shall restore tit
slavery restriction in Kansas, was YESTERDAY
rejected bv the House of Representatives, b>
a vote of 45 to 10. Another amendment
proposed bv Mr.. Grow, to the effect that no
money shall be drawn until the rrimina
prosecution pending in Kansas against per-
sons charged with treason or violation of the
laws of the Territory shall be dismissed
and all persons held in confinement unde
such prosecutions set at liberty, was agreed
to bv vote of 81 to 60. Messrs. Grow and
Stanton's amendment to the clause granting
$4,000 for the expense of the Legislative
Assembly of Kansas proposing that no part
of the money he spent in prosecuting or de-
tanning any person charged with treason
was agreed to-8 80 to 60 The bill
the" passed by 81 to 55, the Democratic
members voting in the negative
In the Senate. August Slh, Mr.. Weller
moved the consideration of the Pacific Rail
road bill, but there being no quorum present
the Senate adjodrned.
A bill granting million and half acres
of land TO Mississippi for railroad purposes
passed the House on the 9Th, and The Senate
on the h Aug.
PRESIDENTIAL VACANCY PRovIs1oN.-Mr.
Butler of South Carolina, has presented to
the Senate a bill providing for any possible
vacancy in the office of the chief Magistrate
Of the Union Itprovides for the contingen
cy Of there being no President of the Senate
or speaker of the House in existence, or eli
gible as to age and birth, at the time of
vacancy, by confirming the line of succession
to the bench of the Supreme Court, the Chief
Justice and his associates in the order of Sc
noritv following each other. The provisions
of the Constitutions on the subject would
then by the act of 1892, and the present
measure, be extended and regulated thus:
In the case of death or non-election of the
President, the Vice President should fill the
office.
If there be no Vice President, the Presi-
dent portempore of the Senate should sue
ceed
If there he no such officer, or if he be in
eligible, then the Speaker of the House Of
Representatives
If the same reasons destroy that resort,
then the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
of the United States.
If that office he without an incumbent,
then the one of the Associates Justices who
shall have been longest on the bench.
FILLMORE IN INDIANA.-The following
from the Rockford Qndana) Herald, one of
the ablest Fillmore papers in the State, gives
a sorry account of the American State Con
vention:
"The Fillmore State Convention Gf we
may credit the accounts of men who are half
Wild was, indeed. sorry affair. We regret
that professional business prevented us from
attending. The enemies of Fillmore, and all
other men who were once Wings, state that
there were aboUt 200 present all told, and
half of them were old liners. These got
into a row, when most Of them bolted and
went over to the immortal hero who ate Il
horse and climbed mountain. Those who
remained got out an electoral ticket, and
sneaked Oft home shopfallen and woe begone
Thus has the mighty American party in In
diana dwindled dawn from 10000 to 200,
and half of them locofncos
We may have more to say of this con-
vention in future; meantime we record here
our firm belief that the movement will not adj
vance the prospects of Fillmore. We still
believe it the policy of the Fillmore men in
the State to vote for Fremont. They have
only to choose between the Federal border
ruffian defender, Buchanan, and Fremont.
Fillmore is not in the question in this State.
This is our calm conviction, and we allow no