Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-08-01
The Turn of the Tide-A Good Days
Work in Congress.

We were prevented, by want of space, yester.
day, from calling attention to the glorious work
done in the House of Representatives, on Tues
day last, in carrying Mr.. Sherman's amendment
to the Army Appropriation bill, by vote of 81 to
Sc. That amendment virtually says to the Ad
ministration You are forbidden to lay your
hand upon the treasury of the nation, until you
do justice to Kanzas. 1t reads as follows
Provided nevertheless, That part of the
military force of the United States herein prOyi-
ded for shall be employed in aid Of the enforcement
of the enactments of the alleged Legislative AS
semby of the Territory of Kanzas. recently as
sembled at Shawnee Mission, until Congress shall
have enacted either that it was or was not valid
Legislative Assembly, chosen in conformity with
the organic law, by the people OF the said Terrific
ry. ARd provided, That, until Congress shall
have paSseu'on the validity of the said Legsla-
tive Assembly of Kanzas, it shall be the duty of
the President to use the military force in said
Territory to preserve the peace, suppress insur'
rechon, repel invasion, and protect persons and
property therein, and upon the national highways
in the State OF Missouri, from unlawful seizures
and searches. And be 1t further provided, That
the President is required to disarm the present
organized militia of the Territory of Kanzas,
and recall all the United States arms therein
distributed, and to prevent armed men from CO.
ing into said Territory to disturb the public peace,
or aid in the enforcement reSlstancs of real or
pretended laws"
The bill, as amended, has gone to the Senate
and, should that body not concur, upon it will
rest the responsibility of Withholding the necesa
ry supplies for the army.
Next, the House, under lead Of Mr.. Grow Of
Pennsylvania, snbs tituted Mr.. Dunn's Free Kan
zas bill for Mr.. Grows, and put it through to its
final passage by vote of 8S to "A, and that has
gone to the Senate also. The bill repeats the Kan
zas-Nebraska Act, restores the Missouri Compro-
mise, and provides carefully for a thorough reor-
ganization of the Territory, and the executive
power and authority in and over it to be vested in
Governor, who shall hold his Office four years
the appointment of Secretary, and the election
of Council and House of Representatives-the
first election to be on the Tuesday after the first
Monday of November next that all the laws
passed by the Legislative Assembly and Governor
shall be submitted to the Congress of the United
States, and if disapproved, shall be void and Of
no effect; and that all laws, or pretended laws
whether now existing or hereafter enacted in said
Territory, in contravention of the provisions of
this Act, shall be void.
There is no feature of our Republican institu-
tons which shows so clearly the wisdom of the
founders, that which gave the purse-strings of
the nation into Che sole keeping of the people
This power is the last and final hope of the peo-
ple'e representatives to check the usurpations of
reckless executive and time-serving Senate,
and we glad to see that the power is to be used
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