New-York daily tribune., 1856-09-01

eth<r, n that he was generally opposed 70 TACK
ing upon the aPpropns.ohe S That tue pracce had
kgs - favor Of such legislation quo,e if9m ON ms
p.lss pes on that occasion 10 snow tna' ne niu 9ot
itint in 1885 any more amenary i%an unconttuons
Ieslatop was uhp"""''
.9s h.,s , SeS e
s,,,o,s hich does not contain one 50
n - the e%psr.i rule the time b. allowed TO
% that exceptions. and .hns this s.e m Gs
10 scruPe overriding the rule ioI The purP OF
rslips sH M BaeI) bs. referred that,
she beonsruOus clause sbo'hns aoss,as IN tte navy N
,:nse. 's 'ss Nary @"d 1,~vAa, r me tia he
s&S yeo,s, done on ee-erai arrrsT'idf'o~ bus
.'Hsrdly an appropriation passes excla ms the
Senator from Virginia which does not contain gene
raj legislation, far as the prtnc,pels concerned
"The general legislation for the Army and Navy ne
tells us has been done on general Appropriation
Mills !" Now il is " unpariamentarv for the House
70 put this proviso into the bill =,
fhe Senator from Virginia nearest to me idr. Ms
sopl who will not consider the expectancy OF re-
rsalng the obnoxious Kansas laws until the House
hacks pQuare down from his amendment, supported bis
ColeQue in the efforts to force through revs on otne
tarii BY means Of the civil and diplomat; biI. lie
Sir we found from practical experience that least
ne s0rt "'On coHgr ys can g.i ~ ~sa'.'s t,'SgSn
sSrrep iat0n el! This Is nc; the h instance ine - no
sssEtl.: sonoisb. ssue@en because It
which placed in this vehicle IL oTdeI 70 ee hfousn ou We
themselves of the aid OF setting through in esaon
"There no precedent" excaims the Senator, " IN
s'this The precedent has been established before y
Yes Sir, "the precedent has been established, yet
The Senator who uttered those words in MTch, 1888,
makes this chamber echo with his anathemis upon The
House for acting upon "staS'h-d PeGTThenS Ths ~,
from Conn. Mr. Toucey to the aid OF his irends
from Virginia. That Senator said:
But only for the PuP0; Of vads.tns The sonTs G of
subjects that are not connected think II is wIoas bh
coercion, scop, this sppove Of it.
y; have night perfect right to reject it we di''pP'0V'
In 1855, it was only "mpolitic to blend in legisla
"ton .ubiects rot COM ected - "When say wrong
"I mean impoltic" exclaimed the Senator from Con-
s.t;tutonsl' revolutionary, Is th. state;manike
Is thi. worthy Of the Senste of the United States
That Senator went far the other day as to tell as
that the House knew the Senate was opposed TO the
provso Well Sir, supposng the House did know
the Senator from Connecticut, and bis compeers on
that eide of the Chamber did not reich THE proviso
were the members bound TO surrender their jd0g
Inents TO crafty the wishes and meet the exgencies Of
those Senator'S Perhaps il would save great deal
of trouble if the Senate should send down to the
House. whenever 1t made propositi ~, that It would
be dstasteful to the Senate to send the matter up
here. Such sentiment is better fitted for the Senate
OF Louis Napoleon than for this Chamber TINS pro-
viso is " revolutionary, unparlamentary unconstl-
tutioDal," because the House knew that it was dis
tasteful to the Senate Sir, such suggestion ae tbs
would excite a SMILE il uttered by thTd-rdte county
court lawyer in some Justices court. dismss it tr)
this Chamber. While the proposition of the Senator
from Delaware was pending to strike Ou. of the bill
he sections relating to the revision of the revenue
laws, Mr. Wells, then SenatOr here, cOmplmened
the Senator from Virginia for rising above .he little
techLicalties of parliamentary practice aud standing
upon his "rights and privileges" Nh Wells said:
him than after the language which has
used here nigh that he American statesman and al
American citizen viii exercise the rights and privileges whn
him Independent of any Of these technical trammeS"
This compliment go generously rendered by the Sen
ator from New.H8mpshire gracefully, and |
doubt not, Sir gratefully received by the Senator from
Virginia. think the other Senator from Virginia and
the Senator from Connecticut who last year rose with
the Chairman ofthe Finance Committee above techn-
csltiammes' would willingly have shared IN the con-
piment oftbe Senator from New Hampshire. Fourteen
SenatOrs on the other side of the Chsmber las. year
rose with these Senators above "technical ranmels
and voted TO force through the Senate the revision of
the tariff by using the civil and diplomatic bill. Now,
House revolutionary" "unparl. .anentary," uncon-
sbtutionsl" BY the vetes and oat of the mouths of
these Senator'S convict them and condemn them. /
have exsmined many of the appropriation bills, running
back as far as the administration of Gen. Jack .on.
have EXAMINE d some hafa-doz. of the Army bills Of
recent oate and have not yet found one upon which
l have not time to refer to these acts, bat
! will cay that ! find, upon ,, .xarn' nation,
right when he said that for the last five or six
"mo.t of our general Legislation for the Navy and
"Amy was made in the Appropriation billie" 1 find
that the act abolishing hogeing IN tine Navy car
lied upon Appropriation bill and that the venerable
Senator from Michigan Mr. Cass voted fr il although
be Joins in denouncing the House for ibis at empt
upon the Army bill to arrest the further execu.
tOn of laws by the army in Kansas, which he has pro
nounced upon this floor disgrace TO the country and
the sge.' Sir if the Senator could vote to put upon
N Appropriation bill an act prohibiting the inhumsn
and degrading system of fOggng under the national
Gag upon the seas, surely he should not denounce as
sun pariame ntary" or revOut onery this a.temp.
10 engrsft upon the Army Appropriation bill provis-
ion foibddng the President to execute with the bayo
nets the law by which women yes, Sir, women, may
be punished by strtpes not erceediny t1centy one"
Shah your dragons stand guard while these "treny-
stripes are laid on 10 the back of woman Hav-
ing demonstrated, Mr. President, that the Senators
from Virginia and Connecticut and their assO ciates
here, BY their speeches and votes, have sus
tanned, fully sustained, the action of the House
having demonstrated that their newborn zeal
for parliamentary law and constitutional modes Of
legislation is all pretense, mere holowheared pre-
tence, l now pas to the consideration OF the pro-
visions Of the provisoO the discussion OF the precise
issues that divide the two Houses and the members in
both Houses The people of the United States are
practical people, aud tell Senators upon the other
aide Of the Chamber, that the practical Of the
country will decide this ssue-nOt upon petty constu
tions qubbles not upon the technicslties OF paris
mectary law-but upon the substance Of the prOvisO
kself. Mr.. President, the Senator from California,
(hr. Weller without consultation with his political as
eocstee yesterday ntroc uced his bill to extend over
Kansas the provisions OF the Constitution Of the
United States That the Senator intended to repsal
few Of the obnoxious enactmepts Of the Kansas
Legislature, which be denounced as Infamous, "a
Gsgrace to the country, TO this age, or any age,
have doubt. But his bill does not accomplish ths.
object. Why does not the Senator clearly and ds
tnctly point out the acts he intends 10 abrOgate
Why resor to this de laration Of general principles
Why retnact the Constitution in Kansas The Sen
ntor from South Carolina Mr.. Bulerl has character
cd he az sfia n hsfra M