Washington telegraph., 1856-07-23

Iulcc. Of Fla.
Seward and Wilson here vote with
Douglas, Butler and Evans of South Car
cliuai
Mr.. Adams introduced his amendment
with the following remarks
| rise to move an amendment to the
bill, in the eleventh section, by striking
out the words
,Including all persons who shall have
> filed their declaration Of intention to be-
come such. in compliance with the natu-
rs,ljzatiou laws of the United States
This will eoniine the right of suffrage
t. free white male citizens of the United
States" This amendment was known, in
the original Kansas Nebraska bill, as the
Clayton amendment. 1t is not my pur-
pose to originate discussion ON this ques-
tion only wish Il vote of the Senate on
it. | NAV DC permitted, however, to re-
mark. that we are differently Circumstance
ed from the condition in which We were
placed at the time when the vote was ta-
ken ON the amendment of the Senator
from Delaware to the kansas-Nebraska
bill The House Of Representatives is a
different BODY; and. SO far rs we can judge
of the sympathies of that House, We have
every reason to believe that they are dis
nosed to concur with the people of Kansas
in coufiuing the elective franchise to cIti-
zens Of the United States, being inhabi-
tauts Of the Territory
1t occurs to me-and this is one of the
greatest doubts and difficulties | have in
reference to this bill-that we are taking
4. IL. -h.,l. Tor VIII 1f.b
we had previously dcvolved upon the Ter
ritorv If I understand correctly the ac-
ton of the people of Kansas, they have,
through their Legislature, passed .aw
requiring all voters to be citizens of the
United States and inhabitants of the Ter
.ritory The provision which | moved to
strike out is an innovation on what they
provided for themselves.
[ think that if we limit the elective
franchise in the Territory to citizens OF
the United States, and those entitled to
vote in the States from whence they come,
all the objections which have been urged
with force and propriety against the doc
trine of Squatter Sovereignty, are obvia-
ted. If man IL capable of self-goyern-
rneut. and is entitled to all the rights of a
freeman in State, he should lose none OF
those rights by going into Territory; but
if YOU confer ON persons residing in the
Territories the privilege of the elective
franchise, who are excluded from it by
the laws of the different States, every
Senator living in the twenty-four States
which requires citizenship, who gives such
a vote, reflects on the propriety of the leg
islation Of his own State.
The Senate. in this whole bill of Paci6-
csiion. practically ropeals the Squattcr
Sovereignty principle of Douglas * Co,
in the original Kansas Bill, and resumes
az Congress the Eegal and legitimate sor-
ersisHty Of Congress oUer tie Ierritoly-
1t is thus back out Of the kansas-Ne-
,-., raskaites-
Some sort of bill, it is now almost
certain, will pass both Houses of Congress
in spite of the Stewards and other wild
men-and the Kansas Nebraska issue,
thus in the main, be removed from the
Presidential election.
The Bill iH Substance as Passed.
The Bill provides five Commissioners to
be appointed by the President, and to be
confirmed by the Senate-expressly provi-
ding that they represent all political par
ties of the country.
The Commissioners are TO take census
in Kansas, and make a fair apportion-
ment of delegates to form State Consti.
tuition. 4 r(gistry Of roies IS to be made.
Election TO take place same day as Pres
idential election The Territorial Leg
islature there elected to decide whether
thew wish to come into the Union-if so
To form a State Constitution
The bill provides further, that no law
shall be enforced in the territory. infring
ing the liberty of speech or of the press
or of the right of the people to bear arms
= sc. 1t also provides punishment for ille-
y cal voting, or fraud and violence at cleo
tions. and authorizes the use of the mill
tarv for that purpose. The main point is,
that the persons designated by census as
the present inhabitants of the territory,
shall decide all points in dispute, at fair