Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1856-07-09
R REDOUBT
CONGRESSIONAL.

CUNGRESSIUNAI
WASHINGTON, July 1.-The Senate to-day
adopted resolutions calling on the President for
information relative to the proclamation of mar.
,ial law and the arrest of the Judge Of the dis.
trict court of Washington Territory by Cover
nor Stephens
MIR. Colamer, from the Committee on Terri.
tories, submitted the minority report of the Kan
sas question, which was read and ordered 10 be
printed
Mr.. Thompson, of Kentucky, spoke somewhat
in favor of the bill reported by Judge Douglas,
Yesterday. The following is the substance OF
the bill.
1t provides for the appointment Of five COM
missioners. 10 be selected from different sections
of the Union. 10 represent fairly all political
parties. They shall take census of all the
legal votes in the Territory, and make fair
appor,ionment of delegates to be elected in each
county to assemble and make constitution and
State government When the appointment
shall have been thus made, the commissioners
are TO remain in session every day. excepting
Sunday, at places most convenient to The IN
habi,ants of the Territory, to hear all complaints,
examine witnesses, and correc! all errors IN the
said list of voters, which shall be previously
printed and circulated through the Territory,
and posted in ut least three of the most public
places in each voting precinct in each coun nty.
So soon as all errors shall have thus been
corrected in said lists, the commissioners are
REQUIRED to cause lists of the legal voters TO be
printed, and copies furnished to each judge OF
election, to be put up at the places of voting
and circulated throughout every country in the
territory before the day of election. No person
shall be allowed to vote whose name does not
appear as a legal voter. The election for dele
oates 10 take place on the day Of the Presiden.
| Iia election, and the convention to assemble on
the first Monday in December, to decide, first,
whether it be expedient for Kansas to come into
the Union at that lime, and, if so decided, pro-
reed to form constitution and State govern
| ment, which shall be republican, in form, and
admitted on an equal footing with the original
| States
The bill provides that no law shall be of force
or enforced in the Territory, infringing the ioer'
ty of speech, or the liberty of the press, or the
right of the people TO bear arms, &c. Also, for
furnishing illegal voting, or fraud, or violence at
the election, and to use the milit7ry force for
that purpose The main points is, Z" the present
inhabitants shall decide all points in dispute in
Kansas, ut fair election, without fraud or VIC,
lence, or any other improper influence" All
male white inhabitants over the age OF twenty
one wears 10 be allowed to vote, if residing IN
The country and Territory three months previous
to the dny of election, and no other test Is to be
required no oath to support the fugitive slave
,law or any other law, nor any other condition
whatsoever.
Messrs. Bger and Hale opposed it,.
Mr.. Adams moyedto amend the bill by strlk-
ing out that part which gives suffrage to all
persons who shall have filed declaration Of their
intention to become citizens of the United States
in compliance with the naturalization laws.-
1 Mr.. Crttenden favored the amendment. Dir.
Wilson moved to strike out all after the enact.
ting clause and insert the declaration that all
the laws of the Legislature Of Kansas were
| null and void.
A long debate then ensued, which was con.
lrucd until late hour, when the bill as amen,
ded by Mr.. Adams was passed by a vote OF
% to II.
In The House of Representatives MIR. Barclay
moved reconsideration of the vote OF yester'
day, laying the bill for the admission OF KANSAS
upon the table.
Mr.. Houston moved to lay the motion upon
the table. Business, however, was then sus-
pended 10 hear The reading Of The report OF the
Kansas Committee. ,.,
The report shows that as soon as the bill to
organize the Territory of Kansas was passed, Il
large number Of The citizens of Missouri went
into the Territory, and held squatter meetings,
passed resolutions denouncing abolionlsn, aud
declaring That slavery existed therein.
| In the autumn Of 1854. secret political
society," called The Blue Lodge, was formed-tlle
pan Of operations, oaths, ETC., Of which are given
by the report The Lodge controlled the SUBJ
| srouent movements and invasions on the part OF
the Missourians.
At the election on November 29li, 1854,
for delegate TO Congress, there was no fraud
except in the sparsey settled and remote dis
tricts, where citizens of Missouri appeared and
voted. Details III relation 10 these facls are
given in the report, which says it is reduced to
| mathematical precision that seventeen hundred
iIepal and nonresident votes were cast by citr-
zens of Missouri, and That the remainder were
eleven hundred legal votes. Whitfield received
plurality, and would have been elected with
out the aid of his Missouri friends.
During the winter, very great excitement exist
ed Oh account Of the invasion, public meetings
were held, and much bitter feeling was manitrs
ted. In February. 1855, census was taken,
and the number Jf legal voters was ascertalned
to be 2905. /, was also discovered that OH the
Both March, 1885, several days before the cleo
ton, active preparations went on in Missouri,
where complete organization was-eNected.
The following correspondence appears in the
st. Louis Republican:
"UppER Missouri June II, lS55.--The
tomahawk is buried, and all is peaceable and
orderly amongst the rcd men and long knives
on the Upper Missouri. Gen. Harneys cam
paigu last fall, and his judcious management
since, have brought all our Indian troubles in
the West to y most happy termination. Gen.