Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1856-07-09
Congress...Kan.as.

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On the seth ult, Mr.. Douglas, Chairman of the
Committee on Territories, made an able report to
the Senate on the several bills for the paccaon of
Kansas. After reviewing the various bills the Com
mttee express preference for that of Mr. Toombs,
which is substantially adopted and recommended
Its provisions are as follows:
provides for the appointment by the President with
whose duty shall be to take census of all the
persons authorized the VOTE and make fair appor
Der of legal votes and said apportionmen to-
gethen list of all the legal voters in each county
orally circulated throughout the Territory and one COPY
be deposited in the Clerks office of each county, and other
a s e
the territory may have the opportunity of pointing any
that occur on said list either of The omission
soner 20 have the corrected The
then required to remain in session each day. Sundays
rtory will be most to the inhabitants hear
complaints examine Witnesses and all in the
corrected the revised lists shall have been completed
the required have them published and
OF election and copy thereof to be deposited in the
clerks office Of each copy to delivered to each
place of voting in the Territory.
The election of delegates convention to form const
tuition to take place m the month of November next
to vote whose does not appear said
rected lists Those who entitled to have their
appear on said lists legal voters and who will have the
right to vote all white male citizens of the United
States ncudng all who shall have taken the pre-
turalizaon laws of the United Staes) twenty-one
years Of and who inhabitants of the Ter
ory the 4th day of july 1885, and shall been
tua residents of the county three months preceding
the day of election. No other qualifications tests
The delegates assemble Convention at the seat of
of the Territory on the first day of December
and then to decide first whether it be expeden not for
IN The at that md
eXpedient, proceed to form constitution and State gov
eminent which shall be republican in form preparatory to
na States in all respects whatever The board ofcoums
sioners it is supposed, will be composed of of the
highest character tor integrity and impartaty and divided
nearly equal may be between the great political par
ties of the country with view not only of nsurug entire
fairness bit also of furnishing satisfactory evidence to the
whole country that everything will be fairly and mpartiay
DONE"
The bill was taken up the Cd July, and dis
cussed at much length by Messrs. Clayton, Dou-
glas, Pugh, Biggs, Bell, Crttenden, Adams, Wilson,
Hale, Seward, Trumbull, and others.
The question was taken on the motion of Mr.. Ad
ans, to strike out the clause giving the right Of su
age to all persons who shall have filed their dcclar
alion of intention to become citizens Of the Uni
ted States in compliance with the naturalization
laws and resulted as follows:
FoR STRIKING our-Messrs Adams Rayard Bell of Ten
Biggs Brodhead, Brown, Clay Clayton, Coauer
Hamn, 1verson, Mallory Massey, Reid, Thompson of
Kentucky, and Iulce-22
Cass, Dodge Douglas, Evans Jones of Iow. Pugh Sew
ard SlideIl Toombs Weller, Wilson and WrightNl5
After long debate several amendments, compar-
atively unimportant were adopted and others were
rejected. Mr. Grer offered amendment that mo
law shall be made have force effect which shall
require test oath oath to support any act of
Congress, or other legislative act a qualification
for any civil Office public trust or for any en-
ployment or profession to as juror or vote
at election, or impose any tax upon a condition
to exercise the right of suffrage by any qualified
voter, which shall restrain or prohibit the free
discussion Of any law Or subject of the Legislature
in said Territory, the free expression of opinion
thereon by the people of said Territory"
The amendment was adopted, after debate. The
yeas we're 40, the nays 8.
Mr. Seward offered substitute for the bill, ad-
hitting Kansas with her Topeka, revolutionary con-
sttution; which rejected, yeas II, nays &c.
The bill then passed by the following vote
YEAs-Messrs. Allen, Dayard, Bell of Tennessee, Ben
jamn, Biggs, Bger Bright Brodhead Brown, Glass; Clay
Crittenden, Douglas Evans Fitzpatrick Gaeyer Hunter
Iverson Johnson Jones Of Iowa. Mallory Pratt Pugh
sneey Wright Of
NAYS Messrs. Bell of New Hampshire, Coamer, Dodge
Ourkee FeSSenden, Foot Foster Hale Seward Trumbull,
Wade, and Wilson-l2.
The Senate then adjourned till Monday.
The House of Representatives, on the Sd, resum.
ed the considera ton of the motion of Mr.. Houston
to lay on the table the motion of Mr. Barclay to re-
consider the vote by which the bill for the admis
sion of Kansas into the Union, with the Topeka
Constitution, rejected. Mr.. Houston's motion
was not agreed to. The question on the motion te
reconsider was then decided in the affirmative, yeas
lOl, nays 81. The main question was then put
and the bill to admit Kansas with the Topeka Con
stitution, passed, yeas 80, nays 81. The House
then adjourned until Monday.
We copy the following summary of the whole
question, and the issue presented, from the Wash
ington Union of the 4th instant:
"TnE ISSUE ON THE KANSAS QUESTION between TIL
TWO HoUsEs.-Thc Senate had session of twenty hours
Wednesday the bill providing for the admission
Kansas a State. The amendments made to the bill o.
reported by the committee three: offered by MIR
Adams. restricting the voters to citizens either native
the Kansas legislature requiring testoa and interfering
with free discussion; and by Judge Douglas, to tn
effect that all persons who may possess the other qaca
tons for voters under this act and have been bona
habans of said Territory at any time since its organza
tion and who may have absented themselves thercom
of disturbances therein and who shall
and bona e inhabitants before the first day of DC
tober next with the intention of making their permanen
home and shall present satisfactory evidence of these fact
to the board of commissioners shall be entitled
said election, and shall have their placed SAT-
dist lists of vOers for that thu p vote
to IL. at o'clock Thursday morning. after continuous
session of twenty hours:
The House was occupied yesterday the bill to admi
Kansas with the Topeka constitution, which had been
jeced few days ago The motion Of Mr. Barclay to re
consider the vote rejecting the bill prevailed and the bill
These two bills present the issue which all nationa
men will cheeruy 90 before the country in the presden
ia flied hiatt he