The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-08-09
REVOLUTION IN THE SENATE.

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REVOLUTION IN THE SENATE.
The contrast between national atism and section
al reckessness has been strkiugy exhibited nowhere
the debate in the Senate Thursday the armyap
preparation BILL The Committee of Ways and Means in
the House. composed of majority of secoaass reported
the bill in the ordinary FORM and making the usual appro
prations for the support of the army The sectional ma
orty of the House, the motion of Mr. Sherman amend
ed the committees bill by attaching the propso to whcf
we have several times before referred REVOLUTIONARY
proceeding. In the Senate the Finance Committee repor
ed the bill with motion to strike out the Sherman amend
men and recommended its passage just as it was repore
by the House committee In making this report Mr. Hun
stated that the Sherman amendment attempt
introduce subject of general legislation into ordna
appropriation bill to which it had proper
relationship that it undertook to legslae in this irregu
lar mode on question which there a knewn !,
tagonism in the country and which the two houses
Congress known be issue If the House persis
ed, and thereby the army appropriation defeated,
would be revolution by stopping the wheels of govern
ment if the Senate and executive yielded the usurp
ton the part of the House it would be revolution be
freely and without constrant In either alternative
he sad the House would be responsible for the conseque
But to avoid such issue, Mr. Hunter argued thu
tue House might well abandon their position the groun
that the legislation proposed did not properly belong
appropriation bill He therefore asked the
of the Senate without touching the merits Of the Shema
proviso.
When this reasonable and conservative suggestion
made hoped that the republican side of the Senat
would at accept it and thus manifest their disser
from the rash and facous Of their friends in IL
House But SO far from having hope realized the lea
ing republicans not only rejected Mr. Hunters
tive suggestions but entered upon debate in support
the Sherman amendment and in justification and
couragement of the action of their friends of the Huus
which lasted for eight hours. Messrs. Wilson, Wac,
Trumbu and Seward exhausted all their ingenuity
expended nconsiderabe amount OF fsnatca sectional
ISM in trying to justify the amendment and in furnshin
why their friends in the House ought to perseve
though the wheels Of should be stopped
They insisted that the House represents truly the sen
mens Of the people and that they have clear right
require the Senate and the President to submit to the
dctaon to let the consequences of revolution
and they did not hesitate proclaim that in such
event the responsibility would upon the Senate
the President This is the bodest dsunion doctrine thu
has yet been Avowed in the Senate 1t is simply an,
markedly the assertion Of the right of branch of Congress
TO resort TO the appropriation bills medium throug
which TO make its will supreme the other branch
the E1ecu,iveand If the other departments refuse
submit that the revolution and dsunion thus brough
about are justifabe
These startling doctrines called forth from Messs
Thompson Of Kentucky, Jones Of Tennessee Hunter Bu
ler Douglas and Stuart succession OF the ablss and
eloquent speeches delivered during the session In
bate have the dangerous tendencies Of seconasm been
forcibly and eloquenty exposed The result tn,
striking out Of the revolutionary proU'o by of
than three TO one
The bill goes back TO the House. and If the eounst
Of the republican prevails in that body the
Of the army appropriation bill is sealed and inasmuch
the civil and diplomatic bill contains the same ropi,o an
others equally revolutionary, that BILL too may be consid
cred defeated. The republican senators, led by NJ
Seward have avowed their willingness the respop
sbiity of defeating these bills and thus putting stop
the operations of the government 1t longer be
denied or doubted that the overthrow Of the Union is III
end to which sectionssm is drifting and drifting with
rash precpaucy that may bring about the
ten days As most eloquently and solemny de.
csred by Mr. Butler the proposition Of the House is tb
most unconstitutional and revolutionary proceeding
attempted to be enforced in Congress That proposition Is
openly and boldly advocated by the Acknowledged cham
ons and leaders Of the sectional organization which seeks
to elect President by the exclusive vote Of the North
and maores in Congress composed exclusively
of northern members If this be revolution asd dis
union then these terms have lost their true meaning
THE NOMINATION OF s. s. COKE, ESQ
telegraphc despatch from Columbus, Ohio, gives us
the gratifying intelligence that the democrats Of the 9Th
congressional district have selected Coke esq as their
candidate for Congress We gratfed this because
know that Mr. Cone is 10 every way worthy of the dis
tuguished honor that his talents bis acquiremcn's his
energy aud sound national democracy all point him
az f sandsd-beartr in the present crisis and because