The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-02-27


amendment to the Committee Of Inc Whole on the Of
toe Union believing that the subject required examination
After debate, Mr. ALLEN, Of illinois moved to re-
commit the bill aud sendnfnt 10 the COMMITTEES on Pub
lie Lands, and called the previous question
The ca for the previous question seconded and the
maa QUESTION ordered 10 be put
The question taken referring the bill and amend
ment 10 the Committee OF the Whole the sste OF the
Union, and IL Was not agreed to-
The question recurring the motion 10 reeomu 10 the
Committee on Public Lands IL was taken and was not
agreed to-yess ~ nays T2-ihe Speaker voting In me
negative q.
Mr. BENNETT, Of New York. moved 10 reconsider the
vote just taken whereby the House refused to recommt the
subject TO the Committee on Public Lands which motion
agreed 10. #aI eG
He then moved to recomnit the bill and amendment TO
the Committee Public Lands which motion was agreed
to. .&
Mr. BENNETT from the same committee also reported
bill establishing land offices in Minnesota Terri
tory and moved its referenCe 10 the Comntee OF the
Whole on the state of the Union.
The bill was read twice, and SO referred.
sir CAMPBELL Of Ohi2 from the Committee OF Ways
and Means reported bill TO supply the deiriencies In the
appropriations for the service OF the fiscal ending on
The 35 Of Jne which read twice aud referred u
the COMMITTEE Of the Whole the state OF the Union and
ordered to he printed. ..... .. .## .e#.l -.
Also bill muking appropriations for the support OF the
Military Academy for the year ending June 80 1857 which
twice and referred TO the Committee OF the hole
the state of the Union, and order d to be printed
Also, bill making appropriations for the pay ment oi
invalid and other pensions Of the United States for the
year ending 30th OF june ls5T which was read twice. re-
ered to the Committee Of the Whole the state Of the
Uuion, and ordered to be printed
PERSONAL EXPLANATION
Mr. SEWARD of Georgia asked and obtaiutd leave OF
the House to make personal explanation IL was Well
known the House and the country that at the time The
election Of the Speaker Of the House took place he was ab
sent Certain papers had thought proper to arraign him
before the country for dereeton of duty that occa
son and he proposed, therefore, aging something IN re-
gard the which he entertained this subject and
to put himself right hefoge the country-
Ill aH
which he paired off expired before he returned The OBJ
ec of this attack upon him TO endeavor to TX upon
him, acting with the democratic party the responsibility
at least partly Of placing the present Speaker IN tue eair
which he occGp ed. He sure that the Speaker
would entertain opinion that be sympathized with
him in bis political sentiments He did not believe when
he lett that the democratic party had the power to elect
Speaker, nor did he believe that that marty cali
ing themselves the American party here ever intended
that any democrat should occupy that chair and the re-
suit showed it The members OF the American party who
had been voting for ar FuLLsE OF Penny vani the da
preceding the election Of the Speaker voted for Mr. AIKEN
Of South Carolina resolution declaring him Speaker
aud therehy aduced the democratic party 10 believe that
the plurality rule adopted his election might be
secured The plurality rule adopted on the succeeding
day. aud the gentleman who new occupies be chair WAS
elected by the default of four five OF the genemen who
had voted for Mr. AIKEN the day preceding TO their vote
for him lie had said home 10 his constituents, and said
here that If ths governmentw to DC seconslzed bet
time had been TO the people OF the conn
try for ii take place than at this moment becuse 50 Tar
the constitution concerned and the institution OF
slavery under it. the Senate stood against the attacks
which soers and aboonisis might make upon that
institution and beyond that body stood the President Of
the United States who would protect all their cousnu-
ticnal rights He desired in few words TO call The at
ntion Of The House the condition of this socaled
American party In their conduct at Philadelphia
and proposed show by their resolutions that they
had condemned this administration for the very thing or
which the black republicans condemned it. The very
which carried the present Speaker into the chair
the which induced the American party of
Philadelphia recently to dcnounce the administration
rty sfgelV ma
ground in regard 10 the repeal Of the Missouri Compro
mise the black republicans themselves In the 18th
section Of the platform adopted recently at Philadelphia
of the of complaint against the President
his reopenng sectional agitation by the repeal OF the Mis-
sour Compromise aud not that the cause OF com
plant made by Mr. Speaker BANKS and those with whom
be acted Was that the Of complaint by the
republican party against the present Standardization
it then far that question was concerned the
American party and abe black republican party were den-
cal and all that he had 10 say that the tventynne
the Ssuth who voted for that platform 10 have
consistent should have voted for Mr. BAsKs for Speak
to have carried out their principle He wanted the
country to understand that twenty southern
ted for that platform adopted In Philsdephs and TWEEN
ytwo and that those rho voted for condemned
what The black republicans and their repre-
tative the Speaker condemned u for. Al he bad to
say then the knovnothing party when they charged
hn with being faithicss 70 the interests of The South In
being bere his for Speaker when be could
reach here account Of heavy freshet Wss 70 tell
them examine thsir records, aud see where they
stood whether their priEcIples
the present Speaker not the in regard 10 the
Missouri Compromise HIS own opinion was that there
a sympathy existing between the know-noth-
ings OF this country and the republicans and he thought
II manifested few weeks ago when gentleman from
Kentucky IMr. Cox made speech here aud called up
black republicans witnesses upon the stand 10 condemn
this administration and hunt all around ascertain the
Of certain prominent democrats who made speeches
during the last canvass 81.
Mr. SAVAGE oS Tennessee had bern Informed that after
the election OF Speaker The so-called Americans and
black republicans held cancus In relation the other
Officers and asked the gentleman whether be bad heard
Of
Mr. SEWARD had heard oft but did not know wheth-
er IL true
Mr. cox Of Kentucy said that IL there had been any
such caucus be not in Il certainly.
Mr.. SEWARD wished 10 address himself TO the
Americans Of the House upon the floor, and to know
whether they had not abandoned the twelfth
ton Of the Philadelphia platform established last June
and by going into the recent convention, and acting with
the know-nohing party whether they had substituted
what Is the thirteenth section of the platform
and ignored the twelfth serou What the record Of
Nr ZoLuceFFER7 lie Mr. z was member Of the last
Congress- and voted for the repeal Of the Missouri Com
promise and in o the Kansas and Nebraska act and
Vndicated upon The oor o The House ia abe SPEECH
and yet he found his recorded ~ Philadelphia
demnng the repeal OF the Missouri Compromse. lie
would like therefore FOR the purpose o getting the true
position OF the American party this hoor 70 know
where they oodwhether upon the twelfth section Of The
Philadelpha platform established sst June the thir
teenh section reesnily adopted at Philadelphia An
other Of complaint against the administration
its weak and vscang course regard affairs IN kansa
Tie wanted southern Americans TO answer how aud 10
what the administration had pursued a weak snd
bee course In regard affairs 10 that Territory Had
not the President stood erect upon the subject cauonng
not only the abolitionis bat from hs see
ton OF country against entering upon that Territory
commit violence The position Of the President therefore