The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1856-06-19
CONGRESS.

The House continued last week without a
quorum, adjourning over from day to day, with.
out transacting business.
The Pacifcation bill, introduced by Mr..
Trumbull, of Illinois. on the 9th, is as follows
BILL. to restore order and peace in Kansas
BE IL enacted by the Sonata and House OF
Representatives Of the United States of Ameri-
ca IN Congress assembled, That for temporary
purposes, and until Congress shall otherwise
direct, the Territory Of Kansas be and the same
hereby is annexed to and m ads part of the Terri
tory of Nebraska, and all the general laws now
in force in the Territory of Nebraska. and not
locally inapplicable, are hereby extended to
and over the Territory of Kansas, and shall
have the same force and effect therein as they
now have in Nebraska Territory; and each
subdivision of Kansas now known as a county,
shall hereafter constitute county of Nebraska
Territory; and it shall be the duty of the Gov
ernor of the Territory of Nebraska, immediate
ly upon the passage of this act, to cause each of
said counties to be organized in accordance
with the existing laws of Nebraska and for that
purpose he is hereby vested with full power
and authority to appoint, temporarily, all the
officers necessary to effect such organization
SEC. 2. And be 1t further enacted, That i'm.
mediately upon the passage of this act, the
holding any Territorial office in said Territory
of Kansas, whether by appointment of the
President of the United States, or under Con-
gressional or Territorial authority, shall cease
and determine, and all books, records, and
other nublic propest,y, .intheir possession, shall
be delivered over to such persons
as the Governor of Nebraska Territory shall
appoint to receive the same; and oil the acts
and proceedings of any body of men hereto
fore assembled in the Territory of Kansas, and
claiming to be a Territorial Legislature thereof,
shall cease to have effect upon the passage of
this act.
Mr. Douglas hoped it would be referred to
the Committee on Territories. He was glad
to see that the opponents of the Nebraska bill
were at last beginning to acknowledge its prin-
ciples.
Mr.. Trumbull said, that so far from acknowl-
edging the principle of the Nebraska Kansas
bill, he did not believe there was any principle
in it. 1t was understood one way at the North
and another way in the South. He would ad-
nit this bill to re-annex Kansas to Nebraska
was not such measure as he should prefer.
He regarded the repeal of the Missouri Com
promise as the cause of all the mischief, and
would be glad to restore things 10 their former
not intended to carry out his own wishes fully
He meant to occupy conservative ground upon
this question, and was willing to yield some
thing, for he was sorry to see strife in Kansas,
and anxious that some measures should be i'm.
mediately adopted to restore peace in that un.
happy Territory.
Mr.. Douglas said he was anxious to have
peace and quietness restored to Kansas as his
colleague, and he was also willing to yield
something; but he would yield what some of
the people of Kansas refused to yield, and that
was, implicit obedience to the laws of the land
If everybody would do this, there would be no
difficulty in Kansas, or anywhere else.
If his colleague thought the Nebraska bill
was understood differently in the North and the
South, he had better read the proceedings of
the Democratic National Convention. He
would find that the principles of the Democratic
party were proclaimed North, East South, and
West-everywhere alike-proclaimed by the
unanimous vote Of every State in the Union.
True Democrats had no trouble in constituting
it, and nobody had any trouble except those
who were opposed to it, and who were deter
mined not to be satisfied with it. The princi-
pies of that bill were embodied in the Compro-
mise measures of 1850, and confirmed by the
election of Mr.. Pierce in 1852.
Mr.. Trumbull replied, that the thingwas COW
cred up by the Cincinnati Convention very
much as it was in the Nebraska bill. The Ian.
guage was ambiguous, and each section under
stood it to suit their own views.
Mr.. Trumbulps bill was referred to the Com
mittee on Territories.
Asynopsis of Tuesday IS proceedings was given
last week.