New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-09-17
KANSAS.
THE BOGUS CONSTITUTIONAL C0HvENr
TION

TION.
epa OR sYcisl Ccrespcaeeae
LECoMP1OS, X. T., Sept 8, 1867.
Yesterday afternoon, the Constitutional Convec-
'iSn met in this place. There were forty thres
members present cat Of sixty regularly acd few
Others hregulsrly elected. The appearance Of ths
men was on the Whole little above average for
Border Rufhan legislative body. Quite number
Of the old members Of the first and second bogus
Legislatures are in the Convention, no seyer-st
least cne half Dir. Little, member of tue bogus
Legislature, and who balls from Bourbon County,
wss elected temporary Chairman and Nc. Hughes,
of Lesyenworth Border Rufisn memory, axd als>
an officer Of both sessions Of the bogus Legislature.
was elected temporary Secretary
The Convention was in session for several hours
during yesterday afternoon, but did nothing but
effect the above temporary organization, provide
Committee ON Credentials, and wrange about TRIES.
few Of the delegates were anxious 10 impress their
compeers at the EARLIEST moment with proper idea
of their stupendOus ability, ana running hrs 81
short speeches was kept up, amounting TO positively
nothing.
After the Convention had been called to order. and
the Chairman elected, apsper was produced foss
the office Of the Secretary OF the Territory. II con-
r,guL0Ty elected members Of the Convention. This
fact Was attcst,d BY the Hon. Frederick +. Stanton.
whose name and the seal Of the Territory were abx.
I'd TO the document Ii was a sort Of general
credentials" or Credentials made easy in ono
lesson" II entered into details. 1t made no IN
vidious determinations but reported these eecte1
as per documents on hle.' In addition, will state
that Gen" Calhoun, one Of the delegates, staSd
that "nOt Of the Gelcgst that floor, so ar
"ss be knew had credentials the evidence at !s,s
right to a seat in bis pocket" A motion was
made to accept the list just as il was, but another
motion 10 appoint committee to investigate the san
list and the right Of the parties to their seats pro-
vailed.
1t is quite probable that other credentials will be-
forthcoming The only notewo rthy incident in taess
was that TIE number returned WAS only sixty, tho
original number contemplated by law, making 40
provision for two persons elected IN couple
of the disfrancbised counties, at the instance %
Gov. " alker. In of these counties couple Of
betting fu,c. State men were elected having, usder
Walkers sdyce repudiated the action Of the To.
peka Convention They are thus cut out by THE
official list of secretary Stsntcn. think il is msrs
than probable that the OF these two men Nj
vet be taken into consideration. The Border Ruf'
fans would gain by allowing them seats, as ttere
are only two of them. think that some shrewder
members will see the propriety Of giving them
seats, and that they will ultimately be voted In.
However, the ire-estipg sentiment may prevail.
There is one other unexplained feature in this re-
port that mean to investigate. In the County 81
Shawnee no census was taken. In that county,
however, Secretary Stanton allowed one represen-
ta'iye cut OF the original sixty This singular affair
| Loted at the time by this list AZ read It appears
that there are three members from that county, all
included in the Sirty and all reported as regular
These ale, Of course, all Pro-Slavery men, from Te-
cumssh There are few other peculiarities in
that general credental Lat that mean to investigate
more closely.
There ale two competitors for the Office Of Presi
cent Of tie ConyehtiOD-Surveyor-G General Calhoun
| of the Territories of Kansas and Nebraska, Fed
erdt officer ard another eX Federal officer, Judge
Elmore. ofcrn opinion yet as to the result, nor
| can regard it as very material Gen. Calhoun 10
| really one Of the most violent Pro-Slavery men in
the Territory, but, in order 10 up his position
ne Federal officer pretends that no ono ever heard
"hlm say whether he was in favor Of making Kan
" sss free or slave" Judge ElmOre 10 rtgaIded AZ
conservative but was not too much 10 make
o cowardly attack on aud shoot at Mr.. Kagi, q re-
porter.
johnson County" is represented by two very
talented lawyers from WestpOr, Mo. One Of tbeso
has his Office in the same building in which is the
Post.Ofce in Westport, and The Star Of Empire
flee. lie is rather mild.loOkDg youth, halls
from Virginia and think will represent westport
in credtahle manner do not know how mag
other MissCuriars there may be in this body.
During the discussion on some trile, member
said:
What DO you want to vote for this amendment
for1 DO you want to make asses Of US"
Another member got on his legs, stuck bis two
hands I'D by the sides of bis head in imitation OF the
ears of the animal referred TO- and exclaimed:
"'Iwolt DO very hard TO do