New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-12-22
THIRTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. -. First Session

SENATE. WAsHIsGTos, Dec. 81.
Dir. WRIGHT introduced bill to continue the i'm.
provement Of the hsrbor Of Newark N. j. The bill
was referred to the Committee on Commerce.
Mr.. RIGGS submitted joint resol ation which was
adopted by vote Of 81 against II providing that
when the two Houses adjourn on Wednesday next,
the adjournment continue till the itn of January.
Mr. WILSON Introduced bill granting q million
acres Of land for the benefit Of free public schools in
the District Of Columbia.
Mr.. BIGLER addressed the Senate in vindicaton Of
the Presidents policy in the Kansas portion of his
message He said that no one regretted more than
himself to perceive that the discussion the Kansas
policy of the Administration to be precipitated
upon the Senate and the country He preferred to
avoid discussion until the result of the election with
respect to the Slavery clause had TRANSFERRED ard until
Kansas should present herself for admission State.
But the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Douglas) made a
different policy necessary and proper and no aterua
tive was len to the friends Of the Administration but
10 respond. In his opinion, the great speech OF the
Senator with all due respect, was, after all, huge
structure resting on very unsound and insufficient
foundation, and what was still more extraordinary il
was sustained to NO uncomfortable extent by the
authorities and ideas which TO his Mr. gers under-
standing had been used on former and similar occa-
sions against him by the enemies Of the Democratic
party
He could rot understand why the Senator from
illinois should have shown 90 much willingness to
weaken pubic confidence in the policy Of Of his
own patty, whom he had assisted to place in power,
AID who at tits critical moment WELD the only func-
hoIo VI OOseihmeht, Copdoo CI maintaining pun
be peace in Kansas. He could discover no purpose Of
public policy, The attainment Of which required the
SenstOr TO do these things, to deal IN ungenerous
etcisf1s of the views Of the President. TIE alega-
ton that that venerable statesman had fallen into
fundamental error" as to the aiming OF the ksnsst
Nebraska bill and the purposes Of lie authors because
be was rot in the country at the tin OF the passage
OF that BILL Tot worthy Of The Senator though
may have served to excite r1omentary qualification
tie other side of the chambers but on neither
slde, ror In the country at large, viii
fhe sentiment even meet respectable response when
the impulse Of the hour shall have yielded to sober re.
Hecion The honorable Senator WIS not in the coun-
by when the Declaration OF Independence was epun-
es,ed nor when the Constitution was made, yet he
claims to understand both these instruments, and the
rurE had iu view by their authors Is the Kansas
law moro difficult Of comprehension Perhaps il s.
At all events, il has certainly required more explan.-
ton 1.-THE hands of its author and might seem that
90 long ss be finds it necessary to explain what he
neart every north in the year. be could afford to par
don the President for the commission Of even fan-
tamertsl error" But what would the Senator say
respecting the views Of the late President who
not out OF the country when the law passed, bat
participating in every step of the struggle thst gave Ii
existence. He certainly, understood the question,
ard be Nr. Bigler had sufficient authority for saying
that bs agreed With bis SUCCESSOR % the Kansas