Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-12-31
Congressional.
WASHINGTON, Dec. !

ing themselves in favor of direct taxation
and free trade.
Mr. Campbell would support the bill
with modification. He wished to offer ar
amendment to the bill, imposing an in
creased duty on carpets, iron of the various
kinds of manufacture, cottons, silks, linens,
worsted, wool, &c. His object was to meet
these Treasury notes, and not provide in
cidental protection to the industrial pur-
suits of the country.
The Committee rose, and the Senate's
Treasury note bill was referred to Com
mittee on Ways and Means. A resolu-
ton was passed limiting the debate on
that subject to two hours tomorrow.
Mr.. Warren asked but did not obtain
leave to introduce preamble that whereas,
it appears from the proclamation of Brig
ham Young, late Governor of Utah, and
from the Presidents message that said
Territory is in open rebellion against the
Government of the United States, there
fore resolved that the committee on Terri
tories be instructed to consider and report
on the facts, and inquire into the p.oprie-
ty of excluding from the seat on the floor
of the House, the Delegate from that Ter
ritory. The House then adjourned.
SENArE.-Mr. Wilson introduced bill
granting a million acres of land to the ben
eft of public schools in the District of Co.
lumbia.
Mr.. Bigler made long speech in vindi-
cation of the Presidents policy in the Kan
sas portion of his Message. In his opin-
ion, the great speech of the Senator from
ILL.,, was after all huge structure resting
on very unsound foundation. He. could
not understand why the Senator should
have shown so much willingness to weak
en- public confidence in the policy ofthe
men of his own party whom he had assisted
to place in power.
He could find no purpose of pubic poll
cy the attainment of which required the
Senator to do these things or to deal in an
ungenerous manner with the President
The allegation that that venerable States
to the meaning of the Kansas Nebraska
bill because he was out of the country at
its passage, was not worthy of the Senator.
What did the Senator mean by assum-
ing that the Kansas policy of the Message
was not an administration measure? Did
he mean that the Cabinet did he not agree
with the President? He, Mr.. B., under
stood differently. Or did he mean that
the administration, having laid down its
Kansas policy, will not hold that those
who assail and denounce that policy do
not oppose the administration? There
was certainly no room for misunderstand-
ing on that point. If he meant that he
does not see clearly what that policy is, he
Mr.. B., could tell him, and on this occasion
he need not doubt the accuracy of the ex-
PLANTATION, The administration having,
from the beginning, maintained the terri
torial laws of Kansas, having sanctioned
the authority of the Territorial Legislature
to call convention of delegates to make
a Constitution and State Government, it
would be improper to prejudice and discard
the doings of the convention before it had
been fully developed. Further that when
Kansas shall have presented herself for ad-
mission into the Union, her Constitution
being republican, and the people having
had fair opportunity of making it free
or slave State, as indicated in the organic
act, it will not be considered sufficient oc-
casion to object to the admission of that
State, that the ordinary forms of the Con-
stitution, about which there was no dis
pute, and which may be changed at any
time the people may desire, was not sub
mitted TO popular vote. The people of
Kansas had a right to do this in their own
way. The way it has been done is their
own, but if in this or in any other particu-
lar the delegates have acted in bad faith,
or abused the powers delegated to them
they are responsible to the people, not
to Congress nor to the administration
The Senator assumed the other day that
whenever the law is silent on the subject
the inference is in favor of submission, but
a full examination of the precedents bear
ing on that point, had shown him that the
converse proposition had the weight of
authority, and that which has been laid
down as the rule of precedent has never
happened in a single instance.
Mr.. Bigler proceeded to sustain the le-
gality of the Lecompton movement.
Mr.. Douglas replied, saying he had no
fault to find with the Senator from Penn.
for making serious of attacks on his con-
sistency, while omitting to answer his ar
guments. Some person had furnished him
with the record of the votes, of Senators,
on the Wilmot Proviso, and some former
speeches relative to Kansas matters. He
knew net whether they were true or false,
but what had they to do with the question
now presented? He did not understand
the motives for ransacking the public re-
cords, and newspapers, and picking up. ev-
cry little scrap to see what his course had
been for IL years past on the subject OF
of slavery. Suppose it was true that IN
1S4S he was in favor of extending the
Missouri Compromise liue to the Pacific
Ocean, as recommended by Mr.. Buchanan
in his letter preceding, and suppose it true
that in 1854, he intrduced a bill for the re-
peal of that compromise, of which the
President says he now approves. All
these things are not material to the argu.
ment. True the issue was whether popu-
lar sovereignty, to which the President
and himself were pledged, should be viola
ted in Kansas. He thought the Senator
from Pennsylvania showed u want of can
dor and fairness, in quoting from his
Springfield speech, omitting to quote what
be said on the same subject the other dav.