Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-02-10
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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10. '5s.
Tho Kanras BartIc in Congress.

The Kauzas Battle in Congress-
The victory obtained by the opponents of the
Leoompton swindle, in the House, on Monday,
in carrying Mr.. Harris's resolution, by four ma
iority, cannot but animate the breast of every
friend Of freedom and the right with sensations
Of the highest delight. It is an opening of the
great Kauzas battle, which prOgnostcates sure
defeat Of the infamous Lecompton villainy, if its
opponents shall have the consistency to persist in
their determination to stave it off
Mr.. Harris's resolution Cor rather Mr.. Barris's
amendment of the resolution of Mr. Hughes,
Democrat, of Indiana,) was in the following
words:
"ResoiUed, That the message of the President
enclosing the constitution framed at Lecompton,
in the territory of Kanzas, by convention of del
egates thereof, and the papers accompanying the
same be referred to a select committee Of fifteen,
to be appointed by the Speaker, and that said
committee be instructed TO inquire into all the
facts connected with the formation of said con-
stitution and the laws under which the same
originated, and into all such f,cts and pro-
ceedings as have transpired since the formation
of said constitution having It lation to the ques
ton Of the proprety of the admission of said ter
rtory into the Union under said constitution, and
whether the same Is acceptable and satisfactory to
majority OF the legal voters Of Kanzas, and that
said committee have power to send for persons
and papers,
The passage of this, by parliamentary usage
from fair Speaker (and SUCH it is believed, is
Mr.. On), insures a committee, consisting Of
eight anti-Lecompton men, to seven for the Ad
mnistration. 1t is ardently hoped that the COM
mittee will be so constructed not to detraet
from the reputation for honor and fairness which
Speaker Orr has hitherto maintained-prompted
and sustained as he would be in such course by
the example of his immediate predecessor, as
presiding officer of the House.
The Senate it has been defeated Mr.
Douglass resolution by five majority. Only two
other Democrats (Broderick of California and
Stuart of Mchigan) came to his res ,ue on the test
vote. So there would seem to be 40 prospect OF
getting through that branch any Investigating
resolution of the character of the one which has
passed the House. Yet, as it requires the con-
current vote of both branches to admit State
into the Union, the Lecompton connection may
be oonsideted, from the action of the House, as
dead. When thai measure shall fail through the
disagreement of both Houses the great struggle
will be on the admission of Kanzas with a con-
stitution framed by new convention, which will
easily go throngh the House, and must go through
the Senate, or that body will stand responsible
for the keeping out of another State, fairly emit
tied to admission into the Union, according to
all precedent and all the past doctrines and pro-
LESSONS of Democracy, and the principles of
popular sovereignty"
The vote by which Mr.. Harrs's resolution
passed the House, was lis to Ill. Among the
yeas, besides the Republicans, we're % Democrats
from the free States, as follows
Haskin of New York; Chapman, Dewart,
Hickman, Owen Jones, and Montgomery, o.
Pennsylvania Adrian ofNew Jersey; Cockerell,
Cox, Groesback, L. W. Hail. Pendleton, and
Lawrence, of Ohio j. G. Davis English, Foley,
and Hughes, of Ind lana; Harris, Morris. Mar.
shall, Shaw, and Smith, of Illinois and McKib-
ben of California.
Two from slave States, viz F P. Blair, Jr.;
Of Missouri, Republican, and Henry Winter Da.
Wis, American, of Maryland voted in the affirm
alive.
The % Democrats from the free States, who
voted in the negative, should be remembered by
their constituents, as they doubtless will be.
2 of these 20, we are ashamed to say, are from
New England, viz Arnold and Bishop of Con.
neeticut. IL of them are from New York and s
from Pennsylvania, but we are reJoieed to per-
ceive only 2 from Ohio, 8 from Indiana, and none
from Illinois any other Of the Northwestern
States. So much for the influence of Mr. Doug
las in his own section. of the remaining 8, of
these 20 miscreants hail from New jersey and l
from California. Let them all be marked.
The absentees were in number, as follows -
Matteson of New York, Republican Leidy and
Reilly Of Pennsylvania, Democrats Harris Of
Maryland, and Caruthers of Missouri, Ameri-
cans ; and Bonham of South Carolina, Democrat.
The Speaker did not vote.