Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1858-02-12
TIL SEN TINEL.
ROCKVILLE, WE'D.
FRIDAY: ~: FEBRUARY p, Is
CONGRESS,

Sfess, On monday last.
In the SENATE, the proposition of Mr..
WILSON, (Black Republican, of Massa-
chusetts, to instruct the committee on
territories to institute an examination
into the allegations of fraud made with
respect to the late elections in Kansas,
was rejected. The following are the
yeas and nays:
Yeas-Messrs. Broderick, Cameron,
Chandler, Collamer, Dixon, Doolittle,
Douglas, Durkee, Fessenden, Foot, Eos
ter, Hale, Hamlin, Harlan, King, Sew
ard, Simmons, Stuart, Sumner, Trum-
bull, Wade and Wlscn-22
Nays NTessrs. Bell, Benjamin, Biggs,
gler, Bright, Brown, Clay, Crittenden,
Davis Evans, Fitch, Fitzpatrick, Green,
Gwin, Hammond, Houston, Hunter,
lvcrson, johnson, of Tennessee, Ken
f,dJ-; Mallory, Mason, Polk, Sebastian,
Sidell, Toombs, Wright and Yulee-2S.
Among the yeas" are Messrs. Brod-
erick, Douglas, and Stuart, anti-Lecomp-
ton Democrats, all the rest being Black
Republicans
All the ''nays" are Democrats except
Messrs Bell, of Tennessee, Crittenden,
of Kentucky, Houston, of Texas, and
Kennedy, of Maryland, who are Ameri-
cans. Mr.. Pearce, of Maryland, was
absent.
After the above vote was taken the
Presidents Kansas message was referred
by the Senate to the committee on Ter
ritories On this the Union remarks
A" We may now anticipate early action
by the Senate committee, who will report
bill to that body admitting the State
into the Union, and pass it, as soon as it
can be got through the delays of debate.
Thus it will go to the House, wholly
untrammeled, where we anticipate its
passage beyond doubt"
In the House, on Friday last, Mr..
HUGHEs, of Indiana, offered resolution
proposing to refer the special message of
the President on Kansas to the commit
tee on Territories. Mr.. HARRIS, of Ill
inois, thereupon submitted resolution
as an amendment to that of Mr.. Hughes,
embodying series of propositions, which
were afterwards more succinctly inclu-
ded in another resolution which Mr.
Harris finally submitted as a substitute
for the first. 1t was upon the last form
that the contest took place. 1t reads as
follows
/" Resoleed, That the message of the
-.Prssident of the United States concern
ing the constitution framed at Lecomp-
ton in the Territory of Kansas, by a
convention of delegates thereof, and the
papers accompanying the same, be re-
ferred to select committee of fifteen
members, to be appointed by the Speaker;
and that said committee be instructed to
inquire into the facts connected with the
formation of said constitution and the
laws under which the same was origina-
ted, and into all such facts and proceed
ings as have transpired since the forma-
ton of said constitution having relation
to the question of the propriety of the
admission of said Territory into the
Union under said constitution and
whether the same is acceptable and sat
isfactory to a majority of the legal voters
of Kansas; and that said committee
have power to send for persons and pa
pers."
The original resolution of Mr.. Har-
ris," says the Baltimore "Sun" ''almost
in terms repealed the Kansas Nebraska
act; recognizes and approves the amplest
congressional intervention and by inn
plication assumes the right to annul all
proceedings had in Kansas and to insti-
Aute an entire new and original process.
1t requires but slight examination of the
resolution finally adopted to realize almost
the same character in that"
On Friday night, the Democrats found
themselves in minority, as was sup
posed by the absence of several mem
hers, hence their persistent effort to post
pone vote on Mr.. Harris resolution
until Monday.
On Monday, according to agreement,
the main question being put on the
amendment Of Mr.. Harris, of Illinois, TO
Mr. Hughes resolution, the vote stood
yeas l13, nays 107. Among the yeas
was Mr.. Davis, of Maryland. His col
leagues-Messrs. Bowie, Kunkel, Ricaud
and Stewart-voted in the negative
Nir. Harris, OF Md, seems to have been
absent throughout the whole days strug-
gle.
The great test vote of the day, how
ever, Continues the "Sun, y was on the
motion Of Mr.. Stephens, of Ga, to refer
the Presidents message to the committee
on Territories, and it was defeated by
one cote, the yeas standing 113 and the
nays ia. The five Maryland delegates
present voted precisely as before, Mr..
Davis and Mr.. Blair, of No., (rep. }
being tho only representatives from the
slave States that voted against Mr.. Ste
phens' proposition. The following TWEEN