The Washington union., 1858-02-24
HOUSE OF REpREsENTATIyEs.

The SPEAKER laid before the House letter from the
Secretary of War transmitting statement of the expen
dtures during the year 1857 from the appropriation
for the contingent expenses of the military establish
ment which was laid the table and ordered TO be
printed
Also letter from the Secretary Of War; transmitting
transcript of the official army register for the year
ending June 30th 1857 which laid the table
and ordered to he printed
Mr.. CRAWFORD of Georgia, from the Committee of
Ways and Means reported bill to appropriate to
supply deficiencies in the appropriations paper print
ing, binding and engraving ordered by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the SD and 34h Congresses
and it was read twice and committed
On motion Of Mr.. CIINGMAN, Of North Carolina, tho
further consideration of the resolution of Mr. HOARD of
New York. to appoint select committee to investigate
to whether any corrupt influence had been cxerted to
procure the vote of Mr. BURNS, of Ohio against the
luton of Mr. HARRIS, of Illinois, to refer the President 8
message the subject of Kansas affairs to a select
mittee, postponed till day after tomorrow
On motion OF MIR. PHELPS, of Missouri, the usual
olution adopted, terminating debate the Indian
appropriation bill in Committee Of the Whole or Friday
next at two o'clock
INDIAN APPROPRIATION BILL.
The House then went into Committee of the Whole on
the state Of the Union, (r GREENWOOD, Of Arkansas in
the chair) and resumed the consideration of the bill
making appropriations for the current and contingent
penses of the Indian department and for fulfilling treaty
stpuations with the various Indian tribes the year
ending 30th June, 1850
Mr.. BURROUGHS, of New York proceeded with his
defence OF the black
sectionalism which had been made against it. He
tended that three ourhs of the money used to purchase
the territories Of the United States had been furnished by
the northern States He said he would not for the
admission of Kansas with slavery in her constitution
der any circumstances and declared that of right she be-
longed to the North If they permitted all the western
Territories to be made into slave States they would havo
no place for the settlement of the poor whites who would
not live where slavery existed.
Mr.. CURRY of Alabama addressed the committee In
favor Of the admission of Kansas under the Iecompton
constitution He said the Kansas bill contained three
distinct features First it took from Congress the power
to legislae slavery into Territory exclude it there
FROM and declared the Missouri Compromise imperative
and void Second it transferred the powers Of Congress
to the territorial Legislature and vested in it full juris
dction all subjects of legislation leaving the people
perfectly free regulate their domestic institutions in
their way subject only TO the constitution of the
United States And, third, it guaranteed to the people
of the Territory the right of admission State into the
Union with or without slavery its constitution might
prescribe the time of such admission The passage of
such bill in political science monument
marking its advancement 1t confined federal Iegisa-
tion within the scope Of its jurisdiction, and transferred
the vexed question of slavery from the halls of Congress
to those most Immediately interested in It, It was in
tended to stop agitation and strife in Congress- and such
II had proved to be- It violated principle Of Justice
concted with provision the constitution and in II
truth and justice met constitution and free
dom embraced each other
In the practical application of this law vote of the peo
pie Of Kansas had been taken the propriey of calling
oA 'no Oh estabI1Bh1nK state
stuton and upon the vote being given the legislature
passed. law for the election of delegates to the conven
tion by popular suffrage The delegates were fairly
chosen in consistency with the of the peope and the
act Of the Legislature The delegates had met and formed
n constitution and submitted much of IL ns related 10
slavery to direct vote of the people and now the legal
steps being taken in accordance with and in suordna
ton to- the territorial authorities, which had been rcop
niscd by the executive and the legislature Kansas the
President and the people of the Union p and ask c
for her admission into the Union Of their peers
From the beginning to the end the forms of law had been
observed Compared with California and Michigan the
action of Kansas had been sober and bameess and but
for slavery scarcely word other than of would have
been heard any quarter To sustain the project remand
ing Kansas back most glarng injustice. Different
positions had been assumed by those IN both branches of
Congress who had heretofore been regarded the avo
ca"s OF INC Dill The most prominent objection was that
the convention had not submitted the constitution
whole 10 the popular vote He feared that this
after Thought He contendcd that the whole issue was
on the slavery question Every intelligent man must
feel that II the constitution had not recognized slavery
would have been defended and sustained by the greater