The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-04-29
THIRTY-FIFTH CONGRESS-,
FIRST SESSION.
Friday, April %, 1853.
SENATE.

Messrs Bell, Doohttle, Stuart, Benjamin, Hun
ter. Trumbull, Harlan, Gwin, and others.
Mr.. Bell avowed his dissemination to vot,
for a reduction of some of the expenditure
contemplated in this bill, and to this end woult
support the amendment of Mr.. Fessenden.
Mr.. Doolittle said that there was q time wher
be supposed that the power of the purse and o.
the sword was reposed in the hands of Con
gress. This bill, however, implied that that
power had been transferred to the Executive
department of the Government
Mr.. Stuart remarked particularly upon the
impolicy of making appropriations two years
or longer in advance of their contemplated ex-
peDditure for military supplies.
Mr.. Benjamin defended the policy OF the
Utah campaign. The Mormons we're not as
sailed on account of their religious tenets, but
because those tenets, by practically subordi.
mating all authority to the will of single des
pot, were palpably in violation of republican
government.
Mr.. Trumbull denied that the President had
authority to post the troops at his will. he
was subject, as commander-in-ehief of the
army, to the laws of Congress in relation to
this branch of the public service, and those
laws nowhere gave the authority that had been
exercised by the President in the present case.
The further discussion of the bill was then
suspended on motion by Mr.. Green, who, rising
to question of privilege, asked permission to
present a report on the part of the managers
appointed by the Senate to conduct the con-
ference with managers on the part of the House
of Representatives in relation to their disagree
ing votes on the admission of Kansas.
Mr.. Stuart made point of order against the
presentation of the report. The Kansas bill
was now in possession of the House, and il
was not competent for the Senate to receive q
report on the same until the House had return
ed the bill to the Senate. Upon this question
protracted discussion arose, at the conclusion
of which, the Senate decided to receive the
report
Mr.. Broderick having charged during the
discussion that the Kansas bill had been sur
reptitiously taken from the House and brought
into the Senate, Mr.. Green remarked that il
might not come up to the expectations of any
body, bat was perhaps the best that could be
had under the circumstances. 1t had been
conceived in a spirit of mutual concession and
compromise between the two Houses, without
involving sacrifice Of principle on the part Of
either.
The bill was then read; after which, Mr.. Sew
ard, on the part of the minority of the commit
tee briefly stated his objections to the measure
which were, in the first place, that it practically
involved a resubmission of the Lscompton Con
stitution, which had already been rejected by
the people of Kansas; secondly, that the prop
osition contained in the amended ordinance
was unfair, inssmuch as it offered at once q
bribe and a threat to the people; and, thirdly
it was evasive in Its terms.
The bill was then made special order for
Monday next.
And, at quarter past FIVE o'clock, the Sen
ate adjourned.
HOUSE
Mr.. English, of Indiana, said that, in &C
cordance with the notice given yesterday, he
should report at this hour to-day, lone O'Clock,
from the committee of conference in regard tc
the disagreeing votes between the two Houses
on the bill for the admission of Kansas and
with a view to making that report, he moved
that the Committee rise.
Tie motion prevailed, and the Committee
accordingly rose and reported.
Mr.. English. Mr.. Speaker, am instructed
by the committee of conference appointed
upon the dissgreeing votes of the two Houses
on the amendment to the Senate bill entitled
" A bill for the admission of the State of Kan.
sas into the Union" to make a report.
The Clerk read as follows:
Report.-The committee of conference ap.
two Houses on the amendment to the Senate
bill entitled "a bill for the admission of the
State of Kansas" report that they have had the
subject under consideration, and have given it
that careful, patient, and mature elaboration
which they conceive Its importance demands,
and have agreed upon an amendment in the
nature of substitute for the House amend.
ment to the Senate bill. They earnestly recon.
mend the adoption of this amendment by the
two Houses of Congress. .
JAMES S. GREEN,
K. ID. L. HUNTER,
Managers on part Of the Senate.
w. 81. ENGLISH,
ALEX. II. STEPHENS,
Managers on part Of the House.
The undersigned, one of the managers on
the part of the Senate, does not agree to the
foreaoing report W. 81. SEWARD.
The undersigned, one of the managers on
the part of the House, does not agree to the
foregoing report. W. a. HOWARD.
The Substitute BM.-Whereas the people o.
the Territory of Kansas did, by Convention
OF delegates, assembled at Lecompton on the
9TH day of November, 1851, for that purpose
form for themselves Constitution and State
Government, which Constitution is republican
and whereas, at the same time and place, sand
Convention did adopt an ordinance, which said
ordinance asserts that Kansas, when admitted
as State, will have sn undoubted right to tax
the lands within her limits belonging to the
United States, and proposes to relinquish said
asserted right if certain conditions set forth in
said ordinance be accepted and agreed to by
the Congress of the United States and where
as the said Constitution and ordinance have
been presented to Congress by order of sait
Convention, and admission of said Territor.
into the Union thereon as State requested
and whereas said ordinance is not acceptable
to Congress, and it IS desirable to ascertain
whether the people Of Kansas concur In tn,
changes in said ordinance hereinafter stated
and desire admission into the Union ss State
as herein proposed: Therefore,
Be 1t enacted by the Senate and House o
Representatives of the United States of America
in Congress assembled, That the State of Kan
sss be and is hereby admitted into the Unior
on an equal footing with the original States il
all respects whatever, but upon this fundamen
tai precedent, namely: That the question o
admission, with the following proposition, i,
lieu of the ordinance framed at Lecompton, b.
submitted to vote of the people of Kansas
and assented to by them, or majority of tn
voters voting at an election to be held for tina
purpose, namely:
That the following propositions be and tn
same are hereby offered to the people of Kan
sss for acceptance or, rejection, which, if az
cepted, shall be obligatory on the United State
and upon the said State of Kansas, to wit
First. That sections number sixteen an
thirty-six in every township Of public lands j
said State, or where either o. aid sections, c
any part thereof, has been sold or otherwis
disposed of, other lands equivalent thereto, an
as contiguous as may be, shall be granted I
said State for the use of schools.