The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1858-04-03

rh. Kansas B,Il IN IN, uous,. Z

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ihe defeat of the Senate Kansas bill, asd the
aaoptlon OF Mr.. Crttendens substitute, with
amendments, 10 the Heuse of Representatives., on
ioufsdsy, has been already announced. IL is sta
'ed that the vote on this bill is the largest ever re-
corded IN Congress. The House is composed o,
two hundred and ihirty.f four meml1efs, aud two
hundred and thirty-two voted. The Speaker did
not vote, and one member, Mr.. Carathurs, Leeonp
toh democrat, of Missouri, has been absent on &C
count of sickness during the whole session The
vote In favor of the amended bill was cast by niae-
ty-two Republicans, twent y-two antiLecompton
democrats, aud six Americans. The bill, as pass.
ed, will go TO the Senate for concurrence, and il
Is presumed that body will refuse TO concur. and
committee of conference will be ordered 1t il
to te hoped that the question will be settled soon
IN way acceptable to all parties, and thus put an
end to this Improbable excitement The Demo.
cratic leaders yet confident of saving Lscomp
ton, by the passage of the bill in the House after
the failure of the Montgomery substitute in the
Senate.
We append 40 abstract of the bill as it passed
the House:
The first section of Mr.. Crittepden's substitute
Is as follows
"sicrroS /. That tho State of Kansas be and is
hereby admitted into the Union on equal footing
with ihe original States In respects whatever; but
lnasmuch as it is grea disputed whether the CON
siltutlon with which Kansas IS now admitted was
fairly made, or EXPIRE the will of the people of
hanhts, tins admission of her into the Union as a
faie Is here Declared to be upon TINS fundamental
condition precedent, namely; hat the said cphsti.
tu,lona instrument shall be first submitted to vote
ut the people of Kansas and sssent-d to by them or
majority of the voters at election IT, he held for
lne purpose ana AS hooD as such assent shall be
given asd duly made known to the President of the
cIainat;o oses ne sia anso,ncf Inc same ey pro
proceedings on the part OF Congress, the adms-
Sion OF the said State of Kansas into the Union on
an equal footing with the original states. iu all o.
spects whatever, shall be complete aud absolute
At the said election the voting shsl be by ballot
aud by iHdOrsing on his ballot as each voter NAV
please for the constitution" or against the con-
stitutIon Should the said constitution he rejected
at the said election by majority of votes being
cast against 1t, then, and in that event. the inhabi
tants of said territory are hereby authorized and
empowered to form for them 4elves a constitution
aud state government by The name of the State of
Kansas. preparatory to its admission into the Union
according to the frdersl constitution, and to that
ena may elect delegates to a convention as herern
after provi led.
Section l4tes to tho States jurisdiction, and
section to the manner of conducting thu elections
authorized by the Iss section Section is amended
by hr. Montgomery s substitute by striking ont tho
clause which provides that no persons except cit-
zrns of the United States should be per emitted 20
voe at any election and substitutes 'all white
male inhabitants of the said Territory ever twenty
one years of who legal voters under the laws
OF hahsa', and none others shall be permitted to
vtte.'
1t is also provided, by amendment that the re-
turns of the constitutional election shall be made
not to the Governor alone, but to h board of COM
missoners, majority of whom can act.
The remaining sections relate to the public lands
in the Territory, and various minor matters.
Abiding to the scene in the House pending the
consideration of the bill, the Washington Union
says:
On no previous occasion has the action of Con-
gress attracted larger audience than that pres
ent yesterday in the galleries of the House of Re-
representatives.. Every seat seemed to be filled,
while the doOrways were crowded by an eager
throng striving to gain admittance, The ladies'
galleries were tnl to over flowing. The seats as
signed to the diplomatic corps we're occupied by
several members thereof who doubtless embraced
the occasion to take lesson in the democratic
mode Of disposing of great and exciting ques
ton. THE scene altogether impressive, and
the proceedings of the House unusually decorous
and orderly,