Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1858-04-08
pu,,,r,n mon mourn and threaten alter

Bucharan men mourn and threaten alter
nately. Old Buck is very gloomy and IN
dignant. The whip9ers-in insist that the
House must and will recede; but the anu
Lecomptonites are firm, and all say that
he man who yields shall be branded by the
whole phalanx as disgraced. -.
Mr.. Harris of Illinois came in from MS
sick room, determined to vote, if 1t cost him
his life, as it may. He, with Messrs- Hlck'
man and Chapman of Pennsylvania, voted lc
reject the Senate bill absolutely.
Every anti-Lecompton Member shouid
still stay at his post. No one can know the
hour at which the Senate may send back TIE
bill.
Special Correspondence of the n. Y. Tribune
WASHINGTON, Thursday, April l, 1888.
The Union a few DAYS ago sneered at my
estimate of March %, and said that several
Democrats were put where they would not
be found on a test vote. Whoever will COM
pare that canvas with the result to-day. al
lowing for Mr.. Caruthers's absence, may
see every vote and figure verified. In
Union is now enlightened according to my
promise.
When the action of the House was made
known to the Senate. it receded from the
determination to adjourn till Monday, which
had been previously made, and Mr.. Greer
moved to non-concur in the amendment.
This motion will be adopted Tomorrow
and then the question for the House Will be
" neither it shall kill the whole affair.
The usual proceeding is to insist and ass
for a Committee of Conference; hut no suct
inclination is en,ertai ned. No conference
is required, because the two Houses radical
ly disagree in principle.
Therefore the bill as disagreed to oughI
to be laid on the table, whence it would re
quire two-thirds to take it up, or a motion tt
adhere should be carried, which would give
Lecompton its effectual q%uietus.
The Senate has kept back Minnesota
with designs of using it in the present con
tipgency, end it is aot improbable, 1t INT
House should adopt the course suggested
that Kansas NAV be put on as a rider; ou
such scheme will be defeated in the House
There is a remote possibility that tn
Senate NAV hereafter adop: DIR. Critten
den's substitute as a means OF saving IN
party from total disruption, or from pract'
cally surrendering to the Douglas interest
Such advice has been given from high quaI
.ers.
Mr.. Horace F. Clark is entitled to muc
credit for his course to-day against urgen
Influences from all quarters. Mr. Pendleto
fulfilled more than was expected from hlm'
The New-York Lecomptonites, with o;ht
doughfac es, refused even to vote Tor the oi
after it was amended-thus denying to Ii
people of Kansas thei r las. chance 10 e!
press an opinion on the Constitution. The
: presented a humiliating spectacle, and shrl'
:. led under the shout for liberty which run
through the galleries when the Admin
istration was defeated.
The Senate reduced the FIVE regiments
: volunteers to three, including one for Iexa
The Administration p~retends to clBi
several Anti-Lecompton Democrats as reaf
to surrender on a final test, but with
j better authority than that en- which rest
their prognostics concerning the result t
j day. Buchanan Is down, aud the Cabinet
/, expected to resign, since it has forced Il
r issu e and been defeated in the house OF !
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