Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-02-12
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| WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.-House.--Mr.
Williamson was brought in;o custody before
| the House by the Sergeant-at-Arms.
| A resolution was passed requiring him to
answer tomorrow to the questions as to his
readiness to answer, aud was remanded in
custody until then.
Mr.. ]. Clancy Jones, from the Committee
| on Ways and Means, reported the army ap-
preparation bill.
Mr.. Bocock, from the Committee on Ma
val Affairs, made report from the majority
concluding with resolution that the act of
Commodore Paulding in arrestin9 Walker
and his followers was not authorized by the
instructions given him by the Secretary Of
the Navy; that while the Committee have no
reason to believe that Paulding acted from
any improper motives or intentions, yet they
regard it as grave error, which calls for
the disapproVal of the American Congress.
Mr. Sherman from the Minority OF Commit
tee, reported substitute that Pdulding. ir,
aIresting Walker and his associates, and re-
turning them to the United States, acted
within the spirit Of his struclions, and de-
serves the appreciation of his country.
Mr.. Seward remarked that iie had his own
views, aid would express them at another
time.
The reports were referred to the Com
mittee of the Whole, On the State of the
Union.
Mr.. Savage, from the Committee on In
valid Pensions, reported bill granting pen
sic Is.
The report of the Committee on Elections,
declaring it expedient TO grant Mr. Camp-
/ bell of Ohio, whose seat is contested by Mr..
Vallandigham. further time to take supple
mentarv testimony, was debated.
No question being taken the House ad-
journed.
/ SEsArF.-The unfinished business of yes
terday was resumed.
Mr. Wilson offered an amendment to the
motion to refer the Kansas message to the
| Committee on Territories, similar to that
submitted Yesterday by MI. Harris in the
! House.
| MIR. Trumbull desired to call up ques-
t ton of privilege, namely, the Report of the
Committee on Judiciary the contested
seats OF Messrs. Bright and Fitch.
Mr.. Bayard objected and thought that the
Kansas question was far more important, and
ought first to be settled, as it involved con-
sideratians which might perhaps affect the
stability of the Union.
! Mr.. Trumbull was of the opinion that the
reason assigned by Mr. Bayard was the very
best reason in the world for setting the
question OF the right of these gentleman to
the seats they now occupy. II the Kansas
,tI.o
esented it, the first thing todetermine who
has the right to settle thequestion, and il
is SO much more necessary that it should be
settled by the Senate properly constituted
This contested election has been depending
for nearly n year, and, in or to have an un
derstanding when it shnll be disposed of
he moved to make the subject the specia
order for tomorrow
Mr.. Trumbull withdrew his motion, bu
would renew it tomorrow.
The Presidents Kansas Message wa
then taken up.
Mr.. Wilson attacked the Presidents posi-
ZION, stating that the history in the Message
was stupendous and gigantic misrepresen
tation of the affars of Kansas. The Presi
dent was not in the country when the Ne
i
, for the Presidency for that reason, in orde
that he might be able to prove an alibi. Mr.
: Wilson denied the statement in the 1lessag
that there has been party in the Terrtor.
setting at defiance the Constitution of tn
: United States, or the laws, and there ha
t been no such party or set of men there
$ While giving his version of the history c
1 Kansas affairs, he said that Gov. Wake
went thither with the object of dividing tn
I Free State men, and cementing the Ere
- State Democrats with the Pro-Slavery mer
SO as to make it a Pro-Slavery Democrat
State. That was his mission, and no ma
: could have labored more faithfully or nor
efficiently to accomplish that object. II
denounced the LecompoH Constitution
saying that he would rather hive the Con
stitution with slavery than without IL, b,
cause with slavery, it might be aboiishe
= and without slavery, it was rendered perpe
ual- 1t was perversion of fact aud trut
in the President or anybody else to chare
that the people of Kansas, by voting for ii
election of officers under the Lecomptu
e Constitution, tina, they intended in any wa
TO give their sanction to it. They went
i the ballot-boX on the 4th of January, to oil
:. out forever that Constitution. They kne
:. that the people wereagainst it by an owe
whelming majority of five or six to on
They meant to overthrow Calhoun and b
corrupt minions IN the Territory, who ha'
r violated justice and stained their names
lc fraud, outrages and murders. The on
he way to do that was to elect men, pledg'
ut against that Constitution, and, who won
& come here as they have, to ask Congee
I'd and the country to reject it as u fraud upt
is the people of Kansas; and yet this act, IA
and above board. proclaimed TO the count
or and to the world, the President misrepr
If sents and mistalls.
RS We have had enough of this petty qui
TX bling in Congress. We have had the plea
lis ing of teohnicahties of all sorts, wh
Us could be brought into great question
of this kind, and we have had all these o,
or RACES in Kansas kept up under color of la
ng Tyrants always rule under color of la
H. Instead Of asking what is the will OF
tn people of Kansas. we have had Senate
no Representatives, and now have the Pre-
dent qubbling on techniculities and form