The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-03-02
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TDRTY-FTFTH CONGRESS.
FIRST SESSION.


Senate.
WAsHSGroN, March !, 1853.
Mr. HENDERSON, Of Texas, appeared, was qualified and
tDck his seat.
several memorials from the Legislature Of Iowa. asking
Tor lands for railroad purposes were received.
Mr. KING. (opp) of n Y, reported bill granting the
Rome Arsenal TO the State Of New York.
KENTUCKY VOLUNTEERS FOR UTAH.
Accommodation was presented from the Legislature Of
Kentucky offering regiment Of volunteers for the Utah
army.
THE ADMISSION KANSAS AND MINNESOTA.
Mr. GREEN, (Adm Of NO. called up tho bill for the ad.
mission Of Kansas. -
Msssr.. Gwu (dsm.) and BaoD.sick, (dsm.) Of CAL,
objected the Pacific Railroad bill had priority In the
order Of business.
1t VISA decided that the bill should be taken up.
Mr.. GREEN notice that he should offer substtut
providing the admission Of the States of Minnesota and
Kansas together, hoping thereby to expedite business
~ Of the committee remarkng that the leading and
trolling facts stated In that document could not be sue
Ssssfu!y consroversed An ssmpt had been made nm
thoy stood unassaied he then passed to personal
explanation touching the statements in regard TO the
action Of the committee published In the New York Tri
tne which asserted that the majority OF the committee
made positive promise to Messrs. Douglas and Collamer
violated that agreement. He proceeded to show the
fsty Of this statement by detail Of the facts In the
A discussion of come length ensued between Messrs
Green aud Douglas the former proceeded BE said
he he'd substitute for the bill reported by the majority
OF the committee which he would offer at the proper
h substitute provided for the admission of Kansas and
together the object being expedite the business
before the Senate that other important questions might
come up for consideration He then argued the legality
the Kansas constitution o0ntendine that repub
can In form and the legal choice OF the people Tho
population Of Kansas Is sufficient to entite her 10
repres enatve, and the constitution of the United States
prescrbes specific number Of inhabitants to the ad
mission OF State He referred to the unsettled state Of
the Territory as powerful and over whelming
for the admission, for il would give peace and
quiesness the Territory BE had received information
70 day OF murder committed by parties opposed to the
Lscompson constitution, and thai General Whitfield had
been driven from the Territory under threats of assas
nation This be said the Of tho absence Of
the federal officers from Kansas 1t is useless to cry
tpeaoe, when there will be none until Kansas comes
Into the Union.
Mr. ColIAMKR, (opp of Vt, followed He referred to
the Missouri compromise having settled the slavery
agitation and being fair bargain he thought unjust
in the South after receiving her portion OF the advan
TO repudiate the compact. Who believed, he asked, in
1854 that slavery would exist in Kansas? 1t was
we'll settled principle that the power to regulate
implied the power to prohibit Mr.. c. quoted
instances 70 chow where this power had been
exercised and referred to Ia Mississippi in 1896 as
IN point He defended the Emgrant Aid societies, deny
ing that emgrsnts from the Norh went to Kansas
merely VOTE without designing TO stay there He
ferred n the fraudulent elections carried by neropers
from Missouri her gross outrages into which the
governn ent had never examined.
Adjourned.