Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-04-29

HOusE.-Mr. Michaels, from the Committee
on Printing, reported resolution print 20,
900 copies of the mechanical part of the Patent
Office Report of 1851, or l'3 less than former
y; adoptri.
* English, from the Postoffice Committee,
reported joint resolution to instruct the Post
master General, ATTORNEY General, and Sec'y
Of the Treasury. TO make such amendments for
the accommodation Of the PoStotiice, Custom
House and Courts i'll Philadelphia, as may best
conduce to the public benefit, prohibiting any
increase of the appropriation, and authorizing
the President to sell any of the building or
grants not necessary for the public service.
TIL. House passed several bills to-day, among
which were the Senate bill, providing for the
payment of the expenses of the Judiciary in
Utah during the present Disturbances.
|. SENATE.-The special order Of the day was
the report of the Committee of Conference on
the Kansas bill.
Mr.. Stewart, of Mich, spoke on the general
question, making many facetiOus hits.
Mr.. Davis of Md, aS the representative of
Southern slave State, in her name sOlclnnly pro-
tested against this attempting to interfere with
State rights, by conditions Of admission. Had
it not been urged by Southern gentlemen that.
Kansas should come into the Union ON an equal
footing with the original States. This was the
law OF the South OH the subject
Mr.. Stephens was not surprised That Mr.. Da-
Wis opposed the bill, hut was surprised ut the
ground Of his opposition. He (Stephens,) was
born and raised in that school, and if there
any one doctrine he cherished more than anOth-
er, it was the rights OF Independence and sover-
eighty of the separate States Of the cOnedcracy,
and he maintained that this substitute would
more fully and completely carry out that doc
trinc, than the Senate bill for which he was will
ling to vote, and more SO than the 1 rittenden
amendment. If Kansas had mnde application
for admission as free State, he would vote for
it a. readily as for Slave State. In reply to
Mr.. Davis, he showed that Iowa was admitted
on a fundamental condition in the former case,
similar to that on the pending proposition, and
the objections made by the gentleman from Md,
were founded solely on u preteXt. In cOnclu-
Sion, hc earnestly appealed To the House to end
this question with the view Ia go on with the
public business. He was ready 10 defend the
proposition from beginning to end, and in every
word and line.
Mr.. Gilman inquired if the constitution was
submitted.
Mr.. Stephens-I tell the gentleman distinctly
it is not.
Mr.. Keitt repudated the doctrine advanced
by Davis; he denied that the Federal Govern.
ment is sovereign, and gave his reasons why lac
supported the bill.
Mr.. Bingham, of Ohio, did not find fault with
the bill because it annexed conditions, but be-
cause the great crime was sought To be perpe-
tratcd not only against Kansas, hut against the
Federal Constitution and the rights of human
nature. The bill did not submit the Consiitu-
ton. If rejected, Kansas must sniier the pen
atty. 1t was simply an act of despotisn ut
tempted TO he eniOrced by Congress under the
cover of our National Constitution, which bears
the mark of Washington. Better that the
Constitution perish than any such precedent DO
engraVcn on the statute book.
Mr.. Clngman said that this proposition was
amcndabe. He presumed that the gentlemen
had made up their minds, and therefore lac
moved for the previous question.
Mr.. Stephens suggested that the vote be taken
tomorrow at l o'clock.
Mr.. Marshall of Ky, hoped that no such
agreement would be made. The vote had better
be taken to-day ferries of ngreed.l
Mr.. Garnet, of Va, hoped that the question
would be seconded, as he and several others
wished to state reasons for their vote.
The motion to adjourn prevailed by . maj.