Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1858-02-04
From Washington City.

Correspondence Of the Richmo"d E"q""cr' !
WASHINGTON, Feb. l, 1906.
The Lecompton Constitution has arrived
and will be. tc-1ay, Submitted u congress
with a special message from the fiesiueht
of the United States. The late OF the Con
stitution is uncertain. Strict party dl'ci-
Mime NAV carry it through the Senate, but III
the House there is a majority OF four against
Its reception, under any and all circumstaE-
ces; and yet it Is said that Mr.. Buchanan has
declared his deteI minatlOn TO put II through
Congress in thirty days or burst. These four
votes may he had, as there are number OF
desirable Executive appointments ready to
be given cut, but 1t will require nice party
engineering. Several Senator'S express a
Willingness to vote for the Lecomlt,n Con.
stitutlon, but only under provisions which
ill secure TO t people of the Sale tair
vote upon it, after the Stats government shall
have been Organized-and without recoguz-
ing any political advantages which Calhoun
and his party may have secureiDy the frauds
charged upon them. l. these points are MT
clearly secured, the Constitution will tall even
in the Senate-perhaps not by SO signal a
vote as killed off the army bill, an Admins
tration measure, which recei' ed only eight
votes Mr.. Buchanan should remember that
the Walker and Pauldiug controversy has
loosened considerably party screws; AID the
late decided defeat of his Administration IN
the loss of the new regiment bill, should
guard him against calculating too certainly
upon the support Of Congress. When he
learned tue vote OF the Senate, and asceriaih-
a ~ dam a
regular army had been rejected by vote OF
four To one, be became quite Indignant, ana
at once cOuntermanded the order UrOencrai
Scott to proceed TO California, and threateu-
ed to Withdraw all the troops from Utah.
THIS would probably be the wlseSt course 10
pursue, a. DIR. Bernhe,sei, the Mormon dele
gate here, has already proposed sending
Commissioners, instead OF soldiers, who
could treat with the people OF Utah, and pro
vide for their pmlval from the territories oil
the United IT ,tes to some one Il the islands
in tn. Pacific Ocean THIS, the Doctor think
could be readily accomplished, and would IT,
lar preferable to shooting down our own pee
pie 10 a bloody war Il is proposed than the
government purchase the improvements OF
the MurmUns at Salt Lake City, and estat-
lish there a grand military depot tor The
central division OF the army. This PROPOSE
ton is now before the President.
senator Gwin is again at sea about his
Pacific railroad PROJECT, which has Teen re
ported by him - the Senate, and which he
believed had the entire approval OF Mr. Buch-
anau. He is now tuld hy the President that
the scheme Of General JET. Davis is the one
ne prefers and shall support with the 10
fuence of bis administrator. DR.. G"ln
takes this in high dudgeon and charges the
President with trlling with the subject, as be
knows General Davis bill will share the
same ignominiauS fate with the "New R"gi-
ment Bill" and not receive ten votes III the
Senate General Dasi, proposes one route
from Fl Pasu to San Datgo, while DR.. Gwln's
! bill fixes the Eastern terminus on the Mis-
sour river between the Sioux and the Kan
sas rivers. In my opinion this proposition
would also be rejected by large VOTE
for, while it proposes Northern terminus,
it IS designed to run the road actually
South or East of SDuih. until 1t strikes the
Texas road, and thence Westward ria FL Pa
80. Congress will never agree to Pacific
road which runs South. RAPPAHASNOCk.