Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1858-02-02
FROM wAsHINGToN CITY.

rCorrsspondenc. ofths Richmond Enquirer
WAsB,SeroS, FEBRUARY l, 1883
Tho I,aoomoton Constitution has arrived and Will
bs. TO-DAY, submitted to Congress with sspecial mes
,,os from tie President Ct the United States. Tie
fate of the Constitution i, uncertain Strict party
discipline may carry through the Senate but In the
House there is majority Of four against lts recep
ton, under any and all circumstances and yet 1t is
said that Mr. Buchanan has declared his determine
ton TO put it through Congress in thirty days or
burst These four votes may DO hao' as tnere are
number of desirable Executive appointments ready
10 be given out, but il will require nice party epg'
neeripg. Several Senators express willingness TO
vote for the Lecnmpton Constitution but only anner
provisions which will secure to the people oil the
State fair vote upon it, after the State government
sbaii have been oreanized-aud without recognizing
any political advantages which Calhoun and his
party may have secured by the frauds charged
upon them. II these points are not clearly secured
the Constitution will fail even III the Senale-Gerhaps
not ty 90 signal vote as killed of the army bill. an
Administration measure, which received only eight
votes. Mr.. Buchanan should remember that tie
Walker and Paulding controversy has loosened con,
sderably party screws; and the late decided oeieat
of his Administration in the loss OF the new reg,
mept bill" should guard him against calculating TOO
certainly upon the support Of Congress- When he
learned the vote of the Senate, and ascertaned that
his Recommendation to increase the regular army
had been REACTED by a vote OF -FOUR 10 one'
he became quit, indignant, and at once coun'
termandsd the order for Gen Scott TO proceed to
California aud threatened to withdraw all the troops
from Utah. This would probably be the wsest
course to pursue, as DR.. Bernheisel the Mormon
delegate here, has already proposed sending Commits
sopers instead Of soldiers, who could treat With tho
people Of Utah, aud provide for their removal from
the territories Of the United States to some one OF the
i.lsuds in the Pacific Ocean. This, the Doctor
thinks, could BIZ readily accomplished, and would be
far preferable to shooting down our own people IN
bloody war. 1t is proposed that the government
purchase the improvements OF the Mormons at Sal!
Lake City, aud establish there a grand military de-
pot, for the central division of the army. This pro-
position Is now before the President
Senator Gwin 10 again at sea about his Pacific rail-
road project, which has been reported by him to the
Senate and which he believed had the entire oppro-
dent that the schsms Of General JET Davis is the one
he prefsrs and shall support with the influence OF hi"
administration. Dr. G 10 lakes this In high dudGe
and charges the President with trhng with the SUD
iect a. he knows G.rera Davis bill will share Ia.
rams ,ynom;nou, fate with tbs "New Regiment Bill
and not receive ten votes in the Ssnate: General
DAVE proposes ons from FL Paso to Sau Diego,
while Dr. OWNS bill fixes the Eastern terminus Oh
the Missouri river between the SIOUX aud the kanea'
rivers. In my opinion this proposition would also De
rejected by large voe-iOr, while II proposes
Nortbern terminus, il 10 designed to run the road &c
tuay South or East of South, until tsrikes the Texas
road and thence Westward ria FL Paso. Congress
will never agree to Pacific road which runs Sonfh
RAPPAHAsRocK.