The Washington union., 1858-03-10

ributed annually to benevolent and charitable OBJ
ects than the whole South combined.
The hour of three o'clock having arrived, MIR. II
yielded the floor without concluding his remarks and in
pursuance of previous assignment the Senate proceeded
to the consideration of executive business and after
protractcd session. adjourned.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.
Mr.. SHAW of North Carolina, at his request
cused from serving the committee TO consider the
olutions in relation to the expulsion of Mr. MArrEsoS of
New York
The House resumed the consideration of the bill pro-
vide for the organization OF regiment OF mounted vol
for the defence of the frontier of Texas and to
authorize the President of the United States to call into
the service of the United States four additional regiments
of volunteers.
Mr.. FAULKNER of Virginia. said they should know
ing and believing that the necessity and honor of the
country demands increase OF the military establish
ment harmonzc their views, and not Illustrate the gen
eral object by discussions among themselves. There
ore if could concientiosy in the bill report
ed 10y the Committee on Military Affairs he would do 80,
but he could not give it his support He believed that
the interest of the public service demanded increase Of
the military force. In all the gentleman from Mississp
pi Mr. QulrMASl had said that branch of the subject
he entirely conourred he did in his view that there
power vested in the President under the act of l795
at all adequate to the present emergency OF affairs but
he diSscntcd wholly from the position that volunteers
the most effective force to be employed He did not in
tend to any dispdragng reflections upon the voun
His feelings forbid such course for the annals
of the country had been too often illustrated by their vor
to justify him in anything like general denunciaton Of
them occasional resort Yet they liable to all
the objections which, in the very nature of things must
be applied to undiscplned troops There occasions
in which volunteers the most effective but there
others in which they could not he employed and he did
not regard volunteers appropriate to the duty
asked of that army in the Territory of Utah He thought
that unframed undscpncd troops should be sent to
that Territory He believed that the public exgency de-
manlcu a addition of regiments to the regular
army He presented that proposition to the Committee
Military Affairs, and he sorry to say that it met
with opposition He found that the Senate had voted
down the fve-rcgiment bl and voted down the voun-
l1 and he therefore, sought to make propo-
stion that might hamonizc the policy of those who be
licved troops necessary. He brought forward bill,
and asked the body to vote upon the recommendation of
the President and then upon his bill as substitute
The whole effective army of the government amounted
to but about O00 and its operations embraced 243 hos
tile Indian tribes and thousands Of miles of territory
The soldiers who composed it had respite from toll lie
referred to the reports of Gen Scott and Gen Jesup show
the great hashps to which they daily subjected the
latter stating that this little army performs more service
than any army of hundred thousand in any por-
ton Of the civilized world He referred to army orders TO
show that these troops often compelled to march
eighty miles day in protecting the frontiers from the
incusons of the Indian tribes The Secretary of War
had said in his report that the obligations of the govern
ment to protect its citizens from outrage and violence
not carried out for scarcely week elapsed without
bringing intelligence of Indian He said there
fore without the slightest reference relations with
Utah. it the duty of Congress to increase the army
The Recommendation for increase of the army did
refer alone to relations with Utah. but also for
the protection OF frontiers The Territory of Utah
settled 10y population who denied their obligation
to this fcdcratve system who repuatcd the obligations
of our laws, and rampled under foot the supremacy of
the government They had, by proclamation and by their
acts placed themselves in attitude of armed rebellion
against the authority of the government Sustained by
wild and reasonable IDEAS of popular sovereignty, they
asserted their right to their utter
contempt of the government They denied admission to
the Territory of the United States troops wayd trains
and plundered them Was there a man who would toll
crate such conduct as this lie there not
who would not respond to the call of the President
for troops to sustain the supremacy of the laws.
The great question was should the force be volunteers
regulars and in its determination considerations of
economy involved. He contended that volunteers
would not seek such service and asked whether they
would refuse both and throw the responsibility upon the
President, under the law of 1895, of calling out the
militia the most expensive mode 1t Obvious that
volunteers could not be made OF material service 1t
made objection to the regulars that they would be-
apermanent addition to the army, and permanent
expense and that volunteers might be dsbandcd at
time that their services not needed If they had
volunteers for services in Utah. they would be compelled
send them there and other kind of force for that would
be the service which they contracted with the govern
ment to perform whereas, if they made addition to
the regular army they could take the recruits thus
created and send them the frontiers and despatch
the trained and disciplined troops to Utah The regular
soldier unmpassoned instrument of war--a
chine in the hands of higher intelligence. They
ed no soldiers who might counsel their officers They
wanted such force the had had in The Ter
ory of Kansas for theast few years where they had
cccded in preserving law and order without shedding
drop of human blood That the sort of force they
wanted in Utah. They did not want body Of men to
go there inspired with religious hatred of Mormonism
There was to be- he trusted, religious nauguIa
ted by Congress. He who went there be he volunteer
not with the intent and purpose in his heart of
ring against that people because of their religion COM
mtted murder in the eyes of the constitution lie would
put down the Mormon rebellion SO far as il wns in oppo
sition to the government but he would do u by regular
unmpassoned troops If they once established the pre
ceden of making this appeal to the passions of the peo
pefor what volunteers but representatives of pas
sions of the peope!hey established precedent fruitful
of the most alarming evils 1t was not surprsnp that
there should be desetons from the ranks of force that
enjoyed repose from years end to year S end The
records of the government showed that in the Mexican
war there 1870 desertions of volunteers whereas
there were only 500 desetions of the regular service
they would look at the number of killed and wounded
in battle they would ud that the gulars suffered the
most severely He said this because he believed that the
regular Of the service had not had that justice nc
corded to it by Congress that its gaanty demanded
Mr. CURTIS, of Iowa, obtained the floor, when
Mr.. j. CLANCY JONES. of Pennsylvania, inquired
If the morning hour had expired.
The SPEAKER replied that it had.
Mr.. }. CLANCY JONES then moved that the House
50 into Committee Of the Whole on the state Of tho
Union which motion was agreed TO-