The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-03-04

SudIge can De maQe, Is opposed to such change.
Mr. ID. went on to say that every day evidence cam,
here ofraud after fraud andforgery after forgery il
the election returns These frauds were not confined
to Delaware Crossing, but testimony had also beer
taken that there was forged return at Shawnee O
about nine hundred votes Two men took the return.
over into Missouri, and took a poll-book anC
read of the names while the other wrote then
down. These facts were proved by the men who
were present and transcribed the names So, also
with regard to Oxford and Kickapoo Mr. n wa,
cut off in the midst of his remarks bv the arriva
of the hour for the consideration of the specia
order.
ADMISSION OF KANSAS,
The Senate then resumed the consideration of thu
bill for the admission of the State of Kansas into tb
Union.
Mr.. Collamer resumed the remarks which h,
commenced yesterday in opposition to the bill Mr.
c. spoke of the invasion from Missouri, by whicl
the people of Kansas had been subdued and prevent
ed from exercising the right of selfgovernment
The only choice which the people of Kansas had i,
the matter of slavery was, that they should eithe
have slaves or be slaves. Ausion was made to tn
sending out of governors there to execute the law
Of the Territory, and yet do justice to all parties
No wonder they were removed one after another
and others appointed for they were required to per
form impossibilities. As well might Herod have re
CURED his messengers who went through Bethlehem
executing all the children of two years old and un
der to take care that it should be done in kindness
without hurting anybody's feelings.
1t is well known why the Lecompton constitution
was not submitted to the people, and it is vain an,
idle for to resort to special pleading to keer
the fact out of sight. If the people had been al
lowed to speak, they would have repudiated tha
instrument at once and for ever. The Presiden
himself admits that. Still, pledges and assurance
had been given and over again, that it should
be submitted, and, therefore. they felt bound tt
submit the question in way, but they tool
good care to submit it in such a way as to secure
the effect they wanted, and at the same time keev
up appearances. The whole thing he regarded as
cheat and deluson.
Mr.. G. went on to refer to the political dopma re-
Gently put FORTH that slave property is precisely the
same IN Its legal character and tenure as any other
property; and, being such, that the owners of such
property have right to carry into the Territories
and this by virtue of the Constitution of the United
States He did not pretend to say that the Supreme
Court ought never to give any opinion concerning
slavery, when the subject was properly brought be,
fore them but he thought it was much to be re-
GREETED that the Judges of that court, or anv OF
them, should have thought proper to take advan-
tage of their position, and put forth cathedra
endorsement of political dogma. The endorsers
OF accommodation paper very seldom find that it is
profitable business. They either fail to give cur
rency to the paper, else have to meet it them
selves when it becomes due.
He went on to discuss the nature of property in
man. and contended that the only safety for slavery
was in making it local matter. There were only
about onethird of million of Shareholders in the
United States, and nineteen millions of free white
people. If slavery should ever be made national
question, man can doubt what the result will be
Now, what will be gained by making Kansas
slave State? 1t must be evident that the free State
people will soon gain the ascendency, even if John
Calhoun thinks proper to cheat them out of the
legislature Then, when they refuse to pass
laws for the protection of slave property, what will
such property be worth? They can pass laws tha
master shall not strike slave without the iudg,
ment of court and that if he does it shall consti
tute assault and battery; and that the testimony
the slave shall be allowed against him. If the Con
stltutlon OF the United States shall carry slavery
INTO Kansas, 1t cannot maintain it there against th
will of the people. Why then are the people of thu
South so anxious to hasten the period when the
possession of Kansas shall terminate? They car
only hold it while it is Territory, for it mus
eventually become free State
When he had concluded his remarks
MI. Seward obtained the floor
MIR. Green asked that the substitute of which h
gave notice yesterday might be printed for intorma
ton: which was agreed to.
Mr.. Pugh gave notice that at the proper time h.
should move to amend the substitute by adding til
following section:
SEC. =. And be it further enacted, That the ad
mission OF the States of Minnesota and Kansas into
the Union by this act shall never be so construe
as to deny, limit, otherwise impair the ripht q
the people of the said States with the assent q
their legislatures, severally, at all times to alter
reform, or abolish their form of government in suc
manner as they may think proper, so that the sam
be still republican, and in accordance with the con
stitutiOn of the United States
| After long executive session,
The Senate adjourned.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
The Speaker stated the business first in order tc
be on sustaining the demand for the previous ques
tion on the bill introduced BY Mr. Mason of Ken
lucky, from the Committee on Accounts fixing th
number and compensation of the clerks, messengers
pages, and laborers of the House of Representa-
tiyes.
Mr.. J. Clancy Jones, of PENNSYLVANIA. bonec
ha TO,
ther consideration of the bill until Monday next
After the committees should be called for reports
| he would move to go into Committee of the Whole
on the state of the Union.
Mr.. Mason said he had no disposition to do any
thing that did not accord with the wishes of The
House. Representing what he conceived the view:
of the committee, he wished the bill acted upon
order that they might have the views and determi
nation of the House. in regard to the subject to
guide them in their future action
After further discussion, the question was taken
the previous question sustained, and the main ques
ton ordered.
Mr.. Mason closed the debate, replying to the ar
guments which had been made Yesterday in opposi
tion to the bill, and answering such questions a
were put to him by different members
The question then taken on the motion tha
the bill be referred to the Committee of the Who'll
on the state of the Union and it was agreed to-
yeas 100, NAYS s..
DROPPED AND RETIRED NAVAL OFFICERS
MIR. Seward, of Georgia, called up the motion tt
reconsider the vote by which the House committed
to the Committee of the Whole Senate resolution t.
extend and define the authority of the President un
der an act approved January 16. 1857 entitled Gar
act to amend act entitled Gan act to promote tn
efcency OF the navy, in respect to dropped and re
tired naval olficers.''
Mr.. Seward said it was his desire that the yot
should be re-considered, and the resolution printed
and made special order for some day to be fixed.
Mr.. Smith, of Virginia, submitted a substitute
which he desired to have printed with the origina
resolution.
Mr.. Sherman, of Ohio, moved that the motion tc
reconsider be laid on the table, which motion wa
not agreed to-ayes IS, noes 81.
/ Mr.. Davis, of Maryland, reviewed the passage O
the bill for the appointment of the naval board O
inquiry, saying they called to advise tn
President, and give him such knowledge as he coulC
not have. in order that be might remove from tn,
active list those officers whom they found ncompe
tent to discharge their high duties to the country
That was the purpose for which the board assem-
bled; and, in his Judgment it had been efficiently
accomplished, and accomplished in the Judgment o
the administration, for the President had confirmed
its action by removing from the active list all whose
removal was recommended.
he thought the administration would have grave
charge to answer for, if they committed the safet,
OF the country, the protection of commerce. to anI
man condemned by the action of that board Nov
they were asked to restore to the active list me,
whom that board and the President had said were
unit for active servcenot for their personal char
acters, not because they were dishonorable-butf fo
no asslgnable reasons-some for age, others for in
trinity, others again. from neglect of official train
ing, and all left to the charitable inference of th
country. The result had been that the last boarc
had not re-instated one-fourth of those who haC
been removed from the active list. If they shoult
investigate the number of judgments reversed by
the court of appeals they would find that this pro
cess of the courts of inquiry, had not changed thu
finding of the original board in anything like thu
| proportion of cases.
Mr.. Miles advocated the passage of the resolution
contendng that the findings of the naval courts o
inquiry at best but the conclusions of fallbl
men, and those who were the victims of their sterl
DEGREES ought to have the benefit of executive elem
| ency, not denied to tn meanest criminals. The
resolution simply propose to enable the Presiden
to do an act of justice might be, in some indi
vidual cases, an act of mercy. Were they to sa,
that their navy in rotten a state that al
operation so terrible must be performed? As a.
American citizen he felt pride in the navy for the