The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-04-08
THE NATIONAL ERA WASHINGTON, D. G, APRIL 8, 1858

reporters, &c. The ens,rmous appropriation
Tor the army was not bA ed upon any recon-
nendation of the Exec, tive Departments a
arge part of that spprop citation belonged more
properly to the service o, the next fiscal year.
MIR. Nichols, of Ohio, aid he was prepared
to vote for all the necessi ~ items in the bill,
and for all which PROV Jed for carrying out
- nFg
Mr.. Lovejoy, of Illino s, opposed especially
the appropriations for Il /, army. There we're
gross frauds in the contr cts for army supplies.
One contractor had told ,im that he received
SO cents per bushel for corn delivered in St.
Louis, where the price % only 80 TO 81 cents
per bushel.
Mr.. Phelps, of Missouri wished to know who
the contractor was, and v bat his politics.
Mr.. Lovejey said he firmed the fact, and
let the gentleman dispro re It If he could.
Mr.. Faulkner, of Vir, inia, pronounced the
whole statement to be utsrue.
Mr.. Farnsworth, of Ill nois, inquired if Gen.
Reed, of Missouri, had rot large contract for
the delivering of horses t an exorbitant price,
and if he did not head band of Border Ruff.
flame who made foray q Kansas.
Mr.. Phelps said Gen. Reed was Democrat
and gentleman, and d. nbtiess was IN Kansas
during the troubles theij Perhaps be might
have led Number Of sspectsble gentlemen
who visited that Territory. daughter. But
he was informed that he had no contract for
either corn or horses.
Mr.. Lovejoy had been tsld that the corn was
10 be delivered at Leaveawcrth, but that made
little difference. The horses, too, were TO be
paid for at $3.50 apiece fine chance to get
rid of spawned and ring .boned stage hacks.
Mr.. Faulkner said the coen was to be Of the
Il II Lat
made difference in the price.
Mr.. Lovejoy proceeded 10 cofament on the
Of the Utss campaign, which he
thought should be calle1 the wfr of the con-
tractors. These harpies and vultures sent on
terrible acco lnts of the Mormors, in order to
keep the war going.
Mr. Smith, Of Virgins appealed to the gen.
tleman to state the sourc % of information upon
which he based these gr We charges.
Mr.. Lovejoy said pc ,baps be obtained it
around the freside, lik, the gentleman from
Virginia, in private co Iversstions, which he
did not feel at liberty 10 make public: Let
them pass the resolutit q calling on the War
Department for informit ton, which the other
side had objected to.
Mr.. Phelps said the yntracts for transport
alton from Leavenworth % Utah, at least, were
honestly awarded, and I, honest and faithful
Mr.. Underwood, of K sntucky, had been in
formed that it was the piactice Of Government
% assign competent GAYS Try officers to the duty
Of buying horses, and Il st matter wss not left
open to contract. -
Mr. Lovejoy said, in he case of Utah the
Government had depar' ed from thai course,
,na contracted for hors IS at tho rate of $l59
each.
DIR. Stanton, of Ohio, called attention to the
arge item for transport, zion. Il amounted to
s5' 100000, which he tn ,ught was an extraor-
lirary amount for q def ,iency.
.tir. Letcher, of Virgi lie, said that contem.
plated expenditures for twenty rlontks ahead.
Ar. Stanton objected o this rqnnifg of one
7e,r's appropriations in o another; iS'was de-.
Itr lctive of all account; bility, aud tie House
ht'uld rigidly investiga the rnattef. They
,u ht to know whether there were ;sauds in
20 tracts or not.
On motion of Mr.. Ri ,hie, of Pennsylvania,
he Committee rose.
Mr.: Campbell Of Ohi,, moved that shen the
House adjourn, it be to acct on Monsay.
Mr.. Letcher, of Virgi ia demanded the yeas
mi nays, which were fused; and OF vote
oy tellers, the otion to journ over Or ,vailed-
7e.s 81, nays as.
And at fifteen minut g past O'Clock, the
House adjourned to Mol day next.
Monday, Ap IL s, 1858.
sENA TIE.
A bill was reported Mr.. Brown as chair.
man of the Committee on the District of Co.
upbia, providing for th creation of an auxil.
ia y guard, to act as 8 Olice force f. the pro.
1e ition of persons and property in tie city Of
and enforced the provi, ;Ons of the I'LL, which
was designed to coop, rate with the present
police force of the nnicipal authorities
doing service By night the latter bS day.
The bill was discuss d at length, and on a
variety of amendments, antil a late hsur of the
session. The necessit of some additional
provision for the protec. on oflife and property
seemed to be admitted " all, and large ma
ority of the Senators ! no participated in the
debate acknowledged Il st Congress yas right
fully and constitutional called to share in the
responsibility and duty of REFRESHING lawless-
ness and disorder in tbs city of Washington.
The bill, after bein debated By Messrs.
Hunter, Fessenden, Sc yard, Wilson Iverson,
Houston, Hale, Critten len, Green, Benjamin,
Doolittle, Stuart, and theirs, was finally put
upon its passage, and after the edoption of
several amendments, as carried yeas "a,
nays 3.
The House of Repre- sentatives first consid-
cred the Senate's amen ments to the army bill,
which, with one exec ition, were agreed to.
The amendment reduci ,g the number of addi-
tional regiments to tw3, in lieu of four, was
in-yeas IL; nays 102. A resolu.
ton was passed, calm on the Secretary of
War for information isgarding the contracts
for the Utah army; q 80, a resolution of in
quiry as to the expediel cy of discontnuing the
printing of books here sofore ordered by Con.
gress.
Mr.. Goode, of Virgin a, from the Committee
for the District of Colu abba, reported bill es-
an auxiliar guard for this city,
which is identical with the bill init 9duced by
MIR. Brown in the Senats. The Hou.e refused,
by yeas lie, nays 80, act twothird5,) to sus-
pend the rule, so IS to take immediate action
on the bill, and an ext ,nded discussion occur
red on the question Of sference. Members on
all sides appeared to be friendly to the measure,
but disposition was Manifested to so amend
the bill as to relieve th;, Executive IF the duty
of appointing and cont rolling the f3rce to be
raised. The bill was nally made TIE special
order in Committee of he Whole, 90 soon as
the deficiency bill shoul have been disposed of.
oBITl AIRY.
Died near Mount Id ), KY, December 9th,
1857, JAMES STUART, n D., of erysipelas.
He was born No, ,mber, 9th, 1919, in
Clarke county, KY, wa married in l84I, and
moved to Iowa in ls4s
The intellect of DIR. E-tnart was clear and d;s.
eliminating; he was cat tious, energetic, affable
ana his social powers we're peculiarly fascina
ting; the purity of his tbaracter in the private
and domestic relations of life was never ques
toned; he was nnweaFSed in his efforts to i'm
prove his powers, and lature had been liberia
toward him. A sense 4 iustice. eonaI and ev