The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-06-29
IMPORTANT FROM NEW CRAx.n,

| PANAMA, June 10, 1S5S.-After an interval of 4
! whole month, we have a mail from Bogota The
dates are to May 26, and the is of an interest
ing and important character. Our previous infor-
nation from that capital was, that the Cass-Herran
Convention, after having passed the Senate in such
an emasculated shape as to make it of no value to
the United States, had gone into the lower House.
where it was referred to Gen. Posada for examina-
ton, who recommended in able argument its APP
prevail without adding or subtracting from it sin
| gle word or comma.
| two weeks discussion was had on this propo-
sition, the debate assuming very angry character
SO irrtated at one time became the friends of the
Convention at the despotic ruling of the President
| OF the House, who bitterly opposed to its ap-
prOyal, that vote taken destituting him of his
office, and he was only saved by four majority. In
the first part of the voting the House seemed dis
posed to adopt the amendments of the Senate and
did adopt most of them, but finally reconsdered all
their votes and the 9th of May the final discus
sion was had which resulted in vote of 20 against
10 in favor of the Convention originally drafted
at w ashington with the single important change of
the word privilege" in the 18th article to "permis-
sion," where it allows the United States to purchase
or rent land for coal deposit wharves, &C.. on an
Island in the Bay of Panama. After a few DAYS
discussion of the Convention in the House, the mat
ter assumed a strict party character, and the Gov
eminent having majority there, OF course forcedit
through.
On May IA, the Convection was again taken I'D in
the Senate, but without the least prospect that that
body would recede from its amendments. The Sen
ate, second Tune, referred III TO q committee to
port composed of General Mosquera and Mr.. Bird
who recommended that the whole subject be post
poned till after the Constitution of the confed-
eracy should be published which was, by concert
ed action amended to read, ''till the Constitu
ton come into force"
Senators not seeing not caring to the drift
of this proposition agreed to it by vote of Is
against 10. The whole thing a trick of Mos
guerra to make the defeat of the Convention more
certain. The 10th article of the old Constitution of
1858 says: "In all cases of disagreement on egis
lative project between the two chambers, and after
the body in which it originated shall have insisted
on its first vote, the two houses shall unite in a sin
gle body, and there, by an absolute majority of
votes, pass finally upon the question:"
The new Constitution, article 40, says: each
Chamber can insist, to second time upon their
vote on project before it; but it, after the second
adherence, the other Chamber does not accord with
it, the point in dispute shall be suppressed and shall
form no part of the project. If the disagreement
refer to the whole of the project and on a second
vote the other Chamber does not accord, it is lost
and it cannot be taken into consideration in the
sons of that year,
General Mosquera feared, if the two Houses went
into joint ballot in with the provisions of
the old Constitution, the Convention might be ap-
proved, and he played this game to defeat it. Now
unless wonderful change takes place in the minds
OF Senators, the Convention cannot be approved