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C0NGR ESSlONAL PROCEEDINGS.
SENATE

WASHINGTON, March 8.
Mr.. Wilson offered a resolution instructing the
Military Committee to inquire into the propriety of
amending the law for Furnishing the crime of enticng
soldiers to desert. Adopted.
Mr.. Johnsons resolution providing for printing
10000 copies of the Patent Office report of last
year, instead of the usual larger number, was laid
over.
Mr.. Green intimated that he would call for d-
rect vote on the Kansas question on Monday next
Mr.. Doolittle resumed his speech
He referred to the extraordinary statement of the
Senator from South Carolina, charging the North
with breaking plighted faith and sandering the
South by means of National Banks and tariffs 1t
was not the North that repudiated the compact of
1877, or the compromise of 1920 As to National
Banks and tariffs, he showed from the record, that
the greatest statesman of the South, Calhoun sup
ported the very tariff that he Mr. Hammond COM
planned of. He also voted for National Bank and
supported Internal improvements. Referring to Mr..
Hammonds estimate, relative to the resources of the
North and South, he said the hay crop of the Uni
ted States surpassed in value, the whole Cotton
crop of the South; and TO the taunt that North,
ern laborers were slaves, he stated that his own
father was laborer, and other gentlemen on that
floor, stood in the same category and he asked
if he and they were to be branded as the sons Of
slaves!
He then passed on to the sub ect of Kansas show.
ing the inconsistency of the advocates of the Lee
compton Constitution. The President bases the le
gality of that Constitution on the Kansas and Ne
braska Act. Mr.. Hammond takes different ground
-contendlng That the sovereignty of Kansas is
vested IN the sovereignty Of the States to be exer
cised by Congress alone.
| The Senator from Tennessee places it in the peo
pie OF kansas-the independent Territorial Legisla
ture and the independent Enabling Act, while the
senator from Georgia asserts it to be in the Terrific
rial Legislature. He (Mr. Doolittle) contended il
sovereignty resided in the people, the Topeka Con
| stitution is legal instrument
! Mr.. Foster made speech against the Lecomptor
movement, in which he said he would never assent
to the admission of another Slave State.
! The Senate received the House printing bill.
Adjourned.
| HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Mr. Taylor, of Louisiana offered a resolution O.
inquiry into the facts attending the seizure by the
! French Government of the Bark Adriatic The
resolution provides for redress to the owners anC
| the prevention of similar proceedings
Mr. Taylor contended that no court of any foreign
| country had right to condemn an American vesSe
for failure to carry lights in the absence of al
American law requiring such practice. The &C
| OF France was an attack upon our sovereignty anC
an infringement of the law of nations. He though
that owing to the important principles involved
immediate steps should be taken by the Government
relative to the matter. Referred to the COMMITTEES
on Foreign Affairs.
The House passed the bill making an appropria
ton of S341 184 to defray the expenses of paper
printing, etc., for the SD and 34th Congress-
| The House, in Committee of the Whole on tn
state of the Union, took up the bill making appro
| priaton for Consular and Diplomatic expenses fo
the ensuing fiscal year.
Mr.. Bocock made a speech for and Mr. Dave
against the admission of Kansas under the lie
compton Constitution.