The Placer herald., 1858-01-23
Kansas Matters.

Mr.. Douglas, who is opposed to the man.
ner in which tho Lecompton Constitution is
submitted to the people of Kansas, has in
troduced an enabling act in the U. S. Senate
which provides for Board of five persons,
to be appointed by the President, and con-
firmed by the Senate, to make an enumera-
tion of the inhabitants of Kansas, and fair
apportionment of members of the Conven-
ton; also provides for an election to be held
on day designated by the Board, not less
than ninety, nor more than one hundred and
twenty days from the passage of this act
also provides that the Board shall be intrust.
ed with the appointment of judges and places
of voting, which is to be confined to every
free white male citizen of the United States
over twenty years who may Ee bona
of December, and who shall have resi-
ded three months prior to the said election
in the county in which he offers to vote; also
provides that the Convention shall assemble
at not less than thirty nor more than sixty
days after the election of delegates; also pro-
vides that the Constitution shall be submit.
ted to the legal voters for their free accep-
tance or rejection, and unless adopted by the
majority of all the legal votes cast shall be
null and void.
The bill secures the personal and political
rights of the people, including those of speech
and the press,
Kansas, regarding the Lecompton Conven-
ton swindle upon the people, acting Gov.
Stanton called special session Of the Terri
torial Legislature. In his message to that
body upon its organization he says, that in
consequence of recent events having produc-
ed profound agitation of the public mind,
and sense of wrong and injustice, whether
well or i'll founded, and an apprehension Of
greater evil arising theretrom, having arous
ed the people of the Territory to their con-
sideraion and dangerous excitement, find
myself compelled by a sense of duty to call
you together that You may adopt legislative
en- the public peace. After reviewing the
formation and a. ton of the Constitutional
Convention, Mr.. Stanton recommends the
passage of an act directing the election to
be held under different officers on the same
day and at the same places, as are provided
for in the proclamation of the President of
the Convention, authorizing the people to
vote for Constitution in either of the forms
presented 10y the Convention. The Governor
also recommends the passage of a law max
ing a fraudulent return of votes a fe.ony,
with suitable punishment.
Kansas letters to the Missouri Republican
state, that intense excitement prevails among
all classes of people in the Territory and
the probabilities are that the party opposed
to the Lecompton Convention will not permit
the election on the 2lst. Gen. Lane with
300 or 400 men were ercamped near Le-
compton, and threats had been made of driv-
inc Gen Calhoun and the members of the
Convention out Of the Territory, but no out
break had vet been attempted
Upon the news reaching Washington that
Secretary Stanton had called session of
the Kansas Legislature, he was removed by
the President, and Gen. Denver appointed
in his place. At last accounts Denver had
not reached the scene of his duties