The Nevada Democrat., 1858-05-05
NEVADA, WEDNESDAY MAY s, 1856
n,h. K.na.. ane.tlon In cengress.


The action Of both houses Of Congress on the
Kansas question will be found in the news sum-
mary on our first page. 1t will be seen that
the Senate bill for the absolute admission of
Kansas under the Lecompton constitution has
been defeated in the House Of Representatives,
and the substitute proposed by Senator Cr;:tcn-
den adopted by that body. The bill admits
Kansas into the Union with the Lecompton
constitution ON condition that majority Of the
people Of the Territory approve Of that instru-
ment; If not approved by them, then provision
is made for the calling of a convention to frame
. new constitution, which shall be submitted to
vote OF the people. In either case, on the
constitution receiving majority of votes. Kan
sas is to come into the Union as State by
proclamation Of the President The Senate
had refused to accept the substitute adopted by
The House, and at last advices efforts were be-
ing made to get up conference committee in
order to adjust the differences between the two
houses II majority Of the Senators are hon
est in their professions, that they wish to end
the Kansas controversy, they will adopt the
House bill Let them pass 1t, and Kansas mat
ters can never again be agitated in Congress
There is no probability that the House will re-
cede from its position in any important par
ticular, and unless the Senate adopts the sub
sttute the bill will fail, and the Kansas ques
tion will 60 over to be discussed in another
=, Congress
During the discussion Of the question in Con.
gress, Washington letter-writers were in the
~ constant habit Of asserting that the administra-
ton policy would be adopted by the House, and
Il is humiliating fact in many instances they
based their calculations on the fact that there
was . large amount Of patronage to be dispos-
ed Of, which it was intimated would be used to
buy up votes But the letter-writcrs were at
fault; and hereafter people will be able to form
more correct estimate Of the assertions Of
would-bs government organs and their Wash
ingten correspondents. Whether or not gov
ernment patronage has been used to procure
the adoption of the administration policy, we
have no means Of knowing. Statements to that
effect have been made, but there is no evidence
Of the fact that such means were adopted to
carry the measure through the House.
For the present at least, the "expedieuey''
policy which the administration was endsavor-
ing to enforce, at the expense of principle, has
signally failed. Threats of ostracism were of
no avail, and if the Senate will adopt the House
BILL the popular sovereignty doctrine, as advo-
Gated and understood by the Democratic party
In 1856, will be carried out to the letter. Let
them do this, and if majority of the people of
Kansas are in favor Of the LeOompton consti-
tutien, they will have an opportunity to adopt
IL; il they are not in favor Of it, it would be
rank despotism to attempt to enforce it upon
them. Let the bill become LAW, and the Kan
sas controversy will be banished forever from
the halls Of Congress, and the President and
Cabinet can then direct their energieo to the
acquisition Of Cuba and Sonora, aud to those
other great questions Of foreign and domestic
policy 80 impsrativsly demanding their atten-
tion.