Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1858-05-06
Proceedings OF Congress.

scheme concocted at Washington by the
political swindlers, has at last been consum
mated by the passage of the Kansas confer
ence bill How this was effected, the re-
wards of office to the parties themselves OF
immediate friends, as bribes for their course,
time may yet develop. The bill came up
in the Senate on Thursday.
Mr. Douglas objected to the substitute be-
cause it did not submit the Lecompton Con-
stitution fairly to a vote of the people, but the
admission virtually contingent upon the &C
ceptance or rejection of the land grant. He
objected too to the offer of bribe to Kansas
to come into the Union with 40. 900 population
under one kind of constitution, and not unless
she have 10000 population under another
What is this but Congressional Intervention,
Offering a bounty on enc hand and penalty
on the other to- control the result.
This left no freedom of election. For five
months past he MIR. Donglasl has stood rs
he now stands, with the democracy of his
State, on the principle Of submitting the con-
stitution under which the people of Kansas
shall come into the Union to a direct vote of
the people. That glorious band of democrats
who acted with him in Congress and out of
Congress have achieved Il triumph. lie sought
no personal triumph, and would not therefore
enter into the question Of what party has
backed down from their original pretensions
although the government did say at the cem-
mencement Of the session that Kansas must
come in Internationally under tie Lecompton
Consultation.
The Administration has receded from that
proposition, and he and his party are asked
TO recede from the position they have taken,
because the other party had made so many
concessions. But that is no reason why he
should concede principle. From that he can
not recede. Strike out the land grant and
strike out the limitation of population and he
would vote for the conference proposal at once.
la other words, if you wish to make the pro-
posa fair you must give equal terms to Kan
sas under whatever constitution she elects
How, he asked, would his friend from Vir-
ginia Mr.. Hunter) as Southern man, like
10 have Congressional Intervention brought to
influence the admission Of new States The
times may be reversed.
These may become an anti slavery majority
IN Congress, and would he like to see grant
of millions of acres as q bounty for new free
States to come in with 10000 population
Mr.. Toembs warmly defended the Confer
eence substitute, denying that any bribe of
land was offered On the contrary the Com
mittee refused to give Kansas the seventeen
millions Of acres she asked
Mr. Wilson replied to Mr. Toombs in ref
erenee to the II 600, 900 acres A direct bribe
is offered of hundreds of thousands of acres
and of dollars. Two millions of acres of
public lands are advertised to be sold on the
lst of Jolly, and here is a direct bribe of 3
per cent. On the sales amounting to hundreds
of thousands of dollars offered, if she will
ceme into the Union before the first Of july
On the other hand the direct penalty is thai
she shall be kept out of the Union, although
every one acquainted with Kansas knows tha
the feeling in that Territory is almost unani
NOUS in favor of admission.
Mr.. Wilson then went into a heightened
discussion of the hostility of Kansas to the
Lecompton Constitution, and charged that il
was now being attempted to bribe and threat
en- her into the Union under project gotten
up by Conference Committee, and intended
70 be imposed by deceit and fraud.
The Chalr was suggesting that the expires
sion was unadyisable, when Mr.. Green rose
and said he was one Of those referred to, and
he felt no hurt.
Mr.. Wilson said he had made the charge oil
fraud and could prove it, and would take the
responsibility. He then went over the record
OF the hnasas elections to show that the Ad
ministration assented to and approved of then
by continuing it's countenance to their authors
lie thought the people of Kansas wsuld re
Ject the bribes, scorn the threats, and coul,
not be got under this Conference scheme int
the Union except by stupendous and gigant
Eraaes OF fraudulent votes. The people 0
Kansas will make new free Constitution an,
BRING 1t before Congress. IF she has ensugl
population to come IN now as a slave State
you must admit her as free State or kee,
her out at your peril. There is no truce il
this substitute although there would have beel
peace IN Mr. Crittenden's.
Mr.. Green took occasion to refer to Mr.
Wilson's charge Of fraud, and said that gu
of the fullness of the heart the mouth speak
eth. lie would like to put him under cat
and cross question him whether there eve
were frauds in Kansas till Mr. Wilson wer
there, and whether he did not send for ,Jir
Lane" and concoct the matter with him.
Mr. Wilson utterly repudiated the charg
and reminded Mr.. Green that the frauds wer
committed by his constituent Missourians
Mr. Bell explained the reasons which woul
govern his vote. lie also compared the Cri
tendea and the Conference substitutes, shev
ing theiE relative worth and effect
Dir. Broderick said that after the matte
had been SO ably discussed he would not max
q heightened speech. lie would vote again.
khe Conference bill for several reasons. tb
anoss patent of which is that Kansas cannc
come iRta the Union as free state during th
continuance Of the power Of this administrf
ton. 1t has bnt 35, ,000 population now, an
if it does not swallow the Leeompton Const
tutlsn it must be five or six years before sf
will have the requisite population to EMIT
her to representation. The original bill vi
1ess Objectionable to him than this Confersnt
substitute.
Mr.. Doolittle read from the Secretary
Governor Kearney's history of Kansas to sho
10 reply to the remark of Mr. Pugh yesterda,
that the population of the Territory has
minished on account Of the deeds OF violsnC