The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1858-04-15

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tious ; that the Senate had received notice
that the bill could not be passed that night
Doual.As likes nothing better than to i'm.
pale Fircn. This time he was moderately
cutting. lie said
have attempted 10 dragon nobody sir.
have appealed to nobody. have only
done my duty in submitting the motion. /
made no comment upon any mans VOTE
do not intend TO do so. Hence, do not
know how 10 understand the remark Of the
Senator from Indiana. He is only account.
able Tor his vote, and am for mine. do
not pretend 10 prescribe TO any man how he
shall vote,
1t is said We have received notice that we
cannot have the vote tonight. That is no,
satisfactory To me. want 10 know why
! have not found that the Senate adjourned
every time when minated thu, desired
to speak, or thought we coad not yet
vote on the measure. We have been forced
here into the night, the middle of the night,
and even towards morning. when u question
concerning the admission of State aud,
where certainly the title was not as clear as
the title Of Minnesota 10 admission. When
We have been forced 10 sit here in the dead
hours oil the night for the purpose OF getting
vote, and cutting of II debate on qucs.
ton at even slS o'clock in the morning, nm
to be told now that j, is dragooning il in.
sist on taking up the Minnesota bill at only
seventeen minutes past three o'clock. We
are not within an hour, or two hours of the
regular time Of adjournment
Mr.. Fitch, With the permission ol the
Senator ! will say that il isnot TO the taking
up OF the bill that object do not object
to having the bill taken up. do not deem
that an attempt 10 dragoon any one but
when the Senator resisted the motion 10 al.
iourn, he denies having made an appeal.
The reporter, presume, has taken Il down.
lie did say that he called for the yeas and
nays, for he wished 10 see who the friends of
Minnesota were Was not that AN appeal
Mr.. Douglas. Well, will say frankly
that desire TO see who the friends of Min.
ncsota are. Minnesota has been here ap.
plying for admission from the beginning Of
the session. She comes under an enabling
act, comes with n population that you nc
knowledge, by your vote, to be- entitled
10 two members Of Congress. She come
with constitution ratified by her PEG.
pie almost unanimously, with only five
hundred votes against il. Why il she kept
out, and at the same time Kansas, with only
forty or fifty thousand poplation, with
constitution which IL denied TO be the act
and deed Of her people, forced through by
night sessions Even after Kansas has
gone from us, We cannot, within the reason.
able Senate hours, have n vote upon Mime.
sofa and when ask why, the only reason
~, You cannot have the vote tonight -
That il not satisfactory. If there was "A
Senator sick who desired 20 make speech
II would be a different question. II there
was an act that addressed itself 10 the cour
tcsy of the Senate why We should no, pro
coed with the bill, that il question |
would be- very willing to see submitted to
the Senate bat when no reason p given
why we should not proceed now when the
usual hour Of adjournment has not arrived,
] could not understand this tcnacity TO get
rid Of Minnesota, and keep IL back. do
not know why il is done and say 10 gen.
tlcmcn, In all fairness and franknes that IA
chairman Of tho Committee on Territories,
who reported the Minnesota bill months ago,
! feel that il liz my duty to ask the Senate 10
take il up, aud proceed, at least with II I'M.
til the usual hour Of adjournment do not
wish 10 force night sessions. ] would not
ask IL but lot us 90 on 10 the usual hour Of
adjournment, and | think before that hour
arrives we Gun dispose Of the bill
Mr.. Fitch. ! have very few remarks
10 make--n0ne on the bill but a word in
answer 10 what fell from the senator from
Illinois lie IA at Ioss to understand the
purport or motive ofmy language AMI claims
to be the special friend Of Minnesota.
have no objection 10 that; believe be- IL No;
but il would have been better 10 have cvn-
esd his friendship on other occasions when
there was probability perhaps Of M
early passage Of the bill We have now re-
oeived notice that we cannot pass il today.
! am willing 10 take them nj their word
Where was the Senator's peculiar anxiety
for Minnesota yesterday morning. when tho
Senate agreed 10 adjourn over until Morpiay
and when Of course, there could have been
no action until that day. Where VIA his
on Territories, having II specially in charge,
be- aasnted ia the Senate that X ansas should
be made special order, AMI thereby placed
in advance Ol Minnesota, II s too late
now 10 come forward and urge Senators To
at all night, after notice that perhaps even
that will not avail the passage Of this bill,
AFTER having permitted opportunities 10 place
n in advance Of cyefythiD0 elsc IN nag by
DO not yield 70 him 10 devotion 70 Mime
sofa and its early admission
Mr.. DoolittIe. rise 10 question Of Or
der Is there any motion pending before the
Seratey
Mr.. DougIas. The bin is pending. trust
the senator will not interfere.
Mr.. Fitch. II was simply 10 compare
notes with the honorable Senator from Hi
nos in relation 10 action On the bill ff the
admission VI Minnesota, that rose ard
am only worry that my desire 10 make this
brief reply has found ne On the record, in