New-York daily tribune., 1858-03-22

| lae majority VIII oePeuu Va -
Mr. Dsyi, ssys ttst If vote be taken BY tsylgn''
beyTI BE- present. Messrs Reid and Bi.es cannot
Mr.. Tbonp.on of Kentucky is generally absent
but, if present. will neutralze the vote Of Mr.
Crittenden. Mr.. Allen Of Rhode Islsnd is exercised
about hi. Instructions to oppose the Constitution
The following is the division anticipated with
these qualifications:
Y.a-ke.n. Aler B.y,rd Benjamin. Big. Bsl-r, BHshi
Btwr y Evans Feb ii.2.i'ss 0,e'T Gs,1' Az hsa
JSt,. ses dns SobsdI Mallory as.on Pierce Pos
sess,'an seen TLou.on ~ - rooms- Jl rso c,,I
CoAmer Cr,i-narn Dixon DOod,tle. Dous Dsrkee Pe.
.-1's Foot Potter IL.e hEn h.Ii'R a. M r@sn
Absent, probably, Bates, Davis, Reid. Thomp-
sea (Ky).
| Dir. Secretary Thompson received letter from
Gov. Derver, on Friday, stating that ne would
soon answer CalhOuns request concerning the Del
aware Crossing returns, but recommending decla-
ration Of tbe result of the Legislature on the eyi.
| deDce communicated by him mouth ago to the
| Department. This was one reason of Cahouns
| publications. another hope that 1t would make
| di5ersion favorable for the Administration The
practical effect is prejudicsl, il being unsatisfactory
| to the South, and unacceptable to the North on
officers.
The ak Southern Americans stand firm in the
House, and are strengthened in their purpose BY
venal imputations. Mr. Horace +. Clark's friends
now state authortatively that he will vote against
Lecompton. His speech in opposition ia ready.
Nessrs. Pendeton and Burns (Ohio) want amend
ments The Administration leaders despond Of
success. and almost cOncede their defeat. They
express vague hopes Of recruiting their forces in
the West, but cannot name their men. They claim
only l18 votes at the White House.
When the President gets tranquilzed he will
nominate Mr.. Cadwalader as Judge for Judge
Kones vacancy, over host of hungry applicants
Mr. CsrutheIs is expected here 10 time to vote
for Lecompton.
Mr. Marshall will make speech whenever the
bill comes from the Senate, and will perhaps pro
pose weeks debate. The Southern Americans
propose, if absolutely necessary, to kill the bill,
but prefer and will probably adopt, Mr. Critten-
den's amendment, returning it to the Senate for
slaughter BY the Administration side, putting the
responsibility there Of making LecomPton superior
| TO the popular will.
Mr. MAYNARD has said that if Minnesota be tackled
to Kansas he will vote negatively; and other South
ern members proclaim a .imisr purpose il Mr..
Pueh amendment be attached. All signs conspire
sgainst Lecompton worse than heretofore
In the journal of the LecomptOn Convention,
submitted TO the Select Committee of the House,
several closing pages were missing, which Mr..
Stephens says will be supplied So the Constitu-
ton came here upon mutilated record.
To the Assocaed Press
WAsHIsGTos, March u, 1853.
The Republican mejority of the Select Committee OF
Fifteen, by Mr.. Morrill, will publish their report,
az that Of the minority has been spread before the pub
lie and that Of Mr. Harris is in type.
They sllude to the protracted struggle from which
their appointment arose. and declare that the assump
on on the part of the majority that the record is com.
plete ike the refusa to submit the Constitution Of
Kansas to full and fair vote Of the people, is con-
.esscu that thorough investigation would prove fatal
to the extraordinary document.
The Presidents messages the report OF the majority,
and the conduct Of John Calhoun treated at length.
Tie pledges Of submission the part Of the Nebraska
Kansas advccs.es the President, and so down to the
Union" et, alec claim their attention. They say
that their wanton violation is denounced as Punc
faith.
chronological order The legality and rregulsry of
the Lecompton Constitution from the beginning are
set forth by long array of facts step by step. Their
proportions are follows
1--WE claim that this Convention could not make
valid Constitution,
Il. because, whatever inherent power the people
nsy possess Congress refused all legal au hority to
the 1erritcris Legislature to call the Convention
Il ough urged by President Pierce.
"2. Because the Legislature which created it was
tse the creature of fraud and foreign invasion and
that this usurpation ives never consummated by the
acquiescsnce of the people
3. Because the act Of that Legislature passed
Feb l9 1857, to provide for taking census and the
ecton of delegates to Convention, wss never
itry was incomplete, the spportiOnment incom-
plefe, and the number Of delegates assembled was
incomplete.
a.. Because through the nefarous spportionment,
Il threatened exclusion from the polls unless coupled
with the payment Of tax to support q government
atk of all confidence OF protection at the pol ffom
violence and frauo the majority did hot al could not
participate ia the election Of delegates, and It was
hereftIe composed Of faction entitled to no
regsld.
themselves TO submit their work to the ratification
rejection of the peope-thereby securing their eec
ton-spd afterwsId betrayed their trust, and did no
so submit the Constitution.
90 Because il is not in fact the wcrk Of m.jory
of the Convention.
~ Because the legislative, Judicial and executive
powers conferred upon John Calhoun transcsnded the
power Of the Convention and there exercise was
irely Illegal ndtherefOre null and void
Tie proofs that the Constitution neither accept
able nor satisfactory" to the people Of Kansas
exhibited. The fact Of its utter rejection on the ith OF
January is earnestly claimed to be the only legal thiog