Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1858-03-13
Thirty-Finh Consress-First Session.


+E8 MONDAY, March 8, 1868.
: oENATE-Mr. Wilson offered resolution in.
struct'ng the military committee to inquire into the
propriety OF amending the law for Furnishing the
crime Of enticing soldiers to desert-adopted. 80
Mr. Johnson's resolution, providing for printing
10 600 copies Of the patent Office report of last
year in the whole instead Of the usual large mum.
ber was laid over
Mr.. Green intimated that he would call for a di.
rect vote on the Kansas question on Monday next
Mr.. Doolittte of Wisconsin, resumed his speech.
he referred to the extraordinary statement Of the
Senator from South Carolina, charging the North
with breaking plighted faith and plnndering the
South oy means Of national banks and tariffs 1t
was not the Nor;h that repudiated the compact of
1887 or the COMPROMISE of 1920 As 10 national
banks and tariffs, he showed from the record that
the greatest statesman of the South, Calhoun sun.
ported the very tariff that he (Mr Hammond) com,
planned Of He also voted for national bank. and
supported internal improvements. Referring 70 NJ
Hammonds estimate relative to the resources If tho
North and South he said the hay crop of the United
States passed IN value the whole cotton crop of
the South; and as to the taunt that Northern Ia.
borers were slaves. he stated that his own father
was laborer-and other gentlemen upon that floor
stand IN the same category and he asked if he and
they were to be branded as the sons of slaves?
He then passed on to the subject of Kansas show.
ing the inconsistency ofrhe advocates of the Lecomp
ton Constitution. The President bases the legality
OF that Constitution the Kansas and Nebraska
"c'. WI. iiduulohu taxes q 0lnerent ground, con.
tending that the sovereignty of Kansas is vested in
the sovereignty Of the States to be exercised bv
Congress alone. The Senator from Tennessee places
it in the people of Kansas-the territorial Lep,sla
ture and the independent enabling act, while the
Senator from Georgia asserts it to be in the terri.
torial Legislature. lie (Mr Doolittle) commended if
sovereignty resided in the people, the Topeka Con.
stitutior is a legal instrument
Mr.. Foster made speech against the Lecompton
movement, in which he said he would never assent
to the admission Of another slave State
The Senate received the House printing bill.
Adjourned.
House OF REPREsENTAr1vEs.-Mr Taylor, of Loui-
siana, offered resolution Of inquiry into the facts
attending the seizure by the French government of
the bark Adriatc. The resolution provides for re-
dress to the owners and the prevention of similar
proceedings.
Mr.. Taylor contended that no court of any foreign
country had right to condemn an American vessel
for failure to carry lights in the absence of an
American law requiring such practice The act of
France was an attack upon our sovereignty and an
Infringement Of the law Of nations He thought
that. owing {" the important principles involved ;,n-
media steps should be taken by the government
relative to the matter. Referred to the committee
on foreign affairs.
The l"u passed the bill making an appropra.
ton of $34l 1874, to dcfray the expenses Of paper,
printing, &c, for the thirty third and thirty fourth
Congresses
The House, in committee Of the whole on the
state of the Union took up the bill making appro.
prations for consular and diplomatic expenses for
the ensuing year.
Mr.. Bocock made speech for, and Dawes against
the admission of Kansas under the Lecompton con.
stitution.