Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1858-02-13
The Vote in the House on Kansas.

the following resolution offered by MIR. Harris of
Illinois, was taken up for consideration. Mr.: Har-
ris demanded the pre>i ous question cutting off all
debate, which was ordered by vote of 1l3 to 1O7.
The resolution is in these words:
Resolred, That the message of the President
closing the constitution framed at Lecompton, in
the Territory of Kansas by convention Of dele
gates thereof, and the papers accompanying the
same he referred to select committee of fifteen, to
be appointed by the Speaker and that said commit
tee be instructed inquire into all the facts con-
nected with the formation of said constitution and
the laws under which the same originated, and
into all such facts and proceedings as have tram
spired since the formation of said constitution hav.
ing relation to the question Of the propriey of the
admission of said Territory into the Union under
said constitution, and whether the same is accepta
BILE and satisfactory to majority of the legal voters
of Kansas, and that said committee have power to
send for persons and papers"
Before the vote was taken, however, upon this
resolution, Mr. Stephens, of Ca, moved the ,efer-
ence of the message of the President Kansas to
the Committee on Territories, the Committee to
which the subject properly belongs, and to which
the friends of Lecompton desired to refer it. This
motion was lost by the following vote:-
YEAs-Messrs. Ab Anderson, Arnold, Atkins,
Avery, BarkSdele, Bishop, Bccock, Bowie, Boyce,
Branch, Bryan, Burnett. Burns, Caskie, Clark
of New York, Clark of Missouri, Clay, Glenn
ems, Cngman, Cobb, John Cochrane of New York,
Corning. Craig of Missouri, Craige OF North Carroll
ma, Crawford Curry, Davidson, Davis of Mssissip-
pi Dimmick, Dowde, Edmundson, Elliott Eusts,
Faulkner Florence, Garnett GaTtreil, ellis, Gilmer,
Goode Greenwood, Gregg, Hatch Hawkins, Hill,
Hopkins Houston, Hughes, Huyler, Jackson, Jen-
kins, Jewett, Jones of Tennessee, j. CLANCY Jones
of Pennsy lvania, Kett, Kelly, Kunkel of Maryland,
Lamar, Landy, Letcher, Maclay, Mcqueen, Marshall
of Kentucky, Mason Maynard, Miles, Miller, Mill
son. Moore Niblack, Peyton, Phelps, Phillips, Pow
ell, Qui,man Ready, Reagan, Rcaud, Ruffin, Rus
ard, Shaw of North Carolina, Shorter. Sickles, Sin
gleton, Smith Of Tennessee, Smith of Virginia. Stall.
worth, Stephens Stephenson, Stewart of Maryland,
Talbot Taylor of New York, Taylor Of Louisiana,
Trippe. Underwood, Ward, Warren: Watkins,
White, Whitley, Winslow, Woodson. Wortendykc,
Wright of Georgia. Wright of Tennessee, and Zolii-
coffer-113
NAYs-Messrs. Abbott, Adrain, Andrews, Ben
nett, Billnghurst, Bingham, Blair, Bliss, Brayton,
Buffinton, Burlingame Burroughs. Campbell, Case,
Chafiee Chapman, Clark of Connecticut, Clawson,
Clark B. Cochrane of New York, Cockeril Cofax,
Comins, Covode, Cox. Cragin. Curtis, Damrell, Da-
Wis of Indiana, Davis of Maryland, Davis of Massa-
chusetts, Davis of Iowa, Dawes Dean, Dewart. Dick,
Dodd, Durfee, Ede, English, Farnsworth, Fenton,
Foley, Foster, Gddings, Gilman, Gooeb, Goodwin,
Massachusetts, Harlan, Harris, of Illinois, Haskin,
Hickman, Hoard, Horton, Howard, Owen Jones of
Pa, Kellogg, Kelsey, Kigore, Knapp, Knnkel of
Pennsylvania, Lawrence, Leach. Letter, Lovejoy,
McKibbn, Marshall of Illinois, Montgomery, Nor
gan Morrill,, Morris of Pennsylvania Morris of H.
inois, Morse of Maine, Morse of New York, Mott,
Murray, Nichols, DIN. Palmer, Parker, Pendleton,
Petit Pike, Potter, Pottle Purviance Richie, Rob-
ms Roberts, Royce Shaw of Illinois, Sherman Of
Ohio, Sherman Of New York. Smith of Illinois, Spin
ner, Stanton, Stewart of Pennsylvania, Tappan,
Thayer, Thompson, Tompkns, Wade. Walbridge
Wadron, Walton, Washburne of Wisconsin, Wash
burne of Illinois, Washburn of Maine, Wilson, and
Wood-114.
The reference to the Committee on Territories was
defeated by one vote, and that vote cast by H.
Winter Davis the Plug Ugly Representative from
Baltimore, who voted with the black Republicans
The question taken the resolution of Mr..
Harris given above, and it was adopted yeas ia,
nays Ill. The vote was nearly the same as the
above but Mr. Gilmer of this Sta.e, did not vote on
this proposition. On the next motion, however to
reconsider the vote and lay the motion to reconsider
on the tab'e-also test vote, and designed to fix
the matter securely possible for the black Re-
publicans--1Ir. Gilmer present and voted with
the South. Seventy two Southern Democrats, twen-
ty-eight Northern Democrats and eleven Southern
Know Nothings voted against the resolution Of Mr..
Harris; and ninety.one black Republicans and
Northern K. Ms. twenty-five Northern Douglas
Democrats and one Southern K. N, Davis, of Ma
Iyland, voted for the resolution and against the
South. The Illinois delegation went in body
against the South. The Washington correspondent
Of the New York Times, black republican paper,
holds the following language the subject. We
give it for what it is worth by way of showing the
calculations Of the black Republicans:
The triumph in the House to-day was complete,
Notwithstanding some treachery, as usual. Burns
and Pendeton, of Ohio, who have over and over
again been pledged against Lecompton, yielded
the former at the solicitation of Stedmap the House
Printer, who beseged him in his seat until the per-
spration poured from him in streams
Pendeton disregarded the instructions of the Ohio
Legislature, and obeyed Senator Pugh, who at the
last minute induced his desertion.
Seaman, who promised to vote for Harris motion
if he would modify it as he did voted against it.
Haskin is the only New York Democrat who
boldly obeyed the dictates of his conscience and
sustained the wishes of his constituents. The
change of his would have carried the reference
to the Committee on Territories, bnt he spurned
every proposition for a retreat and saved the ques
ton. 1t was on this motion that the Administration
expected success.
Clarke now says that he will never vote for Le-
compton.
McKbban's father, who is a federal office holder,
was present, and begged him to sustain the Admin
,stratlon, but to purpose. He nobly maintained
his convictions
Slie and hafa- dozen other Senators were on the
noor continually, endeavoring to save Lecompton.
My own impression is that the Administration
can never come near success again as they did
ton.
In the Senate, on the test vote to-day, Allen re.
fused to VOTE
Bell and Crittenden will not vote for Lecompton
on the question of its passage.
fugh lodged The vote altogether. He is for q
TERMS
rearce has expressed no opinion on the question.
nevertheless the administration will have several