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Mr. HALE said he would make no objection He only
wanted TO know what his rights were

va" MAopN replied 10 some OF the suggestions Of Mr.
bAiL. ny hrs vote to admit Minnesota into the Union
he wished to be understood as expressing no opinion In
reference to the provisions Of her constitution with regard
To suffrage
Several other senator's briefly assigned the reasons which
would influence their votes The bill then passed
yeas ~, nays y--as follows
YEAS Messrs Allen, Bell Iggs Bright Bolerk Brown CAM
sro" Chandler Clark coiame citenden Dixon, poie Dong
purkee, Evans, Fitch, Fitzpatrick Foster Green
Hale iiamin, Hammond, Harlan Houston Hunter
rg sebastian seward simmons sliieI stuart, Sumner rio
Of New Jersey roombs Trumbu Wade wilson Wright
AIsENr Nor VOTING Ssssr. Bates I@yaa, Benjamin Big
DAVIS Fessendcn Henderson, Thomp
! son q Kcniucky-iI
After the consideration Of executive business,
The Senate adjourned.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
The SPEAKER laid before the House communication
from the Secretary Of War in relation to increased
pcnsatos for quarennater clerks which referred
to the Committee Military Affairs and ordered to be
printed
Also, communication from the same department in
relation to the contracts made for supplies for the Utah
expedition the prices paid for transportation &C.; which
was laid on the table and ordered to be printed
Also, communication from the Department of State
in relation to the Amoor river which was laid on the
table and ordered to be printed
THE POLICE BILL
Mr.. GOODE, of Virginia, asked consent that Senate
bill the subject Of police for the city of Washington
might bc taken from the Speakers table and referred
to report at any me with the understanding that when
it shall be reported back it shall be considered in Com
mitee of the Whole with the House bill on that sub
ject
Mr.. SEWARD, OF Georgia. objected
CHANGE MEETING
Mr.. WARREN, Of Arkansas asked but did not OBJ
tain, consent to offer resolution changing the hour of
meeting from IL O'Clock, M, to 10 o'clock, m.
NEW WAGON ROAD.
| Mr.. OTERO, Of New Mexico, by unanimous consent
introduced bill making appropriation for the
struction of wagon and emigant road in the Territory
of New Mexico which read twice and referred to the
Committee Military Affairs
RESOLUTIONS or STATE LEGISLATURES
Mr.. STEVENS, of Washington presented Joint resolu-
ons of the legislature Of that Territory relative to the
creation of three additional land districts in relation to
the false reports Of General Wool in regard to the Indian
wars in that Territory &c. which laid the table
| and ordered to be printed.
Mr.. ROBBINS, of New Jersey, also presented certain
joint resolutions of the Legislature of that State which
were laid ON the table and ordered to be printed
vorE on TIE KANSAS BILL.
Mr.. STEPHENS of Georgia wished it to be under
stood all sides that the Kansas bill would be voted
| tomorrow at o clock
MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE.
message was received from the Senate Informing the
House that that body had disagreed to the amendment
of the House to the bill for the admission of Kansas
into the Union.
THE DEFICIENCY
| On motion Of Mr. LETCHER, of Virginia, the House
then went into the Committee of the Whole the state
of the Union, r BoCoCK, of Virginia. in the chair and
resumed the consideration of the deficiency bill.
Mr.. LETCHER, of Virginia, closed the debate. He
felt that he himself and the committee with which he
acted placed in very embarrassing position by the
course which had been pursued in the debate They had
been fired upon by friends and foes all seeming to
in the conclusion that unless every provision could be
made acceptable to them they prepared to vote the
bill down, and leave the government without the
carrying the policy that had been inauguated The
opposition asked whether they had not strained the
constitution in introducing the appropriation for the
| army. He maintained that they had not in spirit
or in letter, violated Of the provisions of the
constitution, and that there considerations which
operated the administration in making the rec
ommendation which ought to operate the House
in adopting IT, For the last two three years there
had been general complaint in both Houses Of Congress-
and throughout the country that the late administration
had not performed its duties in allowing the Territory of
Utah to be governed by officers who entertained the
gous sentiments that characterize the people of that
Territory, and they told and again that it
the duty of TINT administration to them and
place others in authority When the present aminstra
| ton came into power these complaints general
everywhere and of its first acts to commission
officers and send them there For the purpose of
escotng these officers to their field Of duty the President
furnished body of men amounting to about l,S0O.
This not anticipated when the last administration
went out of power, and appropriation made for
it, These troops there the policy of the admins
tration had been endorsed by the passage of resolution
and all they desired that they should have the means
OF subsistng these men, He read from the statement
furnished to the House by the Secretary of War; to show
that the prices to be paid for transportation
able and that any supplies that transported to
Utah could be transported for great deal less money
between the list Of April and the 3lst of August than ut
any other period Of the year. For this reason the Sec
rotary Of proposed to anticipate the regular APP
preparation, that these articles could be pur-
and
Upon the score of economy the opposition ought to
support the measure, for if their purpose should be
accomplished, and these supplies should be purchased
and transported under the appropriation in the regular
appropriation BILL the government would be compelled
to py four dollars for transportation instead of ST
The recommended for which the Sccreta-
ry instead Of rcproach deserved commentator ut the
hands Of thr House He conened that the bill not
general in Its TERMS but specific, and declared that it
not wonderful when the surface Of the country had
doubled that there should be enhanced price for
transportation. If the Utah expedition had been i'm
properly begun, why had they not raised this qucs-
ton the day Congress met and stopped at that very
point If it begun wrong that the time to put
end to it, They could then have directed the with
drawal Of the troops Injustice done to the country
and sriff Esatcr injustice to the President when II was
charged that this expedition scnt there improperly
The gentleman from Illinois Srs l0yEJoY had done him
self we'll the Secretary If War; very great injustice
by his changes that this Of puncrcs and spec
uators He had charged that much greater price was
paid for corn, horses and cattle than the market price,
and that contractor had stated muck to him but
when he asked TO give the akfs Informant he
shielded himself by saying that the seal Of private conf
dence was it. He would ask that gentleman whether