New-York daily tribune., 1858-04-15

The House Of Representatives yesterday decided,
by the Speakers casting vote, TO grant the Com.
mittee of Conference on the Kansas bill requested
by the Senate. The vote stood Yeas lO3, Nays 1O5,
whereupon Mr. Speaker Orr gave the casting vote
for Conference. On the preceding call of Mr..
Montgomery of Pa. for the Previous Question on
bis motion that the House insist on its adherence
to its amendment, the vote stood Yeas One Hun.
dred and Eight, Nays One Hundred and Stren,
whereupon the Speaker voted Nay and made tie,
thereupon declaring the motion lost. This is tolera
bly, sharp practice, but according to parliamentary
law. The Speaker of course ruled every point in
favor of the Conference and it was finally carried
by his casting vote as afoIesaid-eyery Republican
present (and all were present but few who were
paired, go that their absence made no Odds), with
the six Americans from Slave States who had for
merly opposed Lecompton, and all but four of the
Anti-Lecompton Democrats, opposed Conference
The four who voted with the Lecomptonites for a
Conference are Messrs. English of Indiana, Hall and
Pendleton of Ohio, and Owen Jones of Pennsylvania.
This is the very first vote in the House on which
the adversaIies of the Lecompton fraud have been
beaten, and we cannot pretend to like the looks of
it. Still, our correspondents telegraph that the
four Anti-LecomptOn Democrats who on this vote
Coo, fha,r hrafh civ that
they have not swerved, and cannot be induced to
swerve, from the fundamental principle that the
People of Kansas shall be allowed full and fair
opportunity to adopt or reject their own Consttu
ton, or any one claiming to be such, and that no
instrument which has not been thus submitted can
be carried by their votes. We have no right to
dstrust these assurances, unless and until the acts
of those who give them shall belle their professions
We await the result, therefore, not without appre
tensions, but with faith grounded in knowledge
that the difference between the two Houses is so
broad and clear that no man can possibly mistake
and no sophistry, no jugglery can eface or con-
fuse it.
The Senate demands the admission of Kansas as
a State under the Lecompuon Constitution; the
House responds" Not without q fresh and fair
submission of that Constitution to the People of
Kansas" There is the whole case-whO can
mistake it We hold that the Lecompton Consti-
tuition is the offspring of fraud usurpaton, villainy
that it is not really the Constitution of Kansas,
but the device of her enemies and oppressors, coun-
tenanced by small minority only Of her People.
We appeal to that People themselves in support of
our position and dare adversaries to refer the
whole matter in controversy to that tribunal This
they will not, and dare not do-they dare do any
thing else rather-and herein they confess that
they kRo,c we are right or the main question. The
whole matter in dispute is involved in this question
-"Shall the People of Kansas be permitted to say,
in free and fair election, whether they will or
% will not have the Lecompton Constitution ?" and
our adversares struggle to the death against us on
this point, because Gas they say when pressed to
the wall) they know the People of Kansas will
reject the Lecomptcn contryance BY an over
whelmiDg vote And this, which is their reason
for refusing submission, is our reason likewise
for insisting on it.
As to the pretense that they deprecate delay and
wish the question settled at once, we say Then
submit the t,oo Constitutions, Slave and Free,
LecOmpton and Leavenworth, side by side, and
"et the People of Kansas say by their votes which
&" they will have, and let them come into the Union
" under whichever they vote for" This will end
the whole controversy within sixty days-end it not
only in Congress but in Kansas and everywhere
else. The other side only pretend that their sue
cess will lOcalize" the question of Slavery in Kan
sas, while ours will as speedily and surely terminate
and extiDguish it. How, then. is it possible that
one who has sustained the position of the House
should now vote to recede' What fear need be
entertained that ausht but unblushing treachery
can ever compromise or undermine the mpregns-
bic position taken by the Representatives OF the
American People!
| Our State Senate has confirmed the nominations