Litchfield enquirer., 1858-04-15
General News.

The Lecompton business came before the Sen. ate yesterday, and we go to press without the re. suit.
 The Senate matured and passed bill, bring. ing Kansas into the Union State under the Slave Constitution framed las, November at Le. compton by body represe ntng the Pro Slavery minority of her People; the House concurred in this action with an amendment, originally framed by Senator Crittrnden. (American) of Ky, modi-
 fled and presented to the House by Mir. Mont. gomery. (Dem.) of Pa., after consultation with
 leading Republicans for the purpose of removing objections. This amendment agrees to admit Kansas under the Lccempton Constitution. pro- vidrd the people of Kansas shall assent to and ratify the same, under an Election to be held so soon as may be under the direction and control of the Governor and Secretary of the Territory (De- mocrats). and the President of the Council and Speaker of the House, (Frec Stase), who jointly appoint officers of election, define the voting dis ,ricts, protect the polls, receive and count the reject the Kansas sbomina,ion. Gas every body knows they indignantly and overwhelmingly wih) then a. fresh Convention is to be chosen, new Constitution framed, which Constitution having been submitted to and accepted by the People, sh all he tfie ially communicated 10 the President of the Uni,ed States, who shall by proclamation pronounce Kansas State If the Union, admitted ny virtue oL thls dct anu heI own proceedings under it.
 Here, then are the two propositions in essence, as they now stand in Congress and before the country The Senate proposing to pull Kansas nto the Union under the fraudulenty concocted Lecompton Slave Constitution tie House insist ing that said Constitution shall first be submitted to her People and, if not ratified. that they shall be fully authorized and empowered to make an other and be admitted under it, as the Kansas Nebraska act and the Cincinnati Platform pro. fessed to guaran.ee
 The Senate has rejected the House amend ment the House has voted to adhere to it, cut ting off all propositions of compromise from thai side. If the Senate also adheres, or if nothing further is done in the premises, the whole pro- ject is stone dead, and Congress will soon be cal led to pass upon real application from Kansas for admission under -Free-State Constitution framed by delegates actually representing her People which Constitution will have been sub mlited to and ratified by them, and presented to 1 the House by their Delegate In Congress. ThIs is dilemma which the packers of Le- compton must avoid at all hazards. Hanshty, abrupt and defiant as was their rejection of the Abuse amendment, they find that, since the House can neither be bought nor bullied, they must cen back out of their disagreement -or do worse. But il would be too mortifying.,a .,a accent the House amendment precisely as it stands, af. ter having denounced and rejected it as absurd outrageous, unconstitutional. Hence an effort was made yesterday in the Senate to concur soith an an,end,neai, which amendment shall provide in effect that if the People of Kansas shall reject the f.erompton Constitn ion, and shall frame an. othrrf that new CoHsiitutian shall he submitted to and ratified by Congress before kailsss. sl,a8a be regarded as State in the Union.