The Washington union., 1858-03-11


committee
Mr. BURNETT, Of Kentucky, moved the previous
question whieh was agreed TO.
The Question was then taken ON exousins Mi. MASON
and he excused-yeas lO6, nays ~
MIR CURTIS, OF Iowa, entitled TO the floor.
Mr. RUFFIN, Of North Carolina, appealed to the gen
teman from Iowa yield the floor 10 him for moment
Mr. CURTIS expressed his Willingness to yield but OBJ
lection was made.
THE SPECIAL
Mr. STEPHENS, of Georgia. asked the gentleman TO
allow him present report from the select committee
ON Kansas affairs He would state il not his object
to have it acted upon to-day.
Loud cries of Regular order!
Mr. STEPHENS. Ii is not my object to have ii acted
upon to-day and will state to the House
Mr. MORGAN of New York l object to this
Mr.. STEPHENS 1t has been ready for week, and
wish to have it printed to-day.
under the call of the select committees for re-
ports.
AIr STEPHENS said the select committees would not
be called for two months.
The SPEAKER. Debate s not in order. The gentle
from Iowa is entitled to the floor
THE AInY BILL.
The House resumed the consideration of the bill pro
vide for the organization of regiment of mounted vol
for the defence of the frontier of Texas and TO
authorize the President TO call into the service of the Uni
ted States four additional regiments of volunteers.
Mr. CURTIS, of Iowa, proceeded to advocate the pas
sage of the bill reported by the Committee Military
Affairs He did not believe that increase of the regu
lar army necessary that could only be required
when regular army had to be met The rebellion In
Utah serious, imposing and terrible offence, which
needed to be put down For this purpose volunteers
more available than regulars The Mormons were
now in arms and would make stubborn resistance hay
ing from five to ten thousand fighting men The war
had actually coihmcnced, and It hesded ito decaa-
ton on our part to develop It, The force to be given by
the bill amounted to five regiments, which he did not
believe to be sufficient to que the rebellion and restore
the supremacy of the laws lie in favor of four reg
ments TO protect the approaches But still, they
should not hesitate TO give the force immediately The
question was grave to be made political issue, and
he hoped that would not be considered rs such Put
in the hands of the President d ii he did not
employ it in qucng the disturbances they should hold
him responsible If they did not give him the force the
campaign would be terrible one and the honor of the
country would not be sustained.
Mr. STANTON, of Ohio, obtained the floor
The morning hour having expired,
Mr. J. CLANCY JONES, Of Pennsylvania moved
that the House so into Committee of the Whole pend
ing which,
Committee of the Whole the consular appropriation
bill be terminated at one o'clock Tomorrow which mo-
ton agreed to.
The motion to go into committee was then agreed to-
ayes 80, noes 3D.
THE CONSULAR APPROPRIATION nlrL
The House accordingly went into Committee of the
Whole ON the state Of the Union Ir FLORENCE of Penn
syvania in the chair and resumed the consideration OF
the bill making appropriations for the consular and d
lomatc expenses of the government for the year ending
Goth June, 1859.
Mr. FOSTER Of Maine took the Clerk desk and
was supposed to have read speech the subject of
slavery opposing its extension and the admission of Kan
under the lecompton constitution His voice was
naudibe in the reporters gallery
Mr. TAYLOR of New York, earnestly advocated the
admission of Kansas into the Union under the Lecomp
ton constitution. The southern States properly went
back 10 the original compact and insisted upon their
and mot in erafuc Ia
Mise them The republican party did not want the ques
ton settled but wished to keep it open for the
purpose of producing further disturbances 1t might he
well for such people TO charge the Mssourians with
fraud at the elections 1t the duty of the legislature
to call the Lccompton convention, and it would have
been act of usurpaon for the Legislature to have
attempted TO control convention fresh from the
people. The people Of Kansas had asked IT, and were
bound by its action and the ceState had no right
to complain Of the consequences of their own neglect
These people had opposed the Missouri Compromise be
it restored the equality of the States and this was
the source of their opposition In New York he had
seen the rights of the people invaded by republican
legislature who had property to protect and no rights
to guard They had sympathized with the people of
Kansas but had sympathy for million and half
Of their citizens whose rights they had invaded
1t conended that the whole instrument should have
been submitted to the people and not the slavery clause
The slavery question the only question upon which
the people differed and that had been fully and fairly
submitted to the people. Why should they talk about
submitting the whole constitution to the people when
they had submitted any part of the Topeka consttu
ton The constitution OF California had been forced
upon the people by minority, and yet Mr. DOUGLAS had
opposed it, Now he turned from the Kansas constitution
crying fraud, fraud, and abandoning the principle which
by had aided largely in establishing The republicans
objected to the constitution because there pro-
vision made its change before 1864. After the expe
cnce they had had in these matters, there longer
any doubt to the sovereign right of the people The
Topeka constitution formed in rebellion to the coDst
utcd authorities was proper and legal in the eyes of the
republican party and did not need to be submitted to the
people. Admit the power th,t the constitution could
not be changed and they would bind the people for all
time Precedents showed that constitutions had often
been amended without provision having been made in
them for the change His duty led him to maintain
the equality of the States, and if he erred he did
the safe side
Mr.. HASKIN of New York, opposed the admission of
Kansas under the Lecompton constitution He claimed
that he had always been democrat He referred TO the
course of certain democrats in the State OF New York,
who supported the Kansas measure tor the purpose
protesting against the attempt to read out of the dem
ocratc party gentlemen who had sustained national de
uocracy all their lives. He could not be read out Of the
democratic party for his vote upon the Lecompon cost
tuition prccrrng TO be right than to be endorsed by the
nominal head of the democratic party. He contended
that the constitution did not express the will of the peo
pie and argued that it could not really be changed be-
fore 1866, and probably not before 1870.
Mr. DowDELI. of Alabama, protested against the ar
rest of Walker and his followers The rights of private
citizens invaded and the act should have received
severe rebuhe He then proceeded to discuss the Kan
question advocating the admission of Kansas under
the Lecompton constitution He maintained the equali-
y of the States and held that the admission of Kansas
would the equilibrium of the sections and restore
peace and prosperity to people who had long been DIS