The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-02-12
NEWS BYTELEGRAPH.
CONGRE ssIONAL.

/ oregon Territories. -.aF ~ li---,;-1 -
On the resolution coming up, to permit
/ Professors Maury and Bache to accept
medals from the King of Sardinia, Mr. Crit
tenden of Kentucky, and Shields, of Mimi,
| expressed the opinion that no sovereign
better deserved the sympathy of the Anne
rican people than did the Sardinian King
He was the hope of Italy. The resolution.
was adopted. -sFzfcf5.F % !
/ Clay, of Ala, from the Committee of
! Commerce, asked to be discharged from the
considertti of the subject of Marine sig
! nails .-..-
On motion of Mr.. Seward, Of N. Y, tie
application was laid on the table for further
Considerations E q - IS 3 : 4 5
Mr.. Green, of Mo, from the Committee
on Territories, reported against the petition
of Messrs. OaReIy, Speed and Shafner,
who ask for means to enable them to- con-
| struct a telegraph line to the Pacific. s. l'4
Mr.. Seward, of n. Y, asked the Senate
to take up his resolution, offered s,,me days
rince, TO permit Messrs. Lane and TcCarty,
the claimants to Senatorship, to have places
on the floor, and argue their place.
Mr.. Bayard, of Del, spoke against the
proposal, and contended that the legislature
was guilty OF disrespect to the United States
Mr.. Seward replied that all that Mr.. Bay
7 ard had reported did not change the nature
of the case. He considered that by all the
rules Of parliamentary right, the claimants
h I'd the right to be heard. He moved, there.
fore, to postpone the consideration of the
| report until his resolution be discussed as
parliamen tary. .-.
The hour of one arriving, the tariff ques-
ton came up, on special order. ...,...., ..
Mr.. Chngman, of n. c., took the floor
and argued at great length in opposition to
| Mr.. Bigler's protection views.
! Mr.. Yulte, from the Committee on Post
Offices reported a bill to abolish the frank
ing privilege. 700 --. szsI - '7
Mr.. Wilson, of Miss, introduced bill for
the purpose of providing for the repayment
to The State of Mississippi balance due her
for money paid for the United States du-
ring the war of 1872. t5g hah -s'E
Mr.. Seward, of New York, called up tue
case of the Indiana Senators. He considered
the question not one oftransient Importance.
The State of Indiana is now unrepresented
and misrepresented in the Senate of the q.
s. He tdenied sthat the decision of the
| Serlate is absolute and irrevokable. He
could not conceive how Senators can main
| tai n that decision of the Senate is an ir-
re vokable judgment and he took issue with
| those who so maintained. The Senate act
is Legislative and not JUDICIAL, and hence, it
W as not final, hut subject to re-conSidera-
tiom. Mr.. Seward then proceeded to demon
| st rate that the Senate is bound to give the
| Indiana case consideration, and that State
| hAs a right to be heard by those men who
| sh c has chosen to represent her, for she has
entrusted her case neither to himself Mr.
! S,eward) nor to the Senator from. Illinois,
! H. hill Int l,r To nd A.,
| Bright has said that he had wished to make
reply, but his friends, it is said, had adj
Vised him TO leave the case of himself and
Mr.. Fitch in their hands. He would take
| another occasion to reply.
! A good deal..of incidental discussion arose
as to whether the vote to lay the matter on
the table should be equivalent to a final de-
| cixion of the case.
Finally a vote was taken on the mere mo-
| ton to lay the subject on the table, which
was carried by vote of 80 yeas to u nays,
the full republic vote.
The private calendar was postponed till
| to- morrow .sss
Mr.. Benjamin, of La, then spoke in favor
| of purchasing Cuba. q ttF aI p s'at -
HousE-The House resumed the consid-
Grafton of the Nebraska contested election
case. = i - g i4a'a- =
After debate on motion Of John Coch-
rane the whole subject was tabled by six
majority. ...-.--..-. .-...-..---.-. .at 81 s
Mr. Stephens, Of Ga, from the Committee
/ on Territories, reported back without amend
meut, the Senate bill for the admission of
Oregon into the Union. He said there eau
be no question that there is sufficient popu-
lation in Oregon to admit her into the
Uniou. Under the existing law and COM
pacts there must be at least 10000, and, in
his opinion, there was about 100, 900 ac-
cording to the ratio of increase. ..a,..- f.
Mr. Grow, of Pa, said that the question
of population, though a safe rule, would not
always control hisaction. He would take
into consideration the circumstances Of the
| application But Congress had recently set
the example not to admit State with less
population than was required for Repre-
sentative in Congress. Kansas could not
come into the Union unless as a slave State.
| Congress would not give her opportunity
to throw off federal oppression and wrong.
The population of Kansas is much larger
than that of Oregon. He would not give
his sanction to such unjust discrimination as
is now proposed in favor of Oregon.
Mr. Soaring of New York, rising to a
question of privilege, read an extract from
| the Washington correspondent of the New
, York Times, in which it is stated that the
paint purchased for the Brooklyn Navy
Yard was used in painting his Mr.. Scar
ing's) farm house, according to the evidence
elected before the committee appointed to
inySStigate the frauds in the Navy and Navy
Yard He characterized the article as a
coarse and base SANDER perpetrated and set
on foot by a still baser correspondent; and
D he called on the Chairman of the Committee
. to state officially whether such evidence had
been adduced.
Mr.. Sherman, of Ohio, decidedly stated
y that no testimony whatever had been sub
: mitted. atls-@ $50
: The House then resumed the consideration
J.. of the Senate Bill for the admission of Ore
gou into the Union.
, Mr.. Clark, of Missouri, said that the regu-
lation of alien suf'rages and exclusion OF
free negroes and mulattos, concerns Oregon
; alone, and, under all circumstances, she
:, ought to be admitted without regard to pop
j.. ulation.
: Mr.. Zollicofer, CT Tennessee, opposed the
admission OF Oregon on account of the in