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THrRTY-FIFTH CONGRESS Second Session


WEDNESDAY, Jan. 26.
SENATE.
The Senate referred to the Committee on
Territories the jeint resolution asking an ex-
tension of the session of the Kanzas Legisla-
ture.
The credentials of Mr.. Fesscnden, senator
elect from Maine for the next six years, were
presented.
A molten to admit the ccntesting senators
from Indiana to the privilege of the floor, pend
ing decision of their claims, was discussed The
motion was opposed by Iverson, Davis, and
Bayard, and advocated by Seward and Bell,
and finally laid ON the table by vote Of 81 to
%.
The Senate then took up the Pacific Railroad
bill, and rejected the several amendments of
Wilson, Pugh, and Davis-the first named by
a vote of 81 to 10.
The Senate then went into executive session,
and, on the opening of the doors, the consider
alton of the Pacific Railroad bill was resumed.
Various amendments, including one for
Northern route, were lost.
Mr.. Hammond moved to table the bill. Lost
by q against 20.
All the amendments being now disposed of,
tomorrow at one O'Clock was appointed for the
vote on the final passage of the bill.
Adjourned
HOUSE.
bill amending the act establishing the
Court of Claims, SO to permit creditors to
sue the government, was referred to the Com
mittee OF the Whole
The Post Office Committee reported bill
providing for transporting the mails to the Pa
cifc coast.
Mr.. English offered substitute.
A bill was passed for Furnishing the forging
and counterfeiting of military bounty land
warrants etc. 1t provides punishment of
not less than three or more than ten years i'm
prSonment.
A resolution was passed calling our govern
ment to use its constitutional diplomatic and
commercial power, to procure from foreign
governments the removal of their present re-
Strictions on the import of tobacco.
During the proceedings, Morris of Pennsyl-
vania, characterized the resolution as an eff
fort to extend special protection to tobacco,
and suggested that iron and other products
should be included.
Mr.. Kelley of New York, introduced the
Homestead bill, which was referred to the Com
mittee of the Whole.
Mr. Grow of Pennsylvania, spoke briefly in its
favor and gave notice that he should ask a
vote tomorrow, and in this there seemed to be
general concurrence.
The House went into a committee on the
Consular and Diplomatic bill, and rejected
the pending amendment, that no money should
be spent in support of the education Of recap
tured Africans.
Mr.. Crawford, of Georgia, offered an amend
ment reducing the proposed $4,000 to enable
the President to carry out the law of 1919, to
$4,000. He commended that the President had
no authority to contract for the support of the
Echo negroes.
Mr.. Stewart, of Missouri, favored the CON
tract. The North make war on the President
for enforcing the Fugitive Slave Law and the
South for enforcing the suppression of the
slave trade He was opposed to this ultraism.
MIR. Moore, of Alabama, thought we should
not bolster up that rotten concern, the American
Colonization Society in Liberia, which has
proved failure and abortion.
Mr.. Case OF Indiana, could not see how they
could consistently vote money to educate these
negroes in Africa, when education of negroes
in Slave States is made a criminal offence.
Mr.. Keitt of South Carolina said the charity
of this Government had been prostituted in
unfolding the Colonization Society, which
sprung up from a spurious sentimentality in a
single night, which receives support from old
maids and dilapidated politicians, who COLOMBO
the negroes from maudlin humanity.
MIR. Seward of Georgia, looked upon the
laws for the suppression of the Slave trade as
violation of the Constitution.
Messrs Groesbeck and Hughes concurred in
the act Of the President and in the name of the
Democratic party and Of the nation, thanked
him for his humanity.
Mr.. Clay of Kentucky, was opposed to the
slave trade, but he thought the present laws
declaring it to be piracy were too severe to
be executed. He did not believe white man
could be hanged for it either in the South or
in Boston,
Mr.. Miles of South Carolina, announced
himself sectional man. He did not call him
self Democrat, but would unite with them
where he could do so conscientously. He was
not only prepared to advocate the reopening of
the slave trade, but the sweeping away of all
laws which stamp his constituents as pirates,
and placed a stigma on Southern institutions.
Mr.. Gooch of Massachusetts, said the appre-
hension was expressed as to what a Republi-
can President would do, in the event of such
an election He would say, that, in his opin-
ion, the Republicans would give to the law
the construction which two Democratic Presi-
dents have given them; the same construc-
ton to which the Democratic party have ac-
guessed for twenty years. They would go a
step farther than precedent would justify, sup
ported by the opinion of leading Democratic
statesmen. The construction given by the
President to the law of 1879 is the correct one.
The clause under consideration, making an
appropriation to enable the President to effect a
contract with the Colonization Society, &C.,
was then stricken out but this does not finally
dispose of the subject which will be brought
to a direct vote. The Committee rose and the
House adjourned.