, 1859-03-25

I tropollS" seems entirely 10 msapprehenu
: the nature of Delegates duties and the
relation he Sustains to the several branches
of the Government. lie says that "you
: as a Territory are represented in the
Hoase, while in the Senate you have no
representative, no friend at court"
t dissent from his proposition. a DelegGte te
f is allowed by courtesy to sit and speak in
! the House. The same courtesy accords tc
5 him certain other privileges OF a member oi
!, Congress But he is merely, as the term
! Delegate imports, the accredited agent oI
, the people Of the territory, authorized to
make known their wants and wishes, not
only to the House Of Representatives, but
to Senators, the President and heads Of
!, Departments. This is the view l have
, taken of the relation in which l stood to-
, wards those in authority. Without the
power of representative in the House,
but regarding myself as delegated by you
to watch over your interests and make
known your wants to all departments Of
government | have thought that should
very imperfectly perform my duty, if
limited my labOrs in your service 10 a few
words occasionally spoken in debate in the
/, House Of Representatives. As far as my
influence aren't, you had a friend at court, y
Hot only in The House. but in erery depart.
Blent IF Government. And as faithful as
have been in the House, my labors have
J, been by no means confined to that body.
Whenever duty called, have labored for
your interests in the Departments, and
With the President. strove as hard to
secure the passage Of the admission bill
through the Senate, as could have done
in the House, and think l may, in jas.
tice to myself, say that my efforts contrbu-
ted somewhat to its success in that body at
the last session.
The author Of the communication in the
Statesman affects not TO understand why
the admission BILL having passed Nc
Senate, failed in the House Pretending
to understand the rules of the two Houses,
be asserts 1t the admission bill was
subject to be called up there in the House
by majority vote at any time in the same
manner in which it was taken up in the
Senate" 1t would be difficult to find in
any one sentence in the English language
o more willful perversion Of truth, or a
?! noora dnploro hla onount of ioporapca than
is evhibitcd in this stotemant Tbe rnIos
If tLe two Uo,sos oroscrih;no, tho 3D. 81
4 Lrs;noss oro or,iroiv difForon,
Tn tho Sonote moioritv con tale mn
onv hin discnss IL noec mon !, onJ nrd,
ceed to other business. When Mr. Doug
las moved to take up the bill for the admis-
sion Of Oregon, it was done by majority
inr vote In tho HoDse the rnIes ara vorv
diffsront On Mondovs n ;s in ordor 20
snsnepd rules which c.r bo dono onIv h, =
tw6.tLirds vote On onv o,ber dov ~ H.
weok bneiness can be taken nm ont Of lie
order Inv nnsnimons consent onJ, o.
man obiectinr con. nrsvont5tLo +olinr mn ~
onv biII On the 5tb dav of Jnne Ipst
M Stenbens of Georcia tbs Cboirmon ~
of The Commiitee on ToTritories sncccodoJ
in taxing our admission I'M from tbo FIos
and bod II roesrred 70 his comm;Itco
You will bear in mind that II was not
until the third meeting of The committeo
tbis session that a D,,;oritv co,Id ho III
in favor Of reporting it. 1t is now nearly
three weeks since Mr. Stephens was autbo-
rized to report it,; and though he is anxious
to bring it in, and has used every means in
his power, and will continue to do so. it is
by no means certain that be will be able 10
report the bill for some time to come. You
will also bear in mind, that member has
no power over bill tina has been referred
to committee; nor has the House any
power over it while in the hands Of the
committee. My accuser might as well say
that l could take up the war bill and have
it acted upon, as to hold that had my
power over the admission bill while in the
hands OF the committee. Mr.. Stephens
will avail himself Of the earliest opportu-
nifty to report the bill lie is most skill
tui and able parliamentary leader. But
the objection OF single member, as stated,
may stave 1t oil under the rules, until the
committees are called in the regular order
OF business. When that will be, l cannot
say. All l can say is, that in spite of all