New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-01-19
uorSr oV REPRESENTATIVES,.

The Houss phes.d tie Ssssts bill authorizing the
issuiDg Of American regifere ana chsose o. hauleS
80 the steamships Canada aod America.
M, MIIISoN Wal askec, but failed TO obtain,
leave 10 Introduce resolution, directing the Committee
on Commerce. 10 report bsck forthwith the Senate
hill rene alpQ the Fisbiog BOoptiss law.
Mr. COBB (A,al iron tss Committee on Pablo
Lands. reported bill coi ftirg ths sggregate coDpsp-
ystop Of the Reeist~rs sud kocei9ers OF the Pablo
Land Offices 20 $500 per annum each. shicn vas
pesso Mr. Goth M ntio n.d that tbs bill vas intended
10 correct stealing and Other abuses, AMI menloned
Plstisbu,g Mo. case 10 pOitt, wnere $O,OOO vas
received for ore years. service.
Mr. COBB reported bl to revive AMI continue In
foyce without restric,on or fudta'on of time, the
Bounty Land acts of 1885, 1872 and 1851; aso, b;h
providing for repayment for l'nds erfoheousy soini
also bill authorizing the parties who s7yNeu on zoe
I6sb and 3b sections If land before they were surveyed
10 p,,gu,pt the sane. Aso bill appropiiatng
a5 go 20 run mark ard establish the western o1unds'
ny of MINI eOta.
All the above bills were passed.
Mr. SHERMAN lOhiol sSid no had received a
letter from ID. B. Aler citizen Of NeT-York Of high
staudpg prtfeDiDg ch4Tse agafst certain civl oh-
Gers in connection with toe Brooklyn Navy Yard.
which IL true, would involve csses OF impeachment
also letter IRON aber of this House. c1-rgloS
that the offices ard employ mens IN the Navy Ysrds
were babitoaly cold fer money lie had also 10 MS
DC sse ssion Pbiiadepbia paper IN regard 10 the
abuses at the Navy Yard a, Phadelphia, aud atida-
wits and certificates vi wolkme0, which, True Clearly
proved the ctarge. 80 , -,
as MT Allen has preferred specific charges agsinst
cfrfaIp Ulcers If the Navy Department as gut ty OF
partially and violation of la in the award OF con-
tracts, and that money appropriated for the Navy
Yards docks and rpsiis hes been expended Tor par
tssn purposes, 1t istherefoc
Resd That a select co@uiss Of FIVE be appointed TO ex
said specifications, with p~er to send tor persons
and papers
The resolution was unanimously adopted.
The majority auo minority reports on the Oregon
bill from Tbe Go nni'te 90 Territories were preserte1
TIE report Of Mr. GROW, representing the minority
ia as follows: 80
VIEWS OF MINORITY # he COMMITTEE on Terri
tories, on ne Atpiicatton Of the Peopte Of Oregon
for Adgission iafo ne Union
By section g. srcle Of the Constitution, II IL pro-
yioed that kelc Stotts 1y be admitted by the Con-
gye.s into he Union. Tue time, mode and manner
Of admission are, therefore, lett by the Constitution
wholly to the die elton Of Congress In the exercise
thereof, States have been admitted some WITH some
without previous act Of Congress authorizing the
people Of The Territory to form Consultation aud
State Government The Territories Of the Union
have thus been transformed into States without uoi-
formiiy in the mode and manner IT procedure, ana
without any uniform rule 10 ~ the number Of poOult-
tioD; the whole sutiect Of the property Of admission
haypR ben left 10 toe discreet, OF Congress at the
time Of the application of tue proposed State,
The two Houses of Congress, no Tever, at
their lsst session, declared 10 their seton on the
application for the admission OF Kansas as
Stste, that its then existing, popaation was
sUfiici, nj for it's una edate admission into the
Union as q Sldpe Sta e; bot, If its people were 40
willing to come into the Union with cue a Consttu-
form a CONSTITUTION ard State Government prepare
tory to beir spphcah'n Tor adnshon, whenever,
" ard not btOre IL 10 aseerapec ny census guy anu
illegally taken that the population OF said Territory
A." EQUALS or exceeds the ratio at representation re-
"qlned for Member OF the II ,use OF Represent
"tives Of the Congress OF the Unitsd Siates Iaat
restriction upon the action of the People of haneas
received the approval of TIE Precedent, and is law
ppon the statute book to-day
The P,e,ident not sat fled It'll his Official approval
of the the time Of its passage, takes occasion,
H. AQtN. IN M So
cage at the openif of the presrut ssou OF Conge's,
10 cav relative the Adhesion Of Kansas as State,
that, surely a. ts not Reasonable 10 TeT1i'e me
"DeOpL> of Kansas 10 rat tt0re Making tttTd NJ
"t.mDt nml fbe hbmber Of their inhabitants shall
"omCunt 10 20. 49,"
Rad the unre bleness Of this requirement sug
gested ittef 10 the Prtsteut 10 his Message trans
hitting the Lecompton Constitution 20 Congress-
much vaiuabls time 10 the J. slation OF the couotry
might have been saved, and dangerous sectional
agitation av0ide6.
The President il the same annual Message, fpfther
declares that any attempt by the people of Kansas
to form State Constitution before the number Of their
population reaches the required amount, would be an
",TPre's violation Of ne Proris'oH' q an act OF Con
"g1ess," and in the judgment of the Pre-dsnt there
fore could not Law fully he made. Should Vt be at
ten pted judging failure by the past conduct of
the Executive towsrd the people OF Kansas the
President would declare il Of rebellion or trea-
con, and the army of toe Repabdc ~oulo agaio be
employ underline plea of prestr ing law and order To
suppress constitutional liberty in K4usae.
ment where Congress has declared that the same
population which reco 2nlzed ss sudicentfo for Slave
State was rot snticieot for a Free Stats; aod the
Chief Magistrate oi the Republic not only sanctions
such dis ninnston, bat avOss bis re 4dness 10
inst IL IN the execution Of the laws so far as they
Affect the people of Kansas.
With this law on The ststute-book aud with these
official declarations ~ the President, n Is proposed To
acmit Oregon into the Uoor with population less
than the DGmber required by this law, and tom the
beet sources Of nfc'mston s,thu the reach of your
COMMITTEE, not exceeding, # equal, TO that of the
Territory of Kansas.
TIE Gndsrs,gI ed minority Of your Committee are
unable TO appreciate the fairness Justice OF this kind
al legisation tOwsrd The people of different Territories,
and unwi ling 10 give their sanction III any way TO
disCIim nation AS 10 the amount Of population re-
quired fos FIee Slave st tie and mach less as to
the controlling political character of the proposed
State.
The application for both Kansas end Oregon to BE-
admitted into tie UIon presented at the last ses-
zion Of Congress. Neither hsd been authorized by
previous If CongIers Ia form Constitution, 80 in
that respect they we're both alike. As yearly as could
be rtSDed loo having been taken 10 either
since 1850 there wAs little difference 10 tue
number q y cir population. Each had elec'sd " a
STATE Legislature aud otter officers, and ~ far they
were ahke prepared 10 enter the UsOO. The only real
difference that existed IN tie tso cssss prior ~ the
apple ition for ethel thst Oregon had Terri
t"iih Government not unsatisfactory II her people
ara Legislature chozeo 10y her own citizens, while
the territorial organization Of Kansas WAS usnrpa-
tion ey fraud ana force, SId it's political powers
Welded by uSufpcrs an1 despots
Without expressing any opinion as to the propriety
of restriction on rev States 10 population if gen.
eIal in its character or to the necessity for any
Previous act by Congress suthoriTog the nation of
a State Govefnmec', snd wrhoat iIqliring whether
the Constitution sub1ted by the people OF Oregon Is
republican in form aud consistent ia its provisions
with the guaTsJt OF the Constitution Of the United
States, while the restriction "n the action Of the people