Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-09-23


ate and the President, with which il is NOR
powerful, and by means of which it has 80 fai
rarely failed to defeat measures, however pop
uiar and beneficial, which it dislikcs.
The hottieetead bill had now passed til,
House by a decisive majority, but it had vel
10 encounter the more dangerous ottleaI of the
oenate III which the Democratic majority was
larger, and in which the representation OF the
slNcholdlng States is proportionatcy greater
NO direct vote ui'oh the bill was, in fact
feachcd Ill the Senate. The Southern mana
gers would not permit direct vote, and il is
PR posed to show by what methods they evad-
ed it.
AT that stage Of tile session, the Senate IS
the theatre of almost daily contests for the
priority Of business, it being in the power of
the majority at any time to lay aside all pend,
ing or assigned business and take up any bill
which they desire to act upon. tE
There are thus two ways of killing offobnox-
lous measures. One is, to act upon them and
vote them down. Another is, to oyerslaugh
them whenever they proposed, by proceed
ing to consider some other business This lat
ter method is Invariably resorted to where a
measure, obnoxious tc IA majority of the Sen
ate, is supposed to be acceptable to the people
And it Was precisely by this method, and for
that reason, that the homestead bill was run
| over, showed aside, eYadet, and left unacted up
on, by the Senate during its late session. I7
For proper understanding of the proceed
lngs by which this overslaughing of the home
stead bill was accomplished it is necessary to
observe that two other subjects--viz the reg
ular appropriation bills and the bill for the pur-
chase OF Cuba-were being pressed upon the
! time ot the Senate during the last days Of the
session, and both of them commanding the sup
port OF the majority of that body.
On the 18th day ofFebnary Mr.. Wade. of
Ohio (page 1919 moved to postpone al prior
orders and take up the homestead tin, which
had passed the House. Tine following extracts
from the debate upon this motion viii exhibit
the points made: ....-
Mr.. WADE. The homestead lii, to which
am a good dedl attached, has, 1 believe,
twice passed the House and come to this body.
but somehow ii has had the go-by, and we
have never had direct vote upon it here that
know of. l do not propose to discuss it for
a single moment, und hope none of its friends
: Will debate it, because it has been pending be-
fore Congress for several years, and presume
every Senator is perfectly well acquainted
with all its provisions, and has made up his
mind as to the course he will pursue in re-
gard to it. l have no hope that anything L
could say would win any opponent of the bill
to its support and hope every friend of the
measure will fake up no time in debate but will
try to get vote upon it, for / think it is the
great measure Of the session. All want, all
ask, is to have 6ote upon it.
" Mr.. REID, of n orth Carolina think 1t
is too late in the session now to take up this
bill to be acted upon here at least until we act
upon other great measures upon which there is
more uhanimity Of sentiment in the country,
and higher sense Of duty upon us to pass
them during the few days of the session that
remain
4" Mr.. HUNTER, of Virginia I believe that
fortnight from to-day will take us to the 3D.
of March. Now, it is known that we have
nearly all the important appropriation bills,
and one thatis unfinished to take up. hope
there will be no effort to press this homestead
bill, so as to displace the appropriation bills
L must appeal to the Senate to consider how
little Of the session is now left to us, and
whether we onght rot to take up the appro-
priation bill and dispose oft. 49,,
Mr.. SHIELDS OF Minnesota. The friends
of this bill desire nothing but vote upon it,
not TO waste time in debate. Let us take it
up, and have vote upon it.
- Mr.. HUNTER. do not conceal the fact
that I am very much opposed to it, but j sup
pose, whenever this bill comes up, it must be
the subject OF debate.
Mr.. WILSON, Of Massachusetts,. / ap-
preciate the anxiety of the Senator from Vir-
ginia to take up the appropriation bill but
I U-OI1ld cuoonCt to that Eana top fbat ha ollouy
us to take up this bill, and have a vote upon
it. do not suppose that anybody, who is
in fn%or Of the measure, desires TO consume
the time Of ffe Senate, at this stage of the
session, by discussing it. 1t has been discus
sed before IKE nation. 1t is well understood
I believe it is sustained by an overwhelming
majority of the people of the country.
Mr.. WADE. / have no doubt from the
business before us, that this is the last oppor-
tunity we shall hare to act upon this great
measure l hope, as 1 have said before, ev-
every friend of it will stand 10y it until it is
either triumphant, or defeated and that, too,
in preference to any other business that may
be urged upon us. AS to the appropriation
bills, / have not the least fear but that they
will go through. Their grayitation carries
them through"
Inc question was lHen Idken, ana Mr..
Vade's motion was carried by the following
otc, the Republicans being indicated by ital-
IS: g..
YEAs-Messrs Bright, Broderick, Chand-
n, Collamer, Diron, Doolittle, Fessenden, Foot,
7oster, Gwin, Hale, Hamiia, Harlan, johnson.
f Tennessee, King, Pugh, Rice, Setcard,
shields, Simmons, Stuart, T11snbuA, Wode,
nd Wlson-26. .-
NAysT lMessrs. Allen, Bayard Benjamin.
SigIer, Brown, Chestnut, Clay, Clingman, Da-
is Fitch, Fitzpatrick, Green Hammond, Hun
er, Iyerson, Lane, Mallory, Mason, Pearce,
Reid, Slidel, Toombs, and Wards.
Upon an examination of this vote, it will be
cen that the Republicans voted unanimously
n the affirmative, and That tho Southern Sen
tors were all in the negative, with the solitary
RECEPTION of Mr.. johnson of Tennessee, .wlrc' Is
selfinale man. sprung from the people, and
18th no personal connections WITH the slave
olding ilfistocracy of Ills section of the coun-
ry OF the Northern Democrats Gwin, Rice,
Fright, .Pugh,, Shields, Smith, and Stuart, all
oing from the new States, voted for Mr..
yade's motion.
The homestead bill was now up, and so far
Z IT'S friends rere concerned, nothing was ask
d but a vote which would not have consumed
en- minutes. But vote was precisely what
he Southern managers were determined to
old.
Instantly, therefore, upon the announcement
f the success of Mr. Wades motion; which
,rought the bill before the Senate, Mr.. Hun
er took the floor, and moved that it be set
side, so to take up another bill, viz: the
diplomatic and consular appropriation bill.