The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-03-03

Mr.. DAVIS had been recognized. The latter then
made an Intellectual motion to suspend the rules.
The Senate's amendments to the Naval bill were
taken up in Committee.
Mr.. BoCoCK moved to amend the amendment ap-
prOpriating S73,000 for the charter of vessels for
the Paraguay expedition, by giving the Secretary
of the Navy authority to purchase these vessels
chartering these vessels for nine months amounts to
this sum. In making the contract, the Secretary
inserted clause by which he could purchase them
at $3.50 900, only 100000 more than the price of
charter and $500 less than the charter price for Is
months.
Mr.. SEWARD did not think the constitution con-
ferred the power to charter vessels for the expedi
tOn. He had seen the Secretary of the Navy in the
House to-day suggesting this legislation to get out
of the difficulty he has brought about. He would
always put down his foot and lift his voice against
interference with legislation.
Mr.. PETIT protested against making any appro-
priation at ALL He asked whether the Secretary
made the contract on any other authority than the
joint resolution empowering the President to take
steps for obtaining satisfaction from Paraguay.
MIR. BoCoCK replied, that all and suff-
cient.
Mr.. PETIT said the act of the Secretary was an
usurpation OF power not granted. From the be-
ginning OF the controversy this Government had
not taken the right steps for obtaining settlement
OF the question in controversy.
Mr.. CLARK, of New York, was not without the
apprehension that the American people were in the
wrong. 1T the President and Secretary of the Navy
had right to build anavy, they had additional repi-
ments to the army If the navy was insufficient,
Congress should have been advised of the fact
| This chartering purchasing of worthless steam.
ers was private speculation carried on under the
| authority of this Govern nent
Mr.. BooOCK said that Mr.. Clark must pardon him
II he could not sympathse with him in his personal
| dstrust of the Secretary of the NAVY If these
vessels purchased they could be sold and every
| dollar saved to the Government He defended the
conduct OF the Executive observing that the Joint
resolution authorised the President to employ such
| force as he might think proper.
Mr.. DAVIS, OF Maryland, said the resolution vir-
| tually conferred on the President war making
power, and we are now beginning to reap the fruits
| OF most improvident and hasty legislation. The
Executive had created out of funds not given him,
heet which Congress did not authorize him to
| thority.
Mr.. PHELPS, of Missouri, said Congress- had rested
in the President authority to use such force against
Paraguay AS he deemed expedient and he read from
last years speech of Mr.. Ritche, wherein it was
said the President would act on the authority of
Congress; and he believed that the expedition of a
few small vessels would procure a settlement of the
difficulty and no necessity would occur for the en-
ployment of force.
Mr.. Grow said that instead of trying the Secre-
tary, Mr.. Phelps was arraigning the gentleman
from New York, and he added that the Secretary
had clearly exceeded his authority in chartering
vessels.
Mr.. LErcHER read from his own speech on a for
mer occasion, to show that he then thought the
JOINT resolution practically transferred the war
making power to the President. Twenty seven of
the opposition voted for that resolution out of ll5
and Is Democrats voted against it.
Mr.. GARNET said he remembered that he was one
OF those who voted against it, not being willing to
| confer the war-makng power on the President but
ne was willing to carry out contracts while against
| increasing the navy.
| Mr.. HOWARD said the resolution did not come
| within thousand miles of authorizing the Secre-
| tory to charter vessels.
Mr.. LovEJoY proposed to suspend all the pro-
ceedlng5 and to recall the vessels. He voted for the
resolution, and his excuse was an over confidence
in the Democratic party. His motion was re-
| jected.
Mr.. RIICHIE said. as his name had been mention
| ed, that he thought there cause for the pas
sage of the resolution then, and he thought so now
| The Committee of Foreign Affairs reported it
unanimously. When it was passed, the response
6illty OF carrying it into effect, devoved with the
| President.
| Mr.. BRANCH for recalling the fleet when
Paraguay was sufficiently chastised. There was no
more of a war than when we send out a force to
| chastse Indian tribes
Mr.. BuRLINGAME thought his vote for that reso-
| luton was right He hoped that whenever Ameri-
can citizens are injured, this country will be always
| ready to vindicate its honor. But he did not
by that vote commit himself to this singularly in
| tehcitous Administration, to the illegal con-
| tracts which have been made
At eleven o'clock the debate was still in pro-
| gress, with no immediate prospect of an adjourn
| ment.
HON. DANIEL E. SICKLES AT HOME.
The Albany Eceniig Satesman speaking of the
recent tragedy at Washington says:
The career of the individual who so pompously
enacts the character of the 'injured husband in
tins domestic turmoil is familiar to our citizens as
indeed 1t is known to the people of the entire State
lie has reputation for everything but integrity
honor morality and manhood. fthere is moral
| vice with which he is not onversant-practicaIv
tamiar-wo think it must be indeed MODERN
Those who are familiar with the libertine career
which first gave him possession of the unfortunate
woman whom he calls wife, will not be surprised at
the denouenent OF his married life. How she could so
long preserve her purity though such an example is
matter Tor conjecture In misfortune which ordi-
narlly commands for man so injured the sympa-
thy OF every human creature, he seems less entitled
TO the consolation to be derived from the coincidence
of his fellow citizens than auv man we ever knew
We can recolect no one act of his life that should
bring him even the we-wishes of any mortal
Some years ago-we think about six-he married
| ms vile, then young, volatile, wayward girl but
already, if common rumor be true hiding her shame
| In n tardy marriage.
The party to which ausion is made in the report
and at the breaking up of which Mr.. SickIes re-
| ceiVed the anonymous communication which led to
| tins exposure and murder-was dinner piyen bv
| Mr.. and Mrs. Sickles, to Mrs. Bennett, at which
PRESIDENT buchanan assisted So brilliant COM
bnaton OF first class stars should have secured from
the gods a more auspicious upbreaking. An anony-
nous letter-the exposure of a wanton wift,-a dis
honored husband, and a cold, deliberate murder
could hardly have been anticipated to be so nearly
| up "'o S"'h d host anu HosIesS anu Such
| guests put the world moves more rapidly than of
old, and they frequently compress the incidents of
tragedy in a weeks existence at Washington
The New York Ecening Post, replying to an ar
ticle in the New York Times in which Mr.. Sickles
is defended, says:
Anu :" ila. are lhe motlVes by winch the Times
seeks 10 Justify TINS act OF bioodshed The ICON
| tumely"-thati is the phrase used by the Times
which society heaps the man whose wife is faith
I less, is one of them. There is no such contumelv
either in this or in other of the kind Sickles
mas not Deeh maze the marx OF any contumely
on account OF the lnhdelltles OF his wife,
cept 50 Iar as they might be occasloned by his
own ,auIt; anu even then IL would not take
I,ie snaPe oi cohtumeiy, Dut OF sober censure
put II Lnere were any contumely to be appre
hended, Sickes is not the man to care for it. He
mas long porne the contempt OF the better part of
tne community; win perfect equanimty and CON-
placency: All ne had to apprehend was, perhaps
an occasional Joke ol MS rlbald companions; and
tnat certainly was wretched reason for delber-
a'G,y IdhihS Tue iile Oh a lehow-creature.
lhere Is yet another reason given by the Times
why the assassination OF Key not murder
even If he were wholly gutless. Sicklcs it seems
Imagined that his domestic peace" ruined.
TOW much uomestic peace there was to ruin, will
De the natural inquiry OF those who know what the
personal character OF Slckles has been. II that
were to be the sole measure of Keys guilt, he
would have, we suspect, little to answer for But
however this may be- it is certain that the man who
makes no scruple to invade and destroy the do
mestlc peace of others-he who, in his own prac
tlce, regards adultery as Joke and the matrimo-
nial bond no barrier against the utmost caprice
of centiousness-has little right tn comnI.in WIN
the mischief which he carries without scrune into