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ooNcREss-l.t SESSION.
wAsHIsaroH, Deoember 80.

| WAsHINGr0H, December 80.
SENATE.-Mr. Rice, Of Minnesota, intro.
duced bill extending the provisions Of the act
to enable Arkansas and the othar States 10 re-
claim swamp lands within their limits to Min
nesota; also, bill making ap appropriation
| for building military post near the 49th de-
gree Of north latitude, in or near the valley
| Of the Red River of the north; also, o bill
making an appropriation forerecting build
ing in st. Paul, Minnesota, for Custom house,
Postofice, 10. He also gave notice Of bill
providing for temporary government in the
Territory of Dacotah. Several papers wore
withdrawn from the files.
No other business was transacted, and the
Senate adjourned till Tuesday.
H0USE.-Mr. Perry, Of Maine, offered a
resolution that from and after to-day, until
the organisation Of the House by the election
of q Speaker, no member shall speak more
than twenty minutes, nor more than once on
any question before the House, until every
member who desires to speak be heard, and
all motions to lay on the table shall be decided
without debate.
Objections were made.
Mr.. Boyce, Of s. c., said that tho South
feels that on this slavery question hangs their
very being, because you can not overthrow the
system on which their civilization and social
fabric rests without q war Of races with the
South; therefore 1t is question of life and
death. The arch fend could not have found
device more effectuar than o sectional party
to convulse this great Republic, Jefferson
looked on the sectional issue with regard to
slavery as one fatal to tho Union, but he was
oonsoled with the reflection that he would not
live to see the day of disaster. The Repvb.
lican party was purely sectional, and did not
propose modification of any laws outside of
the slavery question; they proposed strictly
sectional test He proceeded to show that
this Is government of delegated powers He
had looked to the Republican organization
generally to ascertain their objects. To
eight of the Northern States they have inter
posed all the obstacles they could to prevent
the enforcement Of that plain clause in the
Constitution providing for the rendition of
fugitive slaves. Senator Seward had said:
"YOu must receive the painting fugitive and
defend him as you would your household
gods"
Mr.. Stanton, in reply to Mr. Boyce, said he
misunderstood he position Of the Republican
party on the fugitive-slave law. There were
differences among them as to what a fugitive
slave should be and whether the provision Of
the Constitution makes it obligatory on a
| to Congress. For himself, if 1t were an orig
| inal question, he should hold that the power
was vested in the State, but as II is, he held to
the mporaneous construction of the Con-
stitution, which had been acted upon by the
departments of the government, and which
had been scquiesced in by the people and
| ought to be recognized, and so conceded to be
| the constitutional power of Congress to pass a
| fugitive slave law. So far as the law Of 1850
was concerned, he did not believe it was con-
| sttutional in its details as TO tho mode pro-
| vided for making proof. He wanted q law
which would be available, but not to enoour-
age kidnapping under the color of Law and
capture persons not slaves. Tho judicial
power of the United States Is yested in the
Judges appointed by the President and con-
frmed BY tho Senate, and he held further that
when the fugitive-slave law authorizes COM
missioner appointedlby the Judge and,not by the
President, and confirmed by the Senate to sit
in Judgement as to whether the person arrested
is fugitive or not it, is vesting constitutional
power whore the Constitution does not author
ize it.
He held the law to be unconstitutional in
this-it deprives the party of the right to
habeas corpus to test the question as to the
process under which fugitives are claimed,
and whether it is conformable to law, and
whether or not there is q pretext 10 put into
slavery free man. He knew, in point of
fact, that the law,is-grOssly abused in the free
States. He knew men were constantly kid
mapped under color of Its provisions. He
knew of person in Ohio who had received
letter, asking him to give description of free
negroes, the writer ssyin he would find mas
ters for them. Hence the difficulties arise.
Mr.. Cox, in the course of his remarks, referring
to Mr.. Stanton, said he was not the exponent
Of the dominant section. He was mahog-
any Wing, slightly vanished over with Re-
publicanism. The Republican party is all
sectionalism when you 60 to Ohio, but here it
to give the odor of nationality.
Mr.. Stanton claimed to understand as well
what the Republican party is, as his colleague.
He was quito as much An exponent as his COL
league was. He was member of that party
in good standing. His colleague mistook
when he said the Republican party in Ohio is
sectional. The Republicans in Ohio 20 for
the Constitution as 1t was framed and con-
strued for sixty years after it was formed, and
will make their platform, and for its support
quote the opinions Of the Fathers Of the Re-
public. .tras osfHli .eia
Mr.. Kellingsr, of Penn, said he had heard
the Republicans define their position which
he, as one Of the peoples Representatives,
could not indorse at all times. He thought
it time to say that he and others elected on
that ticket, came from Pennsylvania on an
issue entirely distinct from disturbance Of
law. Twenty-Five out of twenty fve members
from Pennsylvania owe their seats principally
TO their principles Of protection to American
industry sg we'll as to the resistance to further