New-York daily tribune., 1859-02-14
KANSAS.
sTARTJNG REPORT.
D~puty u. 8. Marshal Woods said 10
be Hung by Old Brown.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE LEGISLATURE.

I.wRFNcf x. T., Feb. 6, 1859.
r,as l;tpe week more and both brsrcAcs Of the
Y.rritc-iAl Legislature will be defanot 1he g'oy
~ ,,s SolAps and LycurgnFes IA alrc.dj on the
.~.s anon 70 merge into the moro sbsiowy renen-
;..,n,s Of "tbe year was in the Legislature"
TIE Council certainly has good many Ems 70
s,,rer for, a., in addition to al tie iniqwties OF
Al last session, its members hive shown decided
,3sposilion TO keep it up. Political repentance
rv.y,Iy becomes sioctro anterior to defeat. Stdl,
fh;, Winters legislation is, tae who,e, credlta-
1le They have done rcne good thisgs, ana TIE
Lover House bss tried 20 DO d 2oOo many more.
The product 80 far is certaiRly rather chaotic. IL
Uwoud d take Philadelphia lawyer" TO compre-
Aepd the Kansss code as II now stands: thst IL, u
there is an Omnicient genius IN this neither earth
capable OF cOnprebegdiog IL.
Last bitht the Members of the Legislature, and
others were busy eating and drinking the Governor
ut the Eldr,dge House. Governors who have the
veto power liable to be popular duriOg the last
week of the session. Some pryste bills coatrlve Ic
get majority under pressure, but their lrebus
would find it rather expensive to get two thirds.
A Governor, therefore is liable to have good deal
of incense burned under bis nOse, and fer the time
being ~ apt 10 fancy himself the most popular,
the greatest and the best Of beings. political
dinner is sort of aste dd te, ht which the spirit oi
aiseord is supposed 70 be offered up oy the Grand
Inouisitars Sam MedaTy, too, is very Jolly old
,entlemsa. While theoretically a LecomptOn
Democrat, he tuIns very cold shoulder on men oi
that iIk He seems to have sensible regard for
msjority, and the more violent Pro-Slayery men
eurse him, which is, so far, credltabIe.
The most important bill recently passed is new
apso,tion,nent law il is far from unexceptlOn-
able bu, infinitely better than the Border-Rui tn
tbiug. Ii gives seven COuncilmen south OF Kaw
River and six north of il. OF representatives,
there are twenty-five south and seventeen north.
Still it is by no means fair thing and no arbitrary
xppoItionmeDt be iar, where there Is htte cor
rect information On which To found II, and Wnlcb
10 controlled by men who are elected from districts
having far more representation than they are entl-
lied 10. IL is proper TO mention that bill was
pending, and had been printed, Tor census, ana
an apportOnment based on 1t on the single district
system. That was what ought 10 have been passed,
but the members, who had each their own ends TO
serve, were guilty of killing the bill aud providing
On arbitrary spp0rtlonment For tins they VIII
have to answer TO their constituency, and think
it viii ultimately "brug forth fruits meet for re-
pentance."
The apportionment under the new Constitutional
Convention bill is somewhat similar, for while 1t
oechews the fagrant indecency of the last appor
tionment, it is by no means fair. The Convention
bill that passed is good enough sort thing IN Its
way Under IT, Constitution may be framed; but,
in view of the past and present hstsry of Kansas 1t
cannot be regarded as a remarkably profound pro-
duction 1t possible that ansas may get into the
Union under lie provisions but there are few OF those
who have shaped those parts OF the Kansas policy
that have challenged the respect of the world who
would like 20 be held responsible for il. 1t was,
in fact, gotten up in the first place by one or two
persons who were more ambitious 10 inaugurate
such movement thsn qualified to do 1t justice;
and. although objected 10 by many on several
points was hurried through for fear II would be
pocketed, Ike that Of last session.
1t provides that an election shall be held ON the
fourth Monday of March next, 10 decide whether
there shall be Convention TO form Constitution
and State Government. If the majority vote for
Convention, the Governor shall lssue ms prOciana-
ton calling it. The election for delegates shall be
held on the first Tuesday of June, and the number
Of delegates shall be -. Or theie, Wyandot
County shall choose ,; Leavenworth, Z; Atchlson,
3; Doniphan, a; Brown, /: Nemsha, i; Marshall,
Washington and Arapahoe, j; Jefferson, =; Cal
houn, /; Riley, l; Potawatamie, Il johnson, 2;
Douglas, Z; Shawnee, 3; Richardson, Davis, Dick
iuson and Clay /; lykins, 2; Franklin, l; Breck.
inrid ge Weller aud Madison, 2; Wise and Butler,
4; Linn .; Anderson, | Cofiey and Woods0n, =;
Hunter, Greenwood, Godfrey and Wilson, /;
Bourbon, MeGhee aud Dorm, 2; Allen. /. The
Convention shall meet on the hrst Tuesday OF july
and the Constitution shall be submitted to vote ot
the qualified electors on the first Tuesday vi Octo-
ber. If it is accepted an election of State officers,
Legislature, judges aud other officers, provided for
in the Constitution shall be held on the first Tues
dsy of December. The Convention is to provide
for the Transmission 10 Congress Of the Constitu-
ton, and 10 ask for the admission of Kansas into
the Union. When this petition shall have been
granted, the Governor elect is ~ convene the Leg
islature, and set the State Government in motion.
The act also contains provisions for securing honest
elections. The section defining the qualifications
Of voters is as follows:
"Au white male citizens Of the United stsss 81 those
who have declared oath the intention 10 such, and
eli male Indians ~ho have been made cir Do the Unseo
State, by treaty CT Otherwise ard who hA be over The e d
fSshy sho shall have been hde Inhabitants
of the Territory Of hanss Tor the p-riod Of elk nsx pre-
esi each Of the respective elections provided Sty this act
shall bona hde Inhabitants u county
which they thcr for days neN preceding each
sf the elections aforesaid and others as be
entitled vote Al the seyeIsl elections h.r.beoEe provided
fo: Provided that officer, soldier marine
ssher Peson In the srny navy q the United States
the provisions this ai
ay reason ef belrs service in this Territory"
The southern difficulties remain in statu quo
Gallant Marshal Russell, finding that Montgomery
would not beseige him III Paris, is at loss what 10
do. He has force of 400 men who are mostly
from Missouri, and who have been promised So a
day by somebody. If we estimate, besides toe
amount that they steal from the settlers Of that sec
tion, We will see that the war costs something |
send the following official" dispatches of this Eel.
low Little TO Fort Scott. He does not tel all the
truth and garbles what little be does tell, adding
such Wholesale abuse 10 the settlers thieves "
and 'murderers," the nature of which may be APP
pTeclated when II is known that his armed force is
chiefly from Missouri. But the document is still
interesting. Only think of United States officer
mastering an army without authority from any
Court and before he had tried 10 make single
arrest. In fact, it does not appear that he ever