Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1860-04-12
Congress.


In the Senate on Monday the Slavery resolu-
tionscame up and werediscusscd. In the House
bill was introduced tosupprcss Polygamy.
In the Senate on Tuesday, bills were reported
organizing Arizona and Colorado Territories.
The Homestead bill was discussed.
In the HOUSE, the bill for the suppression of
polygamy in Utah was debated at length.
Mr. McClernand advanced proposition to
divide Utah between Pixies Peak and Nevada.
In the Senate on Wednesday, Messrs. Pugh
and Wigfall had a :" set to upon the Homestead
bill in their usual vein.
The discussion of polygamy was resumed in
the House. Mr. Gooch of Massachusetts said
this Government has the power, and it was its
duty, not only to declare polygamy crime,
but to provide punishment therefor.
Mr.. Barksdale of Mississippi (Dcm.. asked
the gentleman whether, under the same power
to prohibit polygamy, he would not draw the
power to exclude Slavery. So far as he was
concerned, he saw vast difference between pro-
hibitng ~ crime and excluding property from
the Territories.
The question of Sovereignty over the Terrific
ries was then discussed at considerable length,
with a complete overhauling Of the popular
sovereignty notions of Douglas, the Republican
platform declaring that Congress has power to
prohibit these a." twin evils of barbarism, Polyg-
amy and Slavery and contrasting them with
the doctrines of the Democracy, claiming the
right for Congressional protection of Slavery,
Wien Mr.. Nelson moved the previous question,
and was allowed an hour to close the debate
In the Senate on Thursday the Territorial
Slavery resolutions were postponed to Monday,
and the Homestead bill discussed
In the House, Mr. Hooper, delegate from
Utah, defended the Mormons, declaring that the
passage of the bill would arouse the people of
Utah, and that he could not answer for the re-
suit. In reply to an interrogation lie did not
believe that majority Of the Mofmons would
average two wives apiece. The bill was passed
by l49 to 60. Verify the world moves. Now
let us have bill abolishing its twin evil
The House went into committee of the whole,
and the tariff bill was called up and discussed
After which, Mr.. Lovejoy said the House had
been engaged in giving the death blow to polyg-
amy By the Philadelphia platform, the Re-
publican party stand pledged, so far as the fed
eral government has the power. to exterminate
that other twin relic of barbarism, slavery, in
the territories, he wanted to have them both
stranglcd and go down together.
Mr. Lovejoy, warming up with his subject,
passed from his seat to the area in front of the
clerks desk in full view of all the, members,
and spoke in loud tone with emphasis and
earnest jesticulation against the ground on
which it was sought to Justify slavery, because
the creatures were poor and the strong have the
power to Cypress the weak, the rich to Cypress
the poor, the spirit of slaveholding being the
spirit Of the devil, &c.
Quite scene here ensued, nearly resulting
in a melee, but Mr.. Lovejoy continued to deal
walls Of wrath upon the heads of the Slave De-
mocracy.
On Friday the Senate passed forty private
bills. In the House resolution was adopted,
asking for information in relation to the expul-
sion of Americans from the city of Mexico