The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-04-11
PROCEEDINGS on THE THIRTY.SIyTH CONGRESS
SENATE.

SENATE
WASHINGTON, April 10.-Mr. SUMNER pr
sented the memorial of Mr.. SanbOrn, of Concor
Mass, in regard to gross attempt to kdnap hil
by persons claiming to act under the authority
the United States Senate. Mr.. Sumner narrat
the circumstances of the attack upon and the ca
ture of Mr.. SanbOrn, and his subsequent releas
and said the act conspicuous both as to ii
man against whom the attack was directed and Il
i place whereit occurred. Mr.. SanbOrn was a qu
gentleman of excellent fame as a scholar, and
pure lite. This was the man who was seized. I'll
attempt was made at Concord, where seizure VIZ
once before attempted which ended in the revolt
ton OF these States The Senate owed somethin
to Its own character, and should wash its hands
this transaction. He moved the reference of tn
| memorial to the Judiciary Committee MIR
| MASON said this man, Mr. Sanborn was show
| to be either in correspondence with the man VIII
was hung at Harper's Ferry as a traitor and muI
| derer, or with his friends. He had therefore bee
| summoned before the Committee of the Senate t
testify. He replied by refusing to come, on tn
| ground that he feared personal violence wal
rant was then issued against him, and the Sergeant
alarms sent deputies to arrest him, who did SO
but he was rescued by mob and afterwards dis
charged by Justice Shaw upon a writ of hdbea
corpuS.-hlr. Sanborn's memorial was then read
! lie claims that he has rightfuy resisted the sum
mons of the Senate, complains of an unwarranteC
arrest, brutality attending it, and asks redress a
| the hands of the Senate.-Mr SUMNER wished
| TO correct one statement which fell from the Sena
| tor from Virginia. Mr.. Sanborn was taken from
| the custody of pretended officers-not by mob
but by writ of habeas corpus, enforced by pogs,
e0",ataLusMr ,a..n MASON said his authority was
moved to lay the memorial on the table until the
process should be returned. d.---Mr SUMNER
reluctantly consented, with the understanding
that 1t be called up when the process was re,
turned 1t was accordingly laid on the table,
Mr.; DAY Is presented petition numerously sign.
ed by citizens of Jackson, Miss, urging the cree
tion OF suitable building in that place for post
01hce.-Mr. GREEN presented a communication
from 7. T. Grant, of st. Louis, Mo-, relative to the
judiciary act of 1888, and in favor of changing the
ume allowed for taking the appeals and writs of
error TO the Supreme Court of the United States
DooI ne EN-, homestead bill was taken up, and Mr.
DpoLll L LE made long speech partly upon that
SUBJECT and partly on the slavery question, in the
course OF which he advocated the deportation of
Tree negroes to some tropical cline where thev
could enjoy their rights and live in social eouaitv
- MIR. MASON regarded the Homestead bill As
an abolition measure, brought forward and advo-
cated by the Republican party.-Mr JOHNSON,
OF Tennessee, denied that it was a party question
The debate took wide range, and was partci-
pated in by Messrs. Hammond, Chesnut WigfaIl,
Hunter and others.-Thc Senate adjourned soon
after four o'clock.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
MT. Ia LOR, member of the Committee on
the Judiciary, read his argument in support of the
Presidents protest. He denied that the House has
CATION OF any kind according to its mere will and
pleasure 1T so, this would not be consistent with
the great principles of law everywhere recognized
Where the rights of individuals are concerned and
as consequence the adoption of the resolution in
relation to the President was in violence of this
great principle of law. He refers to the powers of
the Select Committee as extraordinary and inouisi
torlal, when not particle of evidence against the
PRESIDENT had been placed before the House In
conclusion he says the positions taken by the Presi-
dent are right, and the protest made by him has a
SOLID foundation on the provisions of the Constitu
tlon and those great principles which underie
every system OF law established for the admnistra-
ton OF justice.-Mr. HICKMAN moved that
twenty thousand copies of the reports should be
printed. The propriety of this motion was referred
to the Committee on Printing ng.-0n motion of MIR.
hlChMAN, the further consideration of this sub
JectwaS postponed till Monday next-Mr GROW
called up the bill for the admission of Kansas
without desiring to make speech upon the sub
Iect, he proceeded to give a statement of facts,
showing that this was the third bill which has been
introduced for the admission of Kansas into The
Union, the first having passed the House ON thc
thlrd OF July, 1856, but which failed in the Senate
Kansas, year ago, had voting population of |
seventeen thousand, which is greater vote than |
in twOthirds of the Congressional districts of tbn
I mon. From all he could learn Kansas now has a |
population OF from one hundred and ten to one hun
dred and fifteen thousand inhabitants ts-Mr. |
CLARk, of Missouri, opposed the bill, on the
ground that the people of Kansas ought to have
''"cu out the principles OF Inc English COmprO- |
mise, which required a to be taken to ascer
tam whether she has the population equal to the |
ratio OF representation for member of this House
The people there had acted in defiance and con- |
tempt OF the law of the land. Besides, the boun-
iares of Kansas include Indian lands-eight hun
ired thousand acres-belonging to the Cherokees
lands which have been solemnIy secured
% the Indians by treaty. Would gentle
I men vote to set at nought the laws of
he land by admitting Kansas into the
) mon with the proposed boundaries >
lr. PENDLETON said he intended to vote for
his bill, and in doing this he would be acting in
ccordance with the English Compromise bill |
The leading fact was the population of Kansas,
md the essential requirement of the bill had been
complied with.-Mr. BARKSDALE called atten.
ION to the English BILL which requires a census to
,e uuiy ana legally taken. According to his in
housand. d.-Mr. PENDLETON renewed his re-.
marks: The President, in December 1858, recon-
1ended an appropriation of 100000 for the taking
i census, but the Committee of Ways and Means
lade no provision for this. The Committee on Fl
ance of the Senate reported an amendment to that
fleet, but the Senate voted it out, when a Demo-
ratio Senator declared that this rejection should
e considered waiver as to that part of the Eng
sh Compromise, which requires a census to be
aken.-Mr. PARROTT, the delegate from Kan
rs, said although the LecOmptOn Constitution was
haracteriZed as fraud, it was rendered to Kansas
5 an organic law. When this was stricken
own, there sprung from it a mean con-
|
was entitled a bill to admit Kansas into the
mon, when, in fact it was intended to keen
ansas out of the Union. The people of Kansas
ant to come in with their honor untarnished and
lsoiled, not onl a confederate but a co equal
to the people of Kansas being lawless he thought
at this charge came with bad grace from the /
'ntleman (Mr. Clark. The lawlessness was on :
e part OF the Missourians who made their raids :
to kansas-raids by cut-throats, who spread with
.rceness over the land.-Mr. CLARK asked y
neither the disturbances were not instigated by
e Emigrant Aid Society.-Mr. THAYER re- t
led to this by saying that Society was formed for
lslness purposes, previous to the passage of the 5
ansas bill-Mr. PARROTT, resuming, said it !
as false and slanderous that the people of Kansas d
sisted the laws of the country, and that they were
Voutionary either in their history or present at
ude. The so-called laws evaded by his constitu- i
It's were not the will of the people legally express
they were the expression of a Missouri mob, t
ID intended to promote and encourage fraud and f
y executed with the aid of the federal bayonets
Mt thither, and stimulated by scoundrels. He r
en- proceeded to show why Kansas should be t
mitted into the Union. Showing her population
sufficient Without coming to a conclusion =.
on the subject, the House adjourned 4
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