Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1860-03-09
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Congress s-xxxvI,h Session.
First Session


WASHINGTON, March s.
HOUSE.-Mr. Branch offered reeolu-
ton, which was adopted instructing the
Judiciary Committee to inquire aud 70.
port whether any legislation il necessary,
and can be adopted consistently with the
constitution, TO facilitate the organization
Of the House, TO preserve its order and
regulate its proceedings, previous to the
election Of Speaker.
Mr.. sherman, from the Committee on
Ways and Means, reported the Army Ap.
preparation Bill
Mr.. Stanton argued that the Bill should
be referred to the Military Committee, in
order that they might be enabled the more
Thoroughly to examine II and report reforms
Mr.. Curtis seconded Mr.. Stantons views.
contending that the general appropriation
bills should be sent TO the dilIereut Com,
mittee, and not entrusted alone 10 the Com.
mittee Of Ways and Means
Messrs. Sherman, Phelps, and WASH
burne of Maine, opposed this, maintaining
that such an arrangement would cause
confusion and delay There should be one
Committee entrusted with The general es-
tinates. BY pursuing the ordinary method
respecting the appropriation bills, the Nil
itary and other Committees would be ena-
bled, having previously examined their pro-
Visions, to propose amendments.
The bill was referred to the Committee of
the Whole on the state Of the Union, by
two majority.
The House took up the bill requiring tho
Executive Documents TO be printed previous
to the commencement OF the session, so as
then to be laid before the members, aud
fixing the compensation for printing the m.
The bill was debated at length, one side
regarding it as interfering with the oonst
tutional rights Of tho President, and the
other showing the Importance Of having
the documents at the earliest possible per-
iOd before Congress Those ordered this
session were not yet printed.
The bill was amended 80 as to authorize
the President to cause his annual message
and accompanying documents, or, il he
thinks proper, the documents alone to be
printed, in advance Of the meeting of Con-
gress, together with the Secretary of tho
Treasury's financial report.
The bill was ordered to be engrossed for
a third reading, and the House adjourned
SENATE.
The Homestead Bill was made the special /
order for Tuesday at half past one.
MIR. Browns resolution came up
MIR. Collamer said the idea of the found,
ers Of the Republic was to do away with
the privileged classes. Every man should
own bis land and cultivate himself what
lands he owned. This was, generally speak.
ing, the condition OF society in the free
States. In the Southern States a totally
different condition existed, and he quoted
from Calhoun to show that in the Southern
nm e
munities, and not of individuals The mas
ter or owner Of the slaves was the head of
these communities, and represented him.
self capital and labor.
lie quoted at length from the Louisiana
act Of oession to the Western territory of
Georgia, &c., to show that the prohiting
power Of Congress was conceded and exer-
cised. In the act of the organization of
Louisiana, it was provided that no slaves
imported after 1898 could be introduced;
there was a partial prohibition, &c, ceded
the pewer of Congress. He thought the
North and South should do as Lot and Abra,
ham did-One 90 to the right and the other
to the left That was precisely the action
in 1920; when the Missouri line was enact.
ed, and the only plan to restore peace was
that line.
Mr. Bingham said that was the very prop
osition Of the South in 1850.
Mr. Collamer continued, and argued to
show that the Compromise measures of
1850 were passed on the Compromise of
1870 that taken together they were final
settlement Of the slavery difficulty. The
agitation was renewed by the repeal of the
Compromise. The South had no right to
claim that the line should extend over all
the territories acquired afterwards, when
it was simply meant to cover the territory
then owned The line was just and pro-
per, and he coutended that there would be
no special danger to the South in the cleo.
tion of Republican President
He reviewed the provisions of the Fugi
tive Slave act, and concluded that it was not
the same as the act of 1898 The law of
1850 clothes the Commissioner with the
final powers.
Mr. MasOn.--The Constitution requires
that f1gitivee from service shall be delivered
up, Does the Constitution submit any other
than was he held to survive, and did he
escape, not whethor rightful or otherwise2
MIR, Collamsr-Taat does not touch the
point when man was brought before the
Commissioners the question YVES; "ls the
man fugitive slaveT Ii he was take him
back, not for trial; no, this was his trial