Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1860-01-04
Proceedings of To-Day.

tx THE SENATE, day. Mr.. Powell introduced
bill to abolish the franking privilege; referred
MIR. Hempbill presented the credentials of l..
L Nigfail. Senator elect from the State Of Texas,
who being Present was duly qualified and took
his seat.
Mr.. Mason moved that when the Senate adjourn.
IT be To meet tomorrow at one O'Clock, and there.
after at o'clock until further ordered. carried
After the transaction Of sundry routine brs; ness
Of not the least general interest to the public
.'if MASON arose to reply 10 the remarks Of Mr..
Doolitie yesterday, on the slavery question. He
contended that there a servilr class in the
North as well as in the South-servile by necessi-
ty and contract, while the slaves in the Sonth
were no more servile by the ownership OF their
reflection on the laboring classes Of the North by
using the term .servile.' He used It simply In
the sense Of service and not in that of degrada-
ton Of service.
Mr.. Harlan followed at length in defence of the
Republican platform, denying that it necessarily
s'igmatlzed the South in CHASING slavery with
roligamy as relic Of barbarism. and proceeding
to argue its soundness the question Of slavery in
the Territories.
In THE House, after the reading of the journal
Mr. Washburne Of Ill. called attention to letter
he received from contractors in Rockville, of that
State, in which the writer states that one cannot
imagine the state OF things which exists owing to
the failure TO pay mail contractors All hack ard
horseback routes will have to lie discontinued,
unless something be done by way of appropria-
but because they viii be compelled to do so. This
must he the result, des pite any effort to avoid it.
lhe whole community Is thrown into excitement,
especially those dependent the mails. The
Writer says he cannot get grain for his horses etc
Mr.. Barksdale remarked that the gentlemen on
the other side were responsible for this state of
Things resolution was the other day introduced
into the House, looking to the temporary organi-
cation OF the House by the election Of one Of h.!r
own number Speaker, that these appropriations
mig 1t be made but the proposition met with no
favor on that side
Mr. Washburne denied that they were respon-
sible. That side had not occupied the time of
the Houre by the delivery of speeches, as had the
other; but were anxious to continue baloting
until Speaker could be elected and remarked
further that when the resolution was offered nv
MIR Houston to make blank Speaker for a limited
period Of time, when he proposed to I'LL this
blank with the name Of John Sherman, the DEM
ocrats objected.
Mr.. Houston thought the objection that was
made by gentlemen on the other side to the reso-
lutlonS which had been offered, showed conclu-
sively the nsincerity Of their pretensons to have
tue plighted faith of the Governmt mt observed
In regard to the mail contractors. He Regarded
the reading of this letter as adding insult to i'm.
jury. n.
Mr.. Reagan. Of Texas. addressed the House
with respect to the sentiments Of the Republican
party. which he considered hostile to the rights
Of the South, and also adverted 90 the HeIper
book, which he considered reyolu ionary docu-
ment. He thought there was cause for every "a.
triot from Maine to California to be alarmed
alarmed for constitutional liberty; alarmed for the
pFesers alton Of this Union; alarmed for the hap
plness OF the American people And this because
CT the progress Of this crusade against the Copsti
tuition itself, and against the rights Of section Of
the COnfederacy, which was being made by the
Republican party.