Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-04-13

In the Senate on the 9th, Senator Chestnuts
of South Carolina, made speech Of two hours
on the slavery resolutions, of the Calhoun tyI E.
a letter says:
When Chestnut sat down, dozen Senator'S
sprang for the heOr-Ciingman, that he might
have day fix when be could bore the Sem
ate with nasal and yawning platitudes about
this string Of resolutions, which are getting to
lie Luisanee, and Hunter, to move forward
an appropriation bill; and Wade, to urge the
taking up and passing of the Homestead bill
Wade, always prompt and resolute, was never
more prompt and resolute than to-tay. He
was the first to get the floor, but, as is usual
he had to wait until the Chivalry was heard =
When Clingman's request was disposed OF,
then came the lug between Huuter and Wade
Hunter, who dreTds this Homestead bill, as
he does Douglas aud Popular Sovereignty, or
Guthrie and Specific Duties, and who is ner~
vOusiy anxious that the final vote upon it should
not precede the meeting Of the Charleston
Convention, moved to postpone all prior or
ders, and take up the Indian Appropriation bill
Wsde and Andrew johnson made short speech
cs against it, and demanded the yeas and nays.
The vote stood "a to 24, and Hunters motion
was lost All the Democrats present, except
Johnson, Nicholson, Pugh and Rice. voted with
Hunter. All the Republicans and those four
Democrats followed Wade The Vice-Presi-
dent was conveniently out of the chair when
the tie was announced, though he was loungng
at that moment in the Senatorial seat; ana so
he avoided giving the casting vote on ques
tiOn which so perpleXes candidates for ia yors
al Charleston.
And now Wade came back upon Hunter,
and moved to lay aside all prior orders and
take up the House Homestead bill Instantly
there vas much running to and fro, and scour-
ing of adjacent lobbies and committee rooms
to bring in ,recusants. Hale came in, all of q
glow, and wanted to know what was up. -
Thompson rushed in on the Democratic side.
Latham, the new California Senator, lodged
olt Of a rear door, and stood peeping through
Its broad pane while the vote was being taken
We wish his constituents up in the gorges of
the Sierra Nevada could have aeen the vsage
of the dapper skulker as he gazed through that
glazed door.
The Secretary had gone over the roll, and
bad called the absentees, and was just handing
the tally to the President pro tenn, when in
hoped Douglas, hat IN hand, and walked up
to the desk, and had his name recorded IN the
Affirmative By the by, we forgot to say, that
Joe Lane, upon both divisions, ducked down
with the mass Of the Democracy, voting stead
lily against the Homestead And now the re-
suit was announced, 26 yeas, to "a nays-and
tie Homestead was carried ahead two votes
by the accession of Hale and Douglas There
upon the Senate adjourned.
The Homestead Bill was debated in the Sem
ate on the 10th. Mr.. Doolittle, of Wisconsin,
ably advocated it. Mr.. Mason, of Virginia, as.
sailed the bill as a measure calculated to in.
crease the number of Free States, and as great
engine of political power, to get the Republi-
can party in possession of the Government -
He denounced the plan advocated by Mr.. Doo-
little of pOpulating the tropics with the free me-
groes of the United States, and declared that
he "could not conceive a greater curse to the
white man or to the free negro than to send the
latter there Slavery only elevated them p
Mr.. Hammond, of South Carolina announced
that slavery is to be eternal, that it was always
to stand as it now stood, and was to advance
with the destinies of the South. He said it
was matter Of indifference what people North
thought on the subject