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the English bill are complied with
Mr.. SEWARD asked for the yeas and nays
MIR. PUGH said he would vote against all in
structons. He wanted it to go to the commit.
tee in an untrammeled form.
MIR. SEWARD said lit was too early 10 bring
up this question. The senator from Msss-
sppi could obtain the information he desires
by making separate motion. He would al
ways vote for resolutions asking for informa.
ton, but he wanted this presented separately.
Mr. MASON said a statute existed that Kan
saS should not be admitted as a state until
certain population mas been ascertaned by a
census. Kansas could not come in us state
until she possessed the requisite population
the resolution only looking to obtaining infor-
nation whether the law has been complied
with. If the law requiring certain popua-
ton to exist prior to her admission, be wrong
let it be repealed. But while it was a law it
should be respected. He could see no propri-
ETY. in entertaining the constitution until it was
ascertained whether the law was complied with.
Mr. Brown said the constitution OF Kansas
was framed in criminal violation Of the laws
of Congress. Now was the proper time to
= make the inquiry. He wanted information J;
if it should prove that the act of Congress has
been set at naught, he would feel constrained
to vote against the admission of Kansas.
- Mr.. PUGH was entirely opposed to the sys-
TEN of inStructing committees and taking from
them all discretion, Ii the act of Congress
has been violated he would vote against the
admission Of Kansas. But if it were correctly
ascertained that she had the requisite popua
ton, lie would not sickle about FORMS 1t was
not necessary thatthe tact should be ascertained
by the federal census. Congress had voted no
means to take the census herself
Mr., BAYARD said the resolution was not in
the form OF an instruction, but merely looked
70 tl1,at lltyi nf
Mr.. DooLGTrLE moved to amend the reso.
luton by inStructng the committee to report
bill for the immediate admission of Kansas
under the Wyandotte constitution.
Mr.. PUGH still said he would vote against
all instructions, but he could vote for Mr..
Browns resolution merely of inquiry.
The Chair said he must under the rule,
call up as the special order, the bill prohibit
ing the issue of bank notes under $50 in the
District of Columbia. By general consent,
however, petitions and reports We're received.
Mr.. DAVIS offered an order that the reports
of Majors Dalafield and Mordecai be returned
to the war department, Congress having re-
fused to print them Agreed to.
Mr.. SEWARD presented the memorial of
the Chamber of Commerce of New York ON
tle subject of including the statistics of COM
MERGE in tine census. Ordered to be printed.
lie also presented petition in favor Of grant
,
also, petition in favor of the homestead bill.
Referred.
Mr.. SUMNER introduced resolution in
structing the committee on patents to inquire
into the eXpediency of so amending the patent
laws as to abolish all discrimination between
American citizens and foreigners in the matter
Of fees i'll the issuing of patents. Adopted.
Mr.. HARLAN presented a petition i'll favor
of repeating the fugitive slave law
Mr.. BIGLER presented a memorial in favor
of granting pensions to the soldiers Of 1872
and the Indian wars.
Mr. IyERsoN reported large number of
private bills which had been passed upon by
the Court of Claims.
Mr. GwIN introduced a resolution instruct
ing the committee on military affairs to inq uire
into the expediency of making provision for
the payment OF the Indian war debt Of Cali
tornia. Adopted.
Mr. HAUN introduced bill for the construc-
ton of u railroad from the Mississippi river to
the eastern boundary OF California.
Mr. FITzPArEICK introduced bill to pro-
vide for the examination OF claims Of citizens
OF Georgia and Alabama, for losses sustained
in the Greek war in 1920. Referred.
Mr.. BROWNS resolutions were called up.
MIR. HALE said he had sat, this session, in
comparative silence, while the State which he
in part represented had been accused Of var-
Gus monstrouS crimes. The Senate was not
the tribunal before which states could be ar
raigned. Public opinion was the only tribunal
before which the Senate could be tried, and
enumeration and abuse would not stand for
argument lie would address his reply to the
Senator from Georgia, who had violated the
laws of parliamentary decorum. His speech,
however, contained a form OF argument which
iils merit not possessed by all the remarks
made by the senators on the other side. He
had charged upon the north hostility to the
ties which united the Union, and said he now
stood face to face with revolution, and that we
were virtually at civil war. Mr. Hale repealed
ne charges that the northern states had rlO-
llted the constitution, and read from the laws
of New Hampshire to sustain his views. In
me course OF his argument he said the SD
prcme Court, in its decision in the bred Scott
ctse, had affirmed the negro has no rights
which the white man is bound to respect
Mr. BENJAMIN said the chief justice had
oaly referred to the condition OF the negro
prior to the war of the revolution.
Mr. HALE said the statement of that condi-
ton was the basis upon which the bred Scott
decision was made. Mr.. III. then referred to
the veneration expressed lately, by the Demo-
cratic party, for the decisions OF the Supreme
.,ourt This was new idea with that party.
For from the time of Jefferson down to the
uerod when they obtained control OF the court,
Il had been at open and undisgused hostility
With its decisions Jefferson had denounced
il. Jackson disregarded it, and Buchanan as
sailed it, on this floor The Supreme Court
once decided that the United States Bank was
constitutional, and the Democratic National
Convention Immediately thereafter passed res
olutions Numerically opposed to the decision.
He then read the opinions OF Jefferson adverse
TO fine Difference now eXacted for the decision
nf the court and also adverse to the views OF
Mr.. Buchanan, in which he said the court al
ways leaned to the prerogatives of power. He
proposed for himself to stand upon the princi-
pies of Jefferson. He read the decision of the
. Supreme Court of Georgia. in opposition to
: submitting to the decisions of the United States
Supreme Court He also read the decision OF
the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, in 1898,
in which il was held that in case off difference
batween a state and the United States, the PEG,
nile were the only umpire who could settle the
question at issue f; also to the decision of Vir-
ginia in 1872 in which the Supreme Court of
the State expressed the opinion that the ap.
neal to power OF the United States Court did
not extend to that court, and obedience to the
mandates of the United States Court was re-
fused.
He would now pass to another question. 1t
was said we seek to exclude the people OF the
south from the equal enjoymentof their rights
in the territories. That was mistake. He
agreed with the Senator from Texas that the
present difficulties grew out OF misapprehen-
sion of the constitution. ms was true
otherwise we would not hear dissolution of
the Union talked of fippantly. He looked
upon this Union and government as the con
summation of all the educations Of the past.
The result aud fruit OF all the experience OF
fha IN