Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-12-20
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WASHINGTON. Dec. 10,
HousE:-M r:5NT ash burne, of Ill.,, offered
a IesoMti ion declaring, with the concur
4renoe of the Senate, that when Congress
l adIolEfns to morrow, it be 10 meet on The
nth of JanunrSI
Mr. Etheridge OF Tenn, moved to lay
| the resolution ont the til 5le. 8 greed to by
9 majority.
The consideration ofeterfi torials business
twas postponed.
ME: Sherman, from the Committee on
Ways and Means.s reported abill making
ans ppropriatio for legislati ve, executive
land judicial expenditures for 9the year
ending June,e 662.sssss
Mr. Shermnn also offered a solution,
which WAS adopted, instructing the Com
nitee on Public Lands TO, inquire whether
dny officers connected witlisthe Surveyor
/ Generals OffSa can be dispensed with.
4 The House hen Sent4 into Committee of
| Whole On the Statefof the Union ON the
Deficiency, Appropriationsbi bill -
Air Sherman offered an :amendment ap-
,Ipropriating 5000, 800 TO carry onttthe law.
IfsuPprcssiag the African slave trade,
After considerable debate on the ques-
tion of the African slave trade, aud the,
i Liberia Colonization Scheme, the amend
mentawas adopted.
The Committee rose, aud the House
passed the bill as amended,
Mr.. Shermau reported from the Commit
Ittee on Ways and SIeans,a bill making
inDDFOOFinfiOORE fnF IN t,it.i1
and a resolution that, the SENATE concur
ring, the House adjourn to the 7th Of
january, which was rejected; 80 against 81.
Adjourned.
SESArE,-AEr. Toombs, of Ca, made his
appearance. in the Senate-forithe first time
this session.
AIr!#Slidell, of La, said that a dispatch
from the associnted press had been sent to
New. .0rleans,. saying that ina speech, he
/ tS.idell) had charged President buchanan
with imbecility, and with being the
author of the present crisis. There was
no kind of truth in such report. He
had never intended anything of the
kind, and never felt any such sentiment.
He wanted. to know who was the author
of such ~ dispatch2 Was it the reporter
i of the Associated Press, now in tue gall
Ilery, reporting our deliberations? II no
l.explanaton was offered he would move
Tomorrow for the expulsion of the re-
porter from the gallery. lie charged the
Associated Press with having sent dis
patches from the South intended to do
harm. The dispatches of which he COM
planned was base fabrication.
Mr. Gwinn, of Cal, said his name had
4 been associated with that of the Senator
from EoMisilna, ina statement that hard
words had pissed between The President
land al hot l1al a
Buchanan to resign. There was not a
shadow of truth in sucll.a story.
! 4 NoTE.-It is but due to the reporter of
the Associated, Press at Washington to
4 state that the dispatches alluded to by
Senators Slidell. and Gwinn did not enc
nate from that responsible source, but
should doubtless have been credited TO
some New York special reporter, otherwise
they would have received a more extensive
4 circulation. Theregular press reports will
be able to satisfy tue Senators by an ex-
Planution.]
The consideration of the bill to carry
outsour treaties with Mexico, was resumed.
The special order beinglthe bill to allow
4 the Baltimore & Ohio RailroNd to cross
the long bridge across the Potomac river,
was taken up but postponed till to=mor-
row.
The resolution of johnson, of Tenn,
proposing amendments to the Constitn-
lion, was then taken up.
Mr.. johnson, of Tenn, resumed the
Speech which lie commenced yesterday.
He said the Government should execute
its lawsain every State; and the enforce
A ment of these laws could not Reconsider
edlantinyasion. "A State could lnotigo out
of the Union by its own yolition, and such
was The opinion of the founders of the
Republic. If any State eetssitself up for
opposition to this power, it is aggression
and rebellion. If the. Government fails to
perform its duty in this respect, it is at
ian end.
Mr. johnson referred to the suppression
of the whisky Instruction in Pennsy!v.t-
MIA, and the notification resolution III
South Carolina to show that Washington
and Jefferson believed in the enforcement
4 of the laws. Have we not power to en-
i force the laws in South Carolina as we'll
4 as in Yermonti2 If they absolyed them
selves their allegiance tothe United Suites,
that does not relieve their compact at all.
4 lie argued that if South Carolina refused
permit tile Federal Court, or the carry
\ ing of mails or the collection of revenues,
the Government hasFa right to cnforcethe
law. If South Carolina secedes and I'M
dertakes to drive the Government from
its property, it is levying war, and that.is
treason; nothing less. But suppose South
Carolina goes out of the Union, and is
about to form an allianc inimical TO The
rest the States, the Government has n
right to conquer her and hold sheras q
provinc.
He referred to the great expense, lives
and money attendant on the acquisition
of California. We puid ten millions for
Texas; we5paid fifteen millions for Louisi-
ana and Florida, and for access to the
mouth of the Mississippi. We admitted