The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-02-15
THIRTY.SlXTH CONGRESS.-SECOND SESSION
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concessions be made to traitors. He said these
resolutions were passed with great unanimity, and
he thought they expressed the feeling of the people
of the State of Michigan. He said they would ad-
here to the Constitution it is, and had sympa-
thy with treason, or those who in the Government
took measures to destroy it. They hoped their
Southern friends would yet come to see that
the best way was to submit to the benefcent
rule of the Government; but if they persisted in
their efforts to destroy the Union, then they must
take the responsibility; laid on the table.--Mr.
KING presented the petition of Benz jamin Price
and many others in favor of the Homestead bill.
MIR. WADE presented petition asking Con-
gress to stand firm by the Constitution and laws
The bill to make further provisions for the
Consolidated Land Office was then taken up
Mr.. FOOT offered resolution that Committee
of Three Senators be appointed to make arrange
ments for the inauguration Of the President elect;
adopted.-Mr. GREEN, from the Committee on
Territories, reported bill to organize the Terri
tory of Nevada and provide a government for the
Territory of Dacotah.- SEWARD presented
a petition signed BIZ four hundred voters of Water
ford, New York, in favor of the Crittenden
resolutions. Also, a memorial from the Cham
Der of Commerce of New York, remonstrat-
ing against the passage OF the Tariff BILL
Mr.. WILKINSON presented memorial of cit
liens of Minnesota in favor of the enforcement of
the laws. He said they must go away from the
commercial cities to the interior, to the agricul-
tura districts of the country to learn the true
timents of the people. He was opposed to making
any compromise with traitors or with yielding the
principles OF the Republican party 1t was the
the stability of the Union.-The memorial was
then read, and sets forth that certain
States had rebeed against the Govern
ment, seized forts and dock-yards, tarred
and feathered citizens of the North, interrupted
the free navigation of the Mississippi rivers where
fore the petitioners pray that the laws may be en-
forced, the forts recaptured, traitors brought to
trial, &c. The memorialists further pray that the
Crittenden propositions shall not be adopted, nor
any compromise made which will give extension to
human slavery.-Mr. RICE, of Minnesota present
ed another memorial of citizens of Minnesota in ia
vor OF compromise and Cancellation proposed by the
plans of Messrs. Crittenden or Rice
He thought his State was for peace and union,
and speedy settlement of national troubles
Mr.. CRlTTENDEN presented petitions from New
hampshire, Vermont and elsewhere, in favor of
the Crittenden resolutions. a large number of
memorials in favor of the Crittenden propositions,
the enforcement of the laws, &C., presented
Mr.. SEWARD presented the memorial of the De-
mocratic Convention of New York, in favor of a
settlement of existing difficulties. es.-0n motion of
Mr.. WILSON the Presidents message was post
poned till Tuesday next.-The joint resolution
authorizing Com. H. Spaulding to eceve sword
and lands from Nicaragua was taken up and
made the special order for tomorrow at l2%
o'clock. Mir DOUGLAS presented memo
rial against any change in the warehousing sys-
tem.--The Tariff bill was taken up and MIR.
HUNTER opposed its provisions at length. The
adhesion of Pennsylvania to the Republican party
had imposed an obligation upon that party to pass
this bill. The tariff act of 1857 was adop ted in
order to reduce the revenue of the govern
ment, and by that means to keep down the
expenses of its administration. The revenue
act of 1857 had not disappointed the expectations
of its friends. The crisis of 1857 and the political
troubles since the Presidential election had affected
its operations, but the estimates of the Secretary of
the Treasury to its productive power had been
in the main correct. Mr.. Hunter argued at length
to show that the Tariff proposed would be
most disastrous in its effects upon the country and
would do more harm to New York than if they
to shell it. The duty of "a per cent. on iron
would almost prohibit its importation. He went
largely into details and read statistics to sustain his
views, which decidedly hostile to the Tariff
Mr.. Hunter further argued against any change in
the warehousing system, and said he supposed he
would be told that the passage of this bill re-
quired by the Chicago platform, which seems to be
kind of higher law-higher than the Constitu-
tion.--M. SIMMONS replied to Mr. Hunter
defending the bill and the amen dments of the COM
mittee.--The Senate then went into executive
session, after which it adjourned.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Mr.. MOORHEAD asked leave to introduce
resolution that Washingtons Farewell Address be
read in this Hall By the clerk on the 22d of Feb.
and that the President, President elect, members
of the Cabinet, Judges of The Supreme Court,
members of the Senate, chief military and naval
officers, and the Com missioners of the Peace Con-
venton be invited to be present.--Mr. WASH
BURNE, of H., said that this would call for
session of the House on that day.--Mr. MORRIS,
OF Pennsylvania, replied that there ought to be
one to hear the Farewell Address. resolu-
tion being objected to- it was not considered. -
Mr.. HINDMAN wanted Mr. Moorhead to omit the
invitation to military and naval offic ers.--Mr.
LEAKE asked, but failed to obtain leave to intro
duce resolution for the appointment of COM
mittee of three to report whether the Superin-
tendent of the Census Bureau has heretofore in
structed the clerks of that Bureau to make out
from the Census returns the names of the heads of
tat line
political speeches.-Mr. HINDMAN said that
Superintendent Kennedy had not only violated
postal, but other laws.-Mr. PRYOR obtained
leave to introduce, as question of privilege,
solution calling for the appointment of a COM
mitee of three to inquire into the truth of state
ment made in the New York Times, of certain frau
dulent transactions on the part of certain members
from the seeded States, in sending off books to
said States after they had resigned their Seats the
resolution passed.-Mr. STAUNT0N
rose to a personal explanation. He call
ed attention to a report of Saturdays debate, as it
appeared in the Globe, in which his colleague Mr..
Cox was represented as having made some re-
marks which were not uttered in this House. 1t
was, he said, question of taste with gen temen to
enter upon these discussions. For himself, he new
er touched the reporters notes of anything that
might transpire bearing in the remotest degree on
personal character. He reported as having
replied to a speech containing extraordinary
paragraph with reference to MIR. Giddings, his for
mer colleague, and having in that reply taken no
notice whatever of it. 1t placed him in the posi-
tion of having permitted such an extraordinary
denanciation of an old colleague on the floor to go
forth to the public without reply. 1t was for this
reason that he called attention to It here that it
might be known that not word of it
uttered, and the speech to which be
had replied did not contain word of it. He
(Mr S. was not the man whom Mr.. Giddings
would select as his defender. He had disposi-
tion to engage in peasonal controversy with his
colleague (Mr Cox), who possessed an extraordi-
God
auarres and parade them here upon this floor,
bringing in all the dirty linen he could collect and
washing it on this floor in the face of the House
and of the nation. If his colleague was ambitious
of the publicity which this conduct was likely to
give him, he was welcome to it. 1t was something
akin to the notoriety which the party sought who
burned the Ephesian dome, that he might attach
his name to historical event. Ii his colleag ue
(Mr. Cox wished to make himself immortal BY at
acking historical name and historical character
he was welcome to it.-Mr. cox replied, saving
that he had been prosecuted and abused by
the Republican side of the House because he did
not agree with them in their utraism, and
inquiring why they did not attack the Union men
of the other States and not vent all their spleen on
him.-The Pacific Railroad bill came up in regu-
lar order of business, and the House proceeded to
consider the Senate amendment, proposing that
central road shall go via Fort Riley from the mouth
of the Kansas river, and struck out the amendment
by vote of 95 yeas, 81 nays-The special order,
the report of the Committee of fThrty-three came up
after the expiration OF the morning hour, and Mr..
CAMPBELL, of Pennsy ylvania, addressed the House.
He was opposed to compromise until there
something to compromise about, and would advocate
coercion in case of resistance to the Federal laws
After the close of his remarks, Mr.
SHERMAN moved to postpone the special order
until Tuesday next Mr.. BURNETT and others
objected to any such postponement, as Southern
men were desirous to do something nothing
with the report of the Committee of Thirty. three.
MIR. HOWARD, of Michigan, asked leave to
present the report of the committee appointed to
inquire concerning the existence in Washington of
a secret organization to take possession of the Fed
era Capitol, or to prevent the Inauguration of Mr..
Lincoln. The report is to the effect that, in the
opinion of the committee, such organization has
existed but does not exst.-Mr. BRANCH
presented minority report himself constituting
said minority of the committee, and offering also
resolution to the effect that the presence of hos
tile force in our midst is impolitic and often
sive, and may become destructive to the
civil peace and liberty of the community, and it
is the opinion of the House that the troops ought to
be removed from the District of Coumbia.-Mr.
CASE objected to the introduction of the resolu-
tion, because no one of the committee had seen it
before it came out at the Clerks desk. He moved
to lay the resolution on the table.--Mr. BRANCH
explained that he did consider the report of the
committee of sufficient force nor complete, although
be approved of it as far as it went.-Mr. C0CH-
RANE, of New York, did not approve Of the reso-
luton of the gentleman from North Carolina, for
he did not consider the presence of the troops as
matter of any consequence.-Mr. KUNKEL said
that the fact upon which such committee was
appointed was calumny upon the States of Vir-
ginia and Maryland, and the statements of Gov.
Hicks, of Maryland, were but characteristic of the
audacity of the man, who was not worthy to sit at
the head of the Chief Magistracy of that noble
State.--Mr. WEBSTER, of Maryland, followed
in defence of Gov. Hicks. He affirmed the course