The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-02-26
TnlRTY-SIXTn CONGRESS--SECOND SESSION


egon war debt bil.-On motion of Mr. LANE
was made the special order for tomorrow at hal
past IL o'clock.-Mr. BIGLER presented a nun
Der OF petitions in favor of the Crittenden resolu
tions; also the resolutions of the Pennsylvania De
mocratic State Convention.-Mr. SUMNER pre-
sented petitions from citizens of Massachusetts, an
Philadelphia, against making ,any compromise; ais
one from Massachusetts asking Congress to enact
law that no person shall be held in servitud
by the laws of any State, and that al
such persons be declared free. He said he pre-
sented the petition because he thought it his dut
to do so when petitions were presented in
proper and respectful form, but he would take oc
casion to declare most explicitly that he did no
believe that Congress had any right to interfer
with slavery in the States.-Mr. GREEN pre-
sented the petition of the inhabitants of Dacotah
asking the establishment of territorial government
over that territory.-Mr. TRUMBULL presented
petitions against making any compromise.-O
motion of Mr.. WADE the bill in relation to tn
postal service in the seeded States was taken up
MIR, PEARCE moved to strike out the word in
surrection. Mr.. MASON said the word insur
rection was unknown to the Constitution, aud b.
protested against the use of such word.-Mr
WADE said that he was willing to have the causes
of the insurrection and resistance to the laws as
signed in the bill stricken out-Mr. Pearcei
amendment was Withdrawn and the bill wal
amended, on motion of Mr.. BAYARD, SC
JOHNSON, of Arkansas, presentnd the credental:
of Chrales b. Mitchell, Senator elect from Arkan-
sas.-Mr. HEMPHILL offered a substitute for
the BILL that whereas several States have withdrawn
from the Union and the laws of the United States
no longer have force therein, that therefore the
Postmaster General is authorized to discontinue
the postal service and make arrangements with the
Government of those States in regard to the same.
Mr.. WlGFALL desired to say a few words.
The facts were that certain sovereign States, by a
decisive vote had declared that they had ceased
to be part of the United States, and revoked all
the powers they had delegated to the General Gov
ernment. If the States represented here intended
to make war upon the seeding States, and put
down the Government which they called revolu-
tionary, they should let the fact be known. If
not, they should come to decision and take steps
to secure an adjustment, They should at
or policy. They should meet the question
fairly and squarely, and not by such bills as
these, and by ignoring the existence of the ordi-
nances of secession.-Mr. GREEN said the bill
had been called peace measure; on the contrary,
it was the entering wedge to coercion. Mr.. Green
argued to show that the present difficulty did not
fail within the scope Of the law of 1895 for
the suppression of insurrection. Congress alone
could make war. The President was only
authorized to employ force in two cases, viz.:-for
the protection of the States against INVASION or
from domestic violence, when the request for aid
should come from the Governor or Legislature
The bill recognized the power of Congress to legis
late over State which had withdrawn from the
Union. He concluded by an ausion to the Capitol
uCiuS w tIUOpSj perhaps lOT
the purpose of overcoming this body and making
it suhseryient to a dominant party. Time would
soon show whether this was the case.--Mr.
thought all legislation on the subject
as the United States laws were al
ready suspended in the seeded States.-Mr.
HEMPHlLL modified his amendment so as to read
that in all States which have withdrawn from the
Union the Postmaster General shall have power to
discontinue the postal service within their limits,
or make arrangements with such States for the
riage ofthe mails. Lost by yeas 10, nays 30-Mr.
BAYARD briefly stated his objections to the original
bill, after which the amendment of Mr.. Hemphill
was rejected by yeas 9, nays 3S.- The bill was
then passed by yeas 81, nays u, as follows:
Yeas-Messrs Anthony, Bayari, Bgler, Bingham,
Chandler Clark, Colamer, Crtenden, Dixon, Doolitte
Douglas, Durkee, Fessenden Fitch, Foot Foster Grimes
Hale, Harlan, johnson of Tennessee, Kennedy, King
Morrill, Pearce, Seward, Simmons Sumner, Ten Eyck,
Thomson, Trumbull Wade, Wilkinson and Wilson-34.
Nays-Messrs. Bragg, Bright, Green, Hemphill, John
son of Arkansas Lane, Mason Nicholson Polk Powell
Rice and Wigfall-l2.
The Miscellaneous Appropriations were then taken
up and number of amendments of the committee
in.-A long and interesting debate oc-
Cured on the proposition of the committee to in
crease the appropriation for the Coast Survey
Mr.. Hale and others opposed it on the ground of
economy, while Mr.. Pearce, Douglas and others,
censured that system of economy which struck off
amounts without regard to proprety and the re-
quirements of the public service.-The amend
ment was agreed to by yeas 35, nays ll.-An
amendment appropriating $3.50, 900 for the Capitol
extension was concurred in.-Mr. DOUGLAS,
from the Committee Foreign Relations, offered
an additional section, that the Secretary OF State
be authorized to adjust the accounts of Charles j.
Helm Consul at Havana, on the principles of equity
and justice, for certain extra services rendered by
him, provided the amount thus paid shall not ex-
ceed the sum of SIS, 8,76S.-Mr. FESSENDEN OBJ
jected, on the ground that the amendment was
not in order, but the Senate overruled the
point and the amendment was agreed to.-The
amendment, to pay the contractors S75, 900 for
marble furnished, and in course of preparation for
the Custom House at Charleston, was dis
cussed.-Mr. PEARCE raised the point of order
that this was private claim.-The point of order
was decided to be well taken.-[ At this moment
Mr.. Lincoln appeared on the floor and was warmly
greeted oy the Republican Senators and some few
of the Democratic. An amendment known as
the Chirlqul Amendment to carry out a contract
with Ambrose w. Thompson, was introduced by
MIR. GREEN and briefly explained by him.-The
Chriqui amendment was lost by yeas, %; nays %.
Mir. SIMMONS offered amendment to repeal
the provisions of the Act of 1860, preventing the
Secretary of War from purchasing patented arti
PEARCE said they bad been repealed,
except so far related to the purchase of fire arms
and he did not wish that provision changed
The amendment was agreed to and the bill passed.
The Senate then adjourned.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.
The House met at 10 clock and proceeded to the
consideration of the Senate's amendments to the
Tariff bil.-Mr. LOVEJOY, during the Incl
dental debate, opposed the increased tax on
iron "either for horse shoes rings fol swine's
snouts," and proposed to reduce the duty skates
which were used by ladies as well gentlemen for
healthful exercise. He tired of the Unsuitable
cry of Pennsylvania for protection.-Mr. STE
VEINS said skates were used by public office holders
for skating away. Laughter. MIR. CAMPBELL
earnestly denied that this bill was for the interest
of Pennsylvania any more than for producers in all
parts of the country. y.-Mr.LOVEJOY Joined issue,
denying that the producer was protected by the bill
MIR. cox said that the bill was to be pressed
through in accordance with the Republican plat
form. He characterized it as fiscal tyranny on the
great West. 1t was wrong to suppose that pro-
ducers there wanted protection. 1t was to benefit
the iron masters of Pennsylvania. fifty
of the one hundred and sixty amendments were
acted on in committee, which at o'clock rose pur-
suant to previous order, and the entire subject
reported to the House.-Mr. SHERMAN urged
the necessity of concurring in all the amendments,
to many of which he was opposed, and, under 9th
er circumstances, would vote against them But
he believed the very existence of the govern
men. depends on the prompt passage of the
bill, which is substantially the act of 1s47.-
He said the public debt SOC, 900 600 not taking
into consideration amounts pending in bills before
the Court of Claims and in bills before this House,
nor the interest on the public debt, nor the sus-
pended accounts in the Departments, the abstracted
Choctaw bonds, nor the money distracted from the
mint at New Orleans. He hoped the good sense of
the people of Louisiana would lead them to return
Tue dDSlrdCIeu IHe appropriation
required to meet necessary expenses would be $751;
100000. They must therefore increase their reve-
nue., and it would be foolish and culpable if they
did not do so. He hoped the bill would be passed,
for bad as it was it would enable them to meet ex-
penses for the coming year, and afterwards
they could make provisions for deficencies.--
The House refused to concur in the latter part of
Senate amendment No. 10, as follows:
"On coffee one cent and half per lb.; on tea when
imported from any port place beyond the Cape of Good
Hope other than the country where produced four is
per b and in addition thereto ten per cent dd gdlorem
provided that whenever the Treasury notes and bonds
the United States which have been shall be issued
der the authority of any laws passed between the 4h OF
March, 1857 and the 4h of March, 1861 shall be redeemed
and paid the President shall make proclamation that the
aforesaid articles of tea and coffee be imported free
the duties on tea and coffee hereby imposed shall cease
on the 30th of June, 1863"
The vote on this amendment was yeas 80, nays
l47.-The House concurred in all the other Senate
amendments 155 in number, and MIR. BRANCH,
as test vote, moved to lay the bill on the table,
which was lost, and the bill finally passed and the
House adjourned.
Mrs. Captain Brennan, the unfortunate lady W be
was suddenly missing from New York, and who
was reported first to have been murdered, but who
afterward was said to have been seen at Rome Ma
Piles and Paris is said by the Buffalo Courier to be
now living in Florence with Wyman, the man who
accompanied her to Europe She wrote to Der
son in Florida, from Florence, in December last
stating that she was married to Wymap, and
should never return To the United RtataS