Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1861-03-30
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proposition for a Daily Overland Mail
by the central route which passed both
Houses, the Senate yesterday adopted
an amendment to the Post Office appro-
priation Bill, giving one million Of dol.
lars to the Pony Express and Genital
Route.
Yesterday the propositions of the
Peace Convention were presented to
the Senate, and Senator Seward offered
an amendment by substituting a cali
for a National Convention.-Tyler, and
others Of the delegates, on their return
to Richmond, stated that all efforts to
obtain justice from the. North were un.
successful, and that the Convention was
a failure.
No disposition was manifested by
Congress to pass the propositions Of
the Peace Congress. tNf
President Davis had an interview
with Maj. Anderson, and it was given
out that there would be no fight.
The bill stopping the mails in the
seeding States, passed both Houses.
ST. LOUIS, March 2d.-The House
Committee rejected the Senate amend
ments to the Post Office Bill transfer
ring the Butterfeld Mail to the Central
route. The rules of the House were
suspended, and the amendment was
made the special order for to-day, when
the House adjourned.
In the House, before adjournment
there were reports by the Committee
of Thirty-thrcc on amendments to the
Fugitive Slave Law, which require
States to return tugitivcs to the Mar
shall, who shall deliver them to the
United States Courts in the States
whence they escaped, where they shall
have a jury trial.
This amendment was passed by q
vote of 81 to 80.
Several Intellectual attempts were
made to take up the report of the Peace
Convention by the House.
In the Senate the same matter was
discussed yesterday. Crittenden was
to make any and many %sacriti-
ccs of private views, for peace. Mason
denounced the plan as subvcrsivc of
rights the South already possessed.
urged the submitting of the
question to the people. lie was willing
to give up a great deal to the border
but nothing to secession.
Green pronounced the plan a mere
twaddlc, but said there was something
the Crittcndcn Compromise. No
action was had upon the subject.
Yesterday the question pending was
motion of Hunter to substitute the
rrittenden Compromise for the Peace
Conference plan.
The report of the Committee of Thir-
was made the special order Of
tomorrow ut IL o'clock.
The debate in the Virginia Conven-
ion yesterday indicated that the Peace
propositions were acceptable to the
generally, but obnoxious to Sc
Wigfall and Hempfeld gave notice
yesterday Of their intention to with
from the Senate, satisfied that the
secession ordinance was adopted by the
of Texas.
Returns of the North Carolina Con-
leave the result in great doubt
ST. Louis, March 5th.-All the force
bills, and the bill suppressing mails in.
he seeding States, have tailed.
The Nevada Territory bill has been
pprOvcd.
Crittcndcn's proposition was lost in
he House by a vote of 100 to 20.
Corwin's resolution has been adopted
y a constitutional majority Of "a to ~.
No important business was trans
cted.
Lincoln was inaugurated without any
itficulty. In his inaugural address no
in favor of preserving the
lights of each State to control it's do
nestle institutions; fugitive slaves
hould be delivered; not material
whether by National or State authori-
ties; but a law for their delivery might
against kidnapping, and Selling
itizens Of each State. The immuni-
les of the citizens of the several States
uggest that it would be safer to obey
he laws than resist them; and also said
he Union is perpetual, and cannot pos
be dissolved except by all the
states. The Union is older than the
Constitution. No State of itself could
cave the Union. Secession ordinances
re void acts, r insurrectionary or
evolutionary, according to circum,
He considered the Union un-
and will execute the laws with
tut bloodshed, unless the Government
3 forced to shed blood. The power Of
he Government will he used to hold
II keep in possession Government