Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1861-01-22
CONGRESSIONAL.

snsArR.-At the close Of our report Yesterday
On motion Of Mr. Seward, the bill for the ad-
mission Of Kansas was taken up:
Mr. Fitch renewed the amendment onefed oy
him on Saturday, and urged Its passage upon the
committee. This amendment provides that sn
the laws Of the United States not locally inappl-
any other State, and also that the State shall be
made into judicial district, with district court
with like powers az that Of Minnesota
The question being put on the adoption q the the
The bill was then taken from the committee
and reported to the Senate, and put upon Its pas
sage, and passed by the following vote-yeas %,
The resolutions Of Mr. Crittenden were then
brought up before the Senate, and after pro-
tracted debate mo action having been hsd upon
them) the Senate adjourned.
HousE-After our reporter left
Mr.. Colfax introduced a bill which proposes to
authorize the Postmaster General to discontinue
the postal service In the seeding States where the
operations Of the postal law with reference to
listing contracts, &c, are interfered with. Re-
ferred to the Committee on Post Office and Post
Roads.
Mr.; English offered resolution to the effect
that In the present alarming condition Of the
country II was the imperative duty Of Congress to
take immediate steps for preserving peace and
maintaining the Union by renewing all causes
Rress believes the Crittenden resolutions would
| be just and honorable compromise, involving
no sacrifice Of principle from any party. And
that the Committee of Thirty-three be Instructed
to report without delay the necessary measures tt
| carry those resolutions into effect.
| On motion of Mr.. English, a vote was taker
| upon seconding the demand for the previous ques
tion upon his Notwithstanding yeas 81, nayi
| %.
Mr.. Nj orrs offered resolution to the effect tina
/ the Committee on the Judiciary be instructed Il
i inquire into the propriety Of amending the neu
trality law as to prevent persons In one Stat,
i from fitting out military expeditions to aid per
| sons In other States when they had declared
/ themselves out of the Union, and to occupy
position outside Of the rig htful authority Of tn,
| laws of the United States. Referred 10 the Judi
ciary Committee.
Mr.. Corwin then took the floor, and addressed
| the House in lengthy speech He referred Il
the difficulties Of 1892, in which South Carolini
| took such prom inenf part, and denied the rig h
| Of any State to absolve their allegiance to tn
| Federal Government upon any plea which thel
| may be pleased to get up. He denied that repub
lcans had any intention to excite insurrection, o
| to make war upon southern institutions, and sale
| that any man who by any means sought TO stir al
| instruction, should and would be seized and
| punished. He referred them to the vast uncuti
| waited but fertile fields of Texas az being NOR,
territory than they could take up with Their slave
| in many years.
Mr.. Millson, representing the minority of tn,
| committee, then obtained the floor and in a shor
speech deprecated the sectional strife now raging
| and said that Virginia would stand by Constitu
| ton and the laws. He hoped that after these diff
| fculties had passed away, the historian writing
| the history Of these times, would look back upol
| them as the era when first commenced the rea
happiness and glory Of the Republic.
| The House then adjourned.