The national Republican., 1861-01-31
CONGRESS YESTERDAY.


CONGRESS YESTERDAY.
In the Senate, the Pacific railroad bill, amend
ed so as to provide for three roads, was passed
by vote Of 81 to Ia.
In the House, during the morning hour, Mr.,
Cochrane, of New York city, brought in a bill
to suspend the collection Of the revenue in any
State wishing to leave the Union.
Mr.. Corwins report coming up as the special
order at one O'clock Mr.. Conkling, OF New
York, denounced the existing secession as
treason, to be met, not with compromises, but
with coercion. He would not compromise es-
sential principle with anybody, and he insisted
that it would be doing so, to establish slavery
anywhere by the power of this Government
He was, however, willing to meet the border
States upon any measure Of adjustment, not
involving surrender Of fundamental doctrines
Mr.. Stevenson, of Kentucky, Democrat
said the Union could not be preserved upon
the ideas urged by Mr.. Conkling, and that the
border States must go out, unless they could
have equality as provided for in the Crittenden
propositions.
Mr.. Howard, of Ohio, (Democrat,) made a
speech in favor of Cancellation and com promise.
THIRrY.rouR STATES The bill for the ad.
mission of Kansas was signed by the President
Yesterday, and another star will be added to
our national ensign.
Mr.vAN WYck.-The Congressional synopsis
in our yesterdays paper, and our editorial no
tice based upon it, do not give correct view
Of the speech Of Mr.. Van Wyck in the House
on Tuesday. While he said nothing incon-
sistent with the idea that he would assent to
measures of adjustment not repugnant to Re-
publican principles, and while his expressions
of sympathy with the Union men Of the border
States tended in that direction, yet that was by
no means the stress of his speech. On the
contrary, it seemed to be directed chiefly to the
denunciation of the attempts being made to
intin,date the Republicans into the abandon
ment of the doctrines which have brought them
into power. His exposure of the Crittenden
propositions was particularly eloquent and scath.
ing. v
v TExAs.-The telegram from Austin, in our
ySotciuol papCi1 hou % III JeeSiiouo oShsShNSt
to the effect that the Legislature had repealed
resolves passed in 1858 in relation to Kan.
sas. These resolves authorized the Governor,
in certain contingencies, which have happened,
to order an election of seven commissioners to
Convention of all the slaveholding States Such
Convention is not now in the programme Of
the disunionists, but is the thing which they
IT, ohao 70 thap,
Houston had hunted up these Kansas resolves,
and ordered the election of the seven commits
sioners and now, to checkmate him, the Legis-
lature has repealed the resolves.
CoERcIoN.-The following, among the reso-
lutions adopted at a Union meeting, on Satur'
day evening, at Middleton, Pennsylvania, will
show the sense in which many persons under
stand COERCION" when they express their op'
position to it:
"Resolred, That we are for union, peace, an
harmony; and as much as we are opposed to
the secession Of any of the States, we are still
more opposed to using coercive and warlike
means 10 keep the seeding States within the
Union, further than is necessary 10 protect Gov.
ernment property and collect the revenue"
As the protection of the Government prop
erty and the collection of the revenue const
tute all to which the incoming Administration
is pledged, it will be sustained to that extent BY
all the sound portions of the country.
STRAws.-The Constitution newspaper an
nounced, in its yesterdays number, that onl,
one more number would be issued in this city
and that its publication would be resumed
about month hence, at the capital of tn
Southern Confederacy. What a commentar.
does this announcement present. upon the char
acter Of the Administration and of the party
of which the Constitution has been the centra
organ, and adherence to the principles of whicl
now requires this change of locality!
The Cabinet of Mr.. Buchanan, down to the
recent breaking up of it, was, from the first, in
its controlling men, a conclave Of traitors, and
the Democratic party has been for much
longer period than Mr.. Buchanan's term o
office, disunion party in its leadership anc
policy. The nul6eis got control of it as long
ago as Mr.. Folks time, and have held the con
troll ever SINCE 1t was only the last overt &C
which opened Mr.. Buchanan's eyes.
The Democratic party, as we have known
for the last dozen years, in its master spirits, i
to reappear at the capital of the Southern Con
federacy; and it is every way fitting, in orde
to keep up its continuity and identity, that tn
Consultation newspaper should be transferre
to the same point.
"a STRONG GovERNMENT."-We find tn
following telegraphic dispatch amongst the pre-
ceedings of the State Convention Of Mississippi