The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-01-15
BALTIMORE TUESDAY, JANUARY 15 1861
all other business until dispo
at 4 p. NJ, then adjourned.

all other business until disposed Of.--Tha Senate,
at p. NJ, then adjourned.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
Mr.. ENGLISH, of Indiana, offered resolution
endorsing the Crittenden resolutions, as propos-
ing an honorable and equitable mode OF settling ex-
isting difficulties, and instructng the Committee OF
Thirty three to report the necessary measures to
give them practical effect; laid over during the
morning hour.-Mr. GARNETT, of Va, offered
joint resolution to suspend the execution of the
Federal laws in certain States Referred to the Sc
lect Committee of5.--Mr. HARRIS, of Va, Intro.
duced bill to repeal the Tariff act OF
1857, and substitute therefore the act
of s1S46.---Kr. ADRIAN presented a
memorial from citizens of New Jersey, which was
referred to the Committee of Thirty -three.-Mr.
HARRIS, of Mary land, introduced bill to extend
till March, 1871, an act entitled can act relating
to the collection of tonnage dues at the port OF
Baltimore, for the benefit of the harbor." THE
present act expires March, lSGl.) Read twice and
referred to Committee Commerce.-Mr. Nc
KEON, of N. Y, reported bill to repeal so much
of the act for the collection of the revenue
lates to South Carolina.-Mr' PALMER, of N.
Y, reported joint resolution, authorizing Com
modore Hiram Spaulding to accept a sword and
lands from the Government of Nicaragua; passed.
MIR. CLEMENS, of Virginia, offered a reso-
luton that the Secretary of the Interior
communicate to the House copies OF all deeds
of lands ceded to the United States by State Gov
ernments for the purposes of erecting forts. ar
senals and other public building. MIR. BRANCH
said no good could result from the resolution 1t
would expose the titles to Government property
and lead to litigation.--Mr. BURNETT objected
to the resolution, and it was not received.--
Mr.. SHERMAN offered resolution that during
the present week it shall be in order to take re-
cess after O'Clock till p. M.-Objection was
made and the resolution laid on the table.-Mr
SHERMAN presented the letter of Mr.. McClel!and,
denying that while Secretary of the Interior any
of the Indian Trust Bonds had been ab
stracted for the purposes OF speculation,
and invited an examination; referred to the
Mr.. ADAMS, of Kentucky, introduced a resoIu-
tion instructing the Committee of Ways and Means
to bring in bill repeating the lst and I'd sections
gress objected to and not received.-Mr.
MOORE, of Kentucky, presented the resolutions
adopted By the Union and Douglas Conventions of
Kentucky, recommending the adoption of the Crit
tenden Plan of pacitcation referred to the Com
deayored to offer his resolutions Of last week.
[ They are the Border State resolutions MIR.
LOVEJOY objected, and they were not received
MIR. MAYNARD offered resolution that the Sc
lect Committee of Five on the Presidents Message,
consider that portion of the message recommend
ing the reference of existing troubles to conven-
tion of the people, and report by bill otherwise
referred to Committee of Five.-Mr. HOLMAN
offered his resolutions of last week, declar ing
against the constitutionaity of secession, and
ging rigorous enforcement of the laws. He
moved the previous queston.-Mr. BURNETT
wished to offer Mr. Crittenden's resolutions as
substitute.-Mr. JOHN COCHRANE said the
House had appointed Committee to act upon all
this question and he moved to lay the resolutions
on the table.-After some discussion upon points
of order, and much confusion, the resolutions were
not received.-Mr. ENGLISH re introduced his
resolution instructing the Committee of Thirty
three to report for carrying out the Crit
tenden resolutions, and moved the previous ques-
tion, which was not sustained. Yeas TO- nays 75-
the Republicans voting in the negative.-Mr.
STANTON, from the Committee Military At
fairs, reported bill for organizing and discpin-
ing the militia of the District of Columbia,
which he moved be made the special order for to-
morrow, and until disposed of.-Obiection being
made, Mr.. STANTON moved to suspend the
rules. He said the bill was prepared two
circumstances.- BURNETT said this was
bill in effect to establish standing army of 5000
men in the District of Columbia, to be under the
absolute control of the President, to be sent where
he chose and used as he pleased. The rules were
not suspended; yeas Ill, nays 65.-The House
then went into Committee of the Whole upon the
Army bill, Mr.. Washburne in the Chair.-Mr.
McCLERNAND, of Illinois, denied the right of Sc
cession, and commented at length upon existing
troubles He referred to the bonds of mutual in.
terest which united the people of the Mississippi
Valley, which could not be divided except by doing
violence to the laws of nature. If they were
separated by violence, their interests would draw
them again together. He denied that it was coer-
cion for the Federal Government to collect the
revenue and enforce the laws, and said the term
coercion, was misapplied. 1t was, however, an act
of spoiation for the South to seize the Federal
forts and arsenal5. For the settlement of existing
troubles, he was willing to agree to the running of
a geographical line, to take the Border States
proposition. In fact. holding the Union to be su-
perior to every other consideration he was willing
to agree to almost any arrangement which would
save it.-Mr. COX, of Ohio, argued, at length,
against theright of secession. The peril the country
was now in from the assertion of that right.
He could see no means of preventing civil war if
this rebellion went on. The whole North would
be arrayed against the whole South, and fearful
contest follow. He defended the course of the Pres
ident, and said he proposed no act of oppression.
He only wanted to protect the public property and
enforce the laws in Constitutional manner. To
avoid collision he would be willing to repeal the
laws creating ports of entry in South Carolina, and
libel every vessel leaving those ports without
regular clearance. South Carolina was not
de facto Government while the Federal Govern
ment occupied her waters and collected the
revenue. If laws could not be enforced except
by military power, it would have to be used. When
South Carolina seeded she committed an offence
against the whole Union. The withdrawal of Lou
lsiana, Texas, and other States paid for out of the
ederal Treasury. was nothing less than fraud.
- Mr.. REAGAN of Texas, rose to repel that re-
mark, but Mr.. COX refused to yield the floor. He
to show that neither the election of Lin
coin, Objectionable it was, nor any other alleged
cause, was sufficient grounds for secession If the
he warned South Carolina not to touch hair of
Major Andersen's head, whose noble conduct had
tndeared him to every Northern heart Referring to
he rumor that the Gov of Mississippi had sent troops
establish an espionage vessels coming
down the Mississippi, he said, that the Northwest
Lever would permit such surveillance. AS a
cans of arranging difficulties, he would be will
ng to vote for the Border State proposition or
the resolution of Mr.. Crittenden. He would do
almost anything to save the Union, and expressed
the opinion that there symptoms of conces-
sion on the Republican side All he asked was, that
the South would have patience and all would be
well. The Republicans never could have united
North with which to fight the South, unless
they first did their duty by repeating their un.
laws. He deprecated civil war
and said it were better that the Capitol were lev
eed and their ambition and aspirations buried be-
meath its ruins, than that the rash wager of battle
should be accepted. In conclusion he urged South
ern men not to be rash and precipitate, and the
Union would be preserved, and Southern rights in
it guaranteed.--Mr. REAGAN obtained the floor
and the committee rose.--Mr: CORWIN, from
the Committee of Thrty-three, made a report
which was ordered to be printed, and made thespe.
cal order for Monday next, and from day to day
till disposed of. The minority report was also or