Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-01-18
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The xxxvIth Congress.


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The xXXvIth Congress.
WARRINGTON, Jan. Is.
SENATE.-Mr. Bayard presented memo
rial from the citizens of Delaware, without
respect Of party, praying for the passage Of
the Crittenden resolutions, saying that those
resolutions embody the import Of no more
than the public sentiment of the slayeholding
States will demand, and that he would vote
for the resolutions and speak on them next
week.
Mr.. Seward presented the memorial of
Samuel j. 3. Morse, the illustrious inventor
of the electromagnetic telegraph, praying
Congress for the extension of one of his
property in that invention. He asks the ex-
tension of the one that expires earliest, in
order to protect his property. Referred to
the committee on petitions.
Mr.. Seward also presented memorials of
citizens of New York concerning the state of
the Union.
Mr.. Kennedy presented a memorial from
the citizens of Frederick county, Md, with
out regard to party, asking the adoption Of
the Crittenden resolutions.
Mr. Cameron introduced resolution
changing the name of the steamboat John
G. Fremont, of Pittsburgh, to the Horizon.
Passed.
Mr.. Bigler presented eight memorials
praying that the propositions Of Mr. Critten-
den be submitted as amendments to the
Constitution. Tabled for the present.
On motion of Mr.. Bigler, Nh. Crittcnden's
resolution was taken up.
MIR. Latham, Of California, opposed the
amendment Of Mr.. Powell. If the amend
ment is accepted, the Constitution will be so
amended that the extension Of slavery will
be forever precluded, and we will never get
Cuba. He did not want to take any steps
which would again precipitate this question
on the American people. We understand
the question thoroughly, and if this amend
meAt should 60 before them they would
never consent.
The Chair, Mr.. Foot, decided that unfn-
ished business, being the Pacific Railroad
bill, had precedence of the special order,
being the bill for the admission Of Kansas.
Mr.. Bigler, Of Pennsylvania, moved to
postpone all other business to take up Mr..
Crittenden's amendments.
Mr.. Wade, of Ohio, called for the yeas
and nays. The motion was agreed to by a
vote of u yeas to 20 nays.
Mr.. Wilson moved to take up the resolution
proposing certain amendments to the Consti
tuition Of the United States.
The special order, Mr.. Crittenden's resolu
tons, was taken up.
Mr. Clark moved an amendment striking
out the preamble and the first resolution, anc
inserting that the provisions of the Constitu
ton are amply sufficient for the preservation
of the Union.
Mr.. Grcon took the floor: "The presen
Constitution, in its provisions for the whole
Union, is good enough. hold that State
has right to secede. This is not a govern
ment Of UNFIT is multiplication of units
A county cannot secede from State, because
it is not a unit Of sovereignty. A State has
the right to go out as it came in. There i!
no power in the Government to punish them
immediate secession of my State, unless ther,
be revolution of Northern public sentiment.
Further consideration was postponed, ant
the Pacific Railroad bill, being the specia
order, was taken up. A vote was taken OF
postponing indefinitely, resulting-yeas IL
| nays 80.
Mr.. Rice objected to the iron being neces
sarly American, and the price should be onl,
S15, 900 per mile from Lake Superior to tn,
Rocky Mountains. There IS not clause II
the bill which binds the stockholders il
anything whatever
| Mr. Gwin said his constituents were in favo
of the bill, and were willing to take anythin
presented. The Government has the frs
mortgage on the road, and, within IL month
after the bill becomes law, the greatest oh
stacle will be overcome, and we will have
road over the Sierra Nevada to the Washo
mines.
After debate, Mr.. Briggs motion to amen'
the first section by adding the words mo
until said act of corporation shall have beer
approved by the Congress Of the U. S.
Carried by 81 against 49,
| Mr. Benjamin offered an amendment
limit the time of the corporation. Alter
wards withdrawn
Mr.. Benjamin favored an amendment in tn
34th and S5th lines, to strike out the word
'tmaiority of such grantees as asserverated
and insert shall choose associates to becom
substitutes and corporatoTs with them a
hereinafter provided" Pending e vote
adjourned.
Housr.-Mr Stanton defended the Re
publican party. He informed the gentleman
from Texas that the principles on whicl
this Government was founded cannot b
surrendered under any threat of civil war
The Republican party has no purpose, prin
cip'e or policy not sanctioned by the Re
public's fathers From this point they coul(
not be drawn. He said he knew of no Re
publican who looks to that organization a.
desi ned to interfere directly Or indirectly
in the slightest degree with slavery in tht
States.
| During the course of his remarks, Mr.
Crawford said that Georgia had secured the
forts, because they were intended for hel
protection and defence, and takes all the
responsibility.
Mr.. Stanton said Georgia takes on herself
the Inauguration of civil war and makes no
pretense of constitutional Justification TO,
the act.
MIR. Hill disclaimed the act on the part OF
Georgia as State. 1t was done by bands
of soldiers without authority,
Mr.. Love thought the position of both bis
colleagues wrong. The forts were seized as
a defensive act, there being a probability
that the government would SIND garrsons
to them.
MIR Hartman said if Georgia should secele
he was determined to sustain the govern
ment in his act Tor veal or Woe.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 16
SENATE-The Vice-President presented a
message from the President answering the
Senate resolution of inquiry as to the ap-
pointment of Hon. Jas. Holt to perform the
duties of the Office of Secretary of War,
made vacant by the resignation Of Mr.. Floyd
He fully set forth the legal reasons
Mr.. Rice, Of MIMI. introduced resolu-
ton providing for the appointment of
special committee of seven by the Senate
with instructions to inquire into the expeai-
ency of passing general act for the admis-
s;or of o new State and a re-adjustment of
the limits of California, Minnesota and Ore
gon-viz i: LIST, The admission of New Mex
leo, to be bound on the North by 80 lat,
east by Texas, south by Texas and the Mex
lean boundary and west by the 1l40 longi-
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