Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1861-02-22

The Secretary OF the Treasury SAYS in a
letter to Mr.. Sherman, the liabilities due.
and to fall due before the 4Jh of March. are
nearly $4,000 eco. The accruing revenue,
will. it is estimated, net about So. 1000. .OGO,
leaving So ,000, goo to DC borrowed. There
is in the treasury, subject to draft, a little
more than $500 900, while drafts to ab .ut
s.. 900 900 are unanswered. The short time
to clIpsc before the close Of the present ses-
sI9n renders il indispensable for the Secretary
t. advertise l1r Il loan on the 18th or l4th
inst.
Mr. Morris made a report from the Special
Committee on the Indian trust abstraction
The report was ordered to be printed.
Air. Morris SAID he WAS willing to bring
up t., report at any time to suit the con-
vcnicnca Of Numbers.
iae Pacific +. L. bill came up.
Mr.. Pryor opposed the whole bill as
chHnericaI, and moved the Senate's amend
nent5. Tabled aui lost.
Mr Stokes defended the project, saying
all parties during the last eight years have
declared in their platforms the constitution
| ahtY and probability Of the road. He snId
| ti5in-S from tennessee, Kentucky and VIZ
/ giuia, would tend to restore the credit which
the country had lost,
Mr.. Pryor replied Virginia would sever
the bonds which bind her to an oppressive
/ association, unless Justice and equality was
restored to her. She has not pronounced
for submission bur received unanimously
| to make one mjte eli RI - pres eve the UNI
| on.
/ Mr. Sickles said Virginia declared for
reas1n-not passion What she VIII d.
! in the future he know not.
Mr., Lake said Virginia was anxious 20
| preserve the Union, ii she can get Justice
/ II not, she will trust = her own right arm.
ard appe. To TO earthly over for all. l2O
cut ot $50 Delegates are for secession unless
s.'c obained ample guarantees By the 9th
Of March.
lIr. SicA!es said tie 900, 600 Union men
Of New York had met . cordial response from
Virginia. Kentucky and Tennessee, which
was Indicative OF their love of Union.
Adj jJurncG
WAsuixcTJN, Feb. IA.
sExArE.-seversI petitions favoIins Mr.. Crit
tend. resolutions and others urging the Senate
70 stand by the Union, were presented
Mr. Bin CHAM presented the resolutions of the
Michigan Legislature in favor of maintaining tie
Uaion, Offering the military force OF that State,
and urgng Z no concessions TO traitors.
Mr. Wade said they passed the Legislature with
great uGanimity. Tabled.
Mr Footc offered resolution that committee
of three Senators be appointed to make arrange
ments for the Inauguration Of Mr. Lincoln.
Adopted.
Nh Wilkinson presented petition from Min
noso;a in favor of the enforce ment Of the laws,
the recap.ure of the forts and keeping the rivers
free
Mr.. Rice presented a petition from the same
/ State in favor Of Mr.. Cri;tenicn's resolutions.
The Tariff bill was then taken up.
/ Mr.. Hunter opposed it, contending that the rev.
enue from public lands and the present tariff was
sufficient to carry on the government if properly
adm Mustered.
I Mr.. simmons supported the bill, arguing in
favor Of tae abolition Of the warehouse system,
which was losing the government millions a
year.
The Pacific Railroad bill. was considered
The amendment that the central road shall 60
by Fort Riley from the mouth Of the Kansas river
was stricken out.
TIE report of the Committee Of Thirty three was
then taken up.
M-. Campbell Of Penn. said if the forts and ar
scua's which hsd been seized we're returned be
would listen to the complaints Of the South and
furnish remedy. He arguei that the territorial
question would he settled by tho admission Of
New Mexico, and favored the proposition Of the
committee.
submitted a report as TO the alleged conspiracy.
The committee say If d purpose at any time was
entertained Tor forming an organization 10 seiIo
the District Of Columbia, and TO attack the Capi-
tol, o1 prevent the inau uSuration of Mr.. Lincoln,
1t seems to have been rendered contingent upon
the secession Of Maryland r Virginia, or both,
ard 20 receive the sanction Of One of them BY Ger
tain organizations in this district and Maryland,
and that prior to the election. Several openly
political clubs have since assumed the character
cf military organizations, and now engaged
IN drilling, and expect to provide themselves with
arms, some from the State authorities, others
from private subscriptions, but so far as the COM
mittee able to learn their purposes while they
sympathized strongly with see ssion, there is no
pT0O that they intend to attack the Capitol or the
district, unless its surrender should be demanded
by the State to which they profess high degree
Of allegiance Some of these Companies in Balti-
more profess to he drilling for the sole purpose Of
preventing other military companies passing
through the State Of Mary and
Whether these IepTesen tatioIS are correct or
not the committee tail to discover satisfactory
evidence that they have any pu. pose whatever, as
a mere mob, without the sanction Of the State au-
th0rity to attack the capitol or any other public
property in the district to seize the district. If
it is admitted that any of these organic tions
hostile to the .vernment,o ,or entertained unla yful
purposes, they are in no proper sense secret, and
are lot therefore such contemplated in the
Iutio Of the House. The committee are unani-
mously of the opinion that there is no evidence of
a secret organization, here elsewhere, hostile to
the government, that has for an object upon its
own r, ,sponsibility an attack upon the Capitol or
any public property here, an Interruption OF
the functions OF the government Ihe committee
submit all the evidence and ask the same together
with their report to be printed AMI the committee
discharged.
curing entirely with the majority report. He
said. it appears from the testimony Of General
scott that seven companies Of artillery anf ono OF
saDners ard miners had been ordered to and quar-
tered in the city under the mistaken belief that
tho public property was in danger, and asking the
passage of the following resolution
That quarteriDg troops Of the regular army
in this district and around the Capitol, when not
necessary for their protection from hostile en-
emy, and during the session of Congress, is ini-
u9Iitie and may become destructive of civil lib
erty ard in the opinion of this House the regular
troops nCw in i; ought to be forthwith removed
thcrefrom.'
debate followed when Mr. Dawes OfMassachu-
setts wanted t) know how there could be n min
ority report when the ma ajOrity report was
animously agreed TO-.
Mr.. Branch claimed the right to make a per-
sonal explanation.
Mr.. Dawes said the reason the Committee were
unable to prove the existence of conspiracy, was
because the presence OF the troops prevented us
rpening into fruition. He moved to lay Mr..
Branch's resolution the table,
Mr. Branch remarked that his resolution was
sanctioned by no other member OF the COMMITTEES.
HIS name alone signed the minority report. Inc
reason was that tho majority report did not go
lar enough ,-,
- any lover Of civil and religious liberty,
80 r,tbering Of an armed force. The evidence
boySeI there was dagger at one period, and per-
c,ptionary measures were adopted.
Mr. Kunkel Of Maryland was satisfied that the
whole inquisition originated with the War Depart
plent or Gen. scott. Betind 1t was the object to
furnish to the country pla Isible excuse for tho
concentration Of a military force in Washington,
or else it originated with the Governor Of Mary
land, or soms other emissary had superinducei
the movement, because he is the only man who
has the audacity or temerity to assert that such
combination exists in the State of which he is .Se
unworthy Chief Magistrate
Mr.. Webster of Maryland said that Governor
Hicks acted FROM patriotic motives. His conduct
was approved Of by two-thirds Of the people Of
Maryland.
Alter some further debate, the resolution vas
tabled, los against 35 Adjourned