, 1862-03-05

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asS-1he Mespapr 0rder-Admission Of
Stark and " Consequences -Anothe.. Member
q Coag7e1s for Winois-1Ne ,Skake Of Westcra
v.'gs"'a- "a Opposition to its Admfssion -Fre-
From our OWL Correspondent
WASHINGTON, March !, 1863.
Ihe Kentucky railroad scheme remains, as
it has been for several days, the chief topic Of
conversation, and 1t grows worse by every
| ifesi Development. It is now asserted, on
very respectable authority, that the deyice em-
braces the construction Of tpo other RAILROADS,
viz: the Southwest Branch Of the Pacific Rail
road, HON Rolla to Springfield, and the P1attc
valley hailroad in Missouri The most dam
aging discovery, however, il that of 8 new and
hiihe1to unknown clause in the bill, authoriz-
ing the prosecution of the railroad work after
tie close Of the var indefinitely. The 5th
seeuon OF the bill, As first introduced and
printed, was Us follows:
-ana De II JErtAer enacted, That the comnen
eat1on OF each Of the commissioners aforesafd
T2sn aeS Re eEs Ea fSsfs peF day while II
suppression Of the rebellion. 1oN ''''
Between the word sact'' aud the word
"shal],' - indicated BY the brackets above, are
no" found the words, !" 30 far as /. ,7slatss to
tAe Operating and using said 7ulruads and te7c
graphs" Thus special exception is made as
to the extending, repairing and completing
OF railroads, which may be carried forward Is
long rs dollar can be obtained by borrowing
or taxing.
Frank Blair's bill for raising some twenty
thousand volunteer engineers was severely
Killed, alter an exciting debate in the House
! yesterday. To Mr.. Wilson of Iova-Gen.
Curt:s's successor in Congratulations the
credit Of stopping the thing several days ago,
and OF conducting the opposition to the
schemc IN public debate, which he did with
uncommon ability, despite the cross-firine Of
Blair Of Missouri, Mallory Of Kentucky.
and Maynard Of Tennessee. Mr. Troybriduc
Of Michigan declared his utter amazement at
the use which had been made Of the bill au-
thorazI1g the President to take possession OF
railroad and telegraph lines, intimating pretty
strongly that he regarded it fraud. Mr.,
1FiIaole OF Ohio followed, exhibiting a rail-
road map to tho House, and charactcrizing
The whole scheme Us a wild, Basteful and un-
necessary expenditure Of the public FUNDS.
Mr. shanks Of Indiana asked Mr.. Blair WHY
the second section Of the bill provided that the
engineers should be consolidated fnto npr7.
ments and kept together, instead Of being
distributed to The various brigades-ss one
company to each brigade now III the service"
as stated in the first section To this there was
no satisfactory reply, and could be none, While
the debate was going oD, observed that the
IepoItef ior the Associated Press was paying
ri f1r,&-, t-1S.
OF hgures purportang 10 be the militia re-
turns' Of the United States during some past
generation. asked him il he was not noinn
to send tic Important debate then in progress
over the wires. He replied, s'No-aIf ills is
;onera1ana.n @ aa +, isndeavored to show him that
late order ofthe Secretary Of War. BE smiled
feehIy, shook his head, and went on with his
antique militia returns 'A'-'
In the Senate 1lr. Wade rose to personal
explanation, {; 7 and sid that he introduced and
ing the President to 'textend, repair ind COM
pIeten the railroads, Mr.. Grimes replied that
ne tWade) did Introduce the amendment hut
did not exp1ain it also that he {Wadel intr,-
duced without explanation much more OBJ
leetlonabie amendment authorizing work on
the vu11ous railroads to be continued
and prosecuted after the close Of tie
war 10 this Mr- Wade made no reply,
yesterday Secretary Stanton told several
persons that be had ordered the work On the
Aen1ucky Railroad to be stopped, and general
feeling Of relief was the conseuusuce Sec
retary Stanton also told Senator that his
newspaper order was intended to apply only
to present or future movements Of our armies.
and when asked why he had drawn it SO as to
cover me past also, he replied, $50 that they
can, arlye coach and six through it.''
Oregon, without inquiring into his loyalty,
Which had been so grayeIy lmpeached, was
one OF those unaccountable things Of wLicl,
The present crisis is rep1ete. It will be hard
TOR those Senators who voted for the admis-
sion to prove to their constituents that they
have not established precedent for the re-ad-
mission MI OF Mason, Davis, Slidell, Toombs and
MlgfAll- Alr. Sherman, Mr. Browning and
Mr. Howe arc Of the number. Mr. Sherman
WIS particularly unfortunate in finding rea-
sons Tor his vote-the drift Of his argument
being that we ought to get rid Of tue traitor
IN way in which we EccAnot do it, but not in
way III which ne can do it. Mr. Sherman
had been reading up the practice in the Eng
ilsh Honse OF Lords, and this was the result OF
thing.
Now that Illinois has been assigned IN addi
tional nemb Der Of Congress, it is thought by
gentlemen from that Stale, that the Conyen-
tlon nay feel encouraged to go ahead and re-
apportion the Congressional districts, under
the assumption that the word "Lcglslature''
il the Constitution Of the United States means
Go7ausntlo7a also At variance with this fine
theory is the fifth article Of the Federal Con-
st1tntion, which says that amendments to that
instrument shall be valid stW1en ratified l,r
:" the Legislafures Of thrce-fo Of the seF-
"era1 States, Or By c>urcutosas in three -fourths
thereof, as the one or the Other mode Of ratia-
cation may be proposed by Congress- Does
any one say that Convention and Legislature
mean one and the same thing, in the face Of
The constitution of Western Virginia will
be coming along here, with her application for
admission, during this>session Of Congress.
Now that the Wheeling Convention has made
slavery perpetual in the proposed new State.
1t is ec'y doubtful whether Western Virginia
viii ever bc State in this Union. There asr
enough slave States now to satisfy any but the
most deprayed taste. The whole Wheeling
movement is irregular, rs everybody admits
so irregular that the claim to admission rs q
separate State eau only appeal to the s,enzathics
81 Congress, and the people, for recognition.
As the case now stands, Car1i1e and Wiley
represent the whole State Of Virpinia. cast AZ
well as west oil the mountains, IN the Federal
senate When the new slaye State comes for
yard tor admission, she may be admitted; the
Constitution says "nluy'' It is for Con
gfess to decide whether the common welf1re
Will be subseTved by the admission. The ar-
gument induIged in concerning the admission
OF new States formed out of Territories, to
Wit: That VIC must admit them if VIC own the
country, because tlcy viii grow Of necessity
GO INC dimensions and character Of States, and
WILL pc States in the Union or States out of
the Union,-does not apply in this case be-
cause Western Virginia is already State or a
portion Of State, and it is idle to assert that
Fa7yinfa has ever consented to the division