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OONaRRssIONAL


OF the special order, namely, the bill proVid-
ing for receiving engineers into the volunteer
service Of the United States. After debate
the bill was rejected.
The Homestead bill was considered.
An amendment was offered and rejected
prohibiting the Engineers authorized BY this
act from being employed in the construction
of any railroad not authorized by law
The bill was rejeeted-57 against 66
The bill granting homesteads 70 actual
settlers and providing bounty for soldiers in
lieu of lands was taken up.
Holman, Craven and Winder discussed the
merits Of the question.
The bill was amended so as to take effect
Jan. lst., 1853, and passed-lO5 against I6.
SENATE.
Mr.. stsrke, Of Oregon, offered the follow
ing:
RssOIged, That the papers relating to the
loyalty of Benjamin. Starke senior, from
Oregon, be referred to the Judiciary Com.
mittes, with instructions to investigate the
charges on the evidence which has been or
may be presented.
Mr. Hale objected to the resolution.
Mr. Starke said that he presented the res
Olution himself because he would spare any
friend Of his what might be an ungracious
office. Certainly he would not permit any
one opposed to him to place himself in such
position. BE (Stsrke) was willing that
any Senator who proposed to be the prosecu-
tor Of the charges brought here against him
should have an opportunity offered him. He
aVRiled himself Of this opportunity to say
that relying on his own consciousness Of
loyalty to the country, and yielding TO ne
man in devotion to the Constitution and the
Union and in YeneFatiOn and reverence for
the Gag Of his country, he had thus far re-
Trained from entering into the question con-
tanned in these papers, preierring to stand on
what be considered to be his personal honor
and the rights of bis State. Ifany one wish
ed to promote the matter farther, he would
be most happy to meet it.
The resolution of Mr.. Starke was laid |
aside.
The legislative appropriation bill was TAX
en- up and passed.
Mr.. Starke's resolution was resumed. Mr.. |
MeDOugal thought the question was satisfac-
torily settled and moved to lay the resolq- |
tiOn on the table; rejected-yeas 7, nays 80.
Mr.. Dixon very much regretted the vote Of |
the Senate yesterday. There was evidence
against the Senator from Oregon which, as
yet, remains uncontradictsd, and which, if |
true, show the dislOyalty of the Senator. The
Senator from Oregon was native Of Con
nectiout and be had Union feeling, but 1
he thought the vote Of yesterday opened
the door to anybody, traitor or not, and he
considered it the most disastrous vote that /
could have been given.
Mr.. Browning said the Senator from /
Massachusetts seemed very much concerned |
about the other Senator's responsibility,-l
Il would be time enough to be anxious |
about him (B. } when he asked his services.
He felt no responsibility, and reflected on |
the vote he gave yesterday with as much |
satisfaction ss any vote he ever gave He !
thought the Senator had a right to lecture |
other Senator'S and depIore their miserable |
condition.
Mr.. Fessenden also spoke in a similar
strain
Mr.. Sumner said the Senators from IIIi- /
nOis and Maine treated what he said as being /
an injurious impUtatiou on them. Nothing i
was further from his thoughts. He knew |
the Senator from Illinois was amply able to |
take care Of himself, and he had not the pre-
sumption to offer any assistanes. He thO't |
the remarks Of the senstor from Maine not |
perfectly kind, or perfectly restrained from
passion. He(SUmner) intended nothing IN
furious to that Senator; DO had too great |
confidence in their kindly relations to make /
suggestions which he could Interpret into /
unkindness. He had said he was not aston
ished that the Senators sought to relieve
themselves of responsibility.
Mr.. Fessenden asked what evidence there
was that any man sought 10 relieve himself
from responsibility.
Mr.. Sumner said that certain Senators /
were anxious that an inquiry should take |
place.
Mr.. Browning said ne was in favor Of fur
ther investigation, but not with any view to |
relieve themselves from responsibility.
Mr.. Sumner said he referred to all the |
consequences of that vote. He thought Da- |
Wis and Benjamin and ToOmbs could pass
through the same door.
The morning hour having expired, the |
matter was laid over.
Mr.. Clark o. cred bill to abolish slavery /
in the District of Columbia, as q substitute |
for the bill of the committee on the same /
subject.
Mr. Wilson, ofMsss, offered resolution |
that the Secretary Treasury transmit to the |
Senate a copy Of the report Of Edward L. |
Pierce, on the negroes at Port Royal, and |
such other information hat be may have on |
the subject. Adopted.
he also introduced bill to encourage en-.
Hstments IN the regular army. Referred.
Mr.. Grimes presented the memorials Of |
certain regiments Of Iowa, asking that |
Springfield, Mill Springs Belmont, and Fort
Donelson, be inscribed on their banners.
On motion OF Mr.. Fessenden the Execu.
tive and Legislative appropriation bill was
taken up.
Mr.. Wade said he wished to make an ex-
PLANTATION. He referred to paragraph in |
the New York Tribune relative to certain |
Railroad Legislation, and that certain WOroS
were put into the bill, giving the Govern
ment power 10 take possession Of railroads, |
&C. He said be introduced that bill, and il |
was true that the words complained Of were !
not in the original bill, but be introduced |
that amendment in the Senate, and explain |
ed il. The idea that anybody interpolated |
the words into the bill after it passed from |
the Senate, was an imputation on the clerks, |
which was entirely groundless. II fanybody |
was to blame It was be.
Mr.. Grimes said the Senator did not ex-
the amendment. He was unwilling that it
should 60 to the country that be (Grimes) |
voted for such q provision if he had known !
what 1t Was.
The Senate adjourned tin Monday.
FROM NEW YORK.