New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-12-10
The Vacancy in the Interior Department
80 of the Condemned Indians to be Hanged.
GEN. SlGtrs REQUEST FOR A COURT or INQUIRY.
GEN. eURNsIDE's REPLY.
Special Dispatch 10 The N. Y. Tribune.

until o'clock. The discussion was the most animat-
ed and important Of the session. The Hon. Martin
+. Conway of Kansas opposed the admission in a
speech of great force and ability, the main points Of
which were as follows:
Mr. Conway was not opposed TO the erection Of
new State III West Virginia, but TO the form in
which the proposition was presented. This bill
was not much for the admission OF new State as
IL WIS for division of old one. and the Constitu-
ton required that no State shoud be divided unless
the assent of its Legislature was first obtained
He denied that the State Of ViTglnia OF which Mr..
! Pierpoint ia Governor, was the lawful State. II
was true that the President had recognized il, but If
the President had done wrong, II made It the more
| mpOriOnt in grave matter, that the House Of
| Representatives should do right.
| Mr.. Conway argued az some length against the
legality Of the Wheeling Government. He thought
the question was Of great importance as touching
| other matters than the one Immediately under con-
sheratioon. lie had reason to believe that IL was
the intention Of the President 10 recognize the for
nation OF State organizations IN all the tceded
States.
a policy was about 10 he 'naugura,od looking TO
the assumption OF State powers by few individuals,
wherein military or other encsmpment could be
effected in any OF the rebeliods districts. The
utter aud fragrant unconstiiutionay Of this scheme,
s radically revolutionary character, ought to expose
\ II 10 the reprobation of every loyal citizen
II aims AT an utter subversion OF our constitutional
system 1t. effect would be TO consolidate all the
/ powers Of the Government in the hands Of the Ex-
ecu,iye With the admission Of this new State, the
! president, would have substantially created four
Senators two for Virginia and two for West Vlr
gna.
lie would also have substantially created fifteen
electoral votes Tor President ~ belonging 10 the
state Of Virginia, and six or eigh, es elonging 20
the new State. beside the number Of members OF this
H1use 10 which West Nir ginia will lie entitled, and
also the number which may come in hereafter from
the so-called Virginia Itself, under Mr. PIerponts
certificate.
Now suppose this scheme is carried into the other
seeded States aud If be right here /, Is right any
where, and IL il is good thing across the Potomac
T. cannot be had thing in Tennessee, or at Port
Royal.
lie was informed that steps have already been
taken for similar action in Louisiana, tennessee
North Carolina, and other parts OF the South, and
signed By the President 10 Que Smith, recommending
him for some such work in Tennessee.
What will be the undoubted result of all this 2 !
Why, that the President, through his particular !
friends few in humber aud perhaps unprnoipled
in character will exercise the Federal powers per-
tanning under the Constitution 10 all the seeded
States.
lie will have twenty-five senator's and nearly one
half of the electoral college, to say nothing Of this
house and ever thing else: How much better,
pray would this be than the slave oblgarchy itself
Would il indeed be anything else than Few slave .
obligarchy Of a most raw and disgusting nature
MT. conway drRutu tibi iuc blAlhtlOu Will re-
gard to the Seeded States was, that they out
Of the Union by having acquired at least bel
ligerent character, thus securing an international
status incompatible with their Federal relations
This placed them 10 IN the position Of foreign
POWER, with whom we are at war, aud made their
territory cub ect TO our sovereign VIII whenever
succeeded in taking il from them.
The true policy Of the Government, therefore,
was TO hold them ss conquered territory wherever
and whenever our arms were excluded over them.
n eli -.
same side. Mr.. Colfax, of Indiana made the lead
ing speech OF the day in favorof the bill. The vote
in the House will be taken at o'clock tomorrow,
and the bill will undoubtedly pass by large
jorty.
Many Of The radical Republicans who have here
tofore opposed will now vote for 1t. Upon The pas
sage Of tho bill, the Pienepont Government, which
claim. to be the Government of the whole of Vir-
GINA, will remove from Wheeling TO Alexandria,
and the new State viii start in business its
account This pledge has already been given to the
President and the plan is not concealed from Con-
gress.
TIE VACANCY IN THE INTERIOR DEPARTMENT.
At meeting of tho Indiana Congressional Dole
CATION tonight il resolved that the delegation
would make no effort to press the claims of any ln-
diana candidate as successor TO the present Sec:e-
tary Of .nteIior. IL is considered that this deter
inination leaves the way clear for Judge Hollis NOM
nation aud that his appointment will not long be
delayed.
THE CONDEMNED MINNESOTA INDIANS.
1t 10 now stated positively that the President has
cent forward an order directing that thrty-Dine of
the condemned Minnesota Indians, specifically
named, he hanged on the 18th instant.
GEN. sIGEL's REQUEST FOR A COURT or
INQUIRY.
Cen. Burnside, 10 whom sen. Siges request for
a Court of Inquiry was made writes as follows to
Gen. Sige; I
"With your movements since my connection with I,
this army am well acquainted. | take pleasure in
bearing testimony to Tie ZEAL efficiency and military
skill displayed by yourself and your officers in the
Of your force, and the fruitful recon ,
noissanceS you have directed"
This may 10 received as expression also OF the
general opinion Of those officers best qualified to
Judge
EXAMINING SURGEONS APPOINTED.
The following appointments OF examining FUR
geons has been by tho Commissioners OF Pensions ,
Doctors Thos. A. Pierce, Gaena Ill. A. 8. Hud- n
son. Sterling, do. Ihos. =. Hening, Springfield, do.
J ohm L. Hostetter, Mount Carroll, do. Elias c. .
DE Puy, FreepOrt, do. John l.. Hallam, Centralia,
d.; Fleming X. Payne, Marshall, do; Is. j. Day,
Evansville, Ind. Milton Herndon, Crawfordsville,
TO-; Thomas X. Austin, New Albany, do; Amos