The Smoky Hill and Republican union. [volume] (Junction City, Kan.) 1861-1864, 1863-02-28
TIE HENDERSON AlKNDMKHr.
ToPEKA, February II, 1853.

AO16AA, EeO10oIy IL, 1000.
, MEssRs. EDrfoRs:-The long expected ball
is open, the fight commsnced The famous
. Henderson Amendment Awas sintroduced yes
terday, and no one knew, except its friends, the
thing was in the House until this morning, when
it was brought up, Ed. Russell, of Doniphan,
leading off in its favor in a speech Of about an
hour in length. Mr.. Russell tried hard to show
the great advantages Kansas would derive
in adopting said Amendment" but l believe
. majority did not, nor could not see the 'spint"
Hon. G. W. Click followed in a somewhat
lengthy speech against, which, assure yeu,
was an able effort ON his part. He has worked
with the West consistently from the fret, and
we are under great obligations to him for his
efforts. think the Is Henderson Amendment"
will be defeated in the House. 1t was intro
duced in the form Of Concurrent Resolu-
tion,' with little sharp practice, in this way !:
The resolution was entitled, Concurrent Res
olution, No. 18, concerning q certain Road"
and was introduced by very innocent looking
German, from Washington county, and, coming
from the source it did, no one suspected it was
the famous thing, to-wit: Henderson's 8 Amend
ment. The opponents of the measure, though
taken somewhat by surprise, were not asleep,
and we think it will meet more opposition than
its friends counted upon.
Legislation has got to be a curious result
undertake to say, that there has not been q
single measure brought up that there has not
been some combination entered into. What is
the more strange, that Lawrence entered into
so strange a combination as it did when it
combined its strength with the Henderson
Amendment men. Does not interest make
strange bed-fellows? -5 a
FEB 18-Blue Grass johnson, Of Doniphan,
opened his battery on Mr.. Click, and in favor
<hn ,sSs started
off in fine style, but soon had to refer to his
colleague, who would ably answer the gentle
man from Atchison. Nobody hurt yet or scared.
EvENING-The Champion ed. Russell) Of
the famous thing has commenced, and is making
a strong effort to convince us in q speech Of one
hour and twenty minutes in length by Mr..
Browns watch. The "pint" is not yet discov'
cred.
Now comes the famous Abraham B., Of Leav-
enworth, who, by the way, is as heavy in
debate as in person. He proposes to perfectly
demOlish the argument of the gentlemen from
Doniphan in just two minutes and hah, and
judging from the pleasure manifested, he will
fulfill his promise handsomely. He says,
brevity is the soul Of wit" and he does not
mean to talk long to us. He says that Doug
las will support it, and believe she will Mr..
Emory'is going to make speech; believe he
will; for that is part Of the contract In
speaking of Mr.. Emorys effort yesterday in
eulogizing Old John Brown, he says: "If
thought the gentleman was in earnest, l would
take him to Barnum. A live Democrat eulo-
gizing Old John Rrown-why, with him, the
mermaid and the two-headed calf, Barnum' s
fortune would be made" a5
FEB. 19.-Mr Lacock, from Brown, has the
floor. He seems to think that this matter, as
we'll as many others, is mere speculation. But
this is not the great question with him; so he
says that the great question with him is the
rebellion. He hopes that before long the re-
bellion will be crushed out and the Government
restored What the Northern section Of the
State asks-the Henderson Amendment y
is fair He has lugged in the Bridge Bill on
Leavenworth. AtchisOn has formed an alli-
ance with her old enemy to defeat her former
friends Hard, is it not? His appeal to the
Southern members was rich in the extreme.
The anti's will soon come to them and form an
alliance, and make Southern Kansas the next
victim. Oh how hard. He closed this after
noon with strong appeal for justice.
On a call Of the House, the absentees were
brought in, the previous question ordered, and
a vote taken, which resulted as follows:
AYEs-Bradley, Brown, 54th dist, Clark,
Foster 10th dist, Griffith, Hanson, Hidden,
Hiner, Hollinberg, Irwin, Johnson, 1st dist,
I.acock, Mccartney, Russell, Sayer, Vaughn,
W Weisbach-23.
NOEs-Alford, Baker, Beeson, Barrett, Bish-
op, Bottom, Bowman, Broadhead, Brown, 22nd
dist, Campbell, 33d dist, Campbell, 55th dist,
Craft, Douthitt. Downing, Drake, Ellis Esk-
ridge, Foster, 3Oth dist, Fullington, Click,
Gordon, Grover Gwartney, Harrison, Hawkins,
Hollister, Ide, Jackman, Johnston, 10th dist,
Jones, kinner, Latin, Lee, 18th dist, Lee, 10Th
dist 10y, Means, Medill, Miller, Mitchell,
Page, Rogers, Saunders, Snyder, Steel, STRAIT
ton, Tucker, Underhill, Walker, Ward, Will
liams-5O. Yours. q. F. q.
Colonel Cloud.