New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-05-20

Mr.. H,RplyG. from the Committee on Public
Lands reported back the bill 10 amend the act OF sept
a. 1870 In relations 20 donation to settlers upon puDhc
lands IN California, and II was passed.
ARMY APPROPRIATIONS BILL.
NJ FTssfSDES from the Committee OF Conference
on the Army appropriation bil made a report recon.
mending that the Senate Insist ON the amendments
thereto and ask for another Committee Of Conference,
which agreed 20.
| TIE MONTANA BILL.
| Mr. MogRuL from the Committee Of Conference on
the disagreeng votes Of both Houses on the bI i9r
erecting the Territorial Government Of Montana made
n report which recommends that the Senate recedc
from ts amendment striking ont the words every rce
white inhahtani" In regard i0 voters and inserting
al citizens o the United States and those who have
declared their intention 10 become such. Mr. MORRILL,
said the effect Of the amendment would be 10 authorize
the temporary organization OF the Government Of Mon
tana by that class of pcrson- who were authorized TO
organize the Territory of Idaho
Mr. - NNTR asked what class 81 persons were they.
| Mr. ModlIiL ansWcled-Ihcy were citizens OF the
ncd S,ac- and such other white inhabitants ha,.
declared ihoiF intention to became such. He under
stood IL white citizcns. The difference between.
tho two Houses was thGt tho House allowed al free
white males ~ 20 vote and the Senate restricted
that privilege to citizens of the United Staics In order
tu secure the passage Of the bill the Committee Of the
two Houses agreed TO this new proposition. AMI after
the Territory was organized tie whole question of SUI
| iragc would res, with the Territorial authority.
Mr.. SUw>iE said the whole question Of suffrage be-
fore the Senate whether We should adhere 20 that
which was right consent 10 that which was wrong.
He hoped the Senate would adhere 10 It's original pOel
| ton
| Mr. morrill, explained that this was a practical
question and whore the two Houses find themselves AT
loegorheads; aud when ii becomes necessary for one
party the other 10 Weld the party invading should be
the How else could legislation 20 on The bill as
IL viii stand will invade 10 mans rights. colorcd or
white.
| Mr. HARLAN would vote against the report OF the
Committee simply because be- did not believe there
necessity for any new Territorial Government IN
that portion of ldaho The population was not enough
10 entitlc them TO IL. He was willing that Tie subject
| should fail and go over 10 the next session.
Mr.. WADE said that while he held ns n settled prin
ciple that the black man IN republican Government
like ours had the same nallbc right vote a white
man. he considered the original Senate amendment the
mere shadow OF shade. and n miserable abstraction
He could not be- deluded by the mere shadow OF things
There negroes In this Territory, and there were
never likely to be any. Whenever the question should
be raised TO affect any mans rights, white or eoored
he should stand where be always had stood.
Mr. HALE differed from the senator from Ohio, and
quoted from the Ordinance of l77 organizing the North
Western Territory to show that our foreiacrs Lad
wise foresight In providing not only for the present but
for the future Of the Territories though these Icr
ritories were mere wilderncsses AT that time.
Mr.. Howard said The whole northwest was slave
territory at the time Of the passage Of the ordinance OF
1854 and there hundreds OF slaves held BY French
Canadians and others.
Mr. HALE replied that so far as regards the condition
Of the Territory 10 wilderness. Oregon. In lri-.
when its Territorial Government was organized was
wilderness and sat here week after week contendng
FOR what Senators would now call an abstraction The
abstraction was in holding out against the demand OF
Southern Senators that the prohibition of Slavery should
not extend beyond the line Of36 J0 sat until August
and refused their demand and II Senators since that
time had stood where we stood. We should have
had no Compromise in leJ0 and no Rebellion In
le6l. The policy now establishing
for the new Territory would be the policy for all ages 10
come He did not care whether this bill failed not.
The only persons upon whom disaster would fall would
be those who disappointed IN obtaining Offices UNI
der the recent territorial organization OF Idaho They
divided the Territory for office once and If you allowed
il another disappointed set would divide II again for the
sake of the Offices In saying what he did he did not
mean Ia express what he should take ON the hl
before the Senate In reference TO nee suffrage IN tue
District ~ Columbia
Mr. MoRnlL reiterated that the bill would not dis
franchise any man on account OF his color there was
not coorcd man IN the Territory And yet the sona-
tor from New Hampshire while layorng this impracii
cable meas ne appeared 10 dodge the question when II
was practicable In the District Of Columbia.
Mr. HALE said tie Senator was mistaken. Mr.. Nor.
rl was the last man from whom he expected 10 hear
such old Wing doctrine. In The discussion on the VII
mot Proyso Mr. Webster took the ground that the
written law of God had dccTced that Slavery could 20
into the Territories and he did wish 10 reonact the
law Of God He (Iac) thought at the time that that
very reason made the mcnsurr practicable. Precisely
the issues presented 10 tue country az were
then, and he should act upon them according to the light
God gave him. rs they respectively arose.
Mr.. NEsnIln hoped tie Senate would not concur
with the Senator from New Hampshire, and allow the
bill 10 be lost He had no particular interest III the sub
ect 80 far az the negro concerned but he did take
interest IN the white people there, whom lie sup
posed numbered sixty 10 seventy thousand mostly
engaged IN mining pursuits Inc otlcct OF the bill
would also be 10 the advantage OF the government III
enabling IL more efeotuay to carry out its laws and
especially TO collect its revenue tax.
Mr.. SUMNER had 20 hesitation in saying that the
principle involved IN the Senate position was more i'm
portant than the passage Of the bill II was proposed
10 exclude the African race from suffrage, and the
argument made here in defense Of II was but repro
duction OF the cid wellku9wI Slavery arguments on
the subject, lie was opposed ~ The infringement VI