New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-03-04
STATES CARRIED BY DEMOCRATS.


Arkansas ............-..... - N3.V ~ 20.
Missouri .............. ,I ss ssssSaa s fS'aIs
kentucky ..........'..'''' Oh 1 .5e5S m1iS
Tennessee a3oSo G.,rs
CaHlorna ................. 9'S"' oi''-o "''ii'
Totals .................3s7.esi 1,124o6s 6SS, 23s
NO popular vote.
CARRIED BY THE AMERICANS.
Fremont Buchanan Fillmore.
Maryland ................. Isl 39ll5 F,4O
TOTAL POPULAR VOTE.
For Buchanan Dcm). 81 S 80,
For For Fillmore tAmercanj: S3.o5
Tot,, ..............................4.Ois 2oi
Buehsnan's plurality over Fremont.......... 1885
ELECTORAL VOTE.
For Buchanan and Breckinridge Dem). ..........1!i
For Fremont and Dayton CRep).
ro,,, 2sS
Buchanan's majority F"
FOR SLAVE LABOR AND FREE TRADE.
When the XXXIVth Congress reassembled for
its third session. December 1. 1856 (adjourning
sine die March 3. 1850. the readjustment OF
party lines caused by the Presidential cam
paign left the Wings now known as Repub-
cars. in the minority in both branches of Con-
gress:
Observation-Disclosures. 1J Democrats ~;
Americans, 81 vacancies, =: total, OZ
House-Nathaniel T. Banks Htep, Massl'
ST. eaker; Republicans JOS: Democrats. So:
Americans. AZ; total. 234.
The Presidents Message was full Of exultation
over the elections of 1856 and the popular YER
dict against anti-slavery agitation and emanci-
nation He held the anti-slavery agitation ana
the enactments of Northern States in Interior
crce with the Fugitive Slave law responsible
both for the angry and violent temper OF the
South and the Republican defeat. He defended
the repeal of the Missouri Compromise on the
ground that that compromise had been uncon-
stitutional null and void. Treasury surplus OF
$4,000 600 was reported, and tariff reduction
was recommended.
Except In two or three respects legislation at
this session was Of q commonplace and routine
character.
The Republicans brought into the House at
this session a bill to enable Kansas to form
State Government by popular sovereignty; that
Is 10 say by the vote Of her own actual resi-
dents 1t repudiated the acts Of the bogus
Democratic Legislature. which had been forced
upon the Territory by non-residents provided
for the punishment Of any person, not a resident,
who should vote at Kansas elections and for
babe the invasion of the Territory by armed
and organized bodies Of men and their inter-
ference in elections. There a long debate.
Issue was joined on February II. 1851 and the
House passed the bill by 9S yeas (92 Republ
cans, 6 Americans) to 70 nays co Americans. 80
Democrats). The Democratic Senate. contempt
uous Of popular rights laid the bill unceremo
mic usly the table February 10 by 80 yeas
CT Democrats, 3 Americans) to "a nays as
Republicans, 4 Northern Democrats, . Ameri-
cans. Thus the Democracy again recorded It's
vote in favor Of the extension OF slavery to the
Territories.
Before adjournins Congress passed an act
which was In effect a retaliation upon the free
labor OF the North for its resistance to slavery
extension. The Democratic majority revised the
tariff and removed from it nearly every vestige
Of protection 20 American labor. farming and
manufactures The surplus in the Treasury was
made the basis Of this attack upon the protec
tive system. The Democrats viewed with alarm
"the possibility of mercy accommodating In the
Treasury and beir & withdrawn from the chan
nels Of trade" They favored a straight reduc
ticn OF 70 or % per cent In the duties on i'm
ports with free wool, and abolition of the duty
on tea and coffee The Republicans favored q