Congress and the Nebraska Bill.Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Morning Herald [Whig](23 November 1854)
The debate on the Nebraska-Kansas bill
terminated in the House on Saturday at 12 o'clock, prior
to which as arrangement was agreed upon for
gentlemen who had not spoken on the subject to be
permitted to print their speeches. The House
refused to come out of the committee of the whole
by a vote of 62 to 92. The reading of the bill
was then commenced, and Mr. Edgerton proposed,
as a substitute, the bill for organizing Nebraska
which passed the House during last Congress.
Other amendments were offered and debated under
the five minutes rule, and rejected, until three
o'clock, when the committee rose and the House
adjourned. The Sentinel foots up as follows the
which as been done: -- Speeches for the
principle of the bill in the Senate, 17, in the House,
45 -- total, 62. Speeches against the bill in the
Senate, 12; in the House, 55 -- total ,66. Besides
the speeches actually delivered, Messrs. Bliss,
Cook, Everhart,
Sabe,
Howe, Stuart, of Ohio, and
other gentlemen (at least twelve in all), obtained
permission to publish their speeches, not having
been successful in their efforts to obtain the floor
to deliver them.
It is now evident that the bill as originally
reported, that is without the Clayton proviso, will
pass by a majority of from ten to fifteen votes.
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