Nebraska Advertiser

TRUMBULL'S BILL.

WASHINGTON, June 9.

SENATE. The debate was monopolized by Douglas and Trumbull, and involved the principles of the Kansas-Nebraska act. Trumbull explained that his only object of the bill was to extend the Territorial Government of Nebraska over Kansas, and abolish the present government of the latter Territory, and the laws made by their Legislature. He thought this proposition was worthy of some consideration, as a state of things existed in Kansas which all good men must deplore. He did not care about having the bill referred, as that would withdraw it from the consideration of the Senate.

Mr. Douglas hoped that the bill would be referred to the Committee on Territories, who would report on it an early day. It involved some grave questions, but he was glad to see that the opponents of the Nebraska Bill were beginning to acknowledge the principle of that measure. The laws of Nebraska were made by the people of Nebraska, and the laws of Kansas by the people of Kansas. But the proposition now to be abolished was the law made by the people of Kansas for their new Government, and placing them under the laws of Nebraska, which they had no voice in making.

Mr. Trumbull said, that so far from acknowledging the principle of the Nebraska bill, he did not believe that there was any principle in it. It was understood one way at the North and another at the South. He would admit that this bill to annex Kansas to Nebraska was no such measure. He regarded the repeal of the Missouri Compromise as the source of all the mischief; he would be glad to restore things to their former position. This was a temporary expedient, not intended to carry out his own wishes fully. He meant to occupy conservative grounds upon this question, and was willing to yield to something for peace; he was sorry to see strife in Kansas, and was anxious that some measure should be adopted to restore peace in that unhappy Territory.

Mr. Douglas said he was anxious to have peace and quietness restored to Kansas as his colleague; and he was also willing to yield what some of the people of Kansas refused to yield, and that was implicit obedience to the laws of the land. If everybody would do this there would be no more difficulty in Kansas or anywhere else. But instead of compelling the rioters and rebels to submit to the laws, they were, by Trumbull's Bill, to be placed under the laws of another Territory, and the effect would be to extend the strife and tumult to Nebraska likewise, whose people have obeyed the laws and they have peace. In Kansas the law had been trampled under foot, and there was strife. The very fact that both Territories were created under the law, that in one were peace and quiet, and in the other strife and controversy, shows the fault is not in the land or in former interferences; strife and violence were fruits of that interference in Kansas and there had been no interference from Nebraska, and peace and harmony were the natural consequences. His colleague thought the Nebraska Bill was understood differently North and South.

After more debate, Mr. Trumbull's bill was referred to the Committee on Territories.