WASHINGTON, April 4.
SENATE. – Several bills relating to the District of Columbia were passed. After executive session, adjourned till Monday.
HOUSE. – The House went into committee of the whole on the state of the Union, Mr. Webster in the chair.
On motion of Mr. Stevens, the bill to establish a branch mint at Denver, in Colorado Territory, was taken up. The debate was limited to five minute speeches.
Mr. Vallandigham said an allusion had been made in the Senate recently to a Democratic conference held last week. As to what took place he had no right to speak, but the injunction of secrecy did not apply to the call, which was in these words:
“DEMOCRATIC CONFRENCE. – We, the undersigned, members of the Democratic party of the United States, determined to adhere to its ancient principles and maintain its organization under all circumstances as the party best able to maintain the Constitution and to restore the old Union of the United States, do hereby unite in this call for a conference of all who may sign the same, approving the objects indicated.” This call was signed by some thirty-five members of the Senate and House of Representatives.
Mr. Stevens asked who signed it. Mr. Vallandigham continued, all of them are able to read and write; no one made his mark. This did not refer to a political organization. He was not capable of understanding language. The movement thus commenced would go on, and it was the determination of some that the organization should be completed. Beyond this he was not able to speak. His name was appended to the call.
The committee rose, and the bill for the branch mint at Denver was passed.
The House went into committee when Mr. Braman expressed his views in favor of establishing territorial governments in the so-called Confederate States.
The committee rose. Adjourned till Monday.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Monday Morning, April 7, 1862, p. 1
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