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 third without again reaching the bill. The last amendment offered was one by Senator Green, in the nature of a rider to the bill to the effect that Kansas be put upon the same basis to authorize her to form a constitution. Whether this affected the defeat or not, the Oregon bill was at an end for this session. When the election in Oregon of delegates to the Constitutional Convention came on in June, 1857, it was definitely known in the Territory that congress had again failed to act, and Bush of the Statesman began to suspect his political ally, Lane, of luke-warmness, if not of actual treachery.