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 may be reclaimed and removed to the person or place where snch service ia due, under any law of the United States which shall be in force upon the subject.

. 25., That all other parts of the aforesaid Kansas-Nebraska act which relate to the said territory of Kansas, and every other law or usage having, or which is pretended to have, any force or effect in said territory in conflict with the provisions or the spirit of this act, except such laws of congress and treaty stipulations as relate to the Indians, are hereby repealed, and declared void.

Mr. Dunn moved to strike out a bill previously introduced by Mr. Grow, repealing all the acts of the alleged territorial legislature of Kansas, and the insertion of his own as a substitute. This motion prevailed; and Mr. Dunn moved the previous question on ordering this bill to be engrossed and read a third time, which prevailed, and the bill passed, yeas, 88; nays, 74. This bill was not acted upon by the senate.

When the annual appropriation bills came before congress, the house affixed to several of them provisos respecting the obnoxious acts of the territorial legislature of Kansas; these were resisted by the senate, and finally given up by the house save one, appropriating $20,000 for the pay and expenses of the next territorial legislature. This the senate gave up, and thus secured the passage of the civil appropriation bill. The army bill remained unpassed when the session terminated, as the two houses could not agree on a proviso forbidding the employment of the army to enforce the acts of the Kansas Shawnee-Mission legislature. In this state of affairs, the president issued his proclamation, convening an extra session, August 21st, three days after the termination of the former session. A quorum was present, and the house repassed the army bill with the same proviso attached, which proviso was again struck out by the senate, and reinserted by the house. The senate insisted on its disagreement, and the house decided to adhere to its proviso by a close vote. The senate also voted to adhere. Mr. Clayton, in the senate, proposed a committee of conference, which was objected to. Mr. Campbell in the house made the same proposition, which was likewise objected to. The struggle continued until the 30th, when the house again passed the army bill with the proviso modified. This gave no better satisfaction to the senate. It was struck out, and the bill returned to the house, which finally concurred in the senate amendment by a vote of 101 yeas to 97 nays. The use of the army in Kansas was left at the president's discretion.