The Arkansas banner., 1850-05-07
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N"~@~~S~@y formerly Senator from IlliBois aud recently Gem missioner of the General LAnd Office. wss elected Clerk of the Houss of Representatives in pisss of the late T. J. CAnrsELL. This election shsws that Taylorism s prostrats In Congress. snd that bet ter feeling l. prevailing amoDg the democrats from the different sections of ths eoanty. Jadgs YouHa k sound democrat and will carry with him inte hh new Ofsce the rsputAtioa of great moral worth. generous and elevated patriotism. and abilities of the highest order In thsss dsgsasFats tines, whoa imbsciilty charsc.srizsa ths Executive. when the Eankest and foalest corruption is fos,srsd in the several Departments t is gratifying to men of uSdOubted honesty capacity, snd fdslity," aeain returning to the Pbale service even in a subOrdln- ate capacity.
 On the same day scene occurred in ihs Senate which is deeply to bs regretted. I aIluds to the disturbance created by the bullying, bluslsring and abolItionist BENTON, In attempting to attack Gen. FoorE. You will sse . tOlsrably correct version of the salr in the city papers before this reaches you. yet this eUly FeIaies to what actually took place on the floor, and does not give many facts which will bs elicit by the commiitse Of invessi- gatIen which was ordered yesterday. understand 1t will be proven that BxNTor had said if FoorE should ever again insult him, he wosld cut oh the damned scoundPel's cara" This threat was made known to Gen. FoorE by some of hs friends, and 1t was under their advice that he armed himself with the pistol which hs drew in the Senate Cham- Der. It will also be proven that when advancing on Gen. F. he (B.) had an opened knife in his hands. Cen. FooTK had given him no pTcvocation for an attack, on the contrary his remarks were as mild and as courteous as those usually indulssd in ty senasors on different sides of exciting quss- tion, and had another Senator used them 1t is than probable sl.ss they would nss have besn Do- sIced by BEsros. The lnteiiigencsr of this morn- ing contains letter of hs addressed to the District Attorney. urging a prosecution In the Criminal Court against Cen. FoorE.
 Yesterday the proposed measures of cOnciIiation were referred to select committee; all of BENToH's amendments were voted down, several of them by very small msjorities. Time as well aspoverty can
 make strange bed-felows, and 1t is not little anu sing to see BENTON, HALE, and SEWARD voting to- gesher one not more hostile tO the interests of the South than the other.
 In the House, Gov. BRowN, of Mississippi. char ged R. E. HoRSER with making false certificate, under and by virtue of which, his brother drew pay brother was notoriousIy absent from the city, and held an office n Wisconsin, the duties of which he was dischaSging, and was paid salary by the Unl- ted States. This complaint was referred to select committee appointed by the chair. and composed of Messrs. OLDs, NEWELL, PHELPS, LErFLER and CALDWELL, of North Carolina.
 Col RICHARDSON brought his guns to bear on Butcher Ewlso, by introducing the following reso. lutiOus, as reported by the Republic:
 Resolued, That select committee of nine be ap- pointed with power to sead for persons aLd papers 10 inquire and report 10 the House whether Thomas Ewing Secretary of the Interior re-opened and paid to c. W. and W. C. Ewing claim against the Ttea- sury of the United States of S77 O00 after the same had been adjudicsted and rejected by the propes officer ot the government beiore said Ewing was in- ducted into the said office Of the Inte: or who were the agents and attorneys for said claim; what clerk in the office of said Department of the Interior had interest, in said eialn and how said interest," any, was acquired.
 2. Whether said Ewing re-opened and paid inter- est to the amount Of $3l 900 the pension granted to commodore James Barron iot services render ed in the Virginia navy during the reyolu ionary war; siier the principal had been fully paid and dis- ehsrged and it sad interest paid. was it simple or compound; who was the agent or attorney tor said clain and the authority of law for such payment if any.
 3. Whether said Ewing re-opened and paid claim 10 person or persons on hehalf of the Chickasaw Indians of 900, after the same had been adju- dcated and rejected by the proper officer of the gov ern,nen, before said Ewing was inducted into the office of the Interior; who was agent or seets. aitor ney oT attoi neys. and who lhe party or parties n interest," and whether either of said agents attoT neys. or parties in interest. held at the tune of such payment any office under this government, or now holds such office and. if so. what office.
 Whether said Ewing usnrped the power "f ap- pontment in the P, nsion and General Land Ofiee 1; whether the same was in violation of iavr; also, whether any e'erk of said Ewing's appointment re- views the opinions and decisions of the Commissioner of Pensions. by order and under direction o said Ew ng and il SO, the authority for such order and diree tion.
 5. What persons in Office by appointment from said Ewing are correspondents for newspapers. their salaries and what papers they edit or write for.
 Mir. Tocmbs. object. do not like the lsngasg. If the gentleman will put the resolution in becoming language. will not object.
 Mr. Richardson. Will the gentleman state the prop-I form!
 Mir. Stanly moved q suspension of the rales to let the resolution be offered. and all others. !,
 The Speaker said that a motion to suspend the rules was not in order.
 Thus it will be seen that by adding the interest paid on the Gaiphn claim. Sls3, 900, that nearly half million has been squandered among favorises on fraudulsn, and rejected claim: within tho 6rst year of the" Heroic Aage" With the reputation which Mir. Attorney General JOHNSON acquired in his 6nanciering operations in the Bank of Mary land. and the notoriety which the |" Butcher ai- tained by similar Banking operations In Ohio. It is to be feared that in three yeas more sixteen millions will scarcely be sufficient to make up the deficiency Their wOrst enemies cannot withhold from them ths credit of making good beginning If they sat out with determination to make hay while the sun shinsa"-and happy will the country Do If this should be the last iims that such agents were ever to be trusted with the keys of their country treasury.
 The Forrest Case.