New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-06-08
Aspects and Prospects in the Capital.
Editorial Correspondence Of The Tribune.


wAssssros, Tharsdsy Evening.
Though the Compromise makes no Roadway ap-
p@enly, yet Mr.. Clay is stu sangune that it will
be carried, at I'll events in the Senate. cannot
see how. II The vote we're taken tomorrow and
every Senator present, think the result would be,
Yeas twenty seven, Nays tbirtytwo, and one va
carey from South. Carolina, which viii be filed
with en- adversary, whenever filed at all. Two or
three more votes may be gained by concessions to
the South, bat these concessions would repel Mr
Cooper ard perhaps Mr. Webster do not see
how the bin can pass bat Mr.. Clay should know
the Senate far better than L.
Mr.. Benton's motion TO postpone indefinitely will
rot prevail certainly not on Monday. He intends
10 speak on it, and will be followed by others, so
that week may be wasted before his motion is
voted upon. When it is, it win be defeated. Many
who say they will vote against the bill will never.
theess like to keep the breath Of life in it. espe-
cally a. that win afford an excuse for battling the
msjority in the House by STAYING of action on the
California BILL
A sbrewd and distinguished Member Of the
House tells me that the Compromise will pass the
House il it comes down from the Senate He says
II the vote could be taken there by ballot it would
be carried by thirty majority.
The House is filing up steadily in view of the
California struggle, which begins next Tuesday.
Just to see how far l may be mistaken, win
give my estimate of the probable division on the
Compromise bill in the Senate, whenever the de-
cisiye vote shall be taken, provided no material
change be made in its provisions
YEAs-Messrs. Webster, Mass Dickinson, IN.
W Cooper, Sturgeon, PA Pratt, Pearce Md
Mangum Badger, IN: 81 Berrien, Dawson, (Gal
Fla) Houston, Rusk. Tex Clay, Underwood,
lKy.j Bel, TENN Atchson, Mol Cass Felch,
iMich) A. C. Dodge, Jones' Iowa Whitcomb,
Bright Qndl Douglas, gll-27. One vacancy
in place Of Elmore Of s. g. deceased
NAYs--Bradbury HamiD, Me- Hale, Norris
IN. H. Davis. Mass Clarke Greene, r. IL
Phelps Uphsm, (vt) Baldwin I. Smith, Conn
Seward, IN. Y Dayton, Miller, IN. j. Spruance,
Wales, Dell Hunter, Mason, lya) Butler (S e.
Clemens, tAlal Davis, Miss YGlee, Fla soue,
Hs) corwip, Chase, (ohiol Dodge, Walker,
lwis) Benton, Mo- Turney, TENN Sebastian,
Boriand, tArk) Shields, (ll)-s2.
1.-The four last named, with Mason Of Va. are the
most likely to vote for the bill Of sny
The struggle to commence in the House on
Tuesday on the passage Of the California bill will
materially affect the prospects of the Compromise
In the Senate. If excitement and anger should
be developed las is most likely they will damage
TIE chances Of the Compromise in the Senate.
believe the struggle viii grow furious but the fact
that one side has the Speaker and the other the
numerical majority may keep the irritation pretty
fairly divided
The growth OF DD.i:sunion in Congress is rapid
There are not less than sixty Members OF the two
Houses who dispair of the Union and wish the
Slave States were well out Of it The,v DO MT dis
like the Union per se-on the contrary, they would
rather like il if sour property" only sSte
aud "the fanatics" would cease their opposition
g. Slavery but since the is as it is they are
only anxious to get peaceably and happily out o
tie Union into Southern Confederacy. The votes
of this class will defeat the Compromise, il it be
defeated, as think il must be- H.G.