New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-09-06
FROM WASHINGTON.
Affairs In Washnston-Thc Texas Boundary
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Affairs In WashingtOn-Tho Texas Boundary
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Correspondence Of The Tribune.
WASHINGTON, Wednesday, Sept.4.
1t would be difficult to find language that could
portray in true colors the excitement that charaa-
terised the last hours proceedings of this days
Congress. The defeat of Mr.. BoYD's amendment
apparently convulsed the Representatives FROM
the Slave States with disappointment and hasty
and i'll. advised determination to reject the Texas
Boundary bill altogether was In a moment of az
citement agreed upon. To avoid the bad feeling
arising from such state OF things, motion was
made 10 adjourn, and unfortunately failed. Thig
brought the House TO direct vote upon the queg-
siop, shall the Senate bill pass, aud it was lost by
upward Of forty majority. motion then followed
to reconsider, and pending this motion an ADJOURN
ment carried
do not myself regard this vote, overwhelming
as it appears as by any means Indicative of the
fate of the measure. A reconsideration will be
carried, and If some satisfactory amendment IL
not proposed that majority OF the House can
agree upon, then she bill will be abandon
ed to it's fate, and an attempt made to recon-
atruct the Omnibus, placing in it the Calf
ornia, both Territorials and the Texas bill
Many members favorable to a disposal being made
OF all the Senate bills, voted against the Texas bill
because In their opinion the Territorial bills with
out the Wilmot Proviao should be first passed az ar
assurance to the South of good faith the part Of
the North.
Others voted against it because California was
not first taken up and put through. And still
third division opposed it, because the Northern and
Wegtern Boundary was not reduced to Mr.. CLAY's
Compton ise limo. Tho only way to obviste those
objections, without any surrender Of prnciPle 10 to
combine the four bills into measure, and under
tho operation of the previous question: pasa it at
once through the House. There is strength enough
TO do it, by decided ma ority, if little her-
mony and mutual confidence ia employed in
bringing the friends of peace and Of the Union to.
gether, that they may act in concert OF one thing
the country and Congress may rest assured-the
President will never acquiese in the abandonment
OF effort to reconcile these differences II no adjourn
ment whatever engues, until by operation of law
the session expires If they were to pass q RESP.
luton to adjourn without disposipg Of these issues,
they would be met by proclamation conve ing
them as an extra Hession that shrinking from
the responsibility Of some way settling the
troveIsy is moral mpossibty Ii is part Of
their Represer tatye duty that thsy ahould aettle
it, and the whole power OF the Executive | have
no doubt will be exhausted in keeping them to.
gether until it ia dons. The excitement 10 very
great, and any imprudent threats made by weak
intellects az both extremes OF the Union. Grimm
alton ard recrimlnaton will no! tend TO restore
reason to its sway, nor contribute in the least to
settlement of the conflict and the less it ia in
dulged in by both Members Of Congress and the
Presa the better it vii lbe for speedy termination
OF the whole affair.
In addition to Mesara. JENKINS and SUMMERS
having been written to upon the subject OF Dab
met appoir tmens, Me6srs. GoGGIN and STEWART,
both from Virginia, also named in connection =
with the vacancy ocoasioned By the resignation CT
Mr. McKENNAN. MIR. GoGGIS, from bis intimate
connection with the Poat Office affairs, as late
Chairman Of the Committee Post Offices and
Poat Roads in the House Of Representatives, and
in which capacity he gave unboanded satisfaction,
would make a most excellent Postmaster General.
This would enable Mr. HALL to take the Depart
ment OF the Interior by all odda the most reHpoos
BILE and laborous OF the WHOLE and whose energy,
strict application and ndomtable perseverance,
Every thing, however, is involved 10 uncertainty,
and doubt whether any human being living can
yet tell what will be the final, permanent orgsni-
zation OF the Cabinet. A NEW YORKER.