New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-09-20


Escnpe in the ID. Co. Smoking ous the
Dough-Faces - aKain- Clay, Chase, Pratea
Rale-Proceedlnss In the Senate ON WedueH-
Correspondence OF The Tribune.
WAsHINGToN, Wednesday, Sept. Is, 1850.
To-day was specially assigned to the Civil and
Diplomatic Appropriation Bill but by quesr turn
of afaira i: was not touched at all and at an early
hour the Senate went into Executive Session
The several combinations will have reached you
bv Express shall not, therefore, advert TO them.
BY way of variety We had debate on the Slavery
question = We have butnine more working days.
All the appropriation bills have yet to be disposed
Of Friday is set apart for the California bus.
ness, and yet, notwithstanding the whole thing has
been settled, Slavery, IT one ahspe or another, Is
the only matter that anybody seems to take the
slightest interest in. Everything else 10 hurried
through, or done up at odd scraps of time, and az
it were, apoogeticaly for occupying any time at all
Mr.. CHASE asked leave to introduce his bill to
prohibit Slavery in she Territories. Mr.. CLAY OBJ
iected-a very unusual neutrality-suspicious. that
the whole matter about Slavery was now settled,
and he hoped the Senate would act their facaa
agninst any attempt to agttase 1t in any way what
aoever. Other appeals were made on the ground
of the shor tness of the remaining time to which Nj.
CHASE Welded and consented TO withdraw his mo-
ton for the present-that is, suppose for the Seq
sion No aooner had he taken his seat than Mr:
PRATT called up his bill for making the abduction oil
yesrom the District of Columbia, penitentiary
ofiense, and for giving she authorities here the
right to prohibit free people OF color from coming
to tbs Diattict and to regulate " those shat arc
here numbering as / understand by the census
ust completed, scme $4,000, instead OF 10000 al l
stated In a previous letter. Mr.. CLAY moved to
strke out this LAST provision but upon being INFORM.
ed that it did not propose to go to the extent OF
baninhing people already domcilased here now,
he yielded his objection.
Mr.. CHASE objected, as | thought with great rea.
Sod that he had just given way With bill relat-
Ing TO this same subject out of Difference to the
generally expressed wiah that 10 more OF the tm0
OF the Senate should be consumed on that subject.
Mr CLAY now to my surprise, came to the rescue
OF Mr.. PRATT's bill, and favored devotng the ne
cessary time to its consideration now. He strange
| ~ enough assumed that this was q part of the
grand sohem Of adjustment, although Ii had never
been spoh en- OF as such, was not reported by the
Committee of Thirteen and indeed was not even
thought Of until after the recent adventure OF Mr.
CHAPLIN. Mr, CHASE pointed out these inoonsia
tenoies ard advered TO the fact that Dir. CLAY
himself had this very morning spoken OF the adjuRt
ment IS thing already completed, and given that
as a reason why we ought to hear no more about
the Slavery subiect Tie fact is, no Southern man
must be expected to be reasonable, just, generous
or gentlemanly, on the Slayery question.
Mr.. BALE kept up the ball. He moved Just ia
order to gain those Of his friends who have been
| waiting for proper time when there should be-
nothing lndAcreet Ia dolns ~ 20 Voso Tor the aoo
| lition Of Slavery in the District OF CoiumbiE to
commit this bill Of PRArrs to the Committee on
the District with instructons to report bill in
atead Of it, for the abolition of Slavery here Oh.
| iectiona have been made to Mr.. SEWARD s motion
that it was inconsistent and ileonsidered ia lite
terms He (HALE) could not run the risk of anoth.
er inconsistent and Unanswered project He there.
| fore moved to refer the matter to the Committee
that it might be vel digeated.
This was repetition Of the process OF smoking
out the Dough.facea," and Mr. WALKER, who tried
it yesterday on Land Reform was caught to-day
in ha own trap. He sat quietly in bis chair very
busily engaged in certain profound Investigations.
with the pile of papers before him. and did not
vote at all Several others did not vote. A few,
however, were brought up to the soratoh-the
Mass achusetts Senators among the number Nine
in all voted in the Affirmative. The Senate had
now had enough of Mr. PRArT's bill for the present.
and laid 1t over. Mr. DICKINSON made desperate
effort to get up the Appropriation bill, bat the
pressure TO go into Executive session was 800
powerful. 8. P. A.