The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-04-13

councils, to give the agitated Norti' anu W OIL
sanguined Europe the lesson OF adjusting the
elements of society. on the just basis OF moral
subOrdination.
The Congress Printing.
The fnality of the Congress printing job
occurred yesterday very much in the manner
we expected, only more so.
1t seems that the law has been violated more
than we supposed. The law which provides
for the printing of Congress, requires the CON-
mittee to be elected by each House. The law
is as follows:
The committee, consisting of three men,
bers of the Senate and three members OF the
House of Representatives shall be chosen by
their respective Houses, which shall constitute
u Committee on Printing, which shall have
power to adopt such measures as may be deemed
necessary to remedy any neglect or delay on
the part of the contractor to execute the Work
ordered by Congress, and to make pro rats
reduction in the compensation allowed, or to
refuse the work altogether should it be inferior
TO the standard and in all cases, the contractor
and his sureties shall be responsible for any
increased expenditure consequent on the nom
performance of the contract. The committee
shall audit and pass upon all accounts for
printing; but no bill shall be acted upon for
work. that is not actually executed and deli
vered, and which they may require to be proper
I ly authenticated. joint Res. I'd Sec. Isl Sess.
29M Cong. :
The joint rule of the House for the appoint
ment Of committees, is az fellows:
Standing rules and orders for conducting bust
ness in The House Of Representatives..
TOUCHING THE DUTY OF THE SPEAKER.
7. All committees shall be appointed by the
Speaker, unless otherwise specially directed by
the House, in which case they shall be appointed
by ballot and if, upon such ballot the number
required shall not be elected by majority Of
the votes given, the House shall proceed to a
second ballot, in which a pleurality of votes
shall prevail; and in case a greater number
than is required to compose or complete COM
mttee shall have an equal number of votes, the
House shall proceed to further ballot or
balots.-Jan Is, 1890.
Yet, although this committee was otherwise
provided for by law, the Speaker appointed it.
The portion of the committee appointed for
the House, consisted of Mr.. GERMAN of Indiana,
and Mr.. STANTON of Kentucky, two Compro.
mise Democrats, and Mr.. HAVEN of New York.
Compromise Wing
This committee thus appointed contrary to
law proceeded to act contrary to law, in giving
in effect the printing of Congress to the Union
and Republic.
On yesterday morning Mr.. Brown, of Missis-
sppi, offered resolution in the House declara-
tory of this violation of law and to prevent it's
consummation. 1t required vote of two-t thirds
to suspend the rules to consider the resolution.
The ayes and nays were called for and they
were ayes SO, nays 60-so that not quite two
thf-&s were for considering, and the contract of
the committee stands.
OF those who voted for considering this mat
ter, there were IS Democrats and 33 Wings.
Those against it were "a Democrats and 26
Wings. 1t thus appears that the course of the
committee was condemned by almost two thirds
of the House, and by almost exactly two-thirds
of the Democrats present, the members of the
committee themselves voting with consumate
modesty for themselves. Such whitening re-
buke has never before been bestowed on coal
ition-intrigue of papers pretending to be organs.
They stand exposed by an overwhelming vote
of majority of both parties of which they affect
to be organs. We understand that the reason,
why some of the Wings voted for the Union
was because they thought they could do their
party no better service than by sustaining, such
an incompetency as the Union for Democratic
organ, and we suppose some of the Democrats
might give the same reason in favor of the
Republic.
The Democrats who voted for this outrage
on law, on usage, and on party, are the very par
tieular and peculiar champions of party fealty on
all occasions, except when a job is wanted for
their own set, and can be obtained only by a
coalition with the enemy to defeat majority Of
their own party.
We have often dwelt on the meanness OF
party organship before, but were not quite pre-
pared to see it take this plunge. The Washing.
ton Union may henceforth be regarded as the
organ of "a Democrats and Is Wings, and the
Republic ms ditto. This is the principal part OF
the remnant of Compromisers of both parties in
the House. Here we have another and most
signal illustration of what we have before stated
that whenever an act of peculiar turpitude is to
be committed, an act too shabby for the ricketty
reputation of one party to stand it is under
taken by a coalition of both. But we confess
we were not prepared, by all we had seen OF
shameless spoliation, to see the virtual election
of printers to both Houses, and job of several
hundred thousand dollars, snatched from both, in
contempt Of their expressed will, and of sol
emn vote of nearly thirds. Nor did VIZ
expect the prestige of organship-the morale
low as it was-would be thus given up, even TO
the probable profits of such job. Really, tn,
organ of the faithful-execution of. the-law candi
, date, and the ex-private secretary of Genera
JACKSON, have succeeded in fixing an estimate