Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-12-14
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.

TIE VERY LAST DoDGE.-The proprietor
of the Washington Daily Globe newspaper
has just sent circular to every member of
Congress, asking them, in effect, not to send
to their constituents the twenty four copies of
the official Congressional register, now sup
ported out of the public treasury, but to de-
spatch, instead, his Daily Globe newspaper,
containing the record of his personal opinions
upon matters and things, and to pay him for.
them by perverting to that end the money APP
propriated by Congress to pay for their official
register Of Congressional proceedings only.
He also asks them not to subscribe for the
newspapers at large, which the members have
voted themselves at the cost of the treasury,
GAO each,) but to let him receive the
Clerks osder for the whole, to be taken out in
copies of his newspaper. where members may
prefer them to the hard cash; which latter he
proposes to give them at the end of the session
for the orders aforesaid, in case they prefer
the money thus in hand. He says that his
object is thus to obtain large circulation for
the Daily Globe ''to induce persons to adver-
tise in it"
Now. the whole of this scheme show. upon
| its face that such cannot be its purpose. He
| has been long enough in the newspaper bust
| ness, we take it, to understand that 'psr-
| sons''-the business cOmmunity-will not ad-
vertise extensively in publication, the circu-
latiOn of which depends almost wholly upon
appropriations from the National Treasury;
showing that it is not sought after by the peo-
| pie at large-that left without gratuities from
the public purse, it would tumble to the
ground. 1t is very generally thought here
i that this circular covers a scheme to induce
| green members Of Congress to aid in giving
the Daily Globe the forced circulation its
proprietor asks for it at their hands, in order
| that, on it, he may claim the public advertise
! ments which the law now awards to the two
newspapers published in Washington having
the largest circulation. The law contemplates
a Iona .fde circulation, the result of the volun-
| tary subscription of the people at large and
not circulation such as he asks for it through
the perversion of money appropriated from
the National Treasury to pay the expense of
an official Congressional register, and to fur
nish the members of Congress with four daily
general newspapers each.
In plain English, it strikes us as a request
that the members will abandon his Congress
sonal register enterprise, and transfer the
public money appropriated for that and all
other newspapers, to enable him to keep up q
general newspaper here, in competition with
other general newspaper publishers. who are
| not favored with appropriations from the pub
lie treasury to that end 1t seems to us that
he evidently hopes that the offer to pay them
back in cash whatever portion of their tor
ders'' they may not take out in D.tiiy GIc6.s
| (at the end of the SESSION. will induce them to
abandon the Congressional register, and will
thus secure the proposed public patronage
| circulation for the register of his own opin-
| ions, which may enable him to cut the Intei-
EHgencer out of its right to publish the public
advertisements. on the ground of having the
larger circulation. However his hope may
be thus to cut out the Star, which depends for
its circulation wholly on individual sub
! scriptors, from individual citizens with
oct the Intervention of Congress in any way.
If so. he is destined to be disappointed
as the Stars circulation is now quite equal
to that of all the other daily newspapers pub
| lished in Washington, including that of his
Daily Giobe, though he has received from
first to last hundreds of thousands of dollars
if not million, from the public Treasury on
| account of his publications. &c, ami though
he is now in the receipt of bonus of perhaps
| $40 900 per annum for the Congressional re
gister for which he proposes to substitute his
newspaper for which Congress has not up
| prOpriatel money! and though on all passing
| occasions he is asking very little more OH
| the same account (rtde the resolution offeret III
on Monday to furnish his reporters also with
! stationery at the pWHic srDcnse) he seems tn
us to be aiming to dig deeper into the public
purse to the extent of the pay for the public
! advertisements. That's all evidently. Now the
only excuse for paying the peoples money for
his Congressional register is, that it may go
| forth a clear and faithful record of the pro
| ceedings Of Congress, Invested of every thing
| else. to be preserved for reference in every
county of every State in the Union To this
end, as Congress has been given to understand
that the people are not enough in love with
it to themselves support it, they (Congress)
have been Induced to pay its cost ont of the
| national Treasury. We question whether q
member can he found ,cffNn enough to subs.i
tute for this official register (in order to give
this gentleman good round sum in EDITION
! to what he now receives) indirectly from the
Treasury, record of what Mr. Jno c. Rives
thinks upon the Cuba question, and all that
| sort of thing.
1t quite time that the country understood
! the past and present history of the connection
! of Mr.. Rives with the national Treasury
How much from first to last he has got out of
| it, and on what accounts he has received it
| how much he is now getting what he asked
| on commencing the publication OF the Con-
gressional Gio5s on what various pretcnces
| the tax on the Treasury on this account has
| been increased, &c, &c. We shall ut our Fl rst
| leisure moment present facts and figures in
amply sufficient to deter members from mis-
applying the money appropriated to pay for
the official register, &c, to quarter daily
| newspaper containing the views and opinions
| of Mr.. Francis P. Blair and Mr. John C. Riyes.
on the Treasury Of the Unit ed States
TIE ASSISTANT SECREPARYsHIp OF THE
TREAsURY.-As efforts are being made by the
lobby (who hate Mr.. Peter G. Washington with
| unexampled cordially on account of his fdel-
ity to his trust to create the impression that
the action of the Senate in yesterday passing
bill to subject the person filling his Office to
Senatorial confirmation Wa. a blow aimed at
him, personally, we may state til ut nothing Of
the sort was dreamed Of. The bill, which is
very proper one it strikes US, received the
| unanimous acquescence Of the Senate; and VI
doubt not from what we know personally of
the estimation in which Congress hold the ser
vices of Mr.. W. that his nomination for The
office would be as unanimously confirmed I'M
less it may be that here and there Senator
may be riled by failing to be able to get an
axe ground ut the Treasury, through the pro-
verbal sagacity and frmness of this sam gen
tleman.