The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-06-16

this session finally by the middle Of July? The
reason is that the public business is but con-
tingent in the estimates of members. They
have other fish 70 fry. They have the spoils to
look after-the ensuing ,lections fer the next
Congress, and various important schemes and
intrigues for the public plumber aud the next
presidency.
| We are in the seventh month of the session.
The two houses have passed the Lunatic Asy-
lum Land bill, which the President has vetoed;
and the Nebraska bill, which the President has
graciously approved, including enc of our soft
shell, free soil Nebraska men, who has been
honored with the Office which Charles O'Conor
positively refueed to hold. A small appropria-
ton bill or two, and some private claims have
been considered; the House have passed the
Homestead bill, and the Senate have passed
beautiful set of railroad land-jobbing
schemes, and the equally beautiful Gadsden
treaty. They have elected their own printer,
rejected George Sanders as Consul at London,
and have approved the Hjection Of Judge Bron-
son and the appointment Of Redfeld as Collec-
tor ofNew York. This is what the two houses
have done. What they have yet to do may be
shortened to the same dimensions, or extended
Indefinitely, for the business OF Congress is
never finisaed. 1t would still accumulate with
perpetual session, while dollar remained iii
the treasury; and that exhausted, business
would begin anew in schemes to "raise the
wind.v
The measures still awaiting the action of
the two houses, are the principal appropria-
ton bills, the Homestead bill in the Senate,
French spoliations, patent extensions, and rail-
road land jobbing schemes. The Pacific rail
road has been postponed till December, on ac-
count of the unreported surveys. The Presi-
dents veto of the Lunatic bill is undergoing a
slow and wearisome discussion in the Senate
Very likely the action of the Senate will ra-
tify the rejection Of the lunatics on the same
day with its approval of some large gratuity
to gang of INSCRIPTIONS railroad stock job
bers. But in all this we can detect nothing to
justify the resumption of the session in Octo-
Der, after lasting till the middle Of July.
What, then, besides the pay and the mileage,
has induced the Senate to insist upon q recess,
and the resumption of the session in October?
Perhaps we can guess it.
The Washington linton has for sometime
past, been keeping up most ferocious and war
like outcry against the alleged Anglo-Spanish
project of the Authorization of Cuba. The Presi-
dent, meantime, has issued an indignant procla-
nation against the .fli6usteros. Glands off,
gentlemen, that's my affair."" But still the sub
ject is involved in mystery. The .jfli6usteros
are hopeful-the Spanish authorities of Cuba
are savage and suspicious of foul play Mr..
Soule, at Madrid, makes slow progress in the
work of " manifest destiny" It is reported that
Mr.. Cobb, of Georgia, (who ought to have
something,) and Mr.. Dallas, of Pennsylvania,
(who desires to have something to do for the
public good,) are to be sent to Spain to aid and
direct Mr.. Soule in his official duties 1t is sur
missed that all three may push matters to extre-
mites, ana come home with war close upon
their heels. The proposition has been mooted, OF
investing the President with the authority and
funds necessary for the contingency of war
during the Congressional recess. All! yes!
Spain lies at the bottom Of the ebstinacy of the
Senate in insisting upon recess, and meeting
in October; or Cuba may be acquired, incur
ring the necessity of prompt appropriation of
the first instalment of the purchase money for
the relief of Spain. Who knows?
The action of the Senate, then, upon the sub
ject of recess, is chargeable to Cuba. Per
haps the administration may also desire the
ratification of the Gadsden treaty, as amended
by Santa Anna, and some ready money
for his benefit as soon as possible. Still there
can be little doubt that the Senate believe that,
next to the pay and the mileage, the existing
crisis in the Cuba question may demand the
presence of Congress in October, should nothing
be done before July. Upon the whole, the pros
poets are that this session of Congress, which
was opened by the administration with the de-
moralization and disorganization of the DEM
ocratic party, will be closed under the bitterest
sectional animosties which have ever disgraced
the country, and the arrangement and disloca-
ton of the substantial business interests of the
whole Union. We are thrown into revolution,
the end of which defies all human calculations.
MORE POLITICAL AssAssINATIoNs.-The Sew
ard men of the North are persevering in their
murderous onslaaghts upon the prominent
members of the wing party We have seen
how bitterly they alluded to Mr.. Fillmore's
tour through the South, and how mercilessly
they persisted in endeavoring to damage him in
his own State. General Scott, their late
champion, was not safe from their attacks in his
retirement and domestic privacy; the only
public act he has done since the election-his
course at the court martial on Wyse-was
eagerly seized by the INSCRIPTIONS Sewardites,
and tortured into o cause Of reproach. Next
came Mr.. Crittenden, who, for having pleaded