Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-08-07

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WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP
The Administration.-Itw will be perceived
on scanning the sets of the last session, that
the National Administration hass carried
every thing before them, ss it wore. That Is,
every measure Of importance sufficient to In !,
duos them to taks decided stand upon 1t,
which has been finally dls possd Of, has been
decided according to the Presidents views.
We refer to this fact by way of showing how
utterly unrsliable those writer's from this city
for the press really are, who for the last eight
months have been prating over the alleged
weakness Of the Administration. According
to those gentlemen, tho President was literally
nearly without friends 10 Congress, and also
In the country. As tho Nebraska-Kansas act
passed, - the Reciprocity treaty and the Gads-
den treaty were confirmed, and the ten million
act to carry out tho provisions of the last men,
toned, - we'll as the Reciprocity treaty bill
Administration had duly succeeded emily by
buying mp members Of Congress with promis 90
Of cface. This was their excuse for the failure
of their prophecies unfsvorable to the triumph
Of the measures In question. Now, We have to
call the attention Of the country to the fact
that every ofice at home and abroad in the
Administration gift which was vacant during
any portion Of the session, has been filled by
its close. Yet no member Of the present Con.
gress has received an appointment Of any sort,
whatever. This blows to the four winds the
allegation that any such Inducements were
held out to strengthen any measures Whatever
before Congress. ri. s.. --..-.....s ..
I Indeed, We wonder at the strength Of the
Administration before that body. Twenty
6ve years ago, Senators and Representatives
were elected much more upon great national
political principles, or party groun DIS, than at
present. Ismatic or sell. interested shreiks of
the locality speciously rlsyed upon, sent
far moro honorable gentlemen to Washington
in 1854, than were 20 sent in 1884. As con.
sequence, it Is much less customary for mem.
bers to rely for reelection at this time on the
strength Of party organization, than on their
chance Of catching the floating vote, each in
bis own bsiliwick. As President Pierce has
VIGOROUSLY steadily refused to pander to any
ism or local prejudice conflicting with the
stringent principles of the old-fashioned Dem
oeratic organization, to stand by his measures
has required . great many Of his party in
Congress to act counter to the prejudices of
the floating vote At home. The lopg-coninued
bowling Of our contemporary Of the New York
Tribune makes this fact plain to the most or
binary comprehension.
IF We had space and time, it would be but
an easy task to show that all the calculations
concerning the alleged weakness of the Ad-
ministration with which the New York Tn
buns, the Richmond Examiner, the New Y orh
Herald. and other papers Of that ilk, TEEN, are
about as baseless ss their late stories of it's
weakness in the Halls Of Congress.
It IL worthy Of remark in conclusion, that
every bill or other measure or policy which
the New York Herald has taken occasion to
denounee and oppose from the beginning to
the end Of the session, has signally triumphed
ALI of Its denunciations of this sort have been
based on its avowed belief that the measures
it thus opposed were fsvorites of the National
Administration. Now, this goes to prove the
correctness Of what We have 80 repeatedly
| taken occasion to say with reference to that
journals v ant of influence, owing to its no.
| roriou. want Of principle and character
People read lis views On public affairs, and
| reject them in many cases where they may be
sound, because the general impression is that
they are tainted with msrcenary considera.
tons. z
Diplomatic Extras.-Claimso of diplomatists
| for extra pay for extra service are becoming sc
| common Of late, as to generate the impression
that of late years American Foreign Minister:
of all grades have come literally to regard
accomplishing anything, as emitting them te
extra compensation. We know not precisely
how many such claims were presented to Con.
gress at Its last session, or how many such
were passed. We hear, however, that many
moro are being prepared to be 30 urged
the Executive branch of the Government de-
clining to recognize their validity. They are
brought forward by gentlemen who were re.
called by the present Administration in ODE.
dience to the bad custom which makes it obi
gatory on any party succeeding in this country,
in these times, to pay of partizan services with
such Offices. This custom, by the by, is followed
alone by the Government of the United States,
every other one sending ambassadors abroad
recognizing tho necessity for previous training
to the business, to render any gentleman really
competent to the discharge Of diplomatic du-
ties. t....
The San Francisco Custon-H Con
gross, in cutting DOWN the appropriations rec
commended by the Treasury Department for
the foundations, site, &C., of the San Fran
cisco custom house, bid fair to generate a
heavy claim for damages against the Govern
nent, unless the Secretary of the Treasury
shall find some lawful authority under which
he can expsnd tho money denied by Congress
in this case. 20 ..-.
Under the last N ational Administration, Con-
gross appropriated 100000 for the construc
ton Of . custom house at San Francisco, none
Of which was to be expended unless con-
tract could be made to finish the building