Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-03-09

the adoption of some machine of the kind would
compel members t. confne themselves for the
most part to their own seats In the Hall, which,
all the members know well, would greatly
expedite and facilitate the transaction of bu-
siness. For all practical purposes the saving of
time to resultfrom inducing the members each
to stick to his own seat during the days session
will be quite as great as from economising
seventeen minutes on every occasion on which
the yeas and nays may be ordered. 1t will
not suit gentlemen who dodge, dip, duck, or
dive when the Emusic ought to be faced;
| That is to say-gentlemen who require time,
after the yeas and nays have been ordered, to
determine how they will appear on the record.
| 1t may not be known at distance that it is a
refrain from answering to their names when
called in their respective turns, and then to
demand to be subsequently called. This occurs
| always when honorable gentlemen may be in
quandaries, and at times, through inadvertence
| on their part. We have looked carefully at
Mr.. Huffman IS machine. and are convinced that
it is worth trial, if the House are really dis
| posed to economist the hours during which
| they may be in session.
| Treaties before the Senate-It is the gene
| raj impression here that the Senate will soon
apply themselves in earnest to the considera-
ton Of the treaties they have formally before
them. And it is further believed, that the
convention or treaty with Switzerland will
surely be adopted with inconsiderable and un
| important amendment. We may also write
| that the general impression around us is, that
the Gadsden treaty will be agreed to as trans
| United to them; that is, as the President recon-.
| mends its amendment. Three-fourths of all
the objections being made to its enactment in
that shape, undoubtedly comes from parties
interested in lining their pockets through what
| ever arrangement that may be consummated
for the final settlement of all our outstanding
difficulties or questions with Mexico. The
drummers for the Garay and Sloo grants are
most conspicuous in the outside movements to
affect the final disposition Of the GadsdeD
treaty Ofcourse; as, according to the President s
recommendation, they are both to be ignored,
so far as the idea that they are to be conceived
to have generated any obligations whatever on
mon sense of danger alone, we presume,
brought the numerous agents at this point for
these two speculations, into harmonious action
As united they are certainly powerful on the
Avenue. and are also both understood to be
ably represented in the Senate Chamber. Yet
we doubt much whether these private inter
| ests can possibly have effective weight in sue
cessfully shaping the legisla alton of the Senate
On great national and inter national ques-
ton. However, the world will know within a
week or SO, what is to be the final action Of the
Senate on the Gadsden treaty.
We continue to be perfectly satisfied that the
International copyright treaty has not the
slightest prospect for confirmation, the New
| York Herald and other distant journals, to the
contrary Notwithstanding.
| The Current Operations Of the Treasury
Department.-On yesterday, the sth of March,
there were of Treasury Warrants entered Oh
the books Of the Department
For the redemption of stocks..... $12,SS3 9e
Fer the payment of other Treasury
debts 1876 O9
For the Customs OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 6.S85 As
Covered into the Treasury from
Lands ..................... as "a
For the War Dcpartment.......... 101 ,117 d.
For ro-paying for the War Depart.
mont. ....................,. 1,117 AZ
For the Navy Department. ....... 20,579 81
For re-paying for the Navy De-
partment Observation-Disclosures. $40 OF
For the Interior Department. 800 OF
Extra Mail for Flo and Valparaiso.
are authorized to state that the postmaster OF
New York is instructed to make up and for
ward mail for Rio de Janeiro and Valparaiso
by the new steamship Sonora to leave New
York for the Pacific, via Cape Horn, on Satur
day, the 1lth inst. Single rate of postage fol
letters, twenty cents; newspapers. two cents
prepayment required; franked matter, free.
A Roorback.-The correspondents of the
New York Tribune, in their eagerness to com.
pass the defeat of the Nebraska bill, are origi
mating all sorts of nonsensical stories. The
following is the very last roorback:
Developments may soon be expected which
| will establish, beyond doubt the fact, that the
| assertion of the principle involved 10 the Ne
braska bill is but the preliminary step toward
the execution of one of the bo.dest and mOs
| stupendous conspiracies ever heard of. 1t pro-
| poses no less an achievement than the forcble
| seizure of Mexico, Central America. and Cuba
during the approaching struggle in Europe
| and their conversion into slave States. Here
we have the key to the solution of that mos
inscrutable political enigma of the times, viz
| the motives of those who have been most instru
mental in springing this portentous question
| upon the country. 1t is said that some of the
first men of the Republic will be implicated
and nearly all the Southern leaders"
The Houses Gardiner Fraud Investigation
We understand that the House Judiciary
Committee, charged, under the resolution Of
Mr.. Perkins, with the duty Of ascertainine
whether the money paid on the Gardiner claim
going into other hands than G Gardiner S, may NO
DC recovered for the Treasury, had Mr.. Comp
trollcr Whittlesey before them this morning
consulting, advising, and explaining the his
tory Of the case, Dc. If any one can devise
a plan to reach the original hackers of Georgt
A. Gardiner, Mr. W. probably can, We take it
Clerical Appointments and Promotions-W
A. Turner, of Pennsylvania, promoted to q
class ($l 200 per annun) clerkship in the Sixth
Auditors Office; VIM. W. Tyler, of Virginia
appointed to LIST class 5000 per annum
clerkship in the same office, vice John Beck
promoted; Stephen Y. McNair, Of Pennsylsa
MIA, appointed to LIST class clerkship vic.