Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-04-22

| by special act Of Congress. There are three
Hundred Senators and Representatives, at leas
two thirds Of whom, were for hours prosecuting
separate inquiries in the departments to-day.
II they enjoyed the right to go into the room Of
any clerk, pull and haul his books and records
about to suit themselves, and to occupy as many
clerks as each might fancy, exclusively, pre-.
departments on this precious day Of our Lord
1t would require three days work of all hands
to correct the confusion thus engendered. The
head OF bureau, or his chief clerk can COM
pass the transaction of any business required
by 6 member, by few directions to some one
of his subordinates in tenth of the time that
would be necessary, were the member to essay
the work Of making his own investigations in
a department Common sense teaches the
wisdom of this very general departmental reg
ulation
New Foreign Consuls in tho United States.
The President has acknowledged Mark J..
Mimge, as consul from Belgium, at PhiladeI-
phia.
| Henry VI. Male, as consul for the same
power, at New York
A. Piaget, of New Orleans, as Swiss consul
for Louisiana, Alabama, Tennessee, Arkansas
and Mississippi.
John E. Schuetze, as Danish consul at ST.
Louis.
How Shall it be Accounted For !-The arti-
Gle in yesterday mornings Sentinel berating
| the Administration after its old fashion, has
been the subject of much conversation among
the politicians Of Congress, it being in its tone
directly the reverse of what that journal has
been putting forth for some month or two
past We have heard it accounted for in va
rious ways. Some insist that it is designed to
| induce the President to virtually instruct the
superintendent of the Public Printing to
change his rulings on two or three points,
wherein they are thought to have had the
effect of directing more of the Public Print
ing into the Union Office than the Senate
Printer thinks rights, in view Of his own
| relation to that work Others conceive
| that the onslaught was made in compliance
with the determination of two or three gen.
tlemen in public life, who are very famous for
devotion to tho fortunes of the Sentinel and
| its senior publisher, to get up an opposition
In the bosom of the Democratic party-the
Hards having long since evacuated their posi-
ton in the party-without so exposing their
| hands, as to enable the fierce Democracy at
home to hold them responsible for the mea-
sures they are supposed to be taking to that
end.
Now, there are few facts within our know
ledge connected with current affairs here,
which may possibly throw some light on this
hosting of its original colors by the Sentinel
They are, first, that worry shortly the House
| must consider and dispose Of the recommen-
dation of the Committee of Ways and Means
against eoncurring in the Senate's amendment
to the Deficiency bill, so changing the Public
Printing law as to secure, beyond peradven-
| tu,e, to the Senate printer, the execution of
all the printing that body may order.
Second. That Wings of both Houses have,
of late, complained very bitterly, that in ceas-
ing, for some time past, to thrust the knife into
the Administrators back on every favorable
opportunity, the Sentinel was not playing the
game, to secure and ensure which they had
aided directly and indirectly its publisher
election to be Senate printer. These gentle
men are the open enemies Of the Democratic
party, and are justified from their position, in
| using the Sentinel to break down the ascen-
dency of the Democratic party, if possible.
Third. They are not only dissatisfied with
| The SentineiS recent failure to stab the Ad-
ministration, but we know that some of them
| have taken occasion to proclaim that on &C.
| count OF this recent course of the Sentinel, it
must not expect their support when the ques-
| ton on this Deficiency bill amendment comes
| before the House
The inquiring reader has, above, all the
| facts bearing On the subject matter within our
| reach to-day.
Appointment and Confirmation Thomas
| B. English, of Missouri, who was appointed
Register of the Land Office at Jackson, Mo.
by the President, vice Samuel A Hill, de-
ceased, has been confirmed by the Senate
Mr. McDougall's California Mail Bill comes
| nearer meeting the evident views of the House.
upon the subject of an increase of mail facili-
ties between Calfo rnia and the Atlantic States.
than any other project, SO far agitatsd in either
| branch of Congress. This fact is apparent il,
the unanimity with which the House yesterday
made it a special order fer the first Monday in
June next. 1t simply proposes to authorize
| the Postmaster General 10 make the mails be-
tween California, weekly Gnstead of semi
monthly, as at present,) by advertising for bids
for another SEM monthly transportation Of
them in such time as he may judge best and
by any route the successful bidders may select,
the price to be paid not to exceed $3.50, 900 per
annum the contract to last not more than four
years, and to be given out under ordinary in
| land post office regulations, except that the
government are to have the right to discon-
| tinue it on three months notice OF course the
| lowest responsible bids for the service to be
| performed in the shortest (stipulated) time,
will obtain the contract under the proposed
| new law. We have often expressed the con
yiction that the time had arrived when weekly
mail to and from California is an absolute
| public necessity. The contracts of this measure
Of something based on its principles will prove
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