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| WASHINGTON, May II, 1854
The veto in the Senate, and the Nebraska
bill in the House, block legislation. Governor
Brown, of Mississippi, gave his views to-day, il
opposition to the President. After this, The
Senate had long discussion upon proposition
o. the Sentinel newspaper, here, to publish its
debates This discussion was particularly in
terestlng, as disclosing fact, of which 1 have
heretofore written, that the President is desti-
tute OF friends in the Senate--there is no one
tnere 50 poor to do him reverence. The Sentinel
is thorn in the side of the Administration, and
rs openly supported by most of the democrats as
such, and secretly cherished by others, while
the Wings are not unwilling to lend their aid in
the matter, partly from the love of mischief and
partly from esteem for its proprietor, Mr..
| Beverly Tucker, who is essentially a good
| fellow. In the course of this debate it was
proposed to increase the subscription to the
Globe (tho only paper which now gives the de-.
bates in full so as to give each Senator eighty
one copies OF the same, making an aggregate of
more than five thousand. Mr. Fitzpatrick, of
Alabama, strongly opposed this movement, and,
being on the Committee of Public Printing, sub
mltted some estimates, showing that the profits
acorning to Mr.. Rives from such an increase
would be nearly $25 900. The Senate adjourned
without any final vote in the premises.
We had quite an amusing speech in favor Of
Nebraska from Mr.. Christian Straub, good
democrat from Pennsylvania, whose language,
gestures and figures of speech were all entirely
his own There was good, wholesome, plain
spoken sincerity about Mr.. Straub which does
not mark the speeches Of members generally
Mr.. ). has never before been in public life, and
this was his first effort of the kind The Com
mittee was but thinly attended, and the hammer
fell while the gentleman was in the midst of one
of his periods, but by universal consent Ga thing
not before allowed this SESSION. he was permitted
to 60 on and finish. The House will sit some
hours tonight.
The impression here, among the diplomatic
corps, is that Mr.. Soule will be spared all
further trouble of negotiating with Spain for
!" indemnity and security and that the Spanish
Minister, now on his way hither, Senior Cueta,
will take up the thread of this discourse with
Marcy. The Madrid correspondent
of the.London Times says that the Black War
rior did not attempt to amend the error in her
manifest within the time allowed by law. If
this be SO, the representations of the affair
which were first made were tissue of gross
falsehoods, gotten up for no conceivable purpose
but to provoke quarrel which should end in
the seizure Of Cuba. 1t strikes me that the
acquisition of Cuba would work more injury to
Louisiana and her sugar planters than to any
ether State in the Union, and 1 think This could
be fairly demonstrated. Messrs. Sliden and
soule think differently, l presume, for surely
they would not sacrifice the State which has
honored them for their personal glorifcation
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