Washington sentinel. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1855, 1854-01-21
House Of Representatives.

The Senate was not in session to-day, il havin,
adjourned over until Monday.
House of Representatives.
| large number of Senate bills were reierre,
| 10 the appropriate standing committees; among
them the bill Incorporating the Pioneer Manuiac
turing Company of Georgetown TO the Commute,
for the District of Columbia.
Mr.. COBB moved that the House resolve itsel
into committee of the whole on the private cal
| ender.
The question was taken by teers, and resulted
yeas 81, nays e.
Mr.. EGERTON said The Committee on
Claims had been in session till late hour, and
inriher, that II was entirely useless for the com
mittee TO act on the matters referred to them
They had only one day for the consideration Of
private bills
NEW YORK CONTROVERSY.
On motion of Mr.. JONES, of Tennessee, the
House resolved itself into Committee Of the
" hole on the state of the Union, Mr.. Orr in the
chair and took up the resolutions heretofore sub
mtted, proposing TO refer The various branches oil
the residents message to the appropriate com
mttees,
Mr.. CUTTING replied 10 the remarks of Mr..
HUGHES, delivered yesterday, he having been
charged by his colleague with having, in the year
1917 taken an active and leading part in the two
democratc conventions at Rome, New York and,
while there, lending his jealous efforts for the
purpose OF patching up the combination between
the TWO wings OF the democracy. Before he
entered into the question of his personal connec.
non with those two conventions, he asserted that,
instead of being favorable 10 any union with those
opposite parties and materials, he bought all his
feeble efforts 10 bear to break down and defeat the
whole organization; and for this he was de-
nounced, illuminated. and hunted down by poll
tcians, IN the State of New York by the fEesoilers
He continued his remarks for upwards of an hour.
Mr.. WESTBROOK said he could see no good
result from the discussion Of New York politics.
The only effect could be TO distract and divide the
democracy Of the nation, as the democracy of
New York had been distracted and divided He
proceeded to address the Committee in, as he
claimed self-defence of that portion Of the party
with which he was associated, and in reply to Mr..
CUTTING,
Mr.. WALBRIDGE followed in defence of the
course of the national democrats of New York
as contradistinguished from the other section Of
the party.
Mr.. BISHOP PERKINS likewise addressed
the committee; and in the course of his remarks,
said if the State Of New York ever expected TO
become democratic, they would have to vote for
the friends of William l.. Marcy or Daniel s. Die
kinson, or place New York forever in the hands
OF the wings. These two wings must come TO-
gether, or Seward will rule the State. The hardsn
and the silver grays cannot begin to cope with
Seward Those whose heads have grown bald
and gray in the New York contests, will have 10
stand by those who have not mingled in the con-
fcts.
Mr. WADE obtained the floor, when the CON-
mlttee rose.
The SPEAKER laid before the House mes
sage from the President of the United States,
transmitting, in compliance with resolution Of
the third instant, report from the Secretary of
State communicating copies of all the correspond
ence that has passed between this government
and that of Spain, relating 10 the seizure and i'm
prisonment OF Captain Thaddeus Beecher and his
officers and crew of the schooner North Carolina
of and from New Haven, Connecticut, by the
Spanish authorities of Porto Rico, in March, 1850
Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs
The House adjourned till Monday.
The following-named gentlemen compose the
select committee on the bill recently introduced
by Mr. McDoUGAL providing for the establishment
OF telegraphc line and the construction Of rail-
road 10 the Pacific:
Messrs McDoUGAL, Of California; HAMILTON, OF
Maryland; CoBR, OF Alabama; EWING, of Ken
lucky; Bliss, Of Ohio; Bailey, Of Georgia. WASH
BURN, OF Maine; DRUM, Of Pennsylvania; CLARKE,
OF Michigan; HUNT OF Louisiana; KIpwELI, of
Virginia; VALLEY, Of Massachusetts; and WALK
Err, of New York.