Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-12-11
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.

anticipated In the Star Of that dayj which
went to press ere the three last bsiiots were
taken. Eft the Opposition can elect my one it
is surely Mr.. Banks Of Massachusetts,, Who
more than any other tslrsd Of y ssinec-
ton with the speakership, is the repfesen-
tative of the important principles on which
those who are planning out the programme of
the Opposition for the session have anchored
the congomerated Opposition party that have
come together in the course of the current
contest IN the House Han. These principles
are the repeal of the fugitive slave law, the
restoration Of thsMissouri restriction in Kan.
sss by direct action Of Congress, and the jus
tidcation and approval Of the personal liberty
bill Of the late legislature Of Massachusetts.
Every one Of the Hfty spinal disease (lobby)
doctors who have been 50 deeply engaged In
sharp professional practice in Washington for
more than week past, are sworn advocates
Of each and all Of these measures, and boast
that their intention Is % to manage matters
after the organization, as that il will be found
that the legislation of the House through it
(the organization will be quite as Sound" on
the slavery question as that Of the last Massa.
ehusetts Legislature was. -. ..-
1t struck us yesterday, from what we saw Of
the by-play in the Hall, that at least thirty of
those voting for Mr.. Banks had made up their
minds that he should on no account be elected
They were simply aiming t. place him near q
triumph, mot up to One,) in order to create an
obligation ON the part of his friends to support
Mr.. Pennington. Their votes were given to
him for Mr.. Pennington's beneat-not for his
own.
The Resolution.-T Opposition in the
House are not a little diagruntled BY the ger.
tinacity with which the friends of the Admin.
istration stick TO their nomination. It strikes
as they owe much Of the embarrassment which
Crews out Of this frmness of purpose mani
tested by the Democrats of the body, to the
resolution on which their candidates were
nominated, which admits Of no compromise
whatever with any other party or faction
holding adverse doctrines on current public
questions. We have yet to find the frst man
among all those who sustain Mr.. Richardson
who doubts the political wisdom of 50 early
taking ground So distinctly and emphatically
on the issues on which the party must stand
or fall in the coming Presidential election.
That is, with a single exception.
We refer to member of the House from Viz
ginia, who is said to believe it to have been
a fa"s pas to resolve against oAmerieanism;"
as the Democracy by emitting to do that
thing, and supporting some Democrat who
was not personally obnoxious to the "Ameri.
can" party might have secured the Speaker.
ship. At least one other member of the House
Though not Of the Democracy of the Housed
appears to entertain the same opinion, as
some one member seems to be voting with
eommendable perseverance indeed for the
member who entertains this opinion.
The resolution to which We refer above is
in fair keeping with the political record Of its
author, Mr.. j. Clancy Jones, Of Pennsylvania,
than whom no other member of the House
has more consistently maintained its import
ant doctrines, one and all. As it is evidently
destined to become the national Democrat
shibboleth Of the Union, it will make the fame
of Mr.. j. eoeval with its own 1t may now
fairly be called the Pennsylvania Democratic
party test.
"Backbones."-As anticipated in our last
issue, Mr.. Greeley and his fifty spinal. disease
doctors failed in their work yesterday They
did not use putty enough, or could not make
it stick to sufficient number of heretofore
anti-abolition backbones, long enough to ac-
complish their purpose. They did plaster up
for the time being those of some seven or eight
gentlemen, while the thinking they had put
in that Of another that worked we'll enough
on Saturday last, fell out, and his vote accord
ingly fell of.
1t seems TO be understood that they were
engaged last night in dOctOring' the political
spines of Messrs. Ball, Harrison, and Moore,
Of Ohio, especially; sssaying to rub them, We
presume, with the Giddings liniment by way
Of getting them up to the condition Of fever.
heat necessary to induce those gentlemen to-
day to throw aside their antiquated prejudices
in favor Of what were Wing doctrines not long
since, and consent in future to be known as
disciples Of the Giddings school in public at
fairs, on the principles of which it is proposed
to organize the House and administer its share
OF the functions and duties Of the General
Government.
We understand that the political physicians
Of the lobby, to whom we refer above, have
abandoned the case of Mr. Fuller, Of Pennsyl-
vania, as an utterly hopeless one, and have
made no effort whatever to tinker the back
bone Of the distinguished representative from
the Buffalo district Of New York, or of his
colleague, Mr.. Williams, both Of whom very
early in the contest manifested determine
ton to get through the present crisis without
any such medical attendance.
Invalid Pensions Enlisting The law of
April 80, 1874, forbids the payment of a pen.
sion to any person employed or paid in the
Army, Navy, or Marine Corps, for the time
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