Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1855-12-29
WAsHISoros, Dec. 9, ls


r-eV 'siaaa ' wAsHlxoros, Dec. 9, 1855.
A week has passed and no Speaker has been
elected. Thirty-four ballots have taken place,
with but little variation in their result Mr.. Camp
bell, of Ohio, having had the highest number of
votes of the opposition for several days, and not
being able to get enough to elect him, withdrew
his name on Friday, when Mr.. Banks, of Mass,
shot ahead, and finally ran up, yesterday. on two
or three ballots, to within ten of election. His
friends feel confident Of electing him yet. But
need not give you facts which you will have re-
ceved long before this letter reaches you, by tel
cgraph. Da" a-t 20 7s.-a , g. isee1'i.
I" Why don't the House elect Speaker 20 This
question is asked by every body and answered by
no one. will answer it. Because there is no
one among the members who can become the rep
rescntative of all the discordant sentiments which
prevail in the House and have their counterpart
among the people. The country itself is cut up
into sections and fragments, all of which are rep
resented here, and no one Of which is so predomi-
nant over the rest as to command majority
From the north, for instance, we have Old Wings,
Republicans or Freesoilers, Nebraska Democrats,
Anti Nebraska Democrats, Freesoil Americans,
and National Americans. From the South there
are Old Wings, Old Democrats, and Americans.
Of the Wings from the South, two, Etheridgc of
Tennessee and Puryear of North Carolina, are
Anti Nebraska; the rest Nebraska. OF the Dem.
ocrats of the same section, one Mr.. Mllson of
Virginia, is An,i-Nebraska. No one Of these
fragments or factions, II use the term in no Of
fensive se,-constitute majority of the House,
and yet each must vote for some one for speaker
representing its own peculiar sentiment; how
then can speaker be elected ? He can never be
without much concession and compromise. Az no
one faction can elect a speaker representing
its sentiments, it follows that if any one is to
be elected it must be by the votes of more than
one, and we have already seen partial union, in
voting, of the Republicans and Americans of the
Northern and North Western States. 1t is by
these that a speaker must be eventually elected.
The Southern Americans and Wings have cast
their votes mostly for Col. Marshall of KY, Zoi-
Golfer of Tenn, and finally aportion of them for
Fuller of Pa, who is considered national man,
and one whom they can therefore justify them
selves at home for voting for. A few Northern
votes have been cast for Southern men, thereby,
with the Southern cast for Northern men, prevent
ing an entire separation, in voting, Of the North
and the South.
You will have observed that the Anti- Anaericans
or Democrats, adopted in their caucus, n resolu-
ton approving of the Nebraska bill, and denounc-
ing the Americans. But strange to tell, two men,
bers from Pennsylvania, representing Wing and
Quaker district, Mr.. Hickman and Mr.. Barclay,
elected on the Anti Nebraska issue, both DEM
ocrats, of course, have uniformerly voted for the
Nebraska, Anti-American candidate, Richardson
This shows what has 80 often been shown before,
that Democrat is man of but idea, and that
it is utterly impossible for him, as general rule,
to divest himself of that idea and inbibe any
other. Democracy to him, is what Mahomet is
to the Mahometan, or the Gear to the poor, igno-
| rant, enslaved Russian serf. 1t is Shiboleth,
the pronunciation of which makes them quake
with fear and turn pale with alright.
Mr.. Banks is considered a very superior pre-
siding officer, and on that account has found ia
vor with many who knows the Importance of hav-
ing the chair filed this session especially, by one
will be likely to prevent those discreditable
''scenes" Of which we have in times past had so
many. He is an American, with Republican pro-
clivities, and having been formerly Democrat,
has received the votes of some of the Anti. Ne
braska Democrats Of the North, such as Mr..
Thurston of r. l., Wheeler of New York, Todd
of Pa, Nicholas, Day, Mott, and others of Ohio.
OF course the Northern Americans vote for him,
and the Republicans generally. It is said by bis
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elected, and will deal fairly with all parties in
the appointment of committees. i~as
1t is conceded that Gen. Collum will be elected
Clerk, since the withdrawal in his favor of Judge
Sargent, and the election Of Northern speaker,
should northern man be elected, Of which there
is scarcely doubt. Instead Of Clerk, Gen. Col
lum's n ost formidable competitor is now spoken
Of as public Printer; q more valuable Office Pc
cuniarily, and one which is, of course, most
sought for. -.s ,, s~s .s-r s.,.---
The continued outrages going on in Kansas, are
calculated to create and keep up much ascerbity
of feeling in the bosoms of Northern men which
stands much in tbe way of Cancellation aud fra
ternity between them and Southern men. The
President has never thought proper to interpose
| AANnoaSS
gressions and rufanism of sthe border rufians, %
but upon the call Of Gov. Shannon, he has not
hesitated to place at bis disposal portion of the
U. s. troops to aid these ssborder rufans'' in ex-
ecutiDg laws passed by body Of men not elect
ed BY the settlers of Kansas, but by the inter.
Looping Missourians, who, armed to the teeth with
rifles, revolvers and bowie knives, drove the legal
voters from the polls and voted themselves. If
the real settlers of Kansas are true Americans,
they will never submit to such outrages and never
obey laws thus imposed upon them. They ought
to, and hope they will resist to the death, and if
Missouri sends more ssborder rufians'' TO cosrce
them, trust there are good men and true in Iowa
who will not sit by in silence snd see them cut to
pieces By lawless brigands. As soon a. the
House is organized this subject will be brought on
the tapis.
The two wings of the Capitol are progressing
rapidly. The outer walls are nearly ready to re-
ceive the cornice, and the rooms are being plas-
tered, and the floors laid with many beautiful 6g-
ured tiles, resembling mosaic, or figured carpet.
The top of the old dome has been removed pre-
paratory to the erection of new one Of most
chaste and elegant model, which will rise over 1870
feet above the old one, and be crowned by .
statue of Liberty, with her pole and cap; the lat
ter appropriately copping the whole.
There is not on.y an unusual number Of new
members in the present House ~ Representative,