Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1855-01-02
Correspondence Of the Times.
Pelisical -Futelligence

| Among tuo aulHutSOtluuS nave uUu tue plcuS-
ure to meet here lately, is Judge Cooper, who ar
rived a few days ago after very tedious journey.
Congress has taken hold of business with a
commcndable spirit Of industry and disposition to
dispatch it. The committee of ways and means
have already reported several appropriation bills
and are engaged every morning in their commit
tee room in preparing others.
Mr.. Clingman made an Intellectual attempt the
other day to introduce resolution into the House
recurring the President to tender the mediation of
the United States to the beligcrent powers of Eu-
rope with view to put an end to the sanguinary
war now waged between them.
MIR. Adams, Senator from Miss, brought for
ward his bill n few days ago, to amend the natur-
alizat:on laws, so as to require residence OF Il
years before foreigner can become citizen in
the United States. The bill was read twice and
referred to the Judiciary committee, and Mr.. "A.
spoke for some time in favor of the measure
This speech has already been published in the
Globe, and the American Organ, (the Know Moth
ing papcr) and will not fail to attract attention in
every part of the Union not that it is particular
" able but from the fact that it is the first that
has been made in the Senate in favor of an amend
term of probation to 81 years, and depicting the
evils which threaten our institutions from the
great influx of foreigners, and admitting this class
of ignorant people so readily to the rights of cit
izenship.
Mr.. Adams declared that he did not belong to
the organization usually known as Know Nothings,
but that he was in favor Of Americans governing
America, and was in favor of Americans of equal
merit being appointed to Office in preference to
foreigners. If Mr.. Adams does not belong to the
organization, there are sundry Senators who do,
and not few members of the House.
The rise of this association is one of the won
ders Of the times land at the same time of the
most mysterious operations that have ever taken
place in this country. They nowhere to be
seen, but every where felt. They have no candi-
dates to speak Of, and yet, when no one is dream
ing of any such thing, the polls show that GO Sam
has been about - though no one saw him. What
VIC have seen is but the beginning of what we
shall see and one of the most extraordinary of
these sights yet in for US, is the defeat of
Henry A. Wise, the Democratic nominee for Gov
ernor Of Virginia. Yes H. A. Wise, he who at
Fourth of July dinner on Peters Island, Phila.,
in 1889, gave as a toast, The union of the
Wings for the sake of the Union - he is just as
to be defeated the day of the election isto
arrive.
North Carolina, carried by the Democrats in
August last, will next August bend before the
blast and elect large ma jority of Anti-Demo-
cratic members of Congress. Tennessee, Ken
lucky, Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi and Louisi-
will faol tbo ;nA, tbo&& h. A
me,ican feeling will then pervade the whole coun-
try, and will become predominant.
MIR. Badger to-day introduced bill into the
Senate to increase the salaries of the Judges of
the Supreme Court and the per. diem of members
of Congress fifty per cent. He spoke for some
time in support of the bill which was read twice
and referred. There is no probability of such
bill passing. If any alteration should be made
in the pay of members of Congress, it should be
in the mode of paying them. The per diem made
ought to be abolished and yearly salary given,
about equal to the average per diem they now re-
ceive during the two sessions, say $500 year.
If this mode of paying them was adopted, the
long session would soon dwindle down to four
months, instead of being spun out to eight nine.
1t would then become the interest Of each mem
Der to dispatch the public business as speedily as
possible, SO as to enable them to return to their
respective families and avocatiOns. They would
then be better paid for their time spent at Wash
ington, and as the time would be very much less,
their expenses would be lcssened in proportion !;
SO that members would then save more money
than they probably would if the per diem were
raised to Sl2 day, as Mr.. B. proposes. Raise it
to that amount and the inevitable result would be
that the long session of Congress would last the
whole year, or within very few days of it, an
adjournment would take place only to allow men,
bers to charge their second mileage, though not
half of them would go home.
The other mode of paying them, that is, by sal
airy, would put an effectual stop to that crying a.
buse, too much speaking, and speaking for " bum
comb; r" for, as each member would feel DESTROYS
to get through with the business as soon as pos
sible, rules would be adopted and enforced, re-
quirins every man to speak to the subject, mat
ter or question, under consideration, and not rise
up with written speech in his hand which he
never wrote, upon some political topic wholly
foreign to the subject, and occupy an hour of 233
mems time, in delivering what not one of them
wishes to hear, and which is only intended for his
own constituents. The 1913 would in that case
soon lind way of putting down such bores.
Are the Sandwich Islandato be annexed to the
United Statcs9 That is question often asked
here. We are told that there will be a treaty of
annexation here before Congress adjourns. But
by what authority is such a treaty to be made p
Can the President, or the President and Senate
annex any country they choose to the United
States? If they can annex single one, they can
the whole world, provided they could find a pow
or competent to make atreaty with them for it,
If they can annex the Sandwich Islands, thew can
also take in every Island in the Pacific and Indian
Oceans-the Fegee Islands with their cannibal
inhabitants, Borneo, Sumatra, Java, New Zea
land, Japan and China leH .ist1 s.H
And suppose VIC take in the Sandwich Islands,
and what are we to do with the Kanacxers ?-tho
universal name of the inhabitants of the South
Sea Islanders. Are they to be admitted to cti-
zenship on the "popular sovereignty" principle !?
How much better or more intelligent are thew
than the negroes of the Coast of Guinea But
very little, apprehcnd. Are we prepared to mix
our noble race with such as these, and share our
privileges as American Citizens with " the whole
world and the rest of mankind? '' These are Sc.