Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1856-03-15
WASHINGTON.
from our Regular Correspondent.

WASHINGTON, Feb. "a. 1856
The committee on Elections made an inefectu
al effort in the early part of the week to Obtain
from the House authority to send for persons ant
papers, to enable them to investigate the Kan
sas contested election The resolution wa
finally referred back to themselves to report th'
grounds upon which they asked this authority
This fact proves what have heretofore said, tina
there is not o reliable Anti.Nebraska majority il
he House, though a very large majority of tn,
members came in upon the great Anti-Nebrasks
surge of public opinion, and could not have go
there by any other means.
do not, myself, regret the defeat of the reso
luton, because it would have been a most tedi
Gus and expensive mode of investigating the Kan,
sas rascalties and outrages. 1t would have put
from thirty to forty thousand dollars into the pock
ct of the present Sergeant and the facts
+-of the case may be officially obtained in much
less expensive and more expeditions way that is,
by appointing commissioners to take the testimo-
ny of such witnesses as shall be deemed import
ant, giving the commissioners power to subpoena
such witnesses to appear before them in Kansas.
The doings of the Naval retiring Board still
continue to occupy the attention Of the Senate,
and the opinion begins to prevail that the law
authorizing that Board will be repealed, and con-
sequently all its proceedings fall to the ground
If not this, then probably Board of Review
may be authorised, which will have power to re-
view the doings and decisions of the former and to
restore such officers as have been wrongfullv dis
missed, or retired. stating in their report to the
President. their reasons and evidence upon which
their action is based.
The House has hardly got under way yet, none
| of the standing committees having fairly got to
work, and of course no reports having yet been
made, so large number of members are now
absent that the committees can scarcely get a
quorum together.
believe mentioned in my last the committee
of Ways and Means had appointed Mr.. Cochran
third clerk, at 81 800 year, he holding also a
clerkship in the Land Office at 81 600 year
in all So, ,400.! Mr.. Z. is, Of Course, Locofoco,
as no Whig, American, or Republican, who held
one Office, would be appointed to another, and be
paid two salaries, by his own political friends !;
they are to conscientious for that, though their
conscience never stand between IL political enemy
and Il double salary.
ira kind, has been ,e-apponted clerk of the Mil
itary committee, majority of which are Ameri-
cans AMI Republicans!
But while Locofocos thus being tax m care
of at the Capitol, by their protessed opponents,
those who have been removed by the clerk and
doorkeepcr of the House, have walked to the
other end of the avenue, AMI into snug berths
there, for whom some Whig, American or Rcpub-
lican, if any such are left. has had to make room.
by taking up his line of march.
SIX years ago, when the Democrats surrounded
the Wings in the Capitol, and the Wings had
the Executive department in their hands, the
Wings turned adrift from the former, came to
the heads of the Department and asked to be
provided for. But what was their reply !? We
have no vancies to fill, and we won't make any.
At the same time there were greater number of
Democrats in the Department than there
Wings. 81! mihi far audita loqui. Such is, and
ever has b. en- the difference between Democrats,
when in power, AMI their opponents.
4. The English press discusses the IN lttcrs Of diff
ference between the British government and our
own, in tone of mingled caj '!in,, aF,ctionate
honcy-ioving, arrogance and intimidation. They
would not for the world quarrel with us, for we
are bone of their bone AMI fl ,sh of their flesh
and we are moreover, smart boy, of whom they
arc extremely proud, and who will, one of these
days, it properly taken c,re Of and taught By
them, be somebody; but then, this boy must be
respectful, obcdcnt, dutiful, and duly grateful
for their parental reco suition of him as II rela-
tive, and not be stubborn put on airs, nor set
hiS will hi, f,r bo tbn,.
shall be under the very dsagr eeabe necessity, of
giving him good hoggins, which they can do
just as easy as they drove our navy from the
ocean forty odd years ago, and thrashed us at
Chippewa, Lundy's Lane, and New Orleans =
The fact is, that the Times, AMI other British
journals buster and swagger at great rate, but
under all this it is easily seen that they know us,
as Fallstaif did the true Prince by instinct, and
have no very ardent desire to see whether we arc
the same Brother Jonathan whom they met in the
Constitution, Capt. Hull, and at New Orleans.
They offer to refer the question of interpreta-
ton of the Clayton Bulwer treaty to a third pow
CT, but our government will agree TO no such ref
ference; we can understand and write the Eng
lsh language as we'll as any crowned mead in
Europe: we know what sort Of a treaty we made
and what sort we didn't make; and we are not
disposed to be cheated into one we never would
have entered into, By the decision of any power
under the sun. Ii the treaty is not what both
parties making it intended it should be, then it is
no treaty at all, and We will stand on the Monroe
doctrine in lieu of it.
But England will never enter into war
with US no fear Of that, for if she did, she
mi sht teach US to do our own manufacturing as
we'll as own fighting, and she knows this
She will therefore buster and swagger awhile,
and then " swim the river" or s' cave in,' and
let US have our own way.
The impression is very strong here that Pierce
will be nominated at the Cincinnati Democratic
Convention. \ New Orleans paper says 50 Thus
far has Pierce obtained decided advantage over
Buchanan. His late annual message was mas
ter-stroke Of policy. 1t not only disarmed the
South, but absolutely converted that section
from quasi.hostility utter Indifference to en-
thusastic friendship. No Democrat can go be-
fore the National Convention with half SO strong
a claim uron Southern support. We already see
the evidences Of this bold strategy in the open ex-
pressions of preference by large number of in
fuential Southern presses. And strange to saw,
Mr.. Pierce's pro-savcry manifesto. has not lost
him the favor of his party North. We look anx-
iously now to Philadelphia, to see what the Amer
lean nominating convention, now sitting there,