Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-12-06
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.

hour fzcd for again taking up the " ni'ueiu
case. Tho Republicaps were yesterday In
clear minority Of three votes VI the twoiVe
absertees four only are Republican party
men and eight are set down as being in favor
of admitting Gen. W. on Gov. Geary's certi6-
cate. Msssrs. Cobb Of Georgia. and Mace,
both of whom are imperatively called away
from Washington by circumstances beyond
their control, have paired Of. Three Republi.
cans are so sick as to make their attendance
almost matter of impossibility, while we do
not know one on our side in that situation.
Some Of our absentees arc confidently looked
for to-day. Under these circumstances We do
not perceive how Gen. Whitfield can possibly
fail to be admitted unless through needless
inattention on the part of some of his friends
Whoever among them may be absent from the
hall at p. m. on Tuesday next, unless kept
away by sickness, may be responsible for the
triumph of Mr.. Grows movement; a position
which we trust none Of them will venture to
occupy; as it will make for any gentleman
maintaining the validity of Gov. Geary's GER
tiGcate as the prinsa fasie evidence necessary
to entitle Mr.. w. to take his seat, an excru.
ciatingly warm birth at homo at the end of
the session, or no sound conclusion may be
drawn from the signs Of the times.
At Fault.-The New York Herald AYERS
that the key to the Stars good opinion of the
hotels Of this city, is because (as it alleges)
NJ afp hor
The Herald is indeed at fault in thus measur-
ing the Stars corn in its own bushel. We
are happy in being able to assure it that not
a single employe in our editorial or publish
ing department drinks drop, and that near
ly every printer in the Star Office is teeto-
taller. Though it is not our custom to concern
ourself either about the politics or the habits
Of our employees, SO long as they do not unfit
them to discharge their respective duties in
the Star Office, we are grati6ed to know that
we are surrounded by as staunch body of
teetotalers as are employed in any newspaper
office in the Union, secular or religious; an
important item indeed in making up the sum
of its elements going to render it thrifty
business concern. Our reason for saying what
We did say few days since about the Wash
ington hotels was, that the truth concerning
their character promptly and briefly told,
might counteract the sweeping and malicious
falsehoods hurled ct them by tho Herald,
evidently only for want of something better
out cf which to make paragraph.
Tho Whitfield Gase.-Thc test votes taken
yesterday in the House vindica.e the correct
ness Of our anticipation expressed a week ago,
that in full House the Republicans would
find themselves shorn of their majority. Two
hundred and nineteen members without the
Speaker) answered on roll-call yesterday
With that heavy vote they were beaten by
three majority, as they could muster but 1O8,
against III contending for the validity of Gov.
Geary's certificate as embracing the prinso
facie evidence necessary to entitle General
Whitfield to take his seat; leaving those in
clined to dispute his right, to proceed against
it as in all previous cases wherein the right of
Member or Delegate holding.a similar certi-
fcais to take his seat, has been questioned
no other precedent being On record from the
foundation of the Government until to-day, if
VIC are not greatly mistaken. Gen. Whitfeld's
supporters on Monday last offered to postpone
the question until Tuesday next, or to any
day certain, when the absentees might reason.
ably lie expected to have reached this city.
That proposition was opposed, because the
Republicans desired to reap, in his case, the
advantage Of the absence of an undue num-
to GUST General Whitfield by q trick: knowing
that full House would defeat their purpose.
They have wasted week in the vain effort
to accomplish that end of so questionable mo-
rality, and so evident improperly so far as
the necessities of the public business are con-
cerned Their policy has, SO far, ended in
making patent their reprehensible purpose,
AID exposing the fact that they are not at this
session to carry matters with so high hand,
as of late in the House hall. Their power for
very great mischief there has fed, or no sound
conclusion is to be drawn from the result of
the contested votes given yesterday. This is
a subject Of general congratulatiOn to all 9th.
ers of whatever party.
The Current Debate in the Senate-is SER
wing to multiply the proofs of the correctness
Of the allegation of the Presidents message,
that the Republican party aim to strike at
slavery in the Slater, and are prepared to
override law aud constitutions, and if neces.
sary to countenaneo bloodshed, arson and other
such agreeable and harmless little pas,iino, to
that end, if absolutely essential to tho suc.
cess OF their plans Such, in few words, wo
take to be tho limitations Of the mes age IN
der which their Senatorial champions are now
writhiDg in debate. No unprejudiccd reader
can fail to realize in their remarks an entire
endorsement of tie most ultra positions of
their most ultra stump orators and ncwspa-
pors in the late canvass before tho people;
which, in turn, amounted to the Justification
Of revolution to prevent the admission of Kan
sas INFO the Union as slaveholling State by