New-York daily tribune., 1856-08-18


prolong the session. But the Senate will hardly
t'ten to such proposition. INDEX.
TIE NEW COMPENSATION ACT, &c.
Correspondence Of Tse N T. Tribune.
WASHINGTON, Friday, Aug. Is, 1856.
The House has done a big business to-day. a
large number of private bulls were passed
The bill from the Committee on Foreign Affairs
10 regulate The Diplomat and COasuler systems Of
the UDned States, was considered apd pssaed bs a
vote of l03 Yeas to So Nays 1t provides that
ambassadors aid Envoys Extraordinary and Min
listers PlenipOennary shall be entitled to 81, 500
each, compensation fr tteir services to Great
Britain ond France, aEd SIP 900 each 20 Russia
Spain, Austria, Prussia, Brazil, Mexico aad Chins;
90 $4,000 all other countries. Min ste,s Res
icent aid Commissioners ssyeety five per centum;
Charges d'Afaires, fifty per centu@ ard Secreta-
ries of Legation, fifteen per centum of the said
au'ouu's, respectively
Dir. STEPHENS of Georgia. from TIE Joint
Library Committee, introduced resolution io
favor of printing about $500 worth of the
American State Papers AID other books, but the
House killed it by vote of70 to 1O7.
The subject which created the most interest and
excitement in the House to-day was that Of the
pas Of members. Ii came up with the Senate bill
establishing a salary tor Melaber. Of Congress
The industry and ingenuity OF the Taird House
members war not called into rsqaistion to "getup
Gan interest 10 this matter. Every Member
seemed to take the subjecs home 10 himself.
AS soon as the bill came up, Mr ORR Of South
Carolina offered an ameIldat Mt, whco was sent to
the Clerks oe,k to be read. The House, that
moment b6tOre Was chaos wOIse confUurded nov
became as silent as the grave Eech member
made ear trunyets of b TT hande add lsteaed with
all bis might. TIE ameudmtnt. which | h,pe 70
he able to procure before closing this letter, in.
creases the pay, over :he aaonn: provided b! the
Senate bill, abou. $500 to each Member of Con
eIess making she ,earlg salafy about SO 600.
sI"pg effort WAS Inads to have the Yeas aud
Nays upon the adoption OF the amendment bus fer
some reason or other the Members ddat care
about ordering them, as they had been in the habit
of cong miuOr ques;iois-prcbhby ffOm
laudable desire to ObtuIise on time, as economy
seemed to b- the ruling ORDER OF the day.
TIE tellers seemed 10 be sufficient, aud when
the count was announced 1t rolled up to the mag
Aihccnil, round Lumber of ll2 Yeas t. % Nuys.
1pe question then required upoa adOptiug the
hill rs amended wh'n the Yeas ard Nays we're
ordered and barely cbta ned. The roll WAS called
At the conclus on of the rcli-cail, it was found
ghat the vote stood SO Yeas 20 o5 Najs
Seventeen men instantly arose aud seyer6lly s1.
Louuced that they were within the bar OF the
House wien ther names were called, but did not
y te aud ow desired to do 50. Perm ;siOD being
g anted, 'h' y voted as follows:
wm 4 Grh-rt Y Jchl : Psrry, Ne.
Rufas H. Krg, n. \ Motdecai Oliver, Nc.
lanes J. Lndley, Mo- DILie Welis, ,jI., Va.
Nm Miward Pam. john Wheeler, \. Y.
NAYS.
Charles J. Albright Ohio James S Dowdeu, As
philemon Bliss Ohio. Johu Dcie. Pa
Sam C. Bradshaw Penn ,hu h. Elliott. ny.
Thos. L. Clngman n c. Geo. y III utol A1'
Burton Craige, n C. Warren WI allow N. 4.
The vote then stood 81 Yeas 10 95 Nays, when the
fOllowing members changed their votes as follows;
FROM NAYS TO YEAS.
Henry s. Bennett, Hiss Thos b Florence "a.
Jobn Covode Pa Samuel S. Busbal, Ill.
Samuel Dickson n Y Jar1es Thor1eton, lowe.
FROM YEAS 70 NAYS.
J.Rsece Emrie, Ohio W~ II Erelish Ind.
We. K Smith Ala.
TIE vote thea stOOd-Yess. 100; Nays, 81; so
I've bill was passed.
TIE bill Il, tlon tire who'e, good ooe, aOs@i.t-
stan irg it ori. irated With a Democratic Senate.
With he amt ndmen's Of the House, it vii greatly
shorten the sessions because the members will be
more generally disposed to facilitate the public
business. 1t will abolish the perniciOus practice
Cf pairing Of, which is reform OF the highest i'm
pOItsnce, for ii is fact which no man of psrlia'
uen'a experience will deny. that by the system
0i air Q, as il bas been scientifically carried on
IN The United States House of Representatives any
Oiil c,ud be got through that branch. Another
advantage is that the sy stem of boob pluuder will
elso cease to great extebt, ioasmuch as the bill
provides that books not published by Congress
csInot be voted TO the metubers except at their
V"h expense.
Messrs COLFAX Of I4disLa, MORGAN Of New
Yorh, TAPPAN, CRAGIN aud PIKE OF n. II .,
VAsHBUgN # Ma ne, and CLAwsoN of n. J..
,e,isttd the bill and the amendment AZ every stage
Of its proceeding.
Mr.. CoLFAx made several edJrts to amend Orr's
amendment to the effect that each Member oe paid
tisht dollars per day for the term OF Elk months
sue FIVE dollars for each day afterwaid. Such al
emerdment would shorten the sess op aud lesser
tbe expensss.
II, mbers voting on the Salary BILL as pars;elO'