New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-03-11
prsINEss AND PROSPECTS IN CONGRESS
w.su,xGrOS. Saturday, March 8, 1856.


Editorial Correspondence Of The Inbune'
WASHINGTON, Saturday, March 8, 1856.
Ib;rL the House will insist IN closing the pre-
debate on the Kansas contest in the course
oC n. coming weck-probably by Thursday. The
document is in fact already exhausted, and the
.neocbes hereafter made must in the main be either
Irrelevant or supernuous. Mr.. }. II. CAMPBELL
ofps. is to speak for the right on Monday and will
.oeak well. Mr.. CRAWFORD Of Georgia has the
soor ahead Of him, and Of course will follow in the
footsteps of Oliver Cullen and Percy Walker.
The resolve may be pressed to a vote on Tuesday,
but think it hardly will so soon.
cannot think the House will refuse the Com
uittee of Elections the largest liberty in investi-
eating ease so important, but l will not be too
sanguine. / can CLEAN no comfort from the intims-
lions of the South Americans-eyen those of them
who live in Free States. DR.. Walk, / am in
formed, will vote against sending for persons and
peppers; from the others have not heard. count
ON three Democratic votes from PenDs yania, unless
Dir. Packer should be absent, as be often Is; and
hope Messrs Edwards, Dunn, Scott and Moore will
vote for the fullest investigation. expect 10 find
every Southern vote recorded not only against the
power to send for persons and papers, but in favor
of Phelpss resolutions Of instruction. shOuld they
be pressed, which virtually command the Com
mittee on Elections not to inquire in any way into
the alleged frauds and outrages at the Legislative
Election last March, whereby the Territory was
subiugated by Missouri invaders. But cannot
believe these resolves will pass.
Gov. REEDER is here, desiring, and expecting
opportunity to yindicate in speech to the House,
his right to sit as Delegate for Kansas, and to re-
pel the foul calumnies shOwered upon him person
alIy by those who know no other way TO divert at
teption from the wrongs heaped on Kansas. lie
does not expect to be permitted to speak on this
preliminary question: though he is very willing to
do 90 He says that, if the question to be decided
by the House concerns his personal consistency
merely or mainly, he is willing TO meet the issue
thus rendered, though he does not see how that
should involve the rights Of the People OF Kansas.
Whenever this preliminary Kansas question is
disposed of, the Chairman Of the Ways and Means
will naturally seek to get the House again into
Committee with view to the distribution and ref
erence of the Presidents Annual Message Con-
gress being now in the fourth month of its first
Session. the leader of the House is understood to
think it about time the Message were appOrtiOned
and the Committee at work thereon; and that
seems to me very rational opinion.
The new claim set up by the Senate OF power to
originate Appropriation bills is likely to meet
stern resistance in the House. Whenever such
BILL having originated in the Senate, shall reach
The House. understand that the Chairman OF the
Ways and Means will move that it do lie on the
liable, and bring the House to direct vote there
on Should this motion fall the bill goes of course
TO the Ways and Means Committee, and there it
will be laid on the table very promptly, very GER
sainly and very conclusively. There does not seem
TO be chance that an Appropriation bill originated
in the Senate will pass the present House.
II hear all manner of stories here OF monstrous
Jobs concocted or in preparation which it is ex-
pected to "put through" Congress by some rail-
road process understood only by the initiated. l
Judge that at least half these tales are fabulous
Washington is q scandalous place, and every one
who has or seeks to have, his arm in the Treas
ury, fancies that nobody can be here for any other
purpose than his own. We have recently had a dep
utation of Pennsylvanians impelled hither by an
alarming rum0r tnat congress WAS dpout ~ I1hO 'hO
duty off Railroad Iron (what is the same thing
allow several years credit thereon. have seen or
heard nothing here that looked like the success OF
any such project. The PennsylvanlanS had been
told that all the New-YOrk delegation were COM
mitted to that Railroad scheme, when am cont
dent that no five of them have favored 1t in any
way, and no ten could be any how induced to do
3d. Gen. WEBB, who has been extensively re-
ported an agent of the Railroad combination, as
sures me that he never did and never will favor
any attempt to reduce our present Iron duties IN
any way, but he would very gladly help put them
back to the rates of 1S42 if he could. Since that
is not now practicable, he will stand by the pres
ent duties to the last, and he believes this is the
true way to obtain cheap ItOn and encourage Rail
roads, present and prospective. lpresume Others
whose names are whispered from mouth to ear as
those Of agents of the Railroad combination to get
the duties off their Iron are likewise misrepre-
sented No man can tell what session may bring
forth, but see no present danger othe passage OF
sny measure affecting the duties on Iron. IL. &.