Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-02-11
WARRINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP

WAsKIHGT0N NEWS AND GOSSIP
confrmed.-The Senate this morning con.
frmed the nomination of A. G. Seaman,
Esq, to be the Superintendent of the Public
Printing. 1t was understood around the Capt.
t0l that this action was unanimous.
How "hepubliosnism" Works in Prac-
ttce.-That is, the Republicanism of the day;
not that under the influence of which our
fathers framed the Federal Constitution. In
the Massachusetts, Legislature it passed over
the Governors veto the infamous Personal
Liberty bill, pronounced unconstitutional and
revolutionary by every Judge in the State,
and boasted Of as such by its principal aivo-
Gates and trainers. In Vermont it brought
forth the late insulting and revolutionary legis-
Iative resolutions, wherein the principles and
obligations Of the Federal Constitution are
openly set at defiance, the laws of the land
IePudiated, and language held towards the
Southern States which shows that instead of
cultivating the spirit of harmony, forbearance
and good will, so necessary to the preserva-
tiOn of the American Union, held together
only By the moral force of American public
opinion as that is, sentiment of rancorous
hatred to the whole South flls the hearts of
the body which passed them.
In Ohio, where it holds sway also, we see
its true spirit manifested in the very recent
message Of Governor Chase, sending to the
Legislature the appeal of the would-be rsvo-
1utionary government Of Kansas, for arms,
money and men to aid in subverting the gov
eminent Of the laws of the United States
there, backed by a recommendation that the
requests be instantly complied with, expressed
after stating with solemn gravity as many Of
the thousand and one falsehoods concerning
occurrences in Kansas with which the anti.
slavery newspapers have of late teemed, as
can be compressed into an ordinary newspaper
column. Governor Chase proves his 'srepub-
icanism" capitally, by counselling the Ohio
Legislature to boldly aid IN settling up and
maintaining the standard of revolution in
Kansas. Just such recommendations as that
are fast bringing on the now almost inevitable
conflict of arms in Kansas, by inspiriting just
such persons as Mr.. James Lane and Mr.. Thorn
as Shankland to demagogue the abolitionists
there into resistance Of the laws; the execution
which thousands on the borders of the Terri.
tory will enforce, as the lives of their wives
and children and the security of their proper
ty is to be the penalty of permitting those
who propose to usurp the government of the
Territory to succeed in their schemes
1t" Republicanism'-i doing its legiti-
mate work, by-the-by, in making heroes of
such gentlemen as Mr.. James Lane-Csl.
Theodore Hunts Mr.. James Lane-and Mr..
Thomas Shankland-Judge Douglass Mr..
Thomas STANDARDIZED of whom are Kansas
Generals, according to the newspapers. While
all the old members Of Congress will reoollect
how the hero, Gsnsral Lane, figured in the
AFFAIR In the hall with the Hon. Theodore
hunt, all the men Of the press around Wash
1ngtsn will recollect how t'other hero General,
figured in the affair at the hotel with Judge
Douglas not long before. Byron wisely pro-
nouneed the want Of a hero "an uncommon
want, If, in his time, it was customary to
make heroes out of such materials az now
suffice to that end in Kansas
The Appropriation Bills Resolutions OF
the Senate's Finance Committee long
since We took occasion heartily to wish Mr.
Brodhead success with his effort to. bring
about q reform Of the method in which Con.
gress considers the annual general appropra-
ton bills which has resulted in the resolution
now before the Senate, reported few days
ago by Mr.. Hunter from the Finance Commit
tee, providing that hereafter all the appro-
priation bills may originate in their chamber,
~ well as in the chamber below. At present,
precedent, and that alone, causes the Senate
70 abstain from originating such bills The
Ne" York Express explains the evil effect Of
oeins governed by that bad precedent, 10 for
chilly and concisely, as that VIC cannot do
better-to make the subject perfectly pIain 70
al readers-than to copy its description of the
manner in which "the thing is dOne,'' as fol.
lows:
The power, then existing in the Senate 20
originate appropriations, let Us see If there is
any reason why the power should not be exer-
cised but before we do that, let us look into
the present perilous mode, in Congress, Of
appropriating the public money.
The Ways and Means Committee of the
House, in the long session, will report Their
appropriation Bills in February or March
put the House does not take them up before
July or august, to act upon them. The House
then talks over, and about them. til vitbin
the last ten days Of the session, and in the last
week they reach the Senate. The Finance
COmmsttee of the Senate then have no nrone,
time to examine the items Of those appronria.
dons,-but What is worse, other COMMITTEES,
and members q the Senate pile in upon tbeu
millions and millions of dollars,-whieb, in the
hurry Of the closing scenes Of the session.
members, In their pre-occupied minds, came
possibly understand. These Bills, Tins amend
ed, go back TO the House on the last days d