New-York daily tribune., 1856-05-20
FROM WASHING TON.
IRISH KILLING-KANSAS.
From Oar Special Correspondent

From Oar Special Correspondent .
WASHINGTON, Saturday, May II, 1856.
The Irishmen are expected to sustain the Sham
Democratic party, but the members of that or
panization do not back the Irishmen. Witness the
votes of that party in coalition with the Fillmore
Know Nothings to suppress investigation OF the
killing of Keating. If Keating had killed mem
Der of Congress, of course he would have been
hung in double quick time. But the case being
reversed, and Heating being the victim, the Demo-
Gratis aud Pro Slavery Know-Nothings combine to
suppress an investigation Of the facts of the case
the former not doubling that the Irishmen will
think none the less of them for thus doing, but
that they will 60 on voting their tickets as usual
Perhaps they will, perhaps they won't. gen.
tleman from New York, stranger in the city, has
taken deep interest in the widow and orphans of
Kestipg, and bas declared his purpose of aiding
her in getting petition before Congress for a
pension. l.....aJ
The action of the House yesterday in regard to
the disposition of the claims favOrably adudicted
unon by the Court of Claims, is considered very
important step in facilitating the satisfactory ds
position Of that branch Of legislation. They are
instead of going to the Committee OF the Whoie'
10 be referred to the Committee on Claims whose
privilege and duty it is to be to report to the House
every Friday morning. In this way great ana
muchneeded dispatch can be made In the disPosa OF
cases determined by the court.
The Committee on Public Lands have got pos
session Of the House, and grants to railroads super
sede everything else, Kansas included. flonda
11f h..k
and Alabama and Iowa have been disposed OF, ou'
Wisconsin and other States wait TO be waited on
The disposition to attend to Kansas seems to be
good but yet the delay of coming to the considera-
ton of her admis sion continues. 1t seems to be
considered that if the Douglas bill should come
down to the House from the Senate, very quick
work can be made with it by sending it to rest OF
the Speakers table, OF into the Committee Of the
Whole where it may wait an indefinite time for
consideration. What would be far better, however,
is to kill of the Douglas bill by promptly
coming to the case and admitting Kansas as a
State.
1t is well understood here that Mr. Mason,
our Minister to France, is quite indIsposed
TO take notice of sights and indignirfes offered
10 the United States by French officials
like that prscticed upon our officers sent to
the Crimes. That is by no means the single case
o the worst that has been brought to the notice of
Mr. Mason. Yet he has persistently ignored the
.ansideratiou of them all. In every branch Of the
French Administration, hostility to the United
States is freely ayowed, and not the least pains
taken to conceal its hatred of American ideas and
practices.
The debates on the Kansas question demonstrate
very clearly that no expectation is entertained IN
any quarter that that Territory will De erec'ee
into Free State unless the Opposition succeed LII
the Presidential election. Whether it be avofa-
BILE or unfavorable doctrine to preach, poiilic "
impoltic to avow the fact it is nevertheless ssi''
ly and Enthusiastically true. If the party IN power
succeed, the next Congress will pass the Douglas
bill, and this will make Kansas Slave sta'e
almost beyond peradventure When the Kan