New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-07-09

! ent at bis york with tho saue sOrt Of zest with
icb be has been accustomed to asssil his old en-
emiee, 1.-THE Britishr He certainly demolished
the pIeterws upon which the refusal Of the EEeou-
tive Iesd, and for OF CO In his life broughta certain
share Of clearpess IN the exposition. A vote WAS
then rakco upon passing tho bill, notwithstanding
the election, and resulted 81 Yeas against 12 N,ys,
bere two more than the Constitutional require
ment Of two-thrds. In order to save appearances,
Mr. Mason raised a Virginia abstraction, contend
ing that the twO.thirds vote required by the Con-
st,tuiion meant of the whole Senate, and not Of
quorum present. But Mr. Bell and Mr.. Benjamin
soon let the gas out of this little balloon and it
collapsed to the amusement Of the Chamber aod
the chagrin If the chivalD for Judge Butler made
a Quixotic effort to sustain his friend and to
ring the changes on the new dangers OF this awful
innovation Still, the Senate was obdurate, aud
by vote of "a to I, decided the point to be moon
shine.
Thus have the mighty fallen. Six months ago
no such expression could have been extracted
from that body. An Executive fiat would have
closed every lip or silenced every threatened muir
mur. But Gen Pierce lie not the candidate Of his
party He looks toward Tho setting SUI with few
remaining hOnOrs at command and limited patron
age to dispense TyleI's vetOes were sustained
ill Polk prevailed at Baltimore, and then there
were Lone 80 poor IA to do him reverence.
The movement which has been attempted to
change the candidate for Vice.P President on the
Peoples ticket has met with very limited enc"ur
apement In whatever motive that suggestion
may have been conceived, it is clear to every prac
teal understanding as being full of mischief and
embarrassment. Aside from the fact that the
Convention conferred no power on any body Of
INT to revise its acts this appeal to Congress car
res with it something Of the bad OdOr OF the old
system which was rebuked by the abandonment
Of the central caucus machinery. There are points
cOnnect,d with this subject which may not be dis
with advantage, and therefore it is perhaps
fortunate that a project which has already at
trscted some public criticism and invoked much
anxiety, should find the sort of cOuntenance which
it has done. Judge Dayton will give much
legitimate strength to the ticket as any man who
could be named, and without intending any dis
arrangement 10 others, his name may be regarded
az about the most available and proper that could
have been enlisted. No one doubts that the gen.
tlemen who have undertaken this task we're actu-
ated by the best convictions of duty, and were in
spired by others with similar opinions. But
change in the ticket now would involve cOnces-
sion to which the opposition is not entitled, and
tor which thousands of good men and true are by
no means prepared.
Notwithstanding the votes by which the bill for
the admission of KaDtas under the Topeka Con-
stitu,ion was carried the coalition composed of its
opponents are still encouraged by the hope that
they can pass the Senate scheme, which il to be
glorlfed by the Fillmore fragment as a measure
of "paeifcatiOn." That is to be their shibbOeth
in the next struggle. Wehave got half the House,
and a body Of temperate men, capable OF en-
durance and fatigue and trial. 1t remains to be
seen whether they can be cOerced into submission,
even if there should be found renegades enough to
turn the scale against them.
at last the big book job il through its travail in
the House. Mr.. Marshall-nOt Humphrey, for he
is scrupulOus on this point-Ofered tho customary
resolution and Mr.. Sherman proposed an amend.
meDt that the members should be allowed the priv
ege of selecting other books of public character
than those usually ordered and out of print or of
no particular value, not exceeding their aggregate
cost This was very plain, coming as it did from
an upright and direct man; but it was easy to see
how it might be sbused and therefore was voted
down. Then the old engineers got at the standing
appropriation and whrled it through in jfey,
Just with the sort of speed that $1,000 opera
ton ought to have. There were many smiling
faces about and musty "archives" and State
papers, looked decidedly up, like the stock mar.
ket with resiving intelligence after fit of the
blues. 1t would be equally honest in Congress,
and much more to the point, If each member was
voted eleven or twelve hundred dollars extra, or
his pay increased to that extent instead of resort
ing to dodge which accOmplishes it in another
way by which book brokers divide the spOlls with
others who are in convenient connection. BY the
present process, members get shaved Is or SO per
cent, which would be saved by straightforward
appropriation: INDEX.