Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-01-25
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.

yesterday, throughly olsgusted with the mel.
ancholy display that had been in progress:
there for the previous half hour. The Presi.
dent had done his duty in essaying, in obedi.
ence to the Constitution, to communicate 70
Congress information on public affairs Of which
he deemed it necessary they should be in pos
session. As his act, in so doing, tended to fix
more strongly than before, the attention Of
the country upon the present reprehensible
and unjustifable state of the House, it was
attempted to be repealed as an insult to the
dignity of that body, which has, already, en-
tireiy lost the confidence and respect of the
country, from Maine to Louisiana.
The scene in the Hall when the message
| was announced battles all attempts at descrip-
ton. No political meeting after night-fall in
the Sixth Ward of New York-and we have
witnessed many Of them-sver was more dis
orderly; nine-tenths Of the noise and confu-
sion coming from the demure side the Repub-
lican side) of the chamber. 1t told palmer
than words could tell, their appreciation of
the fact that the country cannot fail to COM
prehend that the House is faithless, utterly
faithless to its trust; and that the very best
thing it can now possibly do, is to disband,
resign, and have q new general election, in
which the people may have an opportunity of
passing directly on the questions, which, as
they are managed in the Hall, are bringing so
great dis,redit on the National Legislature
Advancing their Pay and Mileage.-The
Providence Journal thinks that with money
worth in this city one per centum per month.
the fact that members Of the House can get
advances on their pay in the present condi-
ton of the body without interest, is evidence
that the bankers in Washington have designs
on the treasury only to be contaminated by
placing the honorable Representatives in a Pc
0niary position into which no honorable gen.
tleman should permit himself to be entrapped
The Journal is in error in tho premises on
which it bases its slurs on the bankers of this
city. In the first place, we know that all but
one Of the Washington banks--the Patriotic
bank-have kept their skirts clear of compli
city with responsibility for the present condi-
ton Of the House and we trust that institu-
ton has been equally prudent, in view of the
present necessities of its business patrons for
accommodations, and the fact that they get
precious little accommodation" from it.
The money dOled out to the members to en-
able them to protract the present state of
things in their chamber, has come for the most
part from Pennsylvania, and, we take it for
granted, it is the paper of some bank more
a1xious to get out and keep out it notes among
distant communities, than to redeem them
promptly.
We trust that our business fellow citizens
will set their faces promptly against any
such bank paper. They may rely on it that
any distant bank that will loan their notes to
be paid out to the members without interest,
under the existing condition of the House,
will be very sure to fail at the most conye-
nient moment A more desperate shift to in
volve innocent parties in loss was never de-
vised, than this scheme of sending wild cat
Pennsylvania money here to furnish the means
with which to perpetuate the present state Of
affairs in the House 4
Thrown Away.-We never saw an oppor-
tunity for catching Speaker under difficult
circumstances more completely thrown away
than was that of electing Mr.. Orr to be the
Speaker of the Thirty fourth Congress, yester-
day, after Mr.. Richardson had withdrawn his
name from the contest. However wise and
necessary as political move it may have been,
so far as the mere matter of concentrating the
election of Speaker was concerned, it was
an egregiOus faa1 pas to postpone taking the
main question on the resolution of Mr. Rust,
as was done on the day before yesterday
Had that question been put without postpone.
ment, and had the House then Immediately
proceeded to vote fer Speaker, (Mr Richard
son having previously withdrawn his nameO
Mr.. Orr would have been elected on the next
succeeding vote. But for the intervention Of
the Democratic caucus after Mr.. Richardson's
withdrawal, Mr. Orr would have received
nearly every Know Nothing vote in the hall,
though VIGOROUSLY as emphatic supporter of
the caucus resolutions, and as firm an advo-
cate Of the regular organization of his party,
as any other gentleman in the House.
The Rep ublicans, on leaving the ball on
the day before yesterday, comprehended that
they were a beaten-a badly beaten-party.
Their only hope left was that the Democratic
caucus might save them in some way or other
Their long heads, it seems, did not reckon
without their host; for the tau1 pas of failing
to profit instantly by the advantage accruing
to them of the rejection of the motion to lay
Mr.. Rust resolution on the table, made Mr..
Banks more formidable than before, as can
didate, as was plainly seen in the action of
the House yesterday.
Eiected.-A reliable friend at jackson,
Mississippi, telegraphs US from that city under
date of yesterday, that the Hon Jefferson
Davis was, on that day, duly elected to the
United States Senate by 6fty-eight majority,
to take his seat on the 4th of March, 1857.