Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-08-22
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP

erowling.-We And many members growl-
ing like hears with sore heads because the
President has called Congress back to the
discharge of its duty-left undone on the ad-
journment SINE die on Monday last. We will
not be so unmannerly as to hint the possibili-
ty that the triumph Of the new compensation
act, whereby TO member can receive dollar
either of additional pay or mileage for his at
tendance at the called session, can make hon
orable gentlemen unwilling to remain here
until the public interest, now in jeopardy, is
placed in security by the passage of the Army
appropriation bill-not We. But some how or
other, scores of them are certainly growing
over their quandary, like bears with sore
heads. Certain it is, the President had
great public duty to perform, and he has met
the task with unfinchipg nerve.
However anxious for the defeat of the
schemes Of Messrs. Greeley, Beecher, and
Company, to abolitionize Kansas We may be,
and however sincerely We believe that the
shortest way of bringing that SO desirable
event about will be to withdraw the military
force Of the Government from the Territory
and let the so slandered and abused border
rufians In their own way rescue their prop
erty and the lives Of their wives and children
from the dangers threatened against them by
the men sent out to abolitionize Kansas, we
States is compelled by his obligations to his
trust to look at the subject in totally differ
ent light. 1t is his duty to exhaust all his
powers under the constitution and law to pre-
vent such settlement as we desire That is,
to preserve the public peace in the Territory.
and also to provide the means for keeping the
army Of the United States together, whose
services, all admit, were also never more need
ed elsewhere on the frontier, than at this no.
ment. In pursuance of that Gblig alton he has
called Congress together so soon, and it now
remains with them to determine whether, un.
less the Executive and Senate will consent
that Kansas shall be abolitioni1ed by direct
action of the General Government, the army
of the United States shall continue to exist.
How the Matter .stands.-It was impos-
sible for the shrewdest among US in Washing
ton to have foretold the temper in which the
House and Senate would be likely to come to-
gether yesterday. Indeed, there was a de-
gree Of uncertainty as TO what should be done
under the circumstances, evidently resting on
the minds Of nearly every member of all par.
ties who conversed on the subject. 1t was only
evident that many of these honorable gentle
men were exceedingly dissatisfied on account
OF being arrested in their preparations to start
tor home The legislation of yesterday made
few things of public interest perfectly plain,
however. Thus, it is now apparent that the
Senate will steadily decline to transact any
business whatever at this called session, save
and except the enactment Of the army appro.
priation bill proper that is, stripped Of the
provisO designed to make it the means Of nh
oh1oniIing Kansas 1t is also already apDa-
rent that the Republican-party majority of
seven In the House are still determined to re-.
fuse to appropriate dollar for the exponses
Of the army Of the United States, unless the
President and Senate will consent that Kan.
sas shall be sbolitiOnized in SO doing: and
shall, at the same time, admit in their aotion
Oh inc Dill In dispute that the Republicans of
Congress have been right and themselves wrong
In the positions they have taken, respectively.
upon the Kansas question. The case stand.,
before the two Houses meet this morn;no NJ
cisely as we state it above
The Senate We have no idea, from vbs,
We can learn, that the Senate will consent
either to do any other business or 10 terminate
the session until the House shall agree to pro.
vide for the army, as heretofore. v;tbont In
sistlns that the Executive and Senate shall
Aid IN aoohtionizing Kansas as a condition
Pieoeuent their consent to the enactment of
the usual army supply bill. 1t NAV tbs,s.
lore De, that the called session will la. -,
the nrst Monday in December merit IT..
that neither additional mileage No, n.
be drawn for their services dur;no -. 80 aA
enoe may change a few in the House ava 81
soiSe the dilemma The same cause canno,
operate IN the Senate, where, notwithstandin,
the fewer number composing the body. the
majority on this bill Is four times as large q,
In the House. On the whole, we are in a fair
way to have Congress upon Us, literally dom
nothing, until December next, and the army
discharged in the meanwhile.
Inc Accounts from Kansss-tboueh from
the intense sbOltionists who do nm the bor,;.
bic for the Tribune and T,u =, c,,.
sno" 'ha' Lane and his army Of rsgmufin.
and Brown and his ravishing and child slav.
ing band OF outlaws, who profess to be- " sol /.
dier' OF freedom" are killing, burning and
robbing throughout the Territory, in freedom, !,
name. The Republican majority of,b. H..