Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-07-25

Lbation, and were the subjects Of clerical con-
domination. Now, he who in New England
pulpit will venture to condemn with earnest
ness and power any other sins than those
charged by Northern politicians upon the
South especially, or any other sinners than
Southern ones, is looked upon as being utterly
unfit to pre,ch practical gospel. The state
of religion there is really such as to make the
calm, thoughtful, and truly christian obser-
YER shudder at the prospect for the religious
future of the whole non-slsveholding section
of the Union, in view of the fact that dema.
gogism, utter and sheer demagogism, has so
completely usurped the functions of every
other principle in the formation of the North
ern popular mind, as that no one there seems
disposed to listen to aught that fails to seek to
conceal Northern shortcomings in any and
everything. -
Stopping the Wheels Of Government
The action of the Committee of the Whole on
the State of the Union yesterday, in amending
the Army appropriation bill by adding a
clause repeating all the legislation of the
Kansas Legislature, if finally insisted on by
the House, will be equivalent to refusal to
appropriate dollar for the support of the
army of the United States for the current is.
cal year. This will be playing plump into
the hands Of the tso-called) Border RufIians,
who only ask a fair field in Kansas and no
interference whatever on the part Of the Gov.
eminent. We are satisfied that naught but
the interference of Col. Sumner and his troops
prevented the forcible expulsion from the Ter
ritOry of all who had joined the abolitionist
cause there, which but for that would have
been contaminated month ago or more. If
the President, for want of the means of pay.
ing the troops, shall be compelled to withdraw
them, abolitionism in the Territory will 'see
sights," the reader may rely on it. Brother
Beecher, and all the rest of the brethren of
the Northern Atlantic States, will very soon
thereafter get quito tired of thrusting their
fists in their pockets to draw forth the funds
that will be necessary to enable Lane, Robin
son d Co. to keep up even pretence of posi-.
ton and strength in the Territory. We fancy
that the South will hardly object to the meth
cd of settling the Kansas imbroglio indicated
by the Republicans and Northern Fillmore
men in amending the Army appropriation bill
as above described, viz to let the conflicting
interests fight it out by force of arms in the
Territory, without the interference of the Cen
eral Government.
oof 9hvio
be found in the resolutions reported yestor-
day from the (House) Elections Committee;
the first ousting Gen. Whitfield from his seat
as the delegate from Kansas, and the second
awarding the seat to ex-G Governor Reeder, who
according to the report of their majority of the
Kansas Investigating Committee, was elected
under no warrant or even pretence, whatever,
of law. If a reasonable conclusion may be
drawn from the action of the House recently
on their reports concerning tho Illinois and
Nebraska contested elections cases, thou Oh
the partizanship of the majority may lead
Thorn to Gust General Whitfield, they will
hardly carry 1t to the length of installing
Reeder.
BY the by, not single witness was exam.
ined by the Kansas Investigating Commit
tee with reference to either Whitfeld's or
Reeder's election. Yet upon such testimony
as s1 pa'te written statements concerning the
election for Territorial delegate from the
pens Of James II. Lane and one or two others
of his stripe, they (the Kansas Investigating
Committee) assume to recommend the expul-
sion Of Whitfield, while the Elections Commit
tee-with no more reliable or legal proof be-
fore them-go step further, and recommend
that the seat be awarded to Reeder, who, it
is not pretended, was q candidate at any
election based on color of authority of law!
Fuel to Military storekeepers Disal-
lowed On the Sd of September, 1855, the
Secretary Of War decided, that, as the act of
August %, 1912, fixes the annual pay of mill
tary storekeepers, and provides that they
shall not receive emoluments Of any kind, or
any compensation or Communication beyond
their stipulated pay in money, and quarters
actually provided, they were not entitled to
any allowance Of fuel This decision was not
received by some Of those officers till some
time in 1855, the allowance for fuel having in
the mean time been continued to them. In
the settlement Of their accounts it was held
that the decision of the Secretary was not a
new rule or regulation, prospective in its op-
GRAFTON, but construction of an existing law.
and which applied to all unsettled cases arts.
ing under that law The fuel Was tbaroforo
disallowed,
Contracts-Damages.-It is held by the
accounting officers of the Government that it
is not in the power Of any officer intrusted
with the duty Of making public contracts to
stipulate for payment Of damages already
done, or to declare any sum due for trespass
or conversion by parties acting for the United
States. If individuals have been IDENTIFIED bv
agents of the Government, Congress alone can
redress the injury. indefinite claims for dam:
ages should not depend upon the dissertation ~