The true Democrat., 1856-01-29
Congress-Th Thursday.

a communication from the President of the United States, transmitting memorial of citi- zens of New Orleans, complaining of the irregu- larlty of the mail service. between Washington and that city; also report from the secretary of the treasury. A motion was made to print the latter document, upon which an extended debate ensued. in which Messrs. Hamlin, Ma son, Broadhead, Stuart, Adams, Yulee, John son, Clayton, and others took part. The motion to print was agreed to.
 Mir. Cass said that he should take an early opportunity to define his position in relation to the effect and bearing of the Kansas N ebraska bill. Mir. Stuart made few remarks in rela- tion to the same subject
 Mir. Hale made one of his characteristic speeches, in opposition to the present admin- stration and the principles contained in the Presidents annual message. MT. Fessenden presented joint resolutions of the Legislature of Maine on the subjects of slavery and the French spoilation bill, vetoed by the President Mr. Wilson submitted resolution calling on the President for information in relation to the re- cent troubles in Kansas which was laid over
 The resolution, submitted some time since by MT. Fitzpatrick, referring to the court of claims such of the private claims embraced in the Senate bill of the last Congress, "to authorize the payment of certain claims for depredations and spoliations during the hostilities with the Creek and Seminole Indians in 1886 and 1937,' J as the claimants choose to prosecute before that court, was taken up and, after some de- bate, 1t was agreed to.
 After the consideration of executive business the Senate ad journed until Monday next
 HoUsE OF REPREsENTATIvEs.-A seve- ral ballotings to-day, and a proposition from Mir. Mace, which caused some merriment, a resolution was offered by Mr. Walker, of Ala bama to the effect that the Hon. w. w. Boyce of South Carolina should be declared Speaker of the House. Mir. Walker prefaced his reso- lution with some appropriate remarks, and from his manner 1t mig ght have been inferred that he spoke for his fellow southern members of the American order. This was the more natu- ral, inasmuch as an effort is now making through out the south to fix upon the democratic party in the House the responsibility of maintaining the present Reorganization in that body, be- cause they are not ready, it is said, to co-ope- rate with MT. Walker and his associates; and therefore the proposition of that gentleman assumed somewhat serious aspect. It was however, speedily amended after an animated speech from Mr. Galloway, of Ohio who pro- posed to insert the name of Mr. Banks in place of Mr. Boyce; and then another amendment was moved by MT. Dunn, who proposed, first, Mr. Letter, and, upon his declenson of the honor, Mir. Pennington, as substitute for Mir. Banks. Mir. Sage then moved to lay the whole subject on the table; and the yeas and nays were ordered. Whilst the House was exc cutting this order, very interesting debate took place. To defeat the motion to lay the reso- lution on the table was to bring the House to direct vote, first, upon Mir. Pennington; that, failing, second, upon Mir. Banks; that failing, third, upon Mir. Boyce. It appeared, however, from the vote before it was announced, that number of the southern members of the Know Nothing order refused to vote for bringing Mir. Walkers resolution to a direc. vote, and sus- taned the motion to lay on the table, As soon as the democratic members learned that this was the disposition of the southern Know Nothings many of them changed their votes ln favor of laying the whole subject on the table. Colonel Orr called the attention of the democrats to the fact that Mr. Walkers propo- sltlon was not sustained by his own party friends; and thereupon that gentleman Colonel Orr) changed his vote and was followed by others. We make this statement for the pur- pose of letting the country that the real obstacle to a union between the Know Noth- lngS who profess to be national, and the demo- cratic party, IS not so much Gas the former allege) because the democrats had denounced the secret order in their platform, but because the Know Nothings are indisposed to vote for any mum who is an active member of the demo- cratic party. They expect the democrats to vote for Mir. Fuller, with his record as an anti Nebraska whig before the country, but they themselves are unwilling to take a man who is sound on those questions if he is a democrat We do not wish to be understood in these re- marks as indicating desire to see the southern Know Nothings supporting the democratic can- didate for Speaker, unless that can be accom- plished by taking that candidate and the plat form upon which he stands at the same time.
 We refer to this incident simply that the peo- pie may have new evidence of the unfair ness of the charge that the democrats are resist ing union between national men in the House of Representatives. Wash. Union, Jun. 4.