Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1856-01-17
DAY MORNING, JANUARY II, 1855
From Washington.
of the State Sentinel.
WASHINGTON. Jan. 4. 1856,

lCorespondence OF the State sentinel.l
70 WASHINGTON, Jan. 4, 1856.
EDITORS SENTINEL:-The fifth week of
the session has almost passed, and there is
yet mo organization of the House of Repre-
sentatives. One hundred and fifty thousand
dollars OF the peoples money, and thirty
. four days of the peoples time have been
wasted in the attempt to elect Speaker
The Democracy are steadily voting for their
candidate, leaving the responsibility of delay
to the hs.>,iierity who have the power, but
have failed to effect d. examination. The
Democrats are but exercising their constisa-
tional privilege Of voting for gentleman
standing on their platform, and holding to
Their principles, and have thrown no mped-
laent in the way of an organization. They
say to the mujorty, Gentlemen, elect your
candidate. We-will take no sparta in.. your
family discussions We will form no Goa.
lltlon with any Of you. We are in hope
less minority, and are powerless. With you
rests the responsibility before the country"
But as kind of excuse for their non-or-
ganization, or rather as breakwater to save
them from the rising indignation of the peo-
pie at their delay, notice that some of the
Fusion papers are laboring to show that no
time has really been lost, alleging that if
they mad organized, nothing would have
been done anyhow until after the HOLIDAYS.
This may be true of Fusion, Know Moth
ing House of Representatives, but it will not
hold good as to the action of former Con
crosses. Though to all appearances, but lit
tie Is done during the first month of a ses-
sion, yet really, it is the working month
The Committees are steadily at work, cutting
out and preparing business for Congress, and
last year all the appropriation bills--the most
important bills of a session-were reported to
the House in December. The refusal of the
Fuslonists to elect Speaker will throw us
back just the time that transpires between
the first day of the session and the day on
which the organization will be effected, and
the session will be prolonged just so much
longer, or part Of the business of the country
will remain untouched and unattended to-
This is the exact state of affgirs, and no eff
forts to throw dust into the eyes of the peo-
pie by false misrepresentation that nothing
would have been done anyhow, can alter it.
The Journals of the last Congress show that,
at the first session. the Indian and the Mil
itary Academy Appropriation bills were re-
ported from the Committee of Ways and
means to the House, on the 18th of Decem-
berthe Civil and Diplomatic, (the largest
and most important of all these .biils,) the
Deficiency and the Invalid Pension Appro-
priation bills, were reported on the 18th of
December-and the Army, Ocean Steamers,
and Navy Appropriation bills were reported
on the 31st of December At the second
session of the last Congress, the Indian and
Invalid Appropriation bills were reported to
the House on the 7th of December-the Mil
itary Academy and Army Appropriation
Diplomatic on the 15th-the Naval and For
ti6cation Appropriation bills on the 10Th, and
the Post Office and Ocean Mail Steamers
Appropriation bills on the 22d of December.
This shows thata great deal is generally done
in the month of December in Congress, and
the Fusionists shall not escape the response
bility by such false excuses.
There is wonderful disparity, in point of
l5rtellect and gentlemanly Behavior, between.
the present and the last House of Represent
tatives. The present is very weak House
indeed, composed almost wholly, on the Black
Republican side, of very green saplings, old
broken down hacks, and noisy, ignorant bab-
blers, who always effect to laugh at what they
are utterly unable to answer successfully
The worst sign of the temper as well as the
behavior of these clowns is exhibited in their
invariable rule of laughing and making light
Of the matter when any allusion is made to
the Union or the Constitution. Nothing could
more surely prove the devilish designs they
harbor against the peaae and unity Of this Re-
public. They love not the Union of these
States.
i have said that, as general rule, they
were real, natural Know Nothings, and I
could prove it by many evidences. Let one
suffice. Yesterday, in the House, Mr.. John
Covode, of Pennsylvania, offered a resolution
that the members should not receive their
daily pay until Speaker was elected! The
bright Pennsylvania representative did not
know that they couldn't receive their pay
anyhow until Speaker was elected! 1t ap-
pears that the accommodating and clever gen.
tleman, who is Sergeant-at arms of the House,
had been, out of his own private funds, pay
ing some little money to the members as they
needed it, and SO this intelligent scion of
Pennsylvania Know Nothings, concluded that
the members were being paid out of the treas
ury
A good Joke is told on Will Cumback, Of
which however, know nothing personally.
/ tell the tale as it was told to me. Cum
back, it seems, had been searching the Con-
gressional Directory to see what number of
officers were in the gift of the House. The
first two names he read were, 81. w. Forney,
Clerk House Representatives.; WV. Mexican,
III. Reps" al. Reps" exclaimed Cumback,
"who is he ?' The Constitution says no man
shall hold two offices, and vet here is this
Mr.. Reps holding two ?'' III. Reps, be it un-
derstood, is the abbrevation of House of Rep
resentatives Whether Schuyler enlighten-
ed the darkness of Mr.. Cumback or not, this
deponent saith not
Dan Mace has opened his mouth and
spoken, like another celebrated animal spoken
Of Ia Sacred History. Dan kept as quiet as
he could, but "human natlrr' will out,
despite all curbs and chains. Dan offered
resolution to stare the House into clccting a
Speaker. The Loorkeeper was 10 close the
d ors on them and not let them out until
Speaker was elected. Dan had precedent
fer his resolution he said, and quoted the
case of the action of the College Of Cardi-
mails IN the 18th century, when they essayed
in vain for three years to elect Pope. One
would think that Dan Mace was too good
Know Nothing to take such authority. He
must be falling from grace, or, perhaps, he is
only preparing for another somerset. Who
knows where Dan Mace will be this time next
year? We humbly and devotedly beseech
him, for the sake of the Democratic party, to
go anywhere but into our ranks. Stear clear
of us Major, do. Dams resolution, and he
himself, were received with laughter, and the
resolution laid on the table, Dan Mace Is
greas humbug. PINCKNEY.
Two GOVERNORS IN WIscoNsIN-MEETrNG
OF TIE LEGIsLATURE.-On Monday, Gov
Barstow, with other State Officers, was in-
Quoted into the gubernatorial office of Wis
consin; and on the same day the same oath
WAS administered to Mr. Rashford bv Indga