New-York daily tribune., 1856-01-14
FROM UASHINGTON.
THE ALL-NIGHT SESSION OF THE HOUSE.

Well: We have had sitting of the House nearly
tyeutv-one hours in duration and have not chosen
Speaker The fant-hearts will say we were de-
feated, but it was not So For in the first place,
our side did not propose this night session; our
leading opponents did. In their LAST caucus, they
deliberately resolved never 10 vote for another re-
cess or adjournment until a Speaker should be
chosen. This resolve they formally published,
king it a challenge which the largest party IN
the House could not, without seeming craven, re-
fuse. From p. IN. till after midnight the Ne
brasks Democracy cried mo to all motions to
adjourn quite as heartily as our side did. Only the
National X. N and part of the strsgglers tried
to adjourn and the negative yell from each side OF
the House that overwhelmed their feeble volume OF
sound was cheering to the heart OF one who wished
10 see an organization effected little after
midnight they began TO tail off-frst half
dozen or so voting with the adourners; then the
yeas went up to 81; then TO 50; and so on till at
last nearly or quite every Nebraskaite voted to ad-
iourn Gen. Quitman Howell Cobb and several
more made speeches explaining their change of
front; some tried TO make it appear that they had
resolved as they did in caucus only to obge us
and give us chance to elect; but that is sheer
humbup, and they know it. They knew that we
could not elect without plurality rule, unless
some of our opponents left the House to enable us
to do so; and if none of their men went away with
out pairing and they resisted the Plurality rule OF
course there could be no choice Our friends had
reason to suppose that they would by morning per-
nit us TO elect; but they did not; so we are where
we were But no-progress has been made in these
important particulars.
|. Our side has shown that it can stand fire.
True if none of our men had paired we should
probably have succeeded. But some were sick;
Others nirm through advanced years; others were
tender-footed or soreheaded and did not choose to
hazard their health to make Mr.. Banks Speaker
And here let me say that Messrs. Pennington, Law,
Campbell, Meacham and Letter, who have each
been thought of for Speaker, stood by to the
last; and there were no two heartier men in the
contest than the two last named; by which DO
not mean that the others were not so, but that
these were conspicuOusy Jealous and effective.
Mr.. Letter insisted that he had never seen any
good working pluck shown by the Anti-Nebraska
party before such as be had been used to see ex-
h.bited in the old Democratic party, and now he
brgan to have hopes of us. Mr.. Meacham has
long been impatient for an organization at some
rate. and though he had not favored night sessions
vet. since the Democracy propose one, he would
gee them out in it-whch he certainly did. Mr..
Mace paired off quite early; so did Mr.. Gal
loway toward morning. being very unwell. OF
the twenty-seven NewEnglanders, two are
paired and at home under imperative calls
of the residue but one (Mr. X. b. Hall of
Mass gave out before adjournment, and he was
quite i'll and looking good deal the worse for
wear an hour before he went. OF our New-York-
ers who say Banks" all the time did not miss
one till the small hours, when Father Simmons
gave out aud paired, pleading his ripe years
as an excuse Gen. Granger, Messrs. II. Ben
nett, A. S. Murray, f. b. Morgan MattesOn,
Sage, f. DOdd Gen. Spinner, and the juniors
were Just in good working order toward the
last, and their "NO' to all propositions to
adjourn. &c, sounded about as hearty at
in the morning as at in the afternoon. Penn
s,lvana showed several gaps in her line, some of
her best men being OUt OF town, (paired;) but
Ohio and the further West were pretty solid to the
close. was sorry to miss Mr.. Billinghurst of
Wise, who is paired with his colleague Wells and
away. as | think he should not have been, for
Mr.. Wells ought TO be voting with us instead
of pairing against u.s. OF the three Wash
burns. / think neither has missed a vote
or given a wrong one since the session commenced;
and whenever one of them votes to adjourn without
Speaker or near prospect OF one, or votes to let
Dunn. Scott, Scott Harrison Il Co. pick one out
for us will make a note of the facts. Blythe way;
these last named gentlemen suck to and voted
against Banks 10 the end; so did HOxly; and Bren-
ton constantly threw away his vote though we need
but six more to elect Banks on the last trial.
That may be the way to get the House organized,
but don't believe it. The sound portion of In
diana was never more earnest than last night, and
Colfax was Just ready to begin a fresh days work
by solemn compact never to adjourn without
Speaker, when the other side carried the adjourn
nent. l think if eighty of our eighty-eight re-
naming on the floor could have elected Banks by
staying right there, voting and passing between
telers, till nine O'Clock this evening, they would
have cheerfully done il. And, while the House was
dseraced by some scenes of disorder through the
latter part of the night, there was not Banks man
overcome by liquor at any time
III. Progress was made last night BY defeating
in fair fight the long -threate1ed motion to put Col
Orr Of S. c. temporarily in the chair in order to
! effect an organization. Had this been done, it
would have been a slow job TO get him out again.
Nearly all the National K n and stragplers voted