Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-12-14

single dime for votes or influence secured to
effect Mr. Steedman' nomination. This Is as ii
should be. Otherwise, il will turn out that the
corruption in connection with this election
was not only not on Mr.. Wendell's side, as al
legged by those who pursued him with so much
acrimony, but altogether on the part of his OPP
ponents, The contract partnership between
Messrs. Steedman and Banks was freely an
nounced before the election took place, and
was of course known to all the Congressional
supporters of the former. So there was no cor
ruption in their arrangement.
But it Is being said all over the city now, that
claims have been made on Mr. Steedman to the
amount of more than a hundred thousand dol
lars, for services rendered in getting him votes
In the caucus. Or, in other words, that he is be-
ing required to pay in hard dollars for the votes
given to him by members who sustained him in
the caucus. If he yields to any such demand,
he will justly bring quite as much popular
Odium upon the Democratic caucus, as fell on
the Republican party as the result of the in
vestigatiOns Of the committee of the last Con-
gress, of which Speaker Orr was the chairman.
Among the alleged claimants of share of the
''plunder' of the House printing are more or less
pay for securing the votes of the Democrats of
the States which once sent them as Representa-
tives to Congress,
Such claims should be at once looked into by
honorable members whose votes are assumed to
have been sold after any such fashion, by any
such parties. An acknowledgment of the valid
ity of any such claim by either Mr.. Banks or
Mr.. Steedman will be the heaviest blow so far
struck AT the reputation Of the Democratic
party in Congress for individual integrity
casting in the shade in the estimation of the
people, the Gardiner frauds, and the develop
ments of the last session which so shocked the
public sensibility throughout the land
We hear in familiar conversation of such
bargaining to secure the printing of the Senate,
wherein an ex-member of Congress and others
are represented as having continyen interests
in the election of this or that aspirant. We
thus warn the Democrats of the Senate of the
United States in advance, to be careful how
they dispose of their printing, least instead of
electing practical business man, they elect to
divide out the profits of their printing among a
hungry pack of lobby -jobbers bent on pocket
ing what they proclaim to be s. the public print
ing plumber"
Apropos.-Among the modest claims upon
Mr. Steedman, it is said that single newspa-
per concern that has been crying out ''coIrup-
ton, plumber" &c, all the summer in con-
nection with the public printing question, de-
mandS pay Tor some of its members, as having
been earned in securing his nomination and cleo
ton. In the name of the Democracy Of Congress,
we warn Messrs. Banks and Steedman, the firm
who are to execute the House printing, against
paying one dollar on any such account and
particularly, to any ex-Member of Congress
If the privilege of the Hail. which ex- Members
| of Congress enjoy, is to be used for any such
purpose so early in the session. what will be
the state OF things here in the estimation of the
country, ere the session closes
The CANE OF THE REPUBLICAN PARrY-It
Is already evident, from the publications of the
New \ ork IJTJUnr on the subject, that the act
oil Frederick p. Stanton, Esq, in calling to-
gether the Legislature Of Kansas, was a cum
ningly devised Republican party scheme in
which he Mr.. Stanton) has been used for the
benefit Of that party, it may be without his
own knowledge. The solution Of that question,
however, will depend upon future develop
ments concerning his course, past and present
The Ir1bHne evidently expects that both
Mr.. Stanton and Governer Walker will inten-
tionally keep out Of the way of receiving com
municatiOns from the Executive at Washing
ton and will, in the meanwhile use the pawer
of which their formal removal will have de-
prived them TO thwart the purposes OF the
Government.
The assumption that the Legislature of Kan
sas has any right whatever, under the law to
Interfere with the action OF the Lecompton Con-
yehton, Is entirely unfounded, and anything it
| may do to that end will be without avail here
more especially if Messrs. Walker and stanton
should essay while hiding in obedience to in
structions from the New York TriBnue. from
the messengers of the President bearing to them
notifications of their removal from office to i'm.
| duce action on he part of the Legislature de-
| signed 10 interfere with full and free vote of
the people on the Dist instant
On the whole, the political picture presented
| just nOw-in the present stage Of opposition to
| the admission of Kansas on the Lecompton
Constitution, is the most extraordinary one
ever seen in this country. There's Mr. Fred
erlck +. stanton, in the attitude Of the great
manager In the territory for and in behalf of
| the Topeka MISUNDERSTANDING Robert J
alker-the Lord knows where in person. bu t
understood to be the contrver of the plots and
counterplots being carried out by Mr. Stanton
to defeat the Kansas policy of the National
Administration that placed in their hands their
respective trusts-the New York TrtJnue pat
ting them ON the back, while haIliDg them as
chief apostles of liberty" urging them to set
| up against the Government Of the United States
and Senator Douglas apparently in command
oil the forces at this point relied on secure sue
cess to the plots and counterplots in which the
parties mentioned above are Iaboripy 80 indus
triousiy. On the whole, this picture is one
| which we, at least, never expected to behold.
| we have the future Of the Democracy too Sc
riousiy at heart to permit us to fail to call their
attention to it, from one end Of the land to The
| other
WORTHY OF NorE.-The recent speech Of