Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-01-13

the PRESIDENT, on the report OF the naval
board: ProVided, further, That any dropped
officer who may be, in the opinion of said
court, entitled to be placed on the retired or
furlough list, may be thus placed by the Pres
ident, by and with the advice and consent of
the Senate
Sec 8. That officers who were dropped, as
aforesaid, and who shall not be restored to the
naval service within one year from the pass
age hereof, shall be entitled to receive one
years duty pay of their grades, respectively
and the President shall be and he is hereby
authorized, with the advice and consent of the
Senate, to transfer any officer from the fur
Tough to the reserved pay list, and that SO
much of the act of February twenty eighth,
act to promote the efficiency of the navy" as
renders res erved officers ineligible to promo.
ton, be and the same 10 hereby repealed.
Sec. 4 That reserved officers may be pro.
noted on the reserved list, by and with the
advice ana consent Of the Senate; but no such
promotion shall entitle them to pay beyond
that to which they we're entitled when So re-
served, nor shall they by such promotion take
any higher rank than they would have taken
I'D they been retained in the active service
of the navy; and nothing in this act, or in the
act to which this is an amendment, shall be
so construed as TO preclude officers on the re-
served list from wearing the uniform Of their
grades. respectively.
Sec. That captains in command Of squad
rons shall be denominated flag officers
Sec o. That all officers who may be restored
to active service under the provisions Of this
act, shall be entitled to draw the same pay
they were drawing at the time they were re-
tired or dropped, for aud during the time Of
such retirement or suspension from the active
service aforesaid. -
The Pennsylvania Senatorial Election
We had news, per telegraph, last night from
Harrisburg up to suniOwn. The friends Of
Mr.. Foster, who had taken no part in the
Democratic caucus, were gradually coming in
to the support of j. w. FOrney, the nominee.
The Republicans had appointed committee
to catechise both General Cameron and Mr..
Foster, with the view TO obtaining pledges
from them in advance of giving them their
votes. General c who is now a Republican
party leader will doubtless promise what they
will Mr. Foster, we fancy, will decline com
hitting himself directly or indirectly to them
The pledge they ask of him is, We hear, to
adopt their views on the Kansas question.
Tae sickness Of a Republican member, and
the fact that Democrat holds a contested
seat, makes the Democratic majority six on
joint ballot for the time being. The opposi-
tion entertained strong hopes that sufficient
Democratic members will hold out sgainst
their party nomination to defeat the nominee.
As the contest appears to have narrowed down
between Messrs Foster and Forney, our pres
ent impression is that the latter (both being
Democrats) will get as many opposition votes
as the former can get votes Of Democrats
against a caucus nomination, aud, at the same
time, against the active sympathy and, it may
be, exertions of the President elect in behalf
Of the nomination Of his party
LATER--At noon tc day we have the follow.
ing dispatch from reliable source in Harris.
burg
Editor Star We have done our best, yet
things look gloomy.
LATEsr.-THs agony ovsJ AT p. m We
have the following dispatch
Simon Cameron has been elected United
States Senator
The Missouri Senatorial Election -9reat
interest was apparently manifested last night
among public men in this city, in connexion
with the Senatorial election to come off az
per pre-arrangemeuty yesterday in the Missouri
Legislature, the question in issu, beipg-can
Col. Benton succeed? While we were unable
to answer their many inquiries directed to
ourself, personally, upon information as to the
acts or action Of the Missouri Legislature ia
the premises, We felt at liberty to say, and
now repeat it, that we have not the slightest
idea that Colonel Benton will ever come back
into public life through the action of the
Legislature or people of Missouri. The true
Democracy have a fair working majority in
the new Legislature Of that State, and there
are also more or less opposition members of
the body who will enter into no combination
having for its end the purpose of returning
Col Benton again to public life il Washing
ton. Under these circumstances we feel as
sured that all calculations or surmises return
ing him to the Senate Of the United States are
baseless.
The Years Psy.-Never was juster thing
done by Congress than the enactment of the
Navy bill oonsummated yesterday, by which
a years pay is accorded to those officers who
were so unfortunate as to lose position in the
service through the action Of the late Navy
Reform Board. They were all unprepared
for the change in their circumstances brought
about by that action, and many of them have
in consequence suffered greatly, pecuniarily.
1t was due TO common justice hat persons in
their position, having entered ard continued
many years in the service under the implied
contract with the Government that they
should continue in it unless broken by a de.
eision Of a court martial, should not be set
adrift withou. at least some such pecuniary
provision as Congress has at last made. That
should have been done on the establishment Of
the original Naval Reform Board, though
better late than never was never more truly
Illustrated than in this particular case.
The Contest for thu Kansas Dalepate's