Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1857-02-11
.coRREsP0NDEHcE OF THE STANDARD.


appropriation bills are still pending some in the Sc
nate, but the larger ones have not been acted
/ in the House. The urgency of1egjsation is COM
mencing to press upon Congress, and these twenty.
days will be busy and exciting ones A thousand
schemes are get to be proposed and engineered
through, the last hours of the session being ALWAYS
the opportunity for pressing personal designs upon
the Treasury. The Corruption Investigation Com
mittee has probably frightened some Of these schemes
out of the field for the present, bnt many of them
viii make their appearance during the last hours of
the session. =
The Committee to investigate corrupt practices
connected with the legislation of Congress- is still
pursuing its inquiries, and within day or two an
officer has been despatched Northwards for Witness
es: SO far as rumor goes no Southern man is inn
plicated in any OF these dshonorable practices and
it will be most gratifying indeed if the final report
of the Committee, involving Northern members
alone shall pay this silent yet impressive tribute to
the character of Southern institutions. New York
is the focus from which most of the schemes upon
the Treasury emanate, the public lands being the
object of acquisition and forming vast corruption
fund. portion of the black Republican press is
already cndcavorng to break the force of the expo
sures likely to be made by the Committee, by black.
ening the character of the witnesses. The New
York Tribune charged that two members of the
House had instituted suits for SANDER against of
the witnesses, yet there truth whatever in
the charge still the Tribune has refused to correct
its original allegation Its party friends must be
protected at all hazards.
So far as the action of the House of Representa-
tivcs is concerned, two new States were admitted
into the Union on Saturday last-Minnesota and
Oregon. The bills are yet to be acted upon by the
Senate. They each received large majority in the
House, and it is remarked as curious circumstance
that the word slavery was not uttered in their
necton. If this is result of the last Presidential
contest then indeed it victory of vast conse-
qnence to the country, and has already commenced
In is 1ppi to frut Mr. Dholp nd
point in connection with the Minnesota bill that took
the Republicans ali aback. About one fifth of the
proposed State lies east of the Mississippi river
The ordinance of 1887 provided that five States on.
y should be erected out of the Northwest Territory
yet portion of the Territory embraced in a
sixth State. If this ordinance " sacred COM
pact" how could the members of the Republican
party vote for the proposed boundaries of the new
State? In this respect, however, they did not look
upon the ordinance as sacred compact" and set
it aside by voting for its admission. 1t contains
about seventy-fve thousand square miles, being
something larger in than the State of Virginia
The portion ofthe Territory not included in the new
State, is to be organized into Territory under
the name of Dacotah
The tariff continues to be under consideration &C.
casonay. yet is scarcely probable that any thing
will be done to reduce it during the present session.
Mr.. Campbell has reported new bill from the ma
jority of the Committee of Ways and Means, of
which protection is the ruling feature. Numerous
alncHutehtS nave UceH OHercU, cHleHy Affecting
tcuar articles. Very many of the advocates of pro-
lection favor total repeal of the sugar duties claim
ing that sugar, as necessary Of life, should be ad-
mtted free of duty. am inclined to think, how
ever that sugar is legitimate subject for taxation
long the present system of raising revenue for
the support of the government is adhered to- The i'm
position of the duty has had but little effect in slim
ulang the production of sugar in this country the
amount produced having fallen off for several years,
and this consideration may therefore be left out Of
rt.o1, e
sumption by the white people throughout the whole
country, and consequently is of the few articles
upon which the Northern States pay a greater pro-
portion to the support of the government than the
Southern States. The former also reap large share
of the benefits of the incidental protection afforded
by the present tariff. by any tariff, and it is no
more than justice that they should bear the burdens
of the sugar tax.
An immense bill, embracing complete codifica-
ton of the revenue system of the government now
scattered through some four hundred separate acts
taken up the other day in the House for consid
Grafton, which ctfectually put an end to bv Mr..
Geo. W. Jones calling for its reading. 1t would con-
sumo three or four days merely to read it. and of
course, after the Clerk had proceeded awhile its fur
Their consideration was postponed. That is one mode
of killing off an Objectionable bill.
1t is said that the Senate has spent several execu
tive sessions during the present week in the consd-
Grafton Of the Dallas and Clarendon Convention and
the nomination Mr.. Harrison Of Kentucky to sue.
coed Judge LcComptc of Kansas, removed The
treaty is not likely to be ratified in its present shape
and it is possible that the Committee on Foreign Ar
fairs, to which it has been again referred will amend
it so as to make it acceptable to the Senate Like
the Cla yton Bulwer treaty, it may prove to be an
other of those entanglng alliances to result in diff
Guilty over our peculiar interests in Central America
Judge LcComptc was removed by the President
at the urgent solicitation of Gov. Geary who felt
aggrievcd that the Judge had admitted to bal! per-
son accused of MURDER while disturbances prevailed
in Kansas last summer. Judge LeCompte has sub
mtted his defence, it is said, which has been for
warded to Gov. Geary for his reply. In the mean
time, the further discussion of the controversy has
been postponed.
A volumnous document has been sent to the Sem
ate, embracing all the correspondence between Gen.
Scott and Secretary Davis concerning disputed items
in his accounts. A part of the correspondence is
highly personal, and reflects credit upon either
of the gentlemen 1t has been ordered to be print
ed, and will soon be laid upon the desks of Senators
and spread before the country.
The election Of Messrs. Bright and Fitch to the
Senate from the State of Indiana, would be very
gratifying here if it believed to be regular and
legal So far the facts known, their election
differs immaterially from the case of Mr.. Harlan,
recently decided by the Senate. A majority of the
Senate OF Indiana protested against going into Joint
Convention, and minority only was present In
fact, the Republicans absented themselves designed
~, and as they have majority of the Senate they
have the power to prevent legal meeting of the
Two Houses in joint Convention.
Mr. Clingmans speech in the House, embracing
several points, is an able one and commands atten-
ton 1t will, Of course, be laid before the readers
of the Standard at early day. and for this reason
need not present any summary of its arguments.
The President elect left Washington on Tuesday.
While here he was visited by thousands of friends,
and understand listened attentively to all the sug
gestions made to him concerning the organization of
his Cabinet He came here to listen to suggestions