New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-03-06
FROM flashing TON.
TIE CLOSING HOURS.
oudssee Of The N. Y. Tribune.

CorrespOndsNce OF lie ~ L Ellounr'
WASHINGTON, March 4, 1857.
Last evenings session commenced &C p. %.
-Four priyste bills were passed snd the House csme
10 q consideration of the PeDson bill with anend.
menis from the Senate, which were CONQUERED in.
The Legislative, Executive aud Judicial bill, with
various amendments from the Committee of Confer.
ence. was taken up. The concurrence therein Was
resisted on the ground that IL contained several
items of appropriation which the House, by its indie
pendent action, had heretofore determined not to
sanction. Nevertheless, il went through by q vote
of % 10 81. Among the items the House had pre-
yiOusy refused Ia agree %, was an increase of tne
salaries OF District Judges in Illinois, District Of
Columbia and Caliiorl ia. At ~ o'clock the consd.
GRAFTON of the Deficiency b was entered upon, ~
il came from the Conference Committee, where no
agreement was effected. The leading item OF dis
agreement was the appropriation Of go, 600 tor tha
Kansas Legislature, which the House had refused
some days ago, % to 30. 4 vote now showed -
t. % for insisting
The Army bill was next taken up. the report from
the Committee of Conference thereon accepted,
which included General SCOTS long-delayed pay as
Lieutenant General, and the bill passed Two pri-
waite bnls and Oue establishing Custom-House at
Perth Amboy, were then passed.
George +. Marshs al l'matlc claim WIS intro
dnced by Mr.. Morrill, OF Vermont but il failed TO
bill from the Senate 10 punish murder on the high
seas was then considered and passed. The Navy
Appropriation bill appeared from the Committee Of
Conference about midnight. with tail to 1t, con-
listing Of five screw slOops.0f-war asd some Other
minor additions and in that shape il WAS carried by
q vote Of 80 to -. The proposed steam line 10
Brazil was then taken up, and got its qlletus by
vote OF g to A. showing, If il was late, the House
retained ts senses Two private bills we're then
passed, and bill providing a little needed aid to
:, NE labOrers about the Capitol. Then came one
or two private bills, which were lost in conseq uencs
OF the House being thin and no two thirds OF q
quorum to be- found in their favor.
Tie Civil Appropriation bill was next taken up,
and h Committee of Conference appointed to con.
slider be 1913 amendments which had been put upon
il in the Senate.
The Committee Of Ways and Means at this pOlCt
introduced bill touching tho duties Of certain de-
positories Of the public luads which Was passed.
The Deficiency bill came from the Committee Of
Conference where was disagreement on the ques.
tiOn of the books for members, The House exblb.
tied discIedltabe greed and adhered to its pur.
pose Of plumber, ~ 10 81. At2i O'Clock in the
morning the House fell into fit Of laughter al
fl ding that jones' Of Tennessee, on rising b.
"obl. CT tO something, had lost his voice ADD could
make himself heard only with very great difficulty.
The legislative, Executive and Judicial Appropr
alton bill came again from the bards of the Com.
II itiee Of Conference. where there had been no
agreement On the House amendment to reject the
100000 for the Kansas Legislature. The HOUSE
insisted by one aud two majority various calls 81
the yeas and nay aud fought il till toward o'clock
in the morning, when the House finally receded
and let the appropriation De- mide. There were
then three private bills disposed of-he usual
extra allowances 10 clerks aud employees having
also been made, when fhe iiou az, At O'Clock m,
took recess I'LL . this morning, first leaving power
with the Speaker 10 sign epgrOssed b!ls during the
interim. burn all this time the SPEAKER had kept
bis seat with bat fcw moneniary absence', pro-
serving his voice and his good bdture, and seeming
70 hf uhtsgged 10 the last.
At rine this morning the Speaker called the
House 10 order, when not more than twenty or
thirty members were present. a call Of the roll
vas commenced snd hep; up TIL halfpast nine,
gben q quorum was iound Ia be assembled.
A bill giving the CLERK authority b pay employ.
ee- wo- pa,sed as Wa a bill from the Sensp TO
pfoec: certsin Mississippi ,quatters IN their
Claims.
TIE Civil Appr priatiOo b which embraces al
pr miscuous appropriations and is a sort Of cmnl-
bu. then came ir III The Committee II Conference.
vii about EIGHTY SeLate amondnents agrecdtoby
hot Committee. JONES Of Tcnnossee Perry oi
Ne Staiton Of Ohio and Know lion OF Maine, each
made fort. to have thD.e amendments read. But
il wa e,ni,d by tho Csairman Of the COMMITTEE
Of Way. and Means and by the House, aud that
rtlU-- olO DurlIhLlHth- Uhtfp ~ "
own ,igh. and in contempt OF all legislative dignity
and { cretion roud to enear nth seery amsndas"t
in lump uithout knOw'ng uhai xas embraced N
single oae Of tL.m, except one, and that for
The spproT riaticn If million % dollars for the
Ws.hl c-nn Wa,er Work. scheme which could
not Obtain a. al independent measure Oni,s PhsenI
bai.. 4 vote Of O-e third If the Members u the
Nou.e IN IL favor. The decision of the body thg-
e. ,waow tlis enOTmOus batch II spProprati'a-
v thou knos NJ What they contained. War recel'sd
win mingled G.ri-iun, contempt pam. and furious
telDper. buoDg various mbers. Bur the miG"r
rs a - too scrutulous IL flbuste ~ Il 200 feeble
20 help ihtm-eyes in aDy other wey, aud thu whole
i went through, under The parliamentary screws
by vote OF g 20 b.. within three quac .eis At 90
hour II The pay If members had not been inciudei
in the .sue bill would It not have been dele ased
For this liud Of legislation no terms of opProbnun
caa 10 20 causiic or severe. It is sjise contemp