New-York daily tribune., 1858-02-06
DISCLOSURES OF ]. D. WILLIAMSON.
John Bull Bribing Members of Congress.
.Fysm Our o~n Correspondent
WHAT MR. WILLIAMSON SAYS.

WASHINGTON, Friday, Feb. 5, 1853.
The Tariff Investigating Committee have got
through with Williamson, and he starts for New
York tomorrow morning.
The Committee asked him if he had paid any
money TO Horace Greeley for corrupt purposes, or
10 affect the action of Congress, or of any member
of Congress- upon the Tariff or upon any other
question, and if any member Of his firm or of the
Bay State or Middesex Company has paid Horace
Greeley any money for such purposes. Had he or
bis firm, or any Of them, paid $4,000 He re-
pHed that be had not, nor had any member Of his
firm, or any one else to his knowledge, paid Mr.
Greeley any money for any purpose Whatever.
He was asked the same question about Mr.. Mat
teson, and made the same reply. Had he paid
money to any member No. Did he know any
thing about money having been paid to members of
Congress BY anybody for such purposes He re-
Piled that he had in past years. from 104l to 1856,
but not during the last Congress.
The Democratic members of the Committee OBJ
ected to hearing about remote transactions and the
witness was discharged.
Williamson informs me that if permitted, he
would have testified that European manufacturers
and the British Government had authorized Sir
Henry Bulwer and others to Orpend t,eo millions Of
dollars to affect onr tariff and to establish reetrade
policy. More than $7OO,OO had actually been er-
pended to buy the members Of Congress, or to defeat
their election when they could not be bought.
Williamson also intimates that he could disclose
corrupt or disreputable transactions of our own
Government, in connection with the negotiation Of
tho recent treaty with New-Granada.
He particularly duplicates Mr.. Buchanan and
Mr. Cass.
m.-Mr Williamson claims to have been
the secret Commercial Agent for this country of
the Barings and other English and French mercan-
tile and manufacturing houses from 1S41 to 1850.
He declares that if he catches Speaker Orr, or any
member of the House in New-York, he will prose-
cute them for kidnapping and false imprisonment.
He was taken out of his bed at midnight.
THE KANSAS BATTLE.
WASHINGTON, Friday, Feb. 5-51 p. m.
The House is in the midst of great parlia-
nsntary fight. The Lecomptonites are piing mo-
tons upon motions and calling the Yeas and Nays
On them. in order to stave off all action upon the
. resolution for reference of the Kansas Message.
The singular spectacle is thus presented OF an
Administration party In Democratic House oeine
forced to resort to every species OF parliamentary
tactics to prevent vote on the reference OF tneir
own Presidents Message.
The motions now pending are: to ADJOURN with
,ess and nays ordered upon it; to adjourn till Mon
day, with Yeas and Nays upon that; to excuse a
member from voting, with yeas and nays upon that;
10 excuse O member from voting on resolution 70
sxcuse the former member, with Yeas and Nays
mon that also, and 90 on. The Speaker entertalns
All tbose motions and the Lecompton leaders
chuckle over them and are in high gee, although
beaten on each by majorities of from fifteen 70
twenty.
Schuyler Colfox has just reminded them that
fbese tactics might be of use hereafter to the Re
publicans, adding that the Administration Demo
Gratis could not complain if they were paid IN their
own coin bye-and-bye. The last vote, just taken'
was IL to 81.
m.-The Yaes and Nays have been taken on
three more motions to adjourn. The vote upon the
last stood II to 90; on the others7O to 20 and "a 70
%. The Democrats have abstained from voting
twice in the hope of leaving the House witnou.
quorum, or of consuming time afterward oy ASKING
10 have their votes recorded
The House is in good humor, but In great con'u
sion. A member has just inquired 1t II wouid 20 ~
order to send for q photographer ana nave .n'
scene dasuerreotyped. The Speaker rephed: NO
vet" The Lecomptonites are getting tlred oi .n'
ssbt but cannot agree TO recede; the Anti-Ao
,orontouites feel fresh and ready to stay here al
n;oht see from the reporters gallery John Aen!
and John Cochrane in anxious counsei togetne
l.h;,,1 tbe seats on the Democratic side Oh I'M
Houae They are probably minglng their sorrow
together over the article In the last 'ee"a" '0"'
nal denouncing Lecompton.
The clerks are getting very husky in calling IN
Yeas and Nays Several have broken down. lher
are eleven votes by Yeas and Nays TO be taken
which will consume half an hour each before IN
n,n question can be reached. There are dinne
n,r,;s. this evening at the Presidents, Secretar
TOuoy's and Speaker Orrs, and many Democrau
msnksrs wbo cannot find men willing to pair Of
nth them are very restive at their inability 70 go
"a D. m.-Motions are accumuia'ine' /"
Speaker stated, in response to an inquiry tha'
would take four hours to call the Yeas ana Nays
motions already pending, and more nave '''
made since that statement.
The Lecomptontes threaten to SIT tll Monu''
but they cannot keep up their vote. Inc! nav
been beaten in the proportion Of 80 to Az on II
cent motion TO adjourn. Six hours ago. they "er
only six behind.
The House is now voting on a motion TO lay
the table the motion by Mr Philips ot fenn