The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1858-03-19
WASHINGTON NEWS.
From Washington.
WASHINGTON, March 9th, ,5s.

Affairs are drawing 10 n focus here
There is to be hard fighting next week
The accompanies have resolved on the
previous question next Monday in the
Senate They will pass their bill by seven
or eight majority. When Green announc,
ed the intention TO call for the previous
question, Douglas looked Disconnected. -
He said nothing. That practice has never
yet been resorted to in the Senate. liz is
? serious matter when State Of four mil
lions Of people, like New York, for exam
PIE, rises to speak and cannot be heard -
But whether right or wrong, Douglas can
not complain, for he threatened the same
thing in 1884, and Mr.. Clay on one occa-
sion intimated that X might become nee
essary.
The Lecompton majority in the House,
is estimated to be about ten Nlblack of
Ia, who voted with us on Harris resolu-
tions has gone back to his wallowing. He
is counted for Lecompton. Absurd hopes
arc entertained by our friends of Joe
Burns, of Ohio, Col Marshall, of Ky,
and Mr. Gilmer, of n. q.
Stephens intends TO report from Har-
ris' Committee on Thursday morning
There will then Re two courses open to
the majority They may call the previous
question Oh the bill which Stephens will
present, or they may wait for the Senate
bill, which will get to the House about
Wednesday, the 18th.
The minority of Harris Committee
probably furnished their reports last
night. The error Of this part Of the Com
mittec consists in its consenting to act
after it found that TIE Speaker had pack
ed the Committee. do not think the
struggle can now be prolonged beyond
Monday, the ODD inst The Republicans
contemplate resisting by parliamentary
tactics, for which they have ample war
rant, in the decisions of Orr, during the
last night session, when he recognized
and put to the House, all sorts of frivo-
lous motions. When the House adjourn
ed on that occasion, twenty-five calls for
tho yeas and nays were piled rpon pro
torma and dilatcry motions The prac-
tice then recognized by the Speaker Of
rcteiyinc, perding the main question,
motions TO excuse members from voting,
would carry the House around in a cir
Gle of motions and calls for six hundred
years, should it so long last.
The President is said to have made up
his mind to send a special commission to
Spain to buy Cuba, This commission
viii &c out within the next thirty days;
its instructions arc now under prepare
tion. Spain will re- offered the old price;
50 90, 900, 900 as before 4 she does
not accept those terms, the island will be
simply seized to bring her to reason. Dix
knew of this project before he made his
Tammany Hall speech, and no doubt ex'
poets to be in the commission. How
great are the mutations Of affairs; ten
years ago, Dix was the free sell candidate
for Governor Of New York, battling man
fully for freedom.
& messenger has arrived from Kansas
with the evidence of the frauds IN all Cal
houn's elections, which was taken oy the
board Of commissioners appointed to IN
vestigatc those returns. The evidence
makes the facts appear more atrccious
than the reports of them from unofficial
parties.
Calhoun now claims to have discovered
frauds everbalancing those committed by
his confederates, and asserts that he sees
his way clear to- proclaim as elected, the
whole pro-slavery ticket. No sensible per-
son ever doubted that he would find excu-
ses for doing that from the beginning. =
A movement is obviously intended for the
whole gang Of felons from Marshall "bo-
gus" governor, to Calhoun, are packing
up their buds, ready for march. Ar
irving at She border they will doubtless
be met by strong escort of Dragons
who will conduct them to Lecompton,
where they will recommenco their Border
Kufhan career.
Mr. Green, the messenger, thinks, how
ever, that they will be met by the militia
Of the territory, no matter how escorted,
aEd saluted with bullets and cold steel.