The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-01-29

fees bills Give us the bill, and we will under
take the explanation.
The difficulty of getting correct and season
able news from Washington increases every
year. The Washington newspapers have al
ways been, in this respect, about ss worthless as
the NJ aspapers of Montreal or Quebec. But of
late years the Washington newspaper cores
pondents have become remarkably costive upon
almost every subject where the lobby has flu
ger in the pie. Can it be that they are bought
up not to give, but to suppress all information
that would conflict with the ends aud aims OF
the lobby They can get rumors, reports, in
trigues and disclosures by the column concern
ing Kansas, the Walker flibusters, Utah. &C.
but from the general silence of the newspaper
men st Washington in reference to the bills
schemes, agents. plots and current movements
of the lobby, one would suppose that such
things had almost ceased to exist But we
know better: and we now promise the lobby
that for the future its business operations shall
not he neglected.
Another thing, by the way. Mr.. Keitt, the
very pink of South Carolina chivalry, has lately
secured the postpOnement of the resolution con-
templating the second expulsion from the House
of that great lobby man within the bar"
the famous o. b. Matteson. Was not this very
kind for Mr.. Keitts Really, we think so. But why
stop here: Why not follow up this act of chart
ty with resolution for a gold medal to Mr..
Matteson, and with the revocation of the judg-
ment Of the last House against all his lobby
colleagues and the press gang implicated? Why
not bring in bill for the relief of Simonton,
on account Of the damages he incurred from
his examination at the last session? and an
other bill to refund that draft of thousand
dollars to Greeley?
We despair Of any check to the lobby spoils-
men from the present Congress We fear that
between democrats, republicans and Know
Nothings there has recently sprung up sort
of hrotherly sympathy in reference to the lobby
which will bear watching, including the several
existing committees of investigation. There
are too many briefess lawyers in this Congress-
and too many needy adventures among their
camp followers at Washington. to expect any
thing better from them than deliberate sys-
TEN Of operations for spoils and plumber.
Our only hope is in the President and
his Cabinet. Mr.. Buchanan is man
Of the old-fashioned pattern of homes
ty and integrity. He has never had
and never can have, any collision or SYM
pathy with the plundering schemes of the lobby
We rely upon him, therefore, carefully to scru-
tinize every bill that comes before him. and to
give it the bowstring if he discovers a lobby
fraud or lobby scheme for spoliation covered
up in the doubtful phraseology of some little
appropriation or some apparently innocent
proviso. We call upon the Chairman of the
House Committee of Ways and Means to Sc
copd the recommendation Of the Presidents
Message, in joint resolution which will defeat
the lobby Of that golden opportunity for plum
der which ii has So long enjoyed in the nu-
merous bills and amendments which are hurried
through amidst the designations of the last
night Of the session. Give the President his
extent Of millions will be stopped. The reso-
luton may be defeated by the lobby, but let it
be tried.
We rely upon the President 10 any event
and We have faith in his Cabinet They are men
of independent means beyond temptation, and
can have no other inducements than the ends of
public justice. 1t IT, indeed, a fortunate cir
cumstsnce that, with a Congress evidently open
to the lobby on every side we have an admins
tration closed against it at every point. And
this is our only hope. No. We have one other
the hope of exposing some of these lobby ras-
calities before they are fully ripe. So now,
gentlemen, proceed to business.
THE Know NoTHNG BALANCE or POWER AT
AIB,>Y-A SIGNIFICANT MovENENT.-Now that
the long agonyis over and Speaker elected
many of our readers have doubtless been puzzled
TO account for the obstinacy with which the eight
Know Nothings of our Assembly at Albany
stuck to the stump of their party and blocked the
organization Of the House From what we have
learned upon the subject, however, there was