Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1858-06-12
WASHLNGT NEWS AND GOSSIP

AN IMPORTANT MEssAGE.-See the synopsis
of the message, transmitted to Congress to-day,
in our House report The President clearly
fixes the responsibility of leaving the treasury,
in its present condition where it rightfully be-
longs. If Congress fails to legislate, ere sepa-
rating to guard against the evils he so forcibly
points out, the country will properly hold every
member voting to get away in the proposed
hurry-nOw that they have voted to take pay
for their time not spent in the public service
to strict accountability.
On the whole, the idea of their leaving the
public business in its present condition, after
having agreed to take pay from the Treasury
for the whole year, instead of the session as
heretofore, will strike the public with force
that, in its reaction. will be stunning, indeed,
to their future as Gndividuar public men,
The EXTREMITY OF PARTY FEELING was
never manifested in a more reprehensble as
pect, than n late editorial in the New York
Times upon the reports of the select committee
to investigate Mr.. Haskin's allegations of fraud
in connection with the purchase of Willett's
Point for the Government The Times carly
| adopted the unworthy mares nest of Mr.. Has
kin, and has persisted in publishing columns
on columns Of misrepresentation concerning
the facts involved in the case, and the testi-
moDy ELECTED with reference to them. In
truth it has been afflicted for months past with
Willett's-POint-pu rchasephobia causing il
| to give circulation to the innumerabe silly as
| well as malicious stories coneOcted by those
seeking to crafty spite in connection with the
| investigation in question, which have come tC
render the whole affair notorious as illustrating
the extremity to which partisanship in polite;
viii! lead men in talking, writing or thinking
OF their opponents.
The disappointment of the Time, on finding
the inuendoes and perversiens of the repor
OF Mr.. Haskin repudiated-scouted -by al
his associates upon the committee, has 81
| operated on its conductors as to cause them e
turn their battery of malignant vtupcratioI
upon the Republican members thereof-Messrs
Wood and Hall-than whom no other two gen
tlemcn stand higher in Congress for the single
minded intcgrity-with which they invariably
seek to discharge their duty as members. Tn,
Times actually goes to the length of charging
that they failed to pronounce the Secretary o
War and Collector Schell guilty as charged by
/ -1A' ii"Shih3 tHe lnHueDce o
some imaginary intrigue whereby they were t,
| profit individually, or to secure reprehensibls
advantages for the their party by suppressing
| and pervertinG the truth
| 1t Is but necessary to state this case thus
plainly, to convince persons of common sens,
and ordinary information concerning publ,
affairs, that the Times has gone clean daft con
corning the purchase of Willet's Point and ha:
arrived at that stage of craziness with refer
ence to it, in which it requires straight JACKIE
to keep it from biting off its nose to spite it,
face" as it were.
The NEW HOUSE HALL.-As the working O.
the ventilation of the Hall of Representative.
has been alluded to with censure in a city pa
per, the following record of the state of thu
thermometer was kept yesterday, the llth O
June, 1858, from the assembling of the Hous,
at II a. m. until the adjournment: