The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1859-02-24
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Mr. Buchanans friends united with the Re-
publicans and Americans, and struck down
the Administration ....
The Committee of Ways and Means being
unable to agree upon any proposition to-day,
Mr.. Phelps asked the House to suspend the
rules to allow him to introduce bill reenact-
ing the law Of last session for issuing Treas
ury Notes, and to continue in force two year..
There was a storm of objections. Mr.. Phelps
moved to suspend the rules, and the House
refused by vote of 81 to no. The Bu-
chanan members who voted against suspen-
ding were as follows: ALL, Chapman, Cor
ming, Dewart, Dimmick, Huyler, Owen Jones
Landy, Leidy, Phillips, Reilly. All the South
Americans and all the nti-Lecompton DEM
ocrats present voted against suspending, cX-
capt the Douglas men in Illinois, who voted
with the Administration. Barr, j. Cochran,
Hatch, Maclay and Russell Of New FORK, and
| fifteen other Northern Democrats, voted to
suspend and thereby authorize the reissuing
of more shinpastcrs. After sustaining this
signal defeat, Mr.. Phelps, who reflects Mr..
Cobb's views in the House, moved to change
the hour of meeting to 10 o'clock, in order
to gain time, and this was refused. The
House then went into Committee of the
Whole, when Mr.. Phillips, who represents
Mr.. Buchanan in the House, took the floor,
and pitched into Mr.. Cobb report in speech
in favor ola prohibitory tariff. Mr.. Garnet,
from the Cobb Administration faction, follow
ed, and pitched into Mr.. Phillips and the
Presidents policy; and who will pitch into
Mr.. Garnet remains to be seen.
The first vote of Mr. Lane of Oregon in
the Senate to-day was significant. Yester-
day, the Indiana delegation, with the excep-
ton of Mr.. Wilson, under instruction of their
Legislature, voted him into the United States
Senate. His first vote in that body to-day
was to vote out Of the Senate the Senators
sent here from Indiana by that same Legis-
lature. In drawing for terms, Lane got the
shortest
The President said to-day that if this Con-
gress will not vote him means to carry on
the Government and execute their own laws,
he will see if the next Congress will not do
it. He remarked that he cannot see how to
avoid calling the next Congress together in
August
1t appeard in evidence before the Cullom
Select Investigating Committee that Mr..
Allen, the present Clerk of the House, has
paid for furniture from one to two hundred
per cent more than Mr.. Cullom did.
Mike Walsh has just returned from a secret
mission to Mexico, and it is reported that a
Commissioner Extraordinary will soon be
appointed to that country, and that Mike
Walsh or James Gordon Bennett will get
the appointment.
Mr. Wilson of Indiana would not obeythe
instructions of the last bogus L,gi ,latulc Of
his State to vote for Oregon, and voted against
her admission | omitted in my last dis
patch to include Mr.. Case with th);e wa
voted for Oaegon..
Tn States newspaper Of this evening Han
ter organ says the Democracy is not rcspon-
sible for the apostacy Of Mr.. Buchanan"
Administration. ......
The terms by which the Tariff bills might
have been presented on Sal ifday, under tn:
order ofMr. Davis (Md.) Were rejected by
Mr. Phillips, the Representative Of the Penn
sylvania Tariff Democracy, because he would
not trust the Chairman (Mr Phelps to have
charge of the bills in the House. Since that
thine the Opposition members of the Com
mittee of Ways and Means-M ,ssrs. Morrill,,
Howard and Davis-have concluded that if
they yield the first position to the Chairman
bill which represents Mr.. Cobb's views, that
their bill is entitled to the second place. as
otherwise it could not have a fair test
when it should reach vote in the House,
where tbs choice should be between that and
the Chairman's BILL and therefore Mr.. Phillips
representing but fragment of his party,
| would ride behind. .... ...
1.-THE Pennsylvania Democracy really de-
sire any modification of the tariff they could
obtain it by supporting bill such as the
! Opposition have drawn up, which secures
much of the strength of the Republicans in
consequence of its moderate specifies, and
than any extravagent protective featurns,
and which undertakes to deal fairly with all
the great interests Of the Union instead of
making pet Of any. ... ....
very animated and interesting discussion
took place in the Senate to-day, on that
greatest of Legislative outrages, the Indiana
Senatorial Election. The Republican Sena-
tors who participated in he debate were
Messrs. Collamer, Seward, Trumbull, Hale,
Fessenden and Harlan. 1t was protracted
to verv late hour, and held the large audi
ence to the last. The Indiana userpcrs were
most miserably upheld by Messers. Green,
Pugh, bayard and Benjamin. They could
not be brought to defend the election by
which Messcrs. Bright and Fitch were fois-
ted into the Senate, but contented themsel-
yes by declaring it to be case already de-
cided The enormity of the outerage was
depicted by the Republican Senator's with
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