The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-12-29
Special Dispatch to the N. Y. Tribune.
From Washington.
WASHINGTON, Monday, Dec. 10
THE SENATE coMMIrTEfs..

THE SENATE COMMITTEES.
The following is the arrangement OF
The Senate Committee on the Demo
cratic side. The Senate consists OF
sixty-six members, of which the Re.
pnblicans proper have twenty-five, in.
clud;no Minnesota. All the leading
Committees have seven members, five
of which are appropriated by Demo
Gratis and the same proportion Oh the
others:
On Foreign Relations-Messrs. Ma
son, Douglas, Polk and Crittenden.
On Finance = Messrs. Hunter
Pearce, Gwin, Bright and Hammond
On Comnerce-Messrs. Clay, Bigler
Toombs, Clingman and Salisbury.
On Military Afairs- Da
Wis, Fitzpatrick, Johnson of Arkansas
Chestnut and Lane.
On NdcdI Afdirs-Messrs. Mallory
Thomson, Slidell, Hammond and Mich
olson.
en- Judiciary Messrs. Bayard,
Pugh, Benjamin, Green and Powell.
On Post Offices = Messrs. Yulee,
Gwin, Rice, Bright and Hemphill.
On Public Zdnds-Messrs. Johnson
of Arkansas, Johnson of Tennessee,
Lane and Bragg.
On Private Land Czaims-Messrs.
Benjamin, Polk and Hemphill.
On Indian Afiairs-Messrs. Sebas-
tian, Brown, Fitch, Rice and Haun.
On Pensions - Messrs. Thomson,
Clay, Salisbury and Powell.
On Revolutionary Cainas-Messrs
Toombs, Crittenden and Nicholson.
On Naims-Messrs. Iverson, Nal.
lory and Bragg.
On the District Of Colum6ia-
Messrs. Brown, Mason, Johnson OF
Tennessee, Yulee and Kennedy.
On Pdteats-Messrs. Bigler, Thorn
son, Toombs and Hemphill.
On Public Buildings : Messrs
Bright, Davis and Kennedy.
On Territories = Messrs. Green
Douglas, Sebastian, Fitzpatrick and
Haun.
To Audh Contingent Expenses o,
the Se7aate-Messrs. johnson of Tenn.
and Powell.
On Printing-Messrs. Fitch and
Davis.
On Engrossed BiHs-Messrs. Ian,
and Bigler.
On Enrolled BiHs-Messrs. Haur
and Salisbury.
On the Library-Messrs. Pearce and
Bayard.
The Republicans held a brief confer
ence on the Committees to-day, withou
definite action. They will meet agar
tomorrow. There is disposition t.
return the list, and let the majorit,
complete it.
John Van Buren's name was present
ed for the late Mfr. Sedgwick's vacancy
notwithstanding his contradiction, ant
he was pressed urgently by his friend
here. The President distinctly de
INJURED, owing to distrust of hi
soundness on the Fugitive Slave Law
Collector Schell can remove Mr.. Val
Buren's doubts.
Mr.. Foster, of Connecticut received
the Republican vote for President o
the Senate to-day, as a compliment 70
his moral worth.
Dir. Mason's Committee on the Har
per's Ferry affair, met OH Saturday ant
organized, but the investigation vii
not begin till after the holidays.
Since Mr.. Douglas has secured tn
majority of the Indiana delegates t,
Charleston, John G.. Davis is ready t.
fall into the Democratic line like tn,
Illinois delegation.
1t is not believed that the Democra
cy can rally again. Their experiment
on Mr.. Boteler, is a failure, as Northern
and Western Democrats wont toucl
him, and Southern men reject Mr.. Da
Wis, of Indiana, Douglas candidate
The present impression is decided tina
the House will be organized by ma
jerity throug Oh absenteeism or member
present refusing to vote after assignin.
reasons, or by plurality. Either con
tingeney elects Mr.. Sherman. Their
is a great desire for its consumatiol
before Christmas, as members ar,
anxious to return home.
Mr.. Lane went further than an,
donghface yet in brief speech in tn,
Senate to-day, bidding for the Charles
ton nomination. He favored the pro
lection of slavery in the Territories, ant
everything demanded by the Disunion
istsof the South Mr.. Brown, of Mis-
sissippi, complimented him.