New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-03-11

9 consider tie bill, Although scFetA @scuP's "o'o
4" made to take il Up" Not one, Mr. CiCgmau.
not one Urle,s the record lea, tbs disclosure,
Ike that previously commented o. hn no more
basis in fact than the assertion 10 the Senator's next
sentence tha, the bill was not considered until the
lsst Hiet Of the session. when, 10 point OF fact IL
was taken up on the previous morning. 10 'ais
latter error Mr. CEpguan las probably been led
By the fact that in the smslI hours of Friday Mr.
Phelps sitter an Intellectual attempt to tsie up the
Senate BIZ, introduced a new one which tue House
passed, but the Senate, under Mr. Toombs's lead,
refused to consider.
hr. CTDgnSn further complains that Alter the
report Of the Committee Of Conference was nde,
but forty minutes Ct the ,esson remained. in Which,
though the bill might probably h,ve been
read. there was no time to consider its pro-
yisions. AID 10 necessity, as they had already
been considered when the serate FIRST passed the
bill as every Senator knew. Or If any did not be-
lieye their own Conference Committees assertion,
tie bill could have been reid in three minutes, as
was doue in the Houle, which passed it 10 three
more general cry of dissent meeting the call Tor
the Yeas and Nays, 80 anxious were the represen-
tstives Of the people that the appropriations should
be made. Contrast the courte Of the Senate in
this mstter with the manner in which it treated
The Omnibus bill, on. Of which the House h,d
struck twenty Of the forty amendments msde
BY the Senate Mr.. Broderi,k was stgmstized
Is fsctious, 30 long as he insisted that
tlese should be read, and the Senate concurred
with the action of the House in hot haste.
Why this difference The one bill gave Govern
mens permission to borrow; the other did not in
create the peoples postage.
We heartily concur with the Senstor from North
Carolina in his Gnplied) general proposition touch
irg the Weldon Of giving fuller consideration to the
appropriation bills. We have always deplored
their DOS pouemen. till the close of the session. and
have often remarked upon the dangers attending
this course. BIT it does not belong to Senator
Clipeman or The Union to be very emphatic on this
subject. l. wss their friends who obstructed the
public business with Cuba buncoube; and who
sought to increase the postage BY introducing
provision to that effect into three se7eral bills, in
the hope that ia the confusion Of the last hours OF
the session and the darkness of a Conference Com
uit.ee, it might in some way become 3 law. The
Administration, the dominant South, who make
ard manipulate these bills, gain BY haste--not We
Senator CliDgman studious'y ignores the fact
that a majority Of each of the Conference Commit
teas, whose report the Senate did not accept
were Democrats Mr.. Letcter being the Chairman
of that on the part of the House. and Mr.. Stuart of
that on the part of the Senate. he neglect, to
state that the Senators who talked the bill to
DEATH based their opposition wholly on the point Of
etiquette, which was expressly waived by the re-
port, but which they thought more important than
tie continuance Of the Post Office Department.
On the whole, such lame apologies as this show
that the course of Messrs. Toombs, Biyard and
Mason wss party bunder as well as an official
crime. The Washington Star spoke the sober
Truth on the evening of Mach 5.
"Mr. Toombs has assumed sresponsibilty which
seems TO embrace conclusive evidence that bis
impractcabity a legislator has rendered his OIL
cs connection with public affairs most disastrous TO
the public interest"
This little organ now plays different tune
but the article from which the above is an extract
doubtless expresses the honest sentiments of the
Administration.