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WASHINGTON, Monday, FEB, Ia, l-J9,
This has been Q field day in the House. Dir.
Buchanans friends united with the Republicans aud
Americans, and struck down the Administration.
The Committee of Ways and Means being un-
able to agree upon any proposition to-day, Mr..
Phelps asked the House to suspend the rules to al
low him to introduce bill reGnscting the law of
last session for issuing Treasury Notes and TO con-
tinue in force two years. There was storm of
objections. Mr. Phelps moved to suspend the rules,
and the House refused by vote Of 81 TO ITO. The
Buchanan members who voted against suspending
were as follows: ALL, Chapman, Corning Dewart,
Dimmick, Huyler, Owen Jones, Landy, Leidy,
Phillips, Reilly. All the South Americans aud
all the Anti.Lecompton Democrats present
voted against suspendiDg, except the Douglas
men in Illinois, who voted with the Administration.
Barr, J. Cochrane, Hatch, Maclay and Russell of
New-York, and fifteen other Northern Democrats,
voted to suspend and thereby authorize the ressu-
ing of more shinplasters. 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, aud
this was refused. Tie House then went into Com.
mittee of the Whole, when Mr. Phillips who rep
resents Mr.. Buchanan in the House, took the floor,
and pitched into Mr.. Cobbs report 10 speech in
favor of prohibitory tariff Mr. Garrett from
the Cobb Administration faction, followed. and
pitched into Mr. Phillips and the Presidents
policy; and who will pitch into Mr. Garrett re.
mains TO be seen.
The first vote of Mr.. Lane of Oregon in the
Senate to-day was significant. Yesterday, the In
diana delegation, with the exception Of Mr.. VII
SOD. under instruction Of their Legislature, voted
him into the United States Senate. His first vote
in that body to day wss to vote out Of tie Senate
tie Senator's sent here from Indiana BY that same
Legislature. In drawing for terms, Lane got the
shortest.
TIE President said to-day that If this Congress
will not vote hin means to carry on the Govern
ment and execute their OWE l.ws he will see if the
next Congress viii lot DO it, He remarked thi.
be cannot zee Row TO avoid calling the reXt Con.
gress together in August.
1t appeared in evidence before the CuIom 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.. Cul,om
did.
Nike Walsh has Just returned from . secret mis-.
sion 70 Mexico, and it is reported tina. Commits
soner Extraordinary will soon be appointed to that
country, and that Nike Walsh or James Gordon
Bennett will get the appointment
Mr. Wilson of Indiana would not obey the in.
structions of the ast bogus Legislature of his State
to vote for Oregon, and voted against her sdmis-
sion. l omitted in my las! dispatch to include Mr.
Gaze with those who voted for Oregon.
The States newspaper Of this evening Hunter
organ) rays the Democracy is not responsible for
the spostacy Of Mr.. Buchanans Administration
The terms By which the Tariff bills might have
been presented on Saturday, under the order Of
Mr. Davis (Md.) }, were rejected BY Dir. Phillips,
the Representative Of the Pennsylvania Tariff
Democracy, because he would not trust the Chair
man (Mr Phelps) to have charge of the bills in
the House. Since that time the Opposition mem.
beu of the Committee of Ways and Means
Mewrs. Morrill,, Howard and Davis-have con.
cluded that If they yield the first position to the
Chairmans bill, which represents Mr.. Cobb's
vews, that their bill ia entitled to the second place,
a. otherwise it could not have fair test when i.
should reach vote in the House, where tho choice
shoula be between that AID The Chsirman's bill,