New-York daily tribune., 1859-01-14
CONGRESSIONAL DOINGs.
r,.m Our oxn cOre,pondsnt.


astroduoed bull to deprive Senators and Repre-
septatives Of the fra1king privilege, and to allow
Mem instesd $50 worthof stamps at the begiu-
ming of each session. The total value Of the
stamps would be about $45, 900 year-an incon-
siderable sum compared with the immense saving
that would be made By sbOlisbing the ranking
privilege
Mr.. SlidsIl Ola. introduceds bjl making an ap
preparation Of 3O,O0O,OOo TO facilitate the acqu-
sition Of Cuba by pucha'e, which was referred 70
the Committee on Foreign Relations. A similar
proposition is before the House Committee.
Along debate took place on the question OF ad-
nittinR persons to the floor OF the Senate, ana IL
was finally decided that the privilege OF coming on
the Aoor should be confined to the officers OF the
SENATE. members of the House, the President and
bis Priyste Secretary, exPresidents, -Pres
Se5ts e1 Senstors and Senator's elect Heads Of De-
psrtuepts Foreign Ministers, and Judges Of the Su
pfene COaIt.
The French Spoliation bib wa1 taken mp, end Mr..
Jefferson Davis made q long speech against it, 70
which Mr.. Crtenden replied vindcstng tn clsims IN
IN elaborate argument, Of which this was the perora
ton:
These claimants have waited so long that Congress
has felt that they coad wait little longer; and with
hopes deferred and hearts made sick, they are here
tbs day petitonng for rights that their country ack
1owleoged more than half century ago. Shall II
il longer be our reproach that they are not paid
These impoverished merchants and their families have
been scattered abroad throughout the wide world.
From residences the most distant, from States the
most distant, there comes in from one quarter aud
another feeble voice, not uDcommony that OF wo-
men mplorrg now that n their poverty at tnis iate
and iast day perhaps for them, the Government viii
make some compensation for the justice that has been
DO long delayed. IL may be argued, perhaps, that the
Treasury not at present in condition 70 pay put
This bill does not make any present draft upon the
Treasury and the claimants ask us by II 10 settle the
claims and not leave them 10 the fate Of an ambgu-
ous legislation, and uncertain and doubtful re-
dress The b proposes 70 issue stock be3rng b % only
95 600 600 out Of say $ij 600 000 The claimants ssk
ns TO allow them g. 600 OOO and for that to give them
stock bearing only five per cent interest and pay
able at the pleasure Of the Treasury. Here is mode
of doing Justice, without producing any sort of enbar
rassment to the Treasury. Shall it be done Though
late shall We have the satisfaction of knowing that
We have done such justice, (ethough not full mea-
sure Of it, as nations have felt themselves constrained
at al times to do
But for these claims having been absoved and ren-
quishod by to France, they would long since have
beer paid England and France were the great depre-
aatOrs on our commerce, and England has paid us
$40 O0O 900 for merchants for the wrongs which
she committed. Frsnce, too would have pad us, but
you renquished your claims 10 France and Of course
took upon yourself her responsibility and you have
not paid them yet. Now we ask not settlement, not
and strict Justice but s. 10000 for the descendants
of thete starving credtors, the merchants who ven
fnred upon the In the midst of stormy war, at
the hazard Of capture, under the protection OF this
Government, and under the promise of Washington
himself that they should be protected or redress given
them. They yentured abroad to carry on the COM
Of THE country the ocean, and they fell vic
tins 10 their enterprise, and victims to the confidence
which they had in their Government and in their
Pfesdert Now shall they not have redressi
The bill passed by vote OF 20 Yeas 10 ~ Nsys.
OF the Republicans, Cameron, Chandler CsTk, Soi
Ia ner Dixon DoOtto, DuTkee, Foot, Foster, Hamln,
Seward Simmons and Wilson voted for the bill.
Harlan Of Iowa Preston King and Trumbnl Of Illinois
voted against it. The Democrats who voted for 1t
were Bates, Bayard, Benjamin, Broderick, Chesnut,
Chpgman Hammond, Pesrce, Stuart and Ioomos'
Those who voted against were, Bgler, Bright, Clay,
Davis, Douglas, Fitch, Fitzpatrick, Hunter iverson,
johnson OF Tennessee, Mason, Polk, Reid, Rice,
Slidell Ward and Yulee. Bell Crttenden and Houston
voted for the bill. Fesenden present, but did not
vote at all though he spoke in defense of the BILL
In the House, MIR. Barksdale Miss introduced the
following resolution Of inquiry, which was considered
and agreed 10 without objection from any one;
HAea has been announced in foreign journals that the
,b. ts esson Of Cuba to the United States would not
be tolerated, even with the consent Of Spain ,
incompatible with the public interest 70 communicate 70 th
House correspondence between This Government and France
States
Mr. Harris (Md.), an American, offered resolution
requesting the President TO nterpose in the case
the Jewish boy Mortara and furnish moral sd in
eectiug his restoration to his parents. The resolu
top which is long and wordy chsracterizes the case
nc one shat violates the sancy of the parental re-
"a remarkable ground of complaint on the part of
saveholder whose peculiar institution systematically
and perpetnay violates the sanctty of the parental
relatiopan remarkable resolution to be offered by
a Msrylander, whose own State Prison contains min
lister OF the gospel guilty only Of the crime of having
In his house copy of :" Uncle Toms Cabin" The
resolution requiring unanimous consent for its intro
dncon to-day Mr.. Jones of Tennessee objected to IT,
sas relating to subject with which we have nothing
60 do" Discreet Mr. Jones' lie probably iOresees
The turn the discussion is likely to take the Iesolu-
tion comes mp. Mr. Harris gave notice that he
would introduce Il on the next resolution day. lie
uante to spread the American eagle sud pounce upon
The Pope, "thst pagan full Of pride" in Know
Nothing speech.
after debate ON the Indian Appropriation bli, Mr..
Nichols lOhio) obtained the floor ava made speech
against the Old Soldiers Pension bill. he adduced a
variety Of statistics 10 show that the amount that
would be required TO pay these pensions annually Tss
upward Of eleven millions of dollars. The amount Of
Army and Navy pensions already paid by the Govern
ment up to this date he stated at Ss6, 900.
MIR. Fenton IN. " also made short speech agalnst
She bi which he declared the beginning Of sys
TEN which, carried out would exhaust re-
sources and beget spirit of which was the
greatest curse Of republic. He felt assured he said
That the bill should sgsn come back 10 the House il
would meet an overwhelming defest, Notwithstanding
its remarkable success few days ago.
Mr.. Anderson Of Missouri last session a Know
Nothing but this session classed as Democrat i'm
proved the occasion TO get OF xcessivey fla. speech
on the foreign aggrandizement portion OF the Presi-
dents Message, going in "up to the hub, as they
say, for Cuba, SOnors and the isthmus routes. He
said nothing worth citing; nothing that fell
above or below the deadest level of absurd pattude.
Mr.. Washturn Of Maine followed in able and
significant speech the Republican Party, its duties
and it's dangers. lie laid down his premises thus:
Two antagonstc ideas uudere the political movements
OF the country and will be represented by its political
organizations; aud party which is not founded upon,