Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1859-03-12

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From the New York Tribune.
The Last Night.
CoveREss HAS ADJOURNED | Thank the
Constitution for that ! The XXXVth
Congress expired by law on the Sd Of March,
but the breath Of life was kept in its poor
carcass until noon on Friday, March 4th,
when not even impotence could pretend
that it had q right longer to exist, so IL
malodorously expired II seems pity that
its most popular act--adjournment with
out doy--should be one for which it can
claim no credit whatever.
Its last hours were marked By most
ignominious surrender-or rather, betrayal
of those who stood for the Right The
House had early and properly determined
not to lend its Countenance to any more
borrowing or sbiHning for the support Of
the Government, but to insist on having
the Income made to balance the Expend-
tures In this determination, nearly every
Republican, nearly every American and the
Democrats of Pennsylvania with perhaps
few others) professed to he heartily a.
greed But the Senate, utterly controlled
by the Pro-Slavery interest, resolved that
the Tariff should not be increased and
that, while the Expenditures we're kept at
a high figure, the Treasury should be re-
plenished only by an augmentation OF the
Rates of Postage and by the reissue of
Twenty Millions of Treasury Notes. Mean
time, the House Committee Of Ways and
Means kept shilIy-shaIying for weeks-to-
day Phillips of Pa. would vote with the
Opposition Members to report q Tariff bill,
and Macay Of N. Y. wouldn't-and to-
morrow Maclay was ready to vote it aud,
Phillips wOuldn't-whle Phelps of Nilsson
ri, (Charman,) who wants to be Speaker
of the next House (and will he--when he
gets votes enough), kept speaking smooth
ly and taking care that nothing decisive
should be done, until it was TOO late for the
Committee TO report bill in order, when
Phillips and Maclay both voted to report a
fair bill, and Phelps declined to vote at all,
saying the Committee had decided to re-
port without him. But now vote Of two
thirds in the affirmative was required to
give leave to report bill and, though
Il
88 Nays, it could not be carried. Thus
perished the sanguinc hopes of a Tariff Re-
vision at this session.
Still, a majority Of the House professed
to be mmovabe in their hostility to any
more borrowing, and we cherished hopes
that no Loan bill could pass Even during
the last nights sitting, the House three
times voted, in defiance Of n majority of
the Senate, that it would not authorize a
reissue of Treasury Notes But the Pres
ident and most of his Secretaries were in
the Capitol, and they successfully manipu-
lated and mesmerized the Pennsylvania and
other stiff-necked Democrats until they con-
strained them to eat the leek so at Z o.
clock yesterday (Frday) morning, the
House-that is to say, the Pennsylvania
Democrats-backed square down, and the
Senate's Treasury Note attachment TO the
Miscellaneous Appropriation bill was cou.
Cured in-Yeas, "a Nays, 83 Our cor
respondent telegraphs that the reconsider
alton was moved by Florence, (who ftter?l
and that ellis, Dimmick Landy, Leidy, anC
White, voted with him for the Loan; while
Phillips and Montgomery lodged Over
) Jones, Dewart aud Reilly stood thei
ground to the last. There was still sharI
and (for time) doubtful struggle in rh,
Senate, where Mr.. Broderick revolted a
: the sacrifice of the Pacific Mail Steame
: Appropriation and evinced determination
to talk the bill to death by talking out TIN
Session, but he was finally induced to re
: lent, and the Senate voted (27 to 22) t
let the Mail Steamers go and to hold on t
, the Treasury Notes. So the bill was wor
, red through, about half past ii ocIocl
yesterday and the President swalowet
his vaunted determination not to sign an
bills that he was not allowed to read ant
carefully consider, and affixed his name IN
stanter. So the Treasury Notes were car
red and Tariff Revision lost.
= This is in effect proclamation by tn
Slave Power that the Forty Millions boz
. rowed under Mr.. Buchanan shall be carries
over to the next Administration for pay
ment. The President urged and reurge
] Revision Secretary Cobb assented to it
o Pennsylvania begged for it most of tn
e Northern Democrats desired it. But tn
! Southrons have the ordeal of their EleC
h tions just before them, and they dreaded
or prOfesscd to dread, to meet it on th
, back of an increased Tariff, Recommend
ed by Democratic President and enacte
: by Democratic Congress. AT all events
q they resolved that the borrowing, shinnin,
policy should be maintained and the paying
t postponed, and they had their way, a
: usual
!. On another point, however, they wer
! baffled by the frmness of the House. TIL
, ProSlavery interest had determined tha
the Rates of Postage should be raised, ant
the Senate registered lis edict Of course
But the House had will of its own Oh
: that subject, and, on motion of Mr.. Grow
resolved, by III to 76, that, as this was
measure to raise Revenue, which the Senat
, was forbidden by the Constitution to orig
y mate, the bill should be returned 10 tn
! Senate unacted on The Senate 1ared up
Of course, and stood on its dignity but
finding the task about as pleasant as stand
an ona foot IL r,.s obI;ood A.