The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1859-03-10
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.r9-, :sp n. ]. Tribune, March 5,
THe Last Night,


Congress expired by law on the Sd Of
Murch, bpt the breath of life was kept in
jts payr carcass until noon of Friday,
March 4th, when not even impudenee
rould pretend that it had right longer
10 exist, 50 it malodorious!y expired. 1t
seems pity thas its most popular act
adjournmegt without daY-should be one
for whjch it can claim no credit whatever.
It's last hours were marked by most
ignominiuus surrender-or rather, betray-
al---of those who stood for the Right
The House had early and properly deter
AHMED not to lend its countenance to any
yaorc horrowing OF shining for the sup
port of the Governments, but to insist on
having the INCOME made to balance the
Expenditures. In this determination,
nearly every Republican, nearly every
Amqrican, and the Democrats from Penn
rtIvania with perhaps few others) pro-
tessed to be heartily agreed. But the
Senate, utterly controlled by the Pro
Slavery interest, resolved that the Tariff
shQnld lot be increased, and that, while
the Expenditures were kept at high fig
ure, the Treasury should be replenished
rnly by an augmentation of the Rates of
Postage and by the reissue of Twenty
Millions of Treasury Notes. Meantime,
she House Committee of Ways and Means
kept shilly-shallying for weeks--to-day
Phillips of Pa. would vote with the OPP
position Members to report Tariff bill,
aud Maclay of n. Y. wouldn't-while
Phelps Of Missouri, (Chairman), who
wants to be Speaker Of the next House,
{and will bc-when he gets votes enough),
kept speaking smoothly and taking care
that nothing decisive should be done, un-
I'll it was too late for the Committee to
rapport a bill in order, when Phillips and
Maclay both voted to report a fair bill,
and Phel ps declined to vote at all, saying
the Committee had decided to report with
out him. But now a vote of two-thirds
in the Affirmative was required to give
leave to report bill; and, though the
motion fpE leave received l28 Yeas to SO
Nays, it could not be carried. Thus per-
ithed the sanguine hopes of Tariff Re
vision at this session.
Still, majority Of the House professcd
to be immovable in their hostility to any
more borrowing, and we cherished hopes
that no Loan bill could pass. Even dur
ing the last nights sitting, the House
three times voted, in defiance of major
ity Of the Senate, that it would not au-
thorize a reissue of Treasury Notes. But
the President and most of his Secretaries
we're in the Capitol, and they successive
iy manipulated and mesmerized the Penn
sylvania and other stitf-necked Democrats
until they constrained them to eat the
loek SO at o'clock yesterday friday
morning, the HOuse-that is to say, the
Pennsylvania Democrats-backed square
down, and the Senate's Treasury Note at
tuchment to the Miscellaneous Appropri-
alton bill was cOncurred in-Y eas, 94 !;
Nays, SO. Our correspondent telegraphs
that the reconsideration was moved By
Florence, (who filter and that GilliS,
Dimmick, Landy, Leidy, and White, vot-
ed with him for the loan; while Phillips
and Montgomery lodged. Owen Jones,
Dewart aud Reilly stood their ground to
tie last There was still sharp and for
a timc) doubtful struggle in the Senate,
where Mr.. Broderick revo,ted at the sac
rihce of the Pacific Mail Steamer Appro-
lriaton and evinced determination to
uIl the bill to death by talking out the
Session, but he was finally induced to re
lent, and the Senate voted (2T to 22) to
let the Mail Steamers 90 aud hold on to
tho Treasury Notes. So the bill was wor-
ried through, ABOUT halfpast IL clock
yesterday; and the President swallowed
his vauuted determination not to sigu any
bills that he was not allowed time to read
and carefully consider, and affixed his
name iaStuater So the Treasury Notes
Were carried and Tariff Revision lost
This is in effect proclamation by
the Slave Power that the Forty Millions
borrowed under Dir. Buchanan shall be
carried over to the next Administration
for payment. The President urged aud
reiirged the Revision Secretary Cobb as
sented to it Pennsylvania begged for it !;
most of the Northern Democrats desired
it. But the Southrous have the ordeal
of their Elections just before them, and
they dreaded, or professed to dread, to
meet it on the back ofap Increased Tariff,
recommended by Democratic President
and enacted by Democratic Congress.
At all events, they resolved that the Dor
rowing, shining policy should be main
tanned and the paying postponed, and they
had their way, as usual.
On another point, however, they
were baified bv the frmness of the House,
faH Pro-Slavery interest had determined
that the Rates of Postage should be rails
ed, and the Senate registered its edict, of