New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-03-19
WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENCE.
Special to tho New Orleans c.esceott

Special 70 the New 0rieans csesceat.t M
WAsHisGTos, D. c., March 10, 1860.
3D. efescent-A bill 10 pending before the House
Judiciary COMMITTEE which very covertly thrusts
the Territorial question into the already overgreat
agitations of the House. This bill Is the counter
part Of hr. Pugh'sresolution in the Senate, being
to empower the people Of the Territories to elect
their own officers What II remarkable IT has been
introduced under the specous ples that the effect
Of the bill would be TO prevent the abuses Of the
Federal Executive inpacking the Territories with
unpopular and corrupt officers. This, indeed, Is /
new recommendation, and a new aspect of the |
protean lumbug Of squatter Sovereignty.
The Black Republicans are finding that their In.
yestiQatnp Committees are double.edged swords
and likely to be turned upon themselves. There
has, indeed, been no attempt the part Of the con-
sttutional parties in the House to divert the inyes
LEGATIONS from any proper object of inquiry, but in
the discussions on the floor. these investigations
have been directed against the Republicans them
selves, and their own corruptions, however their
committees may overlook them, brought prorni-
| nently before the country. The effect has been
| good. Thus. while Mr.. Coyode's committee has
taken upon itself to Investigate the purity of Demo-
cratic elections and to Tansack the Union for cor
ruption they are met by distinct proofs Of the
and yet refuse to adopt the suggestion for inqui
ry into this. The matter in fact is brought directly
home to the House by the circumstance, as I
understand it, of the implication of member
| Of the present Congress in the corruption
charged, that Of the robbery Of the Treasury of
Maine, of about one hundred thousand dollars, by
temperance " advocates and apostles Of g the
higher law of Black Repubeanism. Still an in
intn fhiS ia dacIined nv the over yrt,,
GUS Committee, the Chairman Of which Is himself
member OF secret revolutionary society here
Can Abolition Executive u Gommittee) to cor
rupt the elections and the seeds of instruction
in the Southern part Of the Union However the
Black Republican inquisitors may shirk inquiries
into their own conduct the country, at least, can
not fail to notice the exposure of their hypocrisy,
and the uncandid andpartsan spirit of the investi
cations they have paraded as evidences Of superior
virtue in themselves.
We have pretty pair, indeed, Of political cen
( sors in Covode, Of Pennsylvania, and Haskn, b
New York, who as Chairman of the Committee OF
t Public Expenditures, is making a great spiatte
about the public printing plumber. 1t is little Gu
rious, indeed, to understand why man 80 notori
; Gus as this laundering procurer of Gongressiona
corruption should have been placed at the head 9
the printing investigation; but learn that the pc
!. sition was anxiously sought by him, to coverup
!. own fraud in the election of printer by which
brace of his followers were provided for in the di
4 position Of the bookbinding of the House. Thu
it is that these investigations are not only abuse
by the meanest Of partisan hypocrisy, but are actl
ally prostitpted to cover up the personal CORFU
tions Of the Black Republican members then
selves. x.