New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-03-09
FROM WASHINGTON.
.INEss BEFORE CoNGREss-THE
PRESIDENCY.
ppenSepre Of The n. Y Tribune

WASHINGTON, Marcn o, IcoV.
Political Washington is in the Gains Of POlit =
cal Foaa,cr. The fierce exc'semept' OF mouths Of
effort m organizing the House have been sacceeded
Nv the inevitable lull that follows all storms. Ali
aides loiter and rect. No question of vital interest
.tIs either branch Of Congress. There a,e sGo.
jecls of legislation that deserve attention and settle
inert but these are jnst the ones that do not get
either UDsopb'stcatsd souls dream that ii Con-
sress has psionty in favor Of a measure aud that
nsjonty dk.ne 10 pus it. that they will dc so.
No suppOsiton can be more false. Tat is just
what they DO not, and cannot do, exoepi by long,
and weary and ubfaegin9 ef0,t. Bus the peruna-
eaous men are Tare-tbe men who do not faint,
and grew impatient and 6ishs artened, are rare. a
najuri,y In favor Of any measure is no guaranty
whatever OF its passage, where IT Is opposed by
r,olu.e purpose to dofeat it. DINER hour cones,
and nkht approaches, and a majority which has
been bSigered all day by o truculent minority at
hast yitlds, and fUyOri'e measure Is sent to the
Speakers table or 10 the Committee Of the Whole;
both convenient places of confinement for measures
which their opponents think ought not to ruo at
large. Here is the Mileage bill, for example.
The House would pass il to-day OF tomorrow, or
any day, il ii could get vote on 1t. But the fill
busters saye it off Such a course on any ordinary
measure Of legislation, though common, Is neither
lair nor decent.
Its Simply one form of the gouge. The rules
ard orders however, those mysterious chains aud
letters upon legislation permit such courses There
is the traDkDg privilege. The state OF the case
with regard 10 that is not so clear but ITS situation
IL similar to the Mileage oil. hen there Is the
proposed great and salutary reform III the Organza
non of the Post Office department lett nc out the
n a. L. bEa ha M
of the mails This measure of transcendent i'm
poTtance will probably hang by the tils between
heaven and earth for an indefinite period, while
nothing is palmer than thdt il should be taken up,
fully considered and an early determination reached
IN IeguId 10 il This session. owing to the balanced
stale of parties is very iayoJ able time to press IT.
Mr. Shciman will do his duty IN the premises, but
will Congress DO theirs Then there is the Print
ing question. Here is another great reform imper-
alIyey GemaRded. Congress and the country are
diseraced BY the proceedings relative TO Printer,
every session. The disgrace is no less this year
than il commonly is Ii II does no; turn out to be
srvster. We shall praise the Lord for his merces
But will Congress reform its laws and its practice;
in relation thereto Not if that amiabc and vir-
tsous force termed the lobby can prevent IT, West
cost oIce said Ibe whole concern here ought 10 be
Dit ched into the Potomac. l would have a deluge
Tor general purposes, aud a small Ararat, quite a
small one 10 accommodate n select circle that
tain.tOp would not need to be large.
- MIR. Mason who, as chairman of Foreign Affairs
in the Senate, SO resCutely proposed to crush
[W through the Mexican Treaty has laid aside bis
- srdOr and We presume relDquished his purpose of
ever pushing the treaty to q vote lie at least no
longer cslls for an Executive Session No doubt
has yet arisen that the Treaty received It's death
blow at the last discussion upon If.
feel constrained to reiterate the statement that
Douglass chance for the Charleston nomination is
Dot considered here TO be worth much, if anything,
among the bert informed His late speech in the
Senate, which was calmly and judicially charac-
terized in recent Geographic dispatch to TIE
TRIBUNE, but which Characterization, like oil
truths. has met with resistance from contemporary
journal, did not advance his prospects in the least.
On the contrary, il repealed by It's cOarseness and
lOWness OF tone, influences which the author would
desire TO coDcihate. But no single speech, by any
Presidential candidate any side at this period OF
the contest has more than feathers weight in the
scale in influencing the elements that will determine
his fate Mr. Douglas was q doomed man the day
be rehelled on LecomptOD. That doom will be in
exorsbly carried out. The only political refuge of
probably be found to be in an independent electoral
ticket in the Free States he signs Ofthe times In
dcate this result If the members Ofthe Popular Sow
erelguy party do not feel equal to facing this cOnn
eency, We would afecti0nately counsel them to do
nothing that will deny them shelter under the roof
OF their antagonists within their own party Organ
zatOD. The storm approaches, and the roadway OF
that kelfdenyiDg band will be merry. Let them
early look out for good tavern. }. SIP.