New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-01-30


Ike these benches They compel members tn face
the business in hand; and if the tionse viii still
furtber copy The Eogl'Sh Commons by introducing
coughing, scrapiDg of feet aud roncal cheers. the
days Of forensic bores, ounces and donkeys will be
Numbered.
The turbulence Of the House instantly arrests the
attention. PIoverbial, the most stormy de,er-
alive body in the world, the present Congress sur
posses all its pre- decesors in disorder. For nearly
eight weeks it bas been in chronic chaos. Obvious
causes, aggravated by the iDdeciSou, not to say
imbeciliiy, Of a Clerk who has no aptness for pre-
SIDING, have produced this wild uprOsr, which finds
its only parallel in the irrepressible conflicts" of
TamuaDy Hall and The Ga'risotian Conventions at
the Boston MelodeOn. On the floor there are
excited hsrapgues, charges Of falsehOod hssiog-hot
vituperatioDs, stamping of feet pesls OF laughter
with occasional violent sway'Des to aud fro, aud
the eraspns Of deadly weapons; while the galleries.
crow ed to the brim, here beyy of bales Haunting
the latest fashOus aid there gang of DULLES armed
10 the teeth catch the spirit of the scene below aud
applaud hiss, and swear, 10 style that would
di,grsce race-cOurse or gamblpg-bell Talk of
the French Legislative Assembly, with its Dantons,
Marats and RObespierres, ts violence and BIAS
phemy on the floor, and its cleaning dagger and
shouts for vengeance in the oVerbapgiOg galleries
Look upon its counterpart in the XAXVlfb Con-
e1ess As one sees the hating Clerk decline to
entertain motions that tend to dsentangle the
dilemma opd give the House Speaker, he longs
for apother John Quincy Adams to rise, as in the
~ ord out nf
chaos, by stating bis own motion, and in response
to the tauntjng demsnd: "Ah but who will put it
TO the vote 2" instantly reply -" | intend to do it
"my self - THIS scene, SO instantaneous in its
effects, so dramatic in its incidents, is freshly
remembered. In the twirkIiDg of an eye, the
usuIppg Clerk sunk to the condition of hireling
scribe, and the House assumed the conduct of its
own proceedings, and became deberative assem-
bly,.
But the most marked change between the past
ard the present, and especially between this House
and the last is in the relative prepoDderance of in
I, llectual power among the Republicans and their
Democratic opponents. We will first notice the
former. New England retains many of her abest
representatives., as for example-and we only men,
tion few as specimens-Woshburn, Morse, Nor
rrin, TappaD, Dawes, GOOcb, Thayer, Buffiogton
Burineame; while she has impaired additional
learning, ability, and vigOr to her ranas, In the
persons o, Adams, Elliot Train, Edwards, Dolano,
Ferry AID tbtir cOmpeers.
We Iced Dot name the strong men of the last
house whom NeW-YOrk has retained In this. The
places of those left at home ave worthily filled by
new members, Of whom doubtless Reynolds, Conk-
ling Humphrey, Sedgwick, Beaie, aud SPanldlng,
bring hther the most professional AID forensic rep
utstiop, but whose colleagues have qualifications
as valuable to meet the pecul ar e1geDces OF their
position as the possession or stores OF legal lore
and superior talking talents.
The Middle States have wisely kept in the
national forUm Grow, Hickman, Morris, Sherman,
Stanton, Wade, Blneham, and others doubtless
whose pames slip from the memory; while she has
added 10 the list the marvellous COrwi0, the saga
cious Pennington, the experienced Stevens, with
whom we nay couple The nsmes of Campbell, Nc.
Knight, Moorhead, Hutchins, Gurley, and Edger-
ton.
Following the star Of empire to its home in the
Northwest, we again welcome from Iodlaua Col
fax, WIlsOD. aud Case; Wasbburne, and his three
able associates, from Illinois; Wasbburn and Pot
ter from WOODY Wisconsin," Curtis of Iowa;
while of TIE pew members we recoect Dunn and
Por'er of Indiana Kellogg of Michigan, and Aldrch
aid Window, who so CALAMITY won the fight in
youpg NJ Dnesota. Two Iames are missed from
The list Of Western members, and they are among
the abest that acorn it-IIOward and Blair. They
Will be enrolled ere Congress adjourDs
TorpDg to the Northern Democracy we see
loquscious Mr.. Bishop feeiog before the Anti
IecoupiOn storm, al seeking shelter in the Patent
Office; While common place CLANCY Jones, more mt
fer country curate than the chair OF the Ways
add Means, escapes to Austria. Mr.. Hughes sur
y.ys tie general rOut from the bench of tue Court
of Claims; long headed DIR. Corning makes room
for ear sighted Mr. Reynolds; Mr. j. L. Hatch,
on learning that Mr. Dean Richmond would not
allow him to 90 to Charleston permits Mr.. Buchanan
to inter him 10 the Buffalo Post Office. But we can
not stop to hunt up all the killed aud wounded of the
Lecompon campaign. Dropping our cypress on
the grave Of Harris the acute honest, brave House
leader in that glorious fight, whose place is Occu-
ped, rot filed, by the fppant, plant, vauntlng
McClernsDd, We pass on 10 note changes on the
Southern side Of the Chamber.
And what falling off is here, in intellectual
power and parliamentary skill For many years
past the Southern Democracy has been gradually
Welding the supremacy in the House to its Northern
opponents We don't refer to early times when
Macon, CASTOR Randolph, LOwndes. Clay, Cal
houu, Gruuoy, Barbour, Hamilton. Poinsett Rives
AID Forsyth, shed halo of mental and oratorcal