The Senate bill for this purpose is now in the House Committee of the Whole. It went there necessarily, as it contains an appropriation of money. Under the rules, it will require time, patience, and tactics to give it a deliverance, but its opponents can only postpone its final passage, which is certain.
The vote, 45 to 93, upon Mr. Vallandigham’s motion to summarily reject the bill, presents some features which are gratifying, and some which are not so.
The Republicans of all shades voted solid to sustain the bill. On the same side we find the names of Mr. Blair of Missouri and Mr. Fisher (only two from the slave States), of some half dozen free State Democrats, and of Judge Thomas of Massachusetts, a gentleman not identified with any party, but of strong conservative leanings.
The vote for the rejection of the bill was thrown by members from the slave States, and by the Democrats from the free States, of the stamp of Messrs. Corning, Cox, and Vallandigham. We regret to observe also the names of two members from Western Virginia, Messrs. Blair and Brown, and of Mr. Thomas of Maryland, whose district consists of the counties of Frederick, Washington, and Alleghany. Things are very much misunderstood here, if either of these three gentlemen correctly represents his constituents, in voting against compensated emancipation In the District ol Columbia.
The National Republican, Washington, DC