The Northern Galaxy

THINGS IN WASHINGTON.

Correspondence of the Tribune.

Washington, Dec. 14th, 1845.

I understand that the Committee on Foreign Affairs have resolved to let the Oregon business work its own settlement: that they differ from President Polk, and will leave it to time to work out what the rabid Loco-Focos would call the sword to perform. In other words, I understand that the Committee are inclined not to report a bill for the termination of the joint occupancy.

There are six Loco-Focos on this Committee, of whom only one is from a free State, Charles J. Ingersoll; it is J. B. Rhett of South Carolina, followed by Payne of Alabama, Cobb of Georgia, Cullen of Tennessee, and Perry of Maryland. It may be that the statesmanlike views of Cullen will influence Rhett and others, rather than the forth and fury of Western Loco Focoism.

I understand also that the Committee of Ways and Means have resolved to ask Mr. Walker, Secretary of the Treasury, for a draft of a Tariff Bill, such as would meet the views in his report and the President's Message. It will be a curiosity if he can make it tally with these and the Kane letter.—They might pass the Kane letter itself for a Tariff Bill, as it will be impossible for them and Pennsylvania to agree on any thing else. There are three Whigs on this Committee, J. R. Ingersoll, Winthrop and Vinton. The six Loco Focos, (with the exception of Hungerford of N. Y. who I believe is a Tariff man) are from Slave States, including S. of course, Norris of New Hampshire.

It is a curious state of things when a member of the Cabinet is called upon to legislate in Representatives.