Delaware journal. [volume] (Wilmington [Del.]) 1827-1832, 1828-04-29
ADJOURNMENT OF CONGRESS.

ADJOURNMENT OF CONGRESS. i
On Wednesday, this subject was discussed in the
House of representatives. Mr.. P. Barbour said if
the House went on, continually enlarging the term
Of its session, the result would at length be- that no
citizens would come TO Congress, but either those
whose wealth relieved them from the necessity of
to their business, or those whose bus
mess at home was of little value to render them
DESTROYS of an election to Congress as pecuniary
speculation.
He appealed to the House whether the late tariff
bill might not well have been disposed of in four
weeks as in seven. He adverted, by way of con-
trast, to the practice of the British Parliament, in
which the discussion of any one subject rarely ex-
tended to the third night. No gentleman suppos-
ed that the House could get through all the business
on the docket The bills reported by the commit
tees continually accommodating and would do SO,
even should the House vote its sittings permanent.
He sincerely wished that the Constitution had fixed
the length OF both sessions, for ne believed the House
would generally do twice or three times the amount
of business at their second session, that they do at
their first. The excessive prolongation OF debate
instead of rendering certain correct result
generally operated the other way. When subject
was carefully examined and reported upon by one
of the committees, and an argument afterwards had
in the House, in which one two gentlemen on
either side presented the leading points in controver
sy the House would, generally be prepared to act.
He referred to the great haste in which bills were
usually passed during the last two three days OF
the session. and inferred that the House, before the
9th of May, might, if they used diligence, get
4 Through the most important bills before them, and
Those they omitted, would come up, as OF course, at
the next session.
e Mr.. Mitchell of Tennessee remarkable refer
n red to his experience in the Legislature of Tennes
lsee, which he insisted was far more dgnihed as
sembly than the House of Representatives had late
ly shewn itself to be-as that Legislature per
+ mitted members to indulge in BilIIngsgate ribadry
He thought the best remedy for logocracy would be
for the People to strike from the roll of the House
$ the SO lawyers, who were eternally babbling. H'
y did not include in that remark the gentleman from
r Virginia, Mr.. BARBOUR who lawyer of to
d high an order, to be at all within its scope. Fl
u was in favor of the amendment of Mr. Taylor and
in supporting it, adverted to the 345 private bills
many of them of vital importance to the claimant:
Is which yet remained upon the calender. Should the
lie break up without attending to any of these, the
III would well deserve the appelation of the 6 Rum
i'd Parliament
Mr.. MARABLE, fearing that, if he stayed muc
e. longer, he should not get off with whole bones, pre-
ed fessed himself anxious to return home, the sckl
re season approaching that, having. during this WOO
H. len contest, gained nothing he light be in the wa
- of fleeing. He belonged to the bloody profession
M he said, and though he might not be able to loo
MS with as much c0mposure as some others, on bloc
lat and carnage, he could contemplate corpse wi
- camness
Mr. CLARK, of New York, replied with SON
:" warmth to the remarks of Mr.. MITCHELL upC
babbling lawyers, expressing his Indignation. tn
A one, who himself belonged to the bar, should rise
W this House and SANDER the whole profession.
W. Mr. Wright, of Ohio, replied at length to the r
marks of Mr.. BARBOUR The resolution of NJ
HAMILTON put the cart before the horse, and
hoped it would not be adopted. Though anxious
return home, he recognized his obligations to do t
It'll uhlic business The first step was, to ascerta
dy the amount of that business; when that acct
ng, atey known the House would be prepared to fix
ow time for adjournment On the 9TH Of this monl
there remained 225 bills on the Calender, and
BAD GLIDING those which had come, and which would J
IN be received from the Senate, the whole numt
lte- would be little short Of 400 He adverted to
Use evils of hasty legislation the necessity which oft
Nd rose for explanatory acts and then commented
lat on the remark of Mr. B. in relation to the mode
1t doing business in the British Parliament, where
ia or two leaders discussed every question: and oil
uld members were coughed down. He hoped suc
Pre- state of things would never arrive IN this count
and was very certain that the gentleman from
hey gna would be the last to desire it. He then adv
tie, ted to the present situation of the Tariff Bill
to House. after seven weeks of debate, had just 8
on that bill to the Senate /; and it was proposed
OF send after it resolution, which went, in effe
In to say to that body, you shall not only decide
this bill in three weeks, but in that time you ST
lalso consider three hundred other bills which
now on our table, and all those of your own Ho
re- besides. Will not that body naturally conclu
lean that such resolution was meant to kill the b
UGH Would it not, in fact, put it within the poWe