Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1829-01-03

Washington correspondent OF the N. T."
Daily Advertiser has taken up subject on
which we have designed 10 make some remarks
ourselves. The observations Of the writer will
however serve for the present--we hope they
will be attended 10 in the proper quarter.
The Senate adjourned on Thursday to Mon.
day. and the House having discussed, on Friday
three horse cases, two involving the sum OF Tor
ty five dollars each, and ONE The sum OF sixty
dollars. adjourned to Monday also By The Iule
Of the House, Fridays and Saturdays are set
part for the transaction OF private business
Week before last, OH Friday, Two bills were ac-
tee on in committee Of the whole, one for the
appropriaiion Of twelve dollars TO q claimant
and the other for somewhat more than fifty
dollars-when the house having become exces.
si,ely fatigued, and exhausted, by its arduous
labors, adjourned over 10 Monday, in urder to
take breath. To day, joint resolution has pas
sec, 10 adjourn from 10 morrow 10 Monday -
Bills now siaid on the list, that have passed one
or the Other branch Of Congress three years in
succession without opposition, and the claim
ants, to all human view, are no nearer the tine
when they can obtain The money that Is due
them, either for their labour bestowed, or mo-
ney expended for The benefit Of the United
States, than they were when their petitions were
Fl, st presented The excuse for these adjourn,
m.n,s is, that in The early part of the session,
they are necessary to give time for the commit
ices to examine the subjects before them Who
ever will take the pains 10 examine the journ>
ais, will fad that no more importan: business
is reported on Monday, than on any other day
when The Iifferen, committees meet, and who.
ever investigates this subject, will find that
committees do not ordinarily meet, except on
those days when the House 10 which they be-
longis in session.
| The question will be asked, is there no re-
medy for this evil? There is if u sufficient num-
| Der Of members can be obtained to call The yeas
and nays, & without this, there is nor, as there
is no olher mems Of knowing who Is disposed
TO attend TO business.
1t may appear strange, that one fifth Of The
| members will not support a call Tor the yeas and
nays, OH a motion to adjourn, but such is the
fact, aud member who has The iemeriiy
| to make the call, is attempted 10 be laughed
down.
1t would be well for the retrencaing commit
tee, when looking into every nook and corner
Of the diffrren, departments, to find some clerk
who has devoted half an hour during Office
hours TO his private business or amusement, or
one who has nearly worn OUT his days in the
service Of mis- country, W: is supported from
the public crib, 10 make detailed report Of
the time thai Is worse Than lost by the mem
brrs, at each session. lf the auction bill is not
decided al this session. it will b. because The
time that might be devoted to its discussion,
is needlsssly wasted. Let The 1900 snbscriS-
FRS in your city, see that this business is not
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mat men viii Strain al gnat and swallow
q camel is as true now, as when the declars-
ton was first made. Some numbers last SEES.
sion (and presume this is the case a, this srs>
sion also,) would not take 2enknife, who
unite in every motion 10 adjourn. M.ny ,hro'>
out the United States have undoubtedly been
induced, from the clsmor that has been made,
TO believe, that The present administration hss
been pr"Higate IN wasting boz tim. AMI mo.
ney-bot let The people recoIlect, iba, for TWO
years these pretended ieformrrs have had a
majority in both Houses OF Congress.