The spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1840-1844, 1841-06-25
REFORM.-THE EXTRA SESSION AND
ITS EFSECTS.

A thing so silly, so useless, so uncalled for, new
or entered the head of the most addo-brained wing
as the Extra Session. The States, many of them,
were forced into the expensive business of an ex-
ira election of Representatives, who were called
from home at an unhealthy eneryang season Of
the year, at an expense of not less than million
Of dollars, for no good reason under Heaven. But
all is done to Reform the Government And pray
what steps have been taken' In the Senate the
Independent Treasury Act has been repealed, and
the Secretary of the Treasury has proposed a sub
stitutc that meets the ridicule, condemnation or
cold approval of his own friends, There the mat
ter Of Reform stands in the Senate.
The House has disgraccd the Nation With an
overwhelming majority, the lederalists have done
nothing but snarI aud jungle and fight, Ityoes to-
day to rescind the NNIsI Rule, known as the Gag
Rule )" Tomorrow reconsiders falling TO strike
out it votes to reconsider the Rules altogether
still it refuses to adopt the Rules either with or
without the XXIst, and finally breaks up on the
evening of its sixteenth day with no Rules what
ever, and after having in turn rejected every pos
sibe adjustment of the matter
This is splendid Reform, The New York Er-
press, fed, speaking Of the wretchcd conduc, of
the House, says
"Thc proceedings of the House of Representa-
lives on Monday, were disgmceiu, almost beyond
all precedent, and disrepulahe both TO the mem
4 A. To-, a,
or rather the work Of two weeks, for there has
been no legislation, was DESTROYED in half hour,
and that ton, by the absence of members from their
posts. The session of Monday continued from IL
to O'Clock, and through the whole scene of riot
and confusion prevailed. Passengers who were
present during the debate, speak Of the spectacle
as shameful in the extreme. Mr. Wise run riot
with his tongue by the hour, and seemed to think
that his constituents Of Virginia or The country, or
somebody else, was willing TO listen to all that he
had 10 say"
Now, pray tell US, il the country is not in Il
beautiful condition The Independent Treasury
ActrcpeaIed the money Of the people a, the COM
pletc and entire disposal of the Executive, what
the democrats have always strven to prevent -
no substitute proposed that meets the views of any
body robbery, bankruptcy and dcGilcatOn stalk
ing abroad Mt noon day the great god of the fed
eralists, Bldde, prosecuted by his own Giends for
enbezzng the funds of Fiscal Agent" bone
and flesh Of the new ono proposed by the federal
isis; the Administration cutting down the wages Of
labor, and compelling the hands employed on the
public works to labor icelre instead Of ten hours
day, as under Mr. Van Buren,; money scarcer than
ever confidence growing worse and worsc the ex-
penses ofthc Government increasing to an alarming
and unprecedented extent the faderalisis decIar-
ing at the same time that they have mo IDEA
of any reduction Of The aggregate amount Of the
expenditures Of The Government" the heros of
"Lundy' Lane" turned out of office to make room
for Bella Badger and the husband of Daniel Web
sler's mistress Nicholas Diddle swindng thou
sands out OF the community to pay his kept women,
and the councils of tho Nation in Il state Of shame
(ul anarchy and disgraceiul confusion IIurrah
for the grand Change! IIurrah for federal Re-
FORM