The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1842-03-04


wood upon their thighs, as the sole reward of me.
ritorious services, and are compelled 10 saw 10
themselves, az Paddy said TO his drum. By
the powers, honey you get ali the batting. but none
Of the baf!" There is another point worth noting
in the case Of General Parker If be really failed
with the department and the courts and finally made
his appeal to Congress, where he also failed-was
it in order for General Parker, or for the D.par.
ment to look into his case any further Is il not
usual for failure with Congress to close such
claim forever' And it may yet again be asked up.
on the allowance in question. was not the General
actually sued in 1922 as defaulter to the United
States. and judgment given against him, after
carrying the case up to the Supreme Court. for
| the sum covered by this allowance And while
actually under such judgment as a defauter did he
net enter the office, in which his claim has been
allowed 1t may be well to fad .ut whether these
reports can be sustained for if they cannot, we
should be glad Of chance TO say 80.
To return to the starting pons-General Scots
affai-perhaps another question may be set at rest
In this connection Perhaps it may be settled, ere
the investigation Of the matter ends, whether any
one person can hold two Offices at time in our
country; and, if SO, how many more-where is he
TO stop! The fair inference is, If man is paid for
two offices, that there are two Offices for him to be
paid for, and hence springs the inquiry. 1t is surely
very important where citizen offers himself for the
Presidency that his sentiments upon points 80 vitality
affecting the dearest interests of the republic should
be early understood.
House OF Representatives..
The first business disposed Of in the House Of
Representatives to-day, was resolution, fixing IL
o'clock as the hour Of meeting, from and after
a. - Lo.-~ ILL.,.
the noes appeared to predominant, but the ayes and
noes were called and then 49, having the fear Of
publicity before their eyes, voted for the resolution,
and but p against it. Mr. Talsfero had the moral
courage, however, to give notice that tomorrow he
should move consideration ofthe vote, and il he
failed in that, he Should move that the Standing
Committees be discharged from the further con-
sderation of the subjects before them.
MIR. GENTRY next reported private bill, and
made a motion that the House 90 into Committee
of the whole Upon it, A, this bill had, perhaps, 40
better claim than any of the GOO others which await
the disposal of the House. the motion was not as
sented to. The report and the motion were both
out of order, rigid adherence to which would pos
sbly facilitate the public business, by saving the
time consumed in frui,less efforts to force
out of their proper routine. Mr.. SUMMERS then
would be vast saving Of time to 60 regularly.
Up to this point the House had consumed thirty mi
nutes, which, ut the ratio given yesterday, the
nation upwards Of $500. Hall the morning honr
having been thus consumed, that portion Of time
was taken from the business portion Of the day,
and for an hour the report OF the Relrenchment
Committee occupied the House. Rabelais,
that truest of all historians, relates that Gargantua
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catch hares in carrying water in selves, fishing
for whales in tea cups, in shoeng gosngs, in hunt
ing for needles in haysacks, and such profitable and
pleasant occupations What Gargantua did in youth
onr Congressman" are doing this session-that lie,
their pursuits, if not exactly the same, are ola SINH
lar business like and philosophical nature. On re-
solution to dispense with the services of the draughts
man to the House, reported by the Committee Of
Rerenchment, they pleasantly and appropriately de-
tailed the necessity Of Dispensing with the pestmas
ter to the House and the profit to result to the
try by each member g. fetching and carrying his
own letters from and to the city post office. In
cessay connection with this subject the debate was
made to embrace the anti-republican practice in
which certain members indulge, of employing per.
sons to clean their boots, and wash their Shirts, and
cook their food, and darn the holes in their stock
Mr.. Caleb Gushing, whe is now too much of an
arisocrat to do any Of these things, with bib and
tucker" sop pail and a scrubbing brush, proving
his sterling republicanism by doing the chars Of
his boarding house before he proceeds to the Capt.
tol to do "charing" large scale for the nation.
Mr.. Gordon would grace the boot-hole admirably.
| Mr.. Morgan as a scuon would be unique. Mr.. |
G. Floyd up to the elbows in soap suds and, anon.
:. led Enn IF ~J.,,e. kaA
gown or knocking jacket" would be spectacle I
{, gaze upon. But oh Ph9bus! look upon Mr. I
Smith, or MIR. Hopkins, with spruce mob cap, and
be-specacled nose, darnng stocking or restoring
stray button to shirt wristband. True, there ART
many blowzy cooks in the House who might rea I
senably be mistaken for that fre-proof, begreasec
biced-but contemplate Mr.. Fillmore frying eggs OF
trusting turkey. Great genuses are some of ou
| statesmen.
This useful and intellectual debate exhausted. the
resolution proposing reduction of the messenger
of the House was agreed to- and all other questions
relevant or irrelevant are left as a legacy to tht
| House tomorrow.
The Speaker presented several Executive com
munioations, and then a letter from Mr.. Thoma
Allen. who had been instructed by resolution from
| the House TO desist from making any further FRO
gress with the printing Of the compendium Of tn |
| census until il can be asceriained whether Mr. Al
len or Messrs Blair & Rives shall be paid for it,
Mr. Allen, in his letter, snubs the House for ignoran
| and impertinent intermeddling with business ths
| does not concern them. 81 take it for granted, h
saws with contemptuous smile, that the House
Representatives, in passing this resolution, suppos
that was executing work ordered by that House.
That'sa mnd-youro business sort Of reproof, bl
| he condo scends TO enlighten their ignorance by II
forming them that he is engaged in the execution
a law OF Congress which admits of suspension
except by the concurrent action of both Houses an
| the Executive, or of twolhirds Of the two House
| independent of the Executive. L,meRtably def
cient in the learning Of the primer Of egislatic
must the House have been when it passed the res
lnfion with which Mr. Allen de ais so cent? mp,uou