Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1844-01-30

| WISDOM IN FoLLY-Thc London Jour
nal that rcjoices in the name Of Punch"
though its vocation and profession are to eX-
cite hugh;or by ridicaie, and sometimes
even by absurdity, does not fail occasionally
10 utter morscls of sound wisdom; like the
Court testers of old, carving head fnll of
brains under its cap and bellies. For instan-
ce, the petition to Parliament which we sub
Join:
TO lie Honorable the Commons of the u
uitcd Kingdom IN Parliament assembled.
TIE nUMRLE PETITION or-,M.K k.
Shereth;
That your petitioner has froqucntly,to his
great personal Inconvenience, slept many
successive nights on the benches of your
honorable House, Jailed to rest by your de-
bates and waiting division.
Tint your petitioner has ever observed
that the moment any question is proposed to
the House, every honorable member has al
ready made up his mind which way he will
vote and every other member knows which
way that VIII be.
There never has been known an instance
of any honorable mombcr, after hearing or
sleeping through dobate,or waiting the end
without doing either, voting otherwise than
as he had determined 10 vote before the de-
bate began.
That your petitioner has, therefore, often
thought that it would be great relief to hon
orabIe members if they were allowed TO give
their vote on every question before the dc
bate upon it began, ind that such a pleased
be then allowed 10 90 quietly home.
That your petitioner purporteI to have
proposed this as standing order, but that
erection ola new House of Paliamcnt gives
opportunity for a still better arrangement.
Yow Petitioner humbly prays:
That instead Of one house only, in which
to assemble the Commons, there, be, in the
new building, two houses.
That of these houses, one be appropriated
to speaking and the other to voting
Tia; The bushes; Of both houses, proceed
simultaneously. Tint whenever the house
Of voting shall have got through the business
ofthe season, it shall be competent TO her
! Majesty 10 proroguc them without noccssaF-
/ II prorogIiny thc house of speaking, who
snail be at liberty 10 sit as long as they
please.
That any member wishing TO make a
speech and not finding opportunity, af
ter two days vain cndcavor to be heard, de-
post bis intended speech in writing with the
doorhcopcr, and the same shall be printed,
at the members expense, and copy sent to
every newspaper in the United King lom,to
be by them inserted, as soon as may be eth
cr in the report Of the debate 10 which it be-
lonrs,or ofsomo other. And your petition
CT, &c.
Ii is true that the speaking in most leg
islatiye assemblies neither has nor is expect
cd 20 have much influence upon the voting;
/ its Intended for The readers outside of the
walls, not for the hearers within; and its co.
Jet is rather 10 justify the votes given than
to affect their relative numbers. Therefore
the voting might as we'll be done quietly
without dcbate,aud the speaking come after
wards, greatly to the promotion Of economy
in TINE and money. But for better aadapt
ton OF the plan to our mcridian,the pay o
Congressional gentleman should stop alto
ccihcr, or he at least essentially reduced
as soon as thc voting was oycr-N. Y. Com
Adv.