The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-01-26

An Extra Session o Congress.
Among the devices resored to by the opposition prints
to delay the important congressional business of the pres
ent session. and thereby embarrass and cripple the efforts
of the administration 'to prosecute the war to speedy
and successful termination" notice frequent sugges.
tons Of the expediency and the probability of an Extra
Session of Congress- These suggestions are manesty
designed to poor apology for neicency and
delay at the present time.
If the Congress now assembled will only use reason
able despatch in the performance OF its plain and obyious
duty there cannot be the slightest necessity for an Extra
Session The adoption of three four measures recon-
mended by the Executive will give to the administration
all the aid which it asks from Congress in unfolding
the rights and the character of the country All of
these measures may be adopted without the least
difficulty, and with all due deteration, in a very
short time, now that they have been discussed BY
Congress and duly considered by the country
Congress has yet about five weeks to sit There
is abundance of time, therefore, to finish its work
We shall be slow TO believe that the majority of Con-
gress will before the country the grave and fear
full responsibility of manifesting any want of Angness
to finish it. But if the work be left undone this respon
sbilty cannot be avoided 1t rests and must rest with
those who hold the power.
Laying out OF view the expense of an Extra Session.
and the delay necessarily occasioned by it, while mean
time, the war is left to anguish hands, there are
very serious difficulties in the way of any such CALL by
the President, for the assembling of the new Congress
Several of the States be represented in such an
Extra Session Virginia does not elect her representa-
ves till the last Of April Other States choose theirs in
the course of the spring North Carolina Tennessee
A IL ". i IF
Several other States the like predicament Mssis
sppi does not elect till November. How absurd is it,
then, that when the present Congress has time
enough to do its work, it should postpone and pro-
castinate its necessary action in view OF Extra SEES
sion which cannot be assembled the earliest before
the vomito will be its height in Mexco-before the
heats will be ragngbefoe the season for the
most efficient military operations will have closed and
when the Congress which is to assemble under such un
favorable circumstances, will necessarily fail to represent
all the States OF the Union
Besides, what can be done at session, which
cannot just well, and much better, be done now ,
Will the members of the Congress understand the
state of public business any better than it is understood
by those who have been engaged upon it for two SEES
sions, and who here Will there be less empty
and irrelevant and procrastnang debate delay action
while just the topics remain, and new assembly
of debaters comes together to meet them VIII the ex-
ira session have any facility any motive for
business which the present regular session has not Can
the Executive set before them its recommendations with
any additional dstnctness urgency, force On the
contrary the season of the year unfavorabe to our
military operations WILL when the extra session must
assemble in itself constitute petext for additional hest
e
has not been encouraging Such a session was com
menced in May, 1871, and spun out till the middle
of September An extra session during the present year
will run out to the same length, if its members should
be endowed with the same propensity for oquacous de-
bate and mastery inactivity" of measures which have
distinguished the largest portion OF the present session
They have but to follow in the footsteps of this session.
and the whole year will without an efficient prose
cuon of the We shall have in fact no real campaign
during the year We have yet to learn that either the
course, the result of the present proceedings tend to
give either the government the country any confidence
in the advantages of extra regular session of
the national Legislature
The welfare of the country depends on the vigorous
action of Congress An Extra Session cannot be
waited for. Before il sit the best time for action
gone Its sitting will OF itself very considerably burden
the Treasury And what guarantee can be given to
the government, to the country that will enter upon
its work under any better auspices than those which
ruled the deliberations Of the present Congress We do
not hesitate say that the President has done his duty
He has the public sympahies with him in support of the
energetic course he spursue1 and the efficient
he has recommended Let the present Congress do their
duty. We well assured that extra session OF Con-
gress need be anticipated If the present Congress only
do their duty, none will be necessary. Ii they do not
perform that duty, they be responsible to their
stiiuents and then country for the grievous derecton
Away them with the idle story the federal presses about
an Extra Session of Congress The idea reasonably
be entertained Its not Extra Session that want We
want rather spirit of energy and efficiency and patriot
ism, which shall put aside profess debate, and move
at once to the full accomplishment of those great and in
dispensabe measures in the public service, which the
country calls for with voice. which the crisis impera
lively demands and which the President has again and
again urged upon Congress with all the emphasis of hi.
solemn responsibility and his duty under the constitution
Of his country.