New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-05-02
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wAsmseroS. April 3


Congress at "A sta nd" What blocks the "neeir'
Editorial Correspondence.
WAsmSeroS. April 80, -.
End among the better portion Of the Members
of Congress very general disss-slaction with toe
pon progre. of the public business 10 either House
The last week has seen very little ELECTED %
morrow both Houses will adjourn early upon tie
announcement Of Senator Ashley's death next
day will probably be devoted 70 the funeral next
day. the admission Of Wisconsin as State shOol1
be taken up, and We are threatened With discus
zion respecting It's Northern boundary On Ino''
day both Houses will adjourn over 70 Mon1Hy @
afford opportunity for taking up their carpets a."
putting them 10 Summer orders,-and mus ano'u''
week will have passed without results. AZ ~
close we shall be well into the sixth month OIL to1
Session. and yet very little Will have been accom-
pli.hed beyond filing for time the nav Of tins
alI.devouring War, which is even now preparing 10
cry for more, like the ghters Of the horseeech
of old Meantime, the regular Appropriation bills
remain untouched the Treaty or It's failure viii
soon claim the attention Of the House Y0catan
and Europe are fruitful Of debate the Public Lands
require consideration; and there are other impor'
tant questions which cannot be put aside Where
Is the Session to endl
There must be radical reform in Congress and
the best Members concur in the opinion that q re-
duction Of the pay is Indispensable. have DO
hope without H. Here IRE gathered great num-
Der Of real men Of business-lawyers in good prsc-
tce, merchants, manufacturers, extensive planters
and thrifty farmers, who earnestly desire that the
Nations business shall be promptly dispatched 80
as 70 allow them 70 20 home and attend % theirs
But there is another clsss-nosy II not numerous
and enabled by the present Rules Of the House 10
control its proceedings-to whom Washington 10 Il
Paradise; who live higher drink freer, are Of more
consequence and re; more money here than they
ever did or ever will anywhere else. Many who
here pocket ESQ per week aud do the nearest 70
nothing for il that can well be conceived, would
have 70 look very shsrpto pick up s25 else
where Now just so long "a the People will toer-
ate the present exorbitant rates Of pay, this kind
Of Msmhars will spin out Sessions and prevent any
thing being done Aud the fault Is not so much in
their necessities, their covetoosness or their sailp
Ie.sness, as 10 the Sinking Incidence and careless
ness Of the People who will not enforce the remedy
The Mileage ia a still less excusable abomioo-
tion. Texas sends hither two Senators and two
paw. some e., 500 each every Session for merely
coming here and going away again q would sooner
pay them twice the money 70 stay away l-slOVOJ
in all for travelling expenses which are uot actually
81 900 Arkansas will take &C 600 outoi the Tros-
sury this year merely for the travel other SENATOR
When we come % have Senators and Representa-
tives from Oregon and California, We shall have to
negotiate loan expressly to pay the Mileage Of
their Members.
Nobody pretends to justify this, aud yet It dehes
every effort to reform it. member starts up from
Bangor. Maine, and comes here IN some two days
and half paying some S25 and pocketing $3.50
clear profit. Coming from Galens or Chicago OF
Nstchez. or Little Rock, he will clear from SO to
$50 per day lounging on asteamboat andliying like
a prince or be takes the cars at Auburn in the
morning. has a capital nights sleep on the NORTH
River, and next morning awskes in New NorS
having in one day cleared over sl2O. Does any
body imagine that those who make money Ike tins
will carefully watch the Treasury against the in'
roads of others
There must be Retrenchment In the Pay and
Mileage of Members Then the compensation OF
tho scores employed about the Capitol must be
deputy Door Keepers, Pages, &c, are paid too
much, or thers would not be such fierce competition
for the places. It never should be worth any good
mans while 70 come from Illinois here to DO door
keeper, nor to importune his friends into writing
letters for him for any place 1t would not be If the
pay were not exorbtant Hence toe multiplication
of places and placemen far beyond the wants OF the
public service. Worst Of ALL comes vote at the
close Of each Session. to pay these overped place
men $3.50 each extra which Is actually paid 10 men
getting s2l per week, aud boys getting slOl per
week forvery light work. Can the people never he
aroused to look into these matters Shall We not
have the Yeas and Nays on this Extra swinde at
the close OF the Session.
| do believe that some earnest concerted, Ell
cient move will be made this week TO secure the
dispatch OF business, aud that from and after Mon.
day Of next week, the House will be recognized as
aplace OF business aud genuine devotion to public
interests. Heaven grant IT, Il. C.