Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1848-03-11
THE EXECUTIVE AND CONGRESS-.

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THE EXECUTIVE AND CONGRESS.
An important part Of the onerous duties of the
government paper appears 10 be to assail Congress
with all sorts Of wordy and windy epthets, on any
occasion or on no occasion. An article of this
kind appeared in the I. Union " of Friday nigat,
and another in the paper Of Saturday night last
in which Congress are scolded at round rate be-
cause they have not passed as many acts thus far
at this session as the venerable Editor would have
liked. Thus says he:
"The Congress Of the United States has now
been in session for three long tedious months ;
and not an efficient bill has been passed for the
public service of the war! We call the attention
: Of the people to this striking fact. Instead Of
works, we have words, ,cords, WORDS The
friends of the Administration in the Senate have
been harassed by bitter and unrelenting attacks.
They are unable to bring the debate to close
for the want of previous question and, in the
House of Representatives, where the Wings have
acquired an accidental and Fictitious majority,
twelve weeks have passed in idle, unavaing dis
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And to this statement the Editor appends list
of the titles of fourteen acts and one joint resolu-
ton, comprising, as he says, all that have passed
since Congress met.
Grant him his premises, and what are the facts I!
Why, that his own political friends have, with a
large majority in the Senate, allowed the passage
of the Ten Regiment Bill to be delayed when they
could have done otherwise. They had their own
reasons, the latter part of the discussions for not
pressing it to vote-and very sufficient reasons
we have no doubt they were--in proof of which il
is enough to state that they themselves continued
to debate it until the arrival of the Treaty put
(whatwe trust will be) inal stop to it.
With regard TO the House of Representatives,
we have not, since the commencement of the reign
of the present political Dynasty, had orde ly or
as working House of Representatives as the pre-
sent. We challenge comparison between the ac-
ton of that body during the past twelve weeks "
and that of the last House Of Representatives, in
which the Administration had majority of nearly
two to one, during the same precise period of its
first session. Upon the Sd Of March THE date
taken by the i" Union y instead of the number of
acts and resolutions passed at this session, there
had passed but seUen acts and too joint resolutions;
and up to the memorable 18th of May OF that
year--more than two months later than the present
date-that Congress had passed only t,oelve acts,
to which, on the day mentioned, the two ,car acts
were hastily added bringing the number up to four
teen, the exact number already passed by the pre-
sent Congress.
We expect our venerable neghbor, after this ex-
position to be as obstinately mute for the future
upon this matter as he has been upon the questions
we put to him two or three weeks ago, for further
information as to the person, place, and process of
the manufacture in this country Of British opinion
upon the War, and upon the Subtreasury, TO be re-
imported to the United States for the American
market. Seriously, however, let us add, if he was
himself imposed upon by this counterfeit as very
likely he was, he ought to " acknowledge The corn"