New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-03-14


elready large State The bill was finally referred
10 the Committee Of the Whole on the State OF The
Union.
What Impedes and Obstrucfs the dispatch oil
Public BusiBessf
Congress has now been in session more than
fourteen weeks-l0ngsr than the whole extent Of
last sesson-tfrce-iourth as long as eny Session
should be- There is a mass of public business Of
pressing importance--n regard b which any con
ceivablc action would be preferable to delay The
present Appropriations expire with the month OF
June, and those for ls5O-jl ought to be perfected
before the close Of April, so as TO give the Execu-
tive at least two months 10 conform the public SER
vice u the retrenchments or expansions that Con.
gress shall deem advisable. II new regiments are
20 be created or old ones filed up for the better de
Tense Of our vast exposed South w estern frontier
now is the time for them; if infantry are 10 be
mounted for dragon service Oh that frontier, IT
ought now to be known California, so lons ne
elected aud msused, 10 the Nations injury aud
loss, impsTatyely demands action II the destitute
crowded into cities and compelled TO stand lde
when they would gladly be employed, are this year
u be permitted to find employment or subsistence
on the Public lands they ought 20 have the priVh-
eye secured to them now The Hungarian Exile
pleads for earth 10 ill from our bounteous Nationa'
Domain, aud wants it now American Labor de
pressed at all points by the depression OF Arts ano
Manufactures through the riyary OF iabncs pro
daced by the half or quartcr-pais Labor of Europe
demands of Congress security and protectlon--de
mands it. needs il now. There ought TO he great
Retrenchments effected in the cost of our public
service especially in the Naval department The
paths Of Members travelling TO and from Congress
ought to be- straitened, at least the Mileage
should be, and SO OF many other topics DEMANDING
Legislative action. Yet half long Session. equs
to whole short Session, has glided away durine
which Congress has accomplished nothing-aOso
luiely nothing Even the hopes Of duel or some
thing equivalent thereto. which have enivened
public interest from time TO time have ali been sis
nally blasted The Session has thus far been IN eli
respects a stupcndous failure.
Does any one ask the reason
Certainly, neither the cause nor the friends OF
Freedom Ia the Territories is IA fault Three
fourths of the talk and all the efforts for postpone
men, and delay have originated with its adverse
ries The little that has been said on our side has
been offered in reply to or defense against demon
STATIONS from our adversaries We have at all
times been ready To wave talking and proceed a.
voting. We ask no stipulations, make no condi
tons, require no compromise If outvotod On al.
point, we shall make other than legal and peace
ful resistance to the majority decision. We DO
not in any event propose to break out OF the Union
and resist its laws and courts. We do not oypher
out and dilete upon the advantages We might de-
rive from dissolution Accustomed u be voted
down and to submit we propose no shpuaiion'
that In case of defeat We shall nevertheless ENJOY
half the spols OF victory. We are quite indihei
emit whether Congress shah act first on slavery
and next on ordinary Business first on Business
and next on Slavery. AL We ask IS that Congress
shall take hold OF soRefhiag and do IT, proceeding
thence to something else and treating 1t ia like
manner. Ii not ready yet to act On questions
affecting Slavery, let i, take hold of something else
letting Slavery alone until ready to act uponit
But no--the Slavery Propaganda will perm
acton neither upon that nor anything else. One q
its chiefs Is Speaker OF the House and has mad
another Chairman Of the Committee Of Ways ais
Means One Of its most obsequious tools is Char
man OF the Finance Committee Of the Senate
When any move is made to push forward the pub
lie business, its drilled osort is ready To squando
hours aud days by useless and irritating calls Q
the Yeas and Nays on motions which have no othe
object than the waste OF time II Is notorious tina
its leaders have resolved that 10 fmportdHt bssi
ness shall n transacted ~ either House aHfR ~
Slavery qaesssoa IS settled 70 tkSr sdtisfacf,0n--
and this is the cause Of the lng obstruction G
business in both Houses Having sh the Commit
tees shaped to their liking they can keep back tn
paost essential measures Till December II they like
And they mean to their power SG the sPeoia
advantage OF Slavery.
People OF the United States are you thinking {
tbese shingsi