New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-06-13


vertised in The Tribune a deserter and If the
advertisement adds ono to the number of The
Tribunes subscribers, its design will no doubt be
accomplished
With great respect have the honor to be
CHARLES Z. CLARKE
Remarks.
/. We will begin by letting Mr.. Clarke into a
secret which a man Of his years should not have
waited till this time to leanl-viz. No man 'cas eTer
get tcritten dozen by anybody but himself Let
Mr. c. be only careful how he handles the quill, and
be need have no fear of being written down by any
one else.
@ Mr. Clarkeseems 70 have great aversion to
BOYS who tell tales out of school But what has
that to DO with the easel Our Mileage Expose
was deemed breach OF the rule here brought into
view, because Of our Membership in the last House
But we have no connection with the present House
except as reporter of its proceedings, and visit it
for nothing else than to tell tales-hatis to let the
People know how and what their Representatives
are doing. We earn our Sc per day, be the same
more or less in this very way, and we shall try to
be worth the money. If we don't, it becomes our
subscribers to complain Of our want Of diligence or
| fidelity but we think it does not become those
| who are simply noted down as absent from the
House, when such was the undsputed fact to set
| up a hullaballOo about it. W. could not call the
Yeas and Nays, bat the House itself did; and if
the Members did rot mean thereby to let the coun-
try know who were present and who absent, as
well as how those present voted, we didn under
stand them. If any body is justly obnoxious to the
charge Of telling tales out of school, the guilt lies
~ L. II -, for ,,
called tie u cas- and Nays, aud Mr.. Clarkes cen
sure properly applies to them.
,. Mr.. Clarke apprehends that a publication of
tie names Of absentees on an important vote is
calculated to create an impression on the part of
constituents who work hard day for each dollar
they get AID are glad Of the chance, that they
don't get the worth OF their money from Repre-
sentative who takes s. per day and then attends
or not as his convenience or private interest shall
dictate. Weconiess to sympathy with that vulgar
prejudice, and cannot realize that Mr.. Clarke's
letter tends to aba.e it.
4. Mr.. Clarke would seem to have some sort Of
an opinion as to the propriety Of members taking
pay for days wherein they don't find it convenient
to do the work but is little shy of stating it. AS
it is the custom of our trade to give opinions with.
out exactng fees, we will give him ours that in |
such case it would be a perfectly safe course
not to take the money, and we are quite coniden. |
that no one will be blamed for following that |
course.
5. Finally, Mr.. Clarke sees fit 70 give several dis
tinct reasons for his absence the occasion refer
red to. First, he thought the House would not be
in session, il being customary to take a weeks va
cation when the carpets are taken up, and only
three days Of this had expired on the Monday in
question. We deny that there is any rule, reason
or necessity for consuming week in putting the
Hall in its summer trim We think there has been
no usage OF the kind but if there has it is cheat
ing usage, got up to cover loaiing and soldering
We are glad il was overlooked on this occasion
And. at all events, the House stood adjourned to
Monday at noon and it was every Members duty
to presume that his presence at that time would be
essentiall Bat, secondly, Mr.. Clarke informs
that he was unwell That is perfectly sufficient
and satisfactory excuse for non attendance, and he
should thank us for giving him an occasion to make
it public, ana not snarl at therefor through three
pages of foolscap. The Yeas and Nays were made
public at all events by the action of the House it.
SELF and the fact that he did not vote was thus
made apparent Would it not have been the wise
his part to simply ask to state the fact
Of his illness the occasion Of his absence instead
OF clearly identifying himselfin feeling and tenn.
per with those WHO were absent oitk0ut excuse
May not illnatured people be led to suspect that
his sickness was an after.thought, or he would not
have hunted up other excuses and exhibited such
temper in reference to the publication Of the names
of absenteesl We trust the gentleman manages
other peoples causes better than he does his own
"A word low on the general subject of absence
from their seats by Members Of Congress. Mr.
Clarke we scarcely know, and have no sort Of i'll
feeling toward him, and he cannot imagine that we
published the list OF los absentees from the House
on the occasion Of an important vote being taken
with any intent TO do him harm. But we deeply
feel that the public interest suffers because Of this
habitusl neglect Of duty by men who are well paid
on an implied contract that they will attend to it.
the asst two or three weeks, the most impOr-
tant Committees Of the House lin which the chief
labor of the Session has to be done) have been IN
able to mature the bills which ought ere this to
have been reported, simply because Members had
paired OIL or without pairing had left the city.
At length, we have Morning Sessions and Evening
Sessions, and henceforth it will be almost mposs-
bic to perform this Committee labor thoroughly, be-
cause the Members must be in their seats to de.
bate, listen and vote. During the last slack month
the Committee work should all have been done up
while the speech makers were edifying Buncombe
m Slavery but those who were faithful were BAT
led by the want Of quorum in several leading
Committees, and thus the work is LEFT undone till it
s so late that j. never can be properly done Is it
tale bearing in US TO let the public know these
actsl Have we deserved Mr.. Clarke pyrotech
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