The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1852-03-29
RICHM ND. VA,
Monday sieruing, march 30, 1852.
-conGREss--ITS WASTE OF TIME.


Perhaps there never was session oil Con
srcss at which there was such waste OF time
as The preseut. The shameless manner in
which the days are whiled away in useless de-
bate. is amazing. We cannot understand how
a man, acknowledging any responsibility to
constituent BODY, can stand up, in open day, in
the Federal House of Representatives, and
wae his tongue by the hour, ia utteripg words
which have 10 reference whatever TO the pub
lie business. " hich, it is presumed. he was sent
there 10 act upon. Party interest, President
making, aud the consistency of the public con-
duct OF their own mighty selves, are the
themes OF their endless discussion. Especially
are they sensitive upon the subject of their
consistency The most inconsistent Of them
all are the most particularly punctilious on the
subject of consistency-and it is they who
spend the most time in proving the existence
of that which they need so much.
This waste of public money. of time which
should he devoted to the public business,
seems to be acquiesced in, almost by common
consent. The few who do not approve it are
too few to be effective, and they have given
over the lifting up their still small voice, like
one crying in the wilderness against the abu-
ses they daily witness. The most impor-
tant and pressing public business slumbers on
the table-the public creditors, public works.
must await the pleasure OF the politicians
they must talk about themselves and their par
ty, and the opportunity of talking at the public
-, to no locf The nuhirc
business must wait, What is il to them if
men, if families, whose welfare depends upon
their action, are suffering? What, if the pub
lie interests are neglected. These are too in
considerable and trifing matters to be attended
to until mightier and weighter affairs are dis
posed of! Are not their interests to take care
of first ? Most assuredly are they the mos,
important Of propositions, and per diem neat :.
When money is wanted for per diem why
they raise the means for that promptly but
nothing short of that should occasion, in their
estimation, u suspension of the important dis
cussion OF lhemselves-the attending to their
own purity and personal interests
The other day, pending one of the bills
which is made the occasion for the idle de-
bate which is so injurious. SO disgraceful to
the mutton, Mr.. Brooks of New York, called
member to order for violating the rule which
requires n member 10 speak on the question
before the House. The CHAIR decided the MEM
Der in order, since the latitude of debate had
been allowed by the House. Mr. Brooks ap-
pealed to the House-the House sustained the
Chair, aud the member went on till, we sup
pose, he was out of breath for it seems no.
thing short of that will stop the mouth of your
modern politician.
If this evil is to 60 on in the ratio of increase
in which iihas gone on for ten years, as much as
we love the Union, we are not sure but the day
may come when we would be ready to dissolve
the Union TO get rid of Congress! Such an
evil must, sooner or later find its remedy-be
il peaceable or violent. 1t is not impossible
that il may come in the form of some future
Napoleon, who will, at the point of the bayo-
net, clear a hall, originally designed for egis
lation on public business, that has become the
mere arena Of partisan and personal squabbles!