New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-03-20
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/ Congress has settled down into its old dog trot
1 mace and we may expect this session to witness
4 the coming in and going out Of the season-the
leaves have not quite burst the buds, but they
will expand and grew and fade again, before Con
l sress adjourns, at its present rate of progress
| There is d remedy for this. Within the few
frst days after the opening of this Congress the
House appointed Select Committee with power
70 revise the rules and to report at any time,
this report, when made, TO take precedence II
all other business until finally disposed of The
experience OF years has shown that the present
eumbrous code of rules which governs thu
House il SO devised that all the business be-
comes, after a few weeks, blocked up, and each
succeeding week only adds to this mass of con
fusion, fresh obstacles to progress so that in the
end, nothing but the annual appropriation bills
are passed upon, and these loaded down with
items properly belonging to separate bills; even
| these are not seriously taken in hand until q
day of adjournment is fixed upon, and then
every thing is done helter- shelter--clerks work
al night-committee of conference between the
tWo Houses cross each others paths in the ro-
Itunda- every body is worried to know what is
done, and until the legislative battle is over and
Congress adjourned, the very actors in this
scene of disgraceful hurry know not what is
| done, or left undone. The remedy for this is a
return to parliamentary rules and the courtesy
of gentlemen Let the press call upon the Sc
lect Committee to report; even if all the present
rules are annulled the country will be- the
gamer
Mr. Hunt brought before the House, this
morning, a question of privilege relative to
some remarks Of Mr. Lane, Of Indiana, which
were reported in the Globe in manner often
sive to Mr.. H., if designed to be applied to him
upon this point Mr., Hunt made inquiry. Mr.
Lane entered upon a long explanation and the
upshot of it was that he first took away the
ground of complaint, and then withdrew the
language used.
The answer to the inquiry Of the House con
corning what the Government knows about the
seizure of the Black Warrior at Havana, will
be made tomorrow or next day. I learn that
it will disappoint the flibusters, inasmuch as
the steamer was technically at fault in not COM
plying with the regulations Of the port in the
mode of entry and clearance This administra-
ton cannot be kicked into war BY outsiders,
and this fact ought to be known at once do
not impute this purpose to the Captain or owners
Of the Black Warrior, but | do well remember
that the last administration was obliged to tell
George Law very plainly that if he wished
Government protection he must keep within the
pale Of international law. CHRoNIcLER H.
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