The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-01-31
opposition and involving the expenditure of
money Here we quote rich bit of debate

opposition and involving the expenditure Of
money. Here we quote rich bit of debate
Mr. Amorr, opp Of Me- voted against AL those
Mr. Isrcasx (adm, Of Va i am glad 70 hear IT, for II
is sal better evidence that he coming TO our side
Now, cir the gentleman tells that the government
$40 ocO ooo, AID ;usima,ss that that expenditure Is
charseab!e upon the present administration How can
| tbss be- Wno had the majority in this House las!
| SEVERAL volcrs-Nobody.
Mr. Extraordinarily All, ! thought the Know
not Democratic majority That is plan and clear
ano apybody is responsible for the expendi = voted
in this House is not the democratic party y were
IN minority in this sa,! at that time.
the Scnato.
sttepc to that BY the way, what has become OF
that court house Of yours in Galenas (Iaughter)
Mr. LErc1lER-He cas for tie erpense of bui,dino court
house ,ce cr held yet he holds the dem ~ratc
party responsible for proagacy In spencirg the public
money and, .her, besides, II reccllect right my friend
from Illinois not o,s not content take his oscn but
in order to get ng 90 into patnershir ,cth f
teen or s'cem,y Others for simildr purposes
In the House debate upon Nicaragua Walker
we find about forty columns of trash. Stephens
of Georgia, believed that if our government had
not interfered with Walker "he would now
have been ~ secure in the affections Of bis
people (the Nicaraguans) as our President is in
his Keitt, of South Carolina, talked about the
International law being "elastic for dynasties,
but cramped for republics" Another philoso-
pher used up his hour in illustrations drawn
from ancient and modern history, but when he
had got as far as the First Consulate of Napo
leon, down went the Chairmans hammer, and
the orator sunk to oblivion. That one hour
inc To al
an hour. Eli Thayer, of Massachusetts,
tried to emulate Hale, and set himself
up as ''fool, a motley fool for
the amusement of the House. He ar
gued that Congress should establish com
pany, capital half a million, to encourage
emigration to Central America and first repeal
the neutrality laws. lie introduced resolu-
ton which he said he had carried in his pocket
several days" II s pity that an earthquake
or some similar Providential visitation had not
obliged him to keep it there. Mr.. Haskins, of
New York distinguished himself by making his
maiden speech in favor Of national grand larce-
ny" He is probably quite well aware by
this time that his constituents do not agree
with him in that respect. All the debate
on this question, excepting, perhaps, a small
bit of the speech Of Mr.. Sickles was a
mass of verbiage without one new idea or one
close and logical deduction from the facts of the
case. Since that time there has been only one
remarkable speech in the House, that of Mr..
Davis, of Maryland, wherein he told some rather
sharp truths about the "partizan press" for
which he is now being violently assailed by near
ly all the small political and dirtiest editors in
the country. He will undoubtedly survive.
1t is 10y no means pleasant task to expose
the weakness and incapacity of the persons
whom the people have elected to rule over
them. 1t is, however, necessary that such an
exposure should be made. But few people
have time to read the Debates and the few
don't do il. Thus Congress left to itself dete-
riorates into mere country debating society
and gradually loses its resemblance to grave
deliberative body. When this is gone, the re-
spect and confidence Of the people goes after it..
and there is an end to the power of the legisla-
tive branch of the government. The only way
that we can ever have first class men in Con-
gress, in place of the blatant demagogues who
now disgrace it, is by keepinga strict watch upon
the proceedings, and rewsrding each member
according to has deserts, without fear OF favor
And we have fully determined TO ptrspe that
course.