New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-01-20
TOO MICH GAS.

party in Congress for their persistence IN keeping
| the House of Representatives disorganlzed. We
had supposed that what was l)ss to the mail con-
tractors and other claimants upon the Government,
in money might possibly be made up to the people
| in amusement The disgrace to the county was
great TO be sure but as tue people were evidently
| holding the Administration and its DisuDlOnist sup
porters responsible and preparing to take retrloa'
ton upon them in the Fall elections there was a
fair prospect of compensation for the Ill name we
were temporarily getting, at home and abroad. Ii
the peOple who are none too well of for recrea-
tons, could.ior two pence day sOlace themselves
with glance at the antics of the members of Con-
cress. there was really something gained. But we
submit. with all due Difference 10 the Dlsnnion
party that the people getting tired Of the play
This is no matter of surprise. TIE " American
cousin" would not have run two or three hundred
nights if it had been repeated upon every stage IN
the country, and printed in the newspapers beside.
If the Disu1ionsis expect their play TO run much
logger they must get it copyrighted, and issue tick
els of admission to the theater where it is per-
formed And we think it is too late for even that
plan to succeed. The people are By this time fully
acquainted, not only with the stage scenes, but
with the machinery behind the stage. The whole
affair ia easily understood and when the first sensa-
ton of wonder is worn of, it proves to BIZ uncom-
monty dull We have bad serous thoughts of
abandoning our daily and extended reports of pro-
cecdpgs, and of publishing the debates, something
in this form:
Mr. SINGLETON" Helper is a renegade
MIR. CURRY-"H Helper is a thief"
Mr.. PkYoR-" Seward is a scoundrel."
Mr.. KEITT-" Seward is a traitor"
Mr. VALLAsDIGHAM-"I am a doughfaee.'
Mr. Cox" So ain l."
Dir. CLARE Mo y" John Browns a horse-thief'
Mr. BILLY SMITH" John Brown is a murderer"
Mr. HoUsTos-'E John Sherman ia a traitor"
Mr.. MILES" Wen dissolve the Union by and by
Mr. PUom--"W Wen Dissolve it now"
This is the substance of the Hsuse de
bates of the past SIX weeks. OF course,
| there are occasional variations and interludes.
Sometimes a sensation Of relief is occasoned by
vigorous d-n at Chase OF Greeley, or Wilson, or
| Reecber. or Phil Ups; but the old, mOnOtOnous
| ing of Seward, aud Helper, and John Brown, and
| John Sherman is very soon resumed. Once IN
| while. some DsuniOn member of the Dryasdust
sort, like Extra Billy Smith, regales his auditors
| and the public, with some extracts from the Con-
greesiOnal debates twenty years old, showing what
| Mr.. John Quincy Adams, or Mr.. Charles j. Inger-
| soil. or Mr.. Benjamin Watkins Leigh said, or
| did. or thought; but he soon lapses into the old
strain, and winds up his speech with "D-n Helper,
| and dissolve the Union" Now and then MEN,
Der stops to administer blow at Mr.. Everett, ana
| Mr.. Cushmap, and the other unOn-savers but,
finding them too small game he turns again upon
Seward and d-ns him into the middle of the next
century, gibbets Old John Brown for the five hun
dreth time, calls Helper a renegade, or thief, or,
if particularly excited renegade thief, and sinks
back into his chair exhausted. And 50 it goes, day
in and day out, week in aud week out, month in
and month ont.
| We think there can be no mistake in saving the
| people are tired Of this. The people of Calf rna,
New. Mexico, Texas, may be enjoying 1t, perhaps;
| by and by the Australian OF the Liberan may be
amused by it, but the people Of this country gener
ally have had enough of it. They are beginning to
ask, what il Congress for Is it fuflliDg its pur-
pose as the legislative department of this great
nation, by making laws for the country, plying the
oountrys debts projecting the cOuntry's industry,
securing the peoples homesteads; or s it mere
debating club, established and continued at our
pense If il is the former, let ii organize and 90
about lie business if the latter, let go home, for
We can do our own debating, and do 10. wish to
psy men three thousand dollars year for swearing
at Seward and Helper, and threatening TO dissolve
the Union under which they get their pay and mile
age. Organize the House, this is your first duty.
Organize the House, and appoint the committees,
/ 30 that those who mean to earn their salaries by
| work may have chance to do 50. Then Dlsunion
speeches, like those of Pugh and Curry, or proca-
| nations of readiness to eat slayeholdng dirt like
hose of Cox and Vallaudigham, can be vented as
| ccasiOn offers.
The Republican members, We rejoice to sea, and
rejoice that tie people know, have placed no obsta
Gle in the way of organization. They have always
been ready TO vote and have made numberless pro-
positions tending TO bring on final settlement of
| the question Of the Speakership. They have intro
duccd no bogus resolutions, made no unmeanlng,
tiresone, or tratorous speeches They have sought
10 apply no tests to Mr.. Bocock, or Mr. Boteler or
Mfr. Hamilton, or MIR. Mllson, or Dir. Maynard or