The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1866-02-17
ssConcnrrent Resolut;ons.,,


The offense of uttering platituies and vo-
ting axioms is very cheap, but at the same
time very ridiculous method of Legisla-
ting, and our assemblage of Solons at To-
peka is indulging in this disgusting jobbery
to an unheard Of extent. Concurrent reso-
buttons without number are written, and in
troduced, and talked upon, until the whole
thing would be laughable if it were not con-
temptible. Some honorable member con-
ceives the idea that the country is going to
the dogs by lightning train if Jeff. Davis is
not at once swung up in the air on the sour
est of apple trees, and he at once pops up
with a concurrent resolution in which be
proposes to instruct Congress and the Pres
ident that the rebel chief should be at once
tried, convicted and hanged. Another, who
wants to make little buncombe to tickle
the ears of the people in his ''district, :" i'm
AGNES that if the French Emperor heard
that Kansas was in favor of the Monroe
doctrine, he would at once withdraw his
troops from the support of the Hapsburg
6llibuster, aud so he must needs make a
great yawp in the shape of another concur
rent resolution telling the President and
Congress what to do in the case. Another
some miserable mail contractor who, not
having the fear of the Lord and the Legis-
lature of Kansas in his heart, has failed to
come TO time with the leather pouches of
Uncle Sam, and straightway concurrent
resolution invades the Legislative quiet,
proposing to instruct the Postmaster Gen
eral. Some Kansas soldiers have been dis
honorably discharged. and another sc. r. T"
is spru ng, instructing the Secretary of War.
A lot of ''noble red men" are on some lands
down in Southern Kansas, and the inevita-
bic sc. R." is again proposed instructing
the Secretary of the Interior. We believe
that the Kansas Legislature has, up to this
time, gravely passed Concurrent Rssolu-
tons instructing the President and each
individual member of his Cabinet, the Sen
ate and house of Representatives, and sew
eral foreign potentates ''toosnumerous to
mention" Nothing has yet, SO far as we
can learn, been said about Brigham Young's
harem, Edwin Forests divorce case, or the
editorial conduct of the New York Tribune;
but We live In hope ! There are yet about
twenty days left of the session
Seriously, however, this business of food
ing Congress. the White House, and the
journals of our Legislature with all manner
of Concurrent Resolutions is getting to be
very huge bore. 1t is in very bad taste,
not to say disgusting. And it is especially
extravagant and prosperous when these
resolution stake the shape of declarations Of
opinion upon su bjeets which the whole
nation has, for months past, been consider
ing, or when, as in the case in several in
stances, they are votes on maxims that have
long since been as thoroughly agreed to as
a proposition in Euclid. 80 - az
"Buncombe" is a good thing to tickle
the ears of constituents, but we modestlY
suggest that it is much better for an honor
able member to be fright on the record
Eas q faithful, practical, intelligent worker,
than as blatant and cunning demagogue,
endeavoring only to catch some fellow
member asleep, and wake him up with q
rouser or some astonishingly devised moral
axiom. We live in fear that political
SLATE will soon be made up, based upon
3 resolution that two and two make four, OF
that the sun rises IN the East According
TO popular Ethiopian tradition this is the
''year Ojubilss," and why shouldn't our
honorable members indulge in such harm
less easantries.-4AtcRison Champion,