The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-01-10
CONGRESS ADJouREs.

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| Does this Congress ever do anything
but adjourn? Some wight. lacking in
eagacity as xell rs in reverence, has pre-
suned to call ii the .'Daw ding Congress-. y
How upjustlyl Did ever any public
body exhibit such incessaut activity as
the F.rtieth Congress hab done in adj
jeuraing? The fertility of its invention
In dadiDg reasons for sdjourning is mare
Vicious, TIE member who has charge of
this depastmeEt-the chairman OF the
committee on Adjourning-the ouly &C
tive committee, and one whose works are
IT'S all Sufficient eulogy-must surely be a
genius! What would he not accom- plish,
could he be induced 10 turn his attention
to novel manufacturing? What novelty
of plots and freshness of incident?
Mr.. johnson has committed every crime
that President can or that man ever
did. Ne would not be so unjust as to
deny That a lair share Of the session has
been most worthily employed in finding
OUT that cunning demagogue has contriy-
| ed TO do all this mischief without bring
| ing himself within reach of the law. The
| toll of Mr.. Wilson, of Iowa, in this mat
ter must have been stupendous. Kick
ing against nothing, aud The old Scottish
| wizards task of making cables out of
sea sand are TRIES in comparison. Such
man uas fairly earned his holiday. One
ought to be granted him for the rest Of
the session. No person will imag inc that
any public interest would suffer from
such a grant. Mr.. Wilson, at home,
teariuliy perusing the late speech of his
coil a u, Judge Woodbridge, would be,
| n, M
place" But the American public is too
busy, too much absoI bed in Mr.. Dickens
and Bonner's Dexter, to do justice to
| shrinking and unobtrusive merit. And
our wish is to cali public atteatien 10 the
un heated merit of the Fortieth Congress
in general, as to this matter of adj ourui1g
There is story all ,at-we do not
vouch for The truth of it-Ihat a man
spent week in Washington on Congress
sloDal business; bnt. being a late riser,
failed each day to get TO the capitol in
time to see Congress 10 session. Al last
in order to save lime aud hack hire he
adopted the ingenious expediment OF tel
egraphtng from Wizards 10 the capitol
10 Inquire whether Congress was iu ses
sion. La this way he managed once to
get there, in Time to see Congress in the
full climax of its actIvity-.nat Is, lust
ir the act of adjourning.
Congress and boys and girls are the
only persons in this counlry who enjoy
holidays. Boys aud girls have them when
teachers allow. Congress takes them
when it pieases. With the exception OF
sucn cases of over active and sorety task
ed individuals as MIR. Wilson, we venture,
with due Difference, to suggest that. once
IN g great while. THE privilege is abused.
The cautious and eminently Judic;ous ed
i,or of the Tribune expends great amount
of excellent indignation on mileage.
Suppose he joins, tor once, with honest
men, and urges a plan of paying Con
gees by the hour-it being unde rstood
that ,urneys home to eat Thanksgiving
dinners, and attend Christmas, and &c
have tue hall sweep, adjouraments over
TILL Monday 10 get quorums, etc., shall
not be counted as session hours. W.
were once connected with a debating SO
ciety whose favorite question on exhibit
ton nights was: Ills the State safe
when the Legislature is 10 session CIR while
it stands adjourned?" What ample ma.
! terials for such discussion the presen
Congress would suppIyl A point nigh
be raised as to whether Congress dlt
more While in session or while adjourned
r Microscopes Investigation could alone de
termine, the difference in amount BEN:
so slight.
Now that Congress has resolved itaeI
!. into mere National committee to over
y see the next Presidential election, all res
= in crest in It's action and debates ceases
: except so far as they may throw light
!. that momentous question-impescbmen
y Finance, acquisition of foreign territory
. reconstruction itself have all become jug
); gler's balls, rising and falling as hide
agency commands. Congress Is afral
q ., of any decisive step. Like equally matct
~ ed gamblers, they dread in the presenc
of rivals TO risk a move. The N ain OF
Il iect is to seem to do something; but
2 reality do as little as possible. 4 state
!. man would seize circumstances in b
: master grasp and crush from them su
- cess. These dabsters are only able
:, drift; aud hence they drift on, helpless
70 hoping. Micawber-Iike. that eomsthiI
'S viii turn up 10 help their candidate
~ may expect. therefore, to see the PoHc
~ so ably mi lated industrious'y carfieo on
~ the Foriieth Congress solving It 'eit ,u'
q a grand committee charged with the III
portant duty of fading out Tho" nos
10 do It. 4g
bo The Thirty eighth Congress will Ii,
q in history as the one which initiated q
IN Constitutional amendment abolishing e
a very. The Thirty ninth Congress- y
: be renowned for that great abortion. I
re- civil office tenure act. But of the Fe
OF .ieth Congress it will simply and grand
rii be recorded that ii adjourned.
nd WEEDELL PHILLIPS.