, 1870-03-18

cb.af clerks and heads Of bureaus and dora +
meuts. Eut, oven among tha executive docu-
nsents, there should be discrimination; above
II, there oughtto be cditorialization; and re.
form mort absolutoly needed in the printing Of |
de public records Is that each head Of ! de-
nartment. or, in usu Of that. the committee OF
Congress on the public printing, should. COM
>pel : revision and m arrangement Of tho pub
Tie mast without difficulty when We need it to
illustzato the present
Tho Glo5s Las at present most perfect
ipde1, the previous indexes having been insuf-
fcient and annoying. Congress might avoid
much unnecessary nuuh!g II It ware not 80
COMMITTEES Of Public Printing, tor Instance, 1t
the present Tins, Is a mcrn commission
to overlook tho bills for bu5ing typo, paper,
and printing materials; whereas Il might be
made not only = business but literary COM
mitsee, and, under f1ed stipu1adons, BE- given
whatever useless documents carne mp from tho
1' knt , without The debates of congress We
should Be in the dark pespatuallJ. Tho press
reports Of the debates arc often gaEbled, and
alaaya unsatisfactory. We must know whe1p
We stand, how ve stand, and whom to bold re-
sponEible. It has boeu sad thAt private en-
terp.ise would willingly undertake. the pubGca-
ton Of the debates for the pIlce of subsczap-
ton to the Journal which prints them This
would not be compatible Wtn ne agnty OF
the responsibility Of IN official Gto1e but the
psirt;nc OF Bpeeches which have not been de-
iyered, and tbs p1umiscuous access &c
corded to reporeta' notes by Congress-
men, ought to be stopped One roason .a
printed is that Congress itself hastens away
from the capital for long holdAys, and there
is not half enough time to giye to national Af-
fairs. An disposed to think, from obsasva-
ton and from conference, TINT tho hou1s now
occupied BY tho National Legislature are not
tho beet hours which could be selected Tho
Engliah Parliament meets st O'Clock, and sits
/ until midnight, thereby getting seven hours Of
| work. Our Legislature meets at II, and gene5-
| ally adjourns at 1. Now, il Congress should
| busy itself earnestly, with committee work
from II o'clock until 8, then adjourn until
there would be no hurry to ges
away fot the claims OF food and pleasure, be-
cruise At night, outside OF the Capitol restAn-
rnnts, no food could be obtained The idle
tnre sitting apart would have full leisure aud
inclination to attend to the destinies Of the
people, While tho people themselves wero fast
ss1oep. At any rate, the entire debates Of
Congress ought to go to prcsa and stand fast.
Two hours in the morning roading the Globe
tening to the debates ut the Capitol, where the
calling Of yeas and maya, and the Hkir-
| niahing Of party tacticians, consume nearly
haH ct every neAsion-
| oun For111cAL onAxprApAs.
Looking ovet some old newspaper files re-
Gently, I came to few things which may inter-
est you. The first is addressed to those folks
who do not think TINT ne are "a respectful to
our Preaidant rs they were to Washington,
Adams, and the rest
John Armstrong wrote to General Gates, be.
fore Warrington arrived At New York to be
ipAuRuSated:
IA ca1icature has already appeared called
Tho Entry, full Of very dialoy1 and rrofane
illusions. It represents the General mounted
On an aas, and in the arms Of his nan Billy
sannahs and birthday odes. The following
couplet proceeds from the mouth Of the devil
"Tne glorious time has come to pass
When David aha1l conduct an ass"
The next extract is addressed to those folks
who think our government clerks badly paid.
Oliver Holoott, : Treasury emploJe, wrota
thus, from New York, August $, 1890:
"Another motion has been mAdetn Congress
for continuing in this city. 1t has failed, &C
that our removal may be considered as certain
II can gain good opportunity, I shall 30 tt
house. am not plcased NTH this plsan of Re-
moving, especially as it will occasion an OK
pcnse which cannot well support + mcan t.
live With ~ much economy ~ possible, and il
after III, get into Jail, shall expect Congress:
|
Hero IRE some curious notes upon tho ro
mova Of the capital from Now York to Phi1a
de1phia, in 1901 !:
Dir. Hush, Of Philadelphia, wroto to one o
the Representatives from Lis State:
"Irej9ice In the prospect Of Congress lsav
The other people did not think 10, and u,
Virginian,' sayb Losaing, "dcc1ated that Nov
York was the best situation in the Union for
National Capital, it being superior to any plact
within his knowledge for tho orderly and de
cent behavior OF its inhabitants )" whlle th.
South carolinians :, objected to philadelphia 9,
account Of the Quake1s, who, they declared
were "eterna1ly dogging Southern 1nember
with their schemes OF slave emancipation"
Robert Morris WAS main1y instrumental il
having the capital moved from New York t.
Philadelphia, and it il somewhat curious h
note that Morris and Hamilton, both anan
cicra, were responsible, tho ono for tho aban
donment Of New York, the other for yieldin
tho Potomac as the Rite Of the Federal city.
Morris house, in Philadelphia, Wha Iontel t
Washington for g, 600 year.
Ffencau makes = New York honscnnaid 81
to her friend in Philadelphia about the rerne
wi Of the capital:
Gas 10. ua rny dear Nanny, refc much Ia n pc
And hundreds OF houses Will te to bc let;
Our e;rct,s, that we're Just in way to look c1evc
Ne st e e. a BssBtss ps L Cutters
And Fcbble-stooe payements, that wear ont ou
,totte1a-
THIS Congress unsettled ia, sure, sod thing,
,, seven yesra, my dear Nanny, they've been on tn
: My master you'd rather saw timber. or dig.
| Than see them removing 10 ConoUocheaVur-
Where The houses and Kitchens are yet to b
The t1rea 70 Be fsted and the streets to ba named
, John F. Watsuns annals Of Philsdelphi'
, ! putGehcd in 1872, makea this very unortholo