The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1886-02-03

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Senate, bills made up Of bad spelling.
1t was an oAense, an insult to the lat
ter august body that could not be for
given. He congratulated Tie Senate
upon the good spelling of its employ
cs, and the affair was q kind OF love-
feast at the expense Of the House.
Tie debate that has been inaugur-
ated in the Senate over the admission
of Dakota, promises to be long and
interesting. The question has become
a party one, and the bill will pass the
Senate by tie Republican vote. The
Democrats count upon beating the
bill in the House. They claim not to
base their opposition upon denial
Of the right Of Dakota to statehood.
They admit that in population, wealth,
ETC., the territory is entitled to become
a state; but they assert that the peo-
pie Of Dakota have not complied with
the legal preliminaries. 1t is prob
able compromise will be proposed
in the Senate looking to the admission
Of Montana, which is a Democratic
territory, along with Dakota. One
plan suggested is to admit Dakota,
Montana and Washington Territories.
Dakota is Republican, Montana Dem
ocra,ic, and Washington is doubtful
politically.
The proceedings Of the lower House
of Congress so far, this week, have rot
been marked BY any legislation Of i'm
postance, nor By any important de-
bates. Routine business and petty
wrangles have filed its record
The demands upon the time of
Congressman made by their constitu-
ents are such that most of them are
under the necessity of employing
clerks. The duties Of these clerks are,
mainly, to look after pension and
other claims. 1t is now proposed to
employ 325 extra pension clerks,
there are just three hundred and
twenty-five members in the House)
one to be assigned to the business of
each Congressional district under the
direction OF the Representative Of that
district Many members do not favor
this plan, however, and prefer to deal
with the matter IN the CID Wa -
= Cessres5man's lot is not a per
cfcctly easy one, as will be seen by
some samples Of information they are
expected to furnish their constituents.
\ Western member remarked, holding
some freshly opened letters in his
hand, "If there is any thing n the
world that my people do not write to
Congressman about, I would like to
know what it is. Here is letter
from a citizen in my district, who re-
quests me to write to the American
minister at Rome to send him an
Italian queen bee Here is another
from a woman whose husband left
her seven years ago, and she has not
heard from him since. She asks that
l find out his present address at the
census Office ard send it to her
The question of abolisbing secret
session has again been up in the Sen
ate, again met with opposition. The
opinion outside of the Senate is that
very little business is transacted there
in secret that might not as well be
considered and acted upon in the
presence of full galleries. A minor,
but not trivial consideration is the
convenience that open executive ses-
sions would afford to the thousands OF
people from all parts of the United
States who come to Washington to
see Congress. Hundreds OF them at
time, aggregating hundreds OF thous-
ands in the course of a year, are hus-
tied out of the Senate galleries every
day because a Senator desires to stop
legislative business in order that his
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1irmed as Postmaster at Jonesville.
The people feel disappointed, of
course, and Senators themselves ac-
knowledge that there is a great deal
of unnecessary interference with the
comfort and convenience of visitors
for very inadequate reasons. Busi-
ness seldom comes up that could not
be attended to before all the world
without injury to public or private
interests.