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Show MOTH S1UKS OK THE PICTUItB. A Massachusetts member of congress, W alker byname, oaused a picture of the house of representatives in its present condition of democratic depletion to be taken which he intends using as a campaign cam-paign document. Tho tologram acids: "The photographer in tho nailery ab.we the democratic side looked down on an array ol empty seats, while the artist on the majority aide directed his camera up in a goodly proportion pro-portion of the republican representatives. The half dor.en democrats present were unaware t hat their portraits were being taken, and the republicans were careful to withdraw from the democratic: side all the pastes and doorkeepers who miKht tend to swell the democratic representation." repre-sentation." Let us be fair in this matter as in all other things. Tho picture has a reverse side to it. It is the absence of members of the dominant party as much as the tactics of tho opposition that is responsible respon-sible for the lack of a quorum in the house. If the republican majority would do its duty and be present when required there would be no occasion for the unseemly scenes that now occur every day in congress. That is what the majority was elected for. The ponding session is a disgrace to both sides aud let the odium attach to both. |