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Show IJjjtp' CONGRESS. 1 When Congress was about to adjourn on Tues-L" Tues-L" day, Speaker Henderson declared that it had peril per-il 111 formed more work and completed more business S? U than any preceeding Congress. We suspect that 5j was true, but save the work which related to Cuba, 'jjfj J what it accomplished will not make much impres-Hiiljfjif impres-Hiiljfjif I sion on the history of these times. Not many great Hifj :ij thoughts were brought out by the speeches de-H de-H la livered; no great policy was announced which had H f": ' !J for its supreme thought the settling of vexed Hj ,.. ', f) questions; not many speeches were made which irv,, showed the speakers had all the country in HVi thought while they spoke. Hju' ! The Philippine question became partisan at last Hip. and the speeches upon it were mostly from a MfJ i partisan standpoint and evidently intended for use HjIjH ' in the year's campaign. Hw Not one member outlined any plan through Higjj i ' which the rewards of labor could be adjusted on a Hi 3'' ! reasonable scale; no effort was made to frame a H, j'i' statute upon which differences between capital and HLj,' labor might be fairly disposed of; there was no Hf$!H ' discriminating tariff legislation by which duties, Hjjjsfirk now too high, might be reduced; no thought was iS'"' given to any proposition looking to an agreement HU,, through which the five sovereign nations of the Bpii'J earth might begin to relax the struggle to keep Hfl '. i'' on building more war-ships and forging more great HIM'I; guns; no effort, that w remember, was made to Hh i prepare a statute to prevent aggregate capital from Hi jr y, drawing its tentacles closer and closer around the H jln ' industries of the people the work of the great H Congress, save toward Cuba was patch work and H j, j, took on none of the features vhich the world H, t ' recognizes as a new advance for a nation, a new H Hi, safeguard for a people. Hjj ifj'1 There was no end of shrewd business carried on, IB ' p but the flashes of statesmanship displayed were not HAM,''; enough to light the land or make much impres- HH hj Dion on the age. |