Show tite the frank franking ing privilege the following remarks which we clip from one of our exchanges concerning the use and abuse ot of the franking privilege appeared originally in the newark daily user tiser the subject is is one that we have intended adverting boin connection with the perversion made of 0 the right by the late delegate to congress from this territory some time during the past pait summer two large wagon oads loads of patent office reports deports He ports and other public documents were ere received at the post office lr in this cit city which had bad been franked flanked here ling diring the late session or of congress by the delegate from this territory A large pile of these have been till recently stored in in the anti room of the post office and we presume that they have been removed only tor for the sake of the room that they occupied these books are of but little use to any anybody body and we do not suppose that one man in in fifty of those to whom they are sent here acre or elsewhere ever look within them to see what they contain while the printing of them hem costs the government an immense sum and their transportation across the plains costs probably tenfold ten fold more the small class of persons who compose the reading public seldom feet feel any interest in in examining dry statistics while the great mass of persons of which every community is is composed take no interest whatever hate er in examining dry details and reports report st which can be of interest and use P only oily to those who are either engaged direct ly y in in le legislation 9 isolation or who compile from these dull sources facts that may be of interest to others we are not dot the advocates of penuriousness on the part of our government go eminent iut but we believe in their using all proper liberality in laying before the public at large larg facts of interest or utility and the newspaper pressy press and the published debates of con congress ress which is is provided tor for by law are bucz much surer channels to the public mind than the musty tomes that are now distributed with so much expense throughout the country we hope that the subject will en engage g a ge the attention of congress at its forthcoming session the enormous abuse of the franking privilege which ought to be wholly abolished has consequences which have not been attended to that we are aware of in the recent discussions cus the facility of thus sending an any arid and everything by mail beg begets ets another expensive abuse chion is the printing of books and prodigious quantities rf ef matter that ar are 0 practically practically of no public advantage the egit mate use of the privilege viege is indeed liable to the same objection though not in the same degree for which and other reasons I 1 we would have it abolished tins this printing of books and documents as managed in in congress is is stimulated to excess not because the public want the documents for they dont arid and it if they did would not get them lit in this ibis wa way ya as now managed but simply to give a pro profitable filae le bargain to athe the public arinter Fr printer inter who is is expected to divide some of ins I 1 is profits with useful outsiders and to yield other miscellaneous servie service to the members i of the party in place thus tens of thousands bare are annually spent for books which congress has no business to order older to be published publish edo and chich in embers aib rs have no business to appropriate to themselves at every eiery term to t the e amount ot of some hundreds of dollars the whole proceeding is nothing nothing no better than putting their harda hands into the pub public I 1 c treasury Trea tury and distributing among them elves a large amount of public plunder a and nd h has as been thus regarded by honorable members where is is we the warrant for it were VI ere it not that three sr or four hundred bunked congressmen are equally concerned coner ned in the indecent tran transaction faction sac tion it can hardly lie be supposed that a single individual i among etem co could I 1 d bold up his head bead when detected in appropriating m the public property to his private use without compensation but complicity with hundreds makes them bold Is not dot the salary of three thousand doan abear a year and mileage ft a sufficient reward for I 1 the services of representatives and senators in congress 1 if IE not then they are at lifa lib erty ert to stay at home bich they the can to do at I 1 any tune time and earn as much more as they cat can much less we should have emd for many of oe thern them probably have neier dever been so well paid lit ID all their lives before not reckoning reckon ng the perquisites which ire are reported to be enjoyed by many their place if thus thug vacated will be instantly instantly asked for in the proportion of a dozen candidates for every vacant chair while applicants for office equally well qualified are so numerous and importunate surely there is is no 0 great reason for increasing the wages let us wait till congressmen shall organize a strike |