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Show Mb. Blaine contributes to the Youth's Companion an article on the growth of the debates in congress. He estimates that in the t -.verity live years since the close of tho civil war it took lis 1.(100, 000 words to report the proceedings of congress. con-gress. This is lo:i,:,00,000 more words than were required for tho reports re-ports from the foundation of the government gov-ernment to the end of the war. At the same rath of progress the next generation genera-tion of Americans will see a peroetual session of congress exeereising its gift of gab and nothing else. Jbit we believe be-lieve it will never come to that. As Ceneral Grant once remarked about bad laws that the best way to abolish them is to enforce them and make them obnoxious, so with this practice. Speaker Kf.ed may have been the right man at the wrong time, but the right time for some Reed is coming or th floodgates of debate will swamp the country. |