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Show THE DO-NOTHING CONGRESS. Kat.1 Field's Washington. ConCrMI is Kcttinjr on lieinitlf nil y In the loner hoU9e. With a mnjority of 154 the ipsaktt is, at times, lnilcbted to the minority minor-ity fur a quorum, and if members till the truth al.out each oilier the people hnve reasons rea-sons to be proud of their representatives. The house brut got m used to iloinj; noth-int; noth-int; and to objecting to every! hint; that when a senate concurrent resolution Is presented auUiormiii; tUe senate and house committees commit-tees on liuuiijrratiim and naturalization to investigate these subjec ts uth special refer-en.'c refer-en.'c to the admiulot) of foverstrlckeu immi-grants, immi-grants, .Mr. ticury, democrat from O'alifor-uiu, O'alifor-uiu, objects to its immediate consideration. Of course this objection is entirely in the Interests of the people who aro not affected by imported epidemics aud torelsTO paupers supported by tuxatiou. " tnatj be tlial Mr. GeaTJ objects to wast-lii!,r wast-lii!,r time on so irrelevant a matter iu order that Partners Alliance Livingston may again distinguish himself by offering for inune-iliate inune-iliate consideration the following grand'and glorious resolution: In view of tlie uuraU and extremely de-pressed de-pressed condition of the masses of thu people peo-ple and their iguorancc of the policy of the house, Jtmohud, That we. extend to them our iln-cere iln-cere sympathy and promise to do all iu our power for relief on the lino of improved tin anccs and reduced taxation. Catching the fever of objection, Mr. Din,r-lcy Din,r-lcy of Maine, protests agaimt what he has the hardihood to call "buncombe." He thinks the house had better transact public busiuesi; majority and minority actually agree to cut short the debate on tho 1 till ti-ll iun appropriation bill when the third party devoted to the. people, with a capital P. interpose, Mr. Watson of (ieorgia and Mr. Simpson of Kansas want to be heard, so debate is not restricted and wanders up and down the universe as though eternity had set in ond time was of no earthly account. At last, after a strong injection of silver, Bitniberi get down to the bill itself and are busily engaged in redio iug tbe size of appropriations ap-propriations When they adjourn to visit the World's fair site at Chicago. So, on the anniversary an-niversary of tieorge Washington's birthday, the house of the Kilty-second congress can proudly point to its record of ten weeks and exclaim: "1 have refused to send the farmers' farm-ers' offering to starving Uussia, I have re. fused to give decent plumbing to the barracks bar-racks of enlisted ine.i at West Point; I am now doing all iu my power 1 1 keep up the old prejudice ageiust Indians unit cut down appropriations for their Icnefit. That's what tho tireat l ather is for. 1 have but that's all. |