| Show con oon congress 9 closing scenes the history of this tills past post session is a history of squabbling factions intriguing demagogues confederate confider ate spAs niem nieu swaggering border ruffling flins ruf rum ins wasteful profligacy shameless corruption and brutal a flet let us be grateful that with such a congress we are still at peace with the world and have detill L till some money left in the treasury tret trel sury I 1 it is also ulso a matter of consolation to know that both houses closed up the eventful labors of the last nine niue months with a pretty good opinion ol 01 themselves whatever may be the tho oi the country we know this from the ills blit bin passed increasing the pay of each member to a s salary lary iary of per congress equal io 0 o three thousand eich session with a retrospective provision for an extra allowance to the tha members for their services foi for this congress amoun amounting tini tint to the s of seven hundred and fifty thousand dol dollois dollars lors loTs in this they have acted upon the practical maxim that there is no use in doing a good thing if we cannot ourselves share in mecah cah profits the total a for this je aion sion ot ol congress are estimated by one ore of our special correspondents to cover a sum of over s ali nyi allons of dollars do lars including the hufft and land squandered upon railroad jobb jobbers rs deficient degi degg deficiencies cien clen cey which will yet have to be made up and other items we presume that ahe the treasury for the current year wiil wll suffer to the full extent of a hundred and gifty fifty millions all tha regular appropriation bills bilis appear to have been squeezed through without much difficulty excepting the legislative executive and Judic judicial tal tai bill and tile th ar army rny iny bill big which wire were en limbered red with the ka kansas hansas ansas antl anti lecompte anti antl stringfellow anti auti border suffrin amendments of the house the tiie collins coiling steamers have secured their annual with a notice for ending the contract trac which will cut off their line from government assistance after the expiration of the tiie most extraordinary feature of the closing scenes of this expiring session I 1 w was waa as tile ille campara lively good discipline which prevailed through saturday night and sunday morning our special reporter informs us its that better order was preserved than ever before known on a similar occasion all sober this last short pithy all ail sober staggers our credulity our authority is reliable but fe ta news is almost too good for ballif generally in the winding up of congress the committee rooms of each house are turned by the lobby into free bar lar rooms and the members on the floor who are ara strictly sober bober are in a powerless minority it is therefore llie tile exceedingly refreshing to learn leam that on thia this oc occasion caslon all were sober I 1 can jt be that the main maln liquor law after ila having ino inc been tried aia and botched by various barlou state legislatures has been adopted by congress in the ahapa of a practical experiment or have the au supplies ap pp 1 ies les of brandy run ruu ellort short in washington or h have bave ave they taleen to lager bier bler N Y herald aug 18 |
