Show CO congressional some of the news capeis re pa 9 are criticizing ng tle hie the tie eulogies recently delivered it in congress Con greb gres on the death of one of the members during daring the summer rec Fsr the rhetoric was of the most dolorous kind 1 and if the speakers were to be believed the thie nation 19 doing nothing but arii arli ging tears from cotton handkerchiefs over oer the deceased members body which had bad probably been interred for month before all this great grief found its proper conduit condu S it alame A lamentable liable spectacle i 13 s a coudres congressional lonal ional bod boi body y in tears and ard its grief with its it is li not sufficient that one member re recounts counis the public virties virtues of the deceased smith or brown his hia words serve to 0 o open the tha floodgates flood floo gates deates of congressional gresi gresl vo 0 anel anil very wery ry soon the whole body is dissolved in tears jones mellion aw anat a P patri patriot 11 the df ceased deceased wa sia sta be sobs sadly badly aver ver tiie the t thought ight that public virtue will henceforth ba be unable lo 10 gustain sustain itself with wilh anch an exa example mple re in moved mored oved ored from before ir it tikes up t th hlo ito lamentation arid and lie he sees all nature natura wee weeping in concert with their sorrow sorrows one ong oember member Is too big with grief for words and so he inflicts his ass assumed u med sorrow for an achour hour houn upon his fellow members one heart be rt ii breaking with wilh its burden and another is so full fall that iba iha tears teals singularly en enough ough under tinder the circumstances absolutely refuse to 10 flow float with all this stream of public sorrow there is mingled a ludicrous and mawkish in 1 1 v hish kish sentiment nicked out in hyperbolic hyperbolical Al rig fig figures t i r es of spee chand ead exaggerated chras phraseology beology that show the insincere ty ot of the tha performance which usually winds tup tap b P with an adjournment for a few lays ay to enable 0 j the prostrated wisdom ol 01 the nation ration to reco recover is 18 1 8 composure and its ils spirits there might br bp some excuse for this tremendous outpouring of sorrow upon any sudden budde n 1 be rea in the uie midst of the session but when we find at the of neady nevery levery session ei sion slon the same sanne scenes enacted for all who had died in the interim old renewed which had been forgotten for months by those most dearly nearly allied to the deceased dec aced or if not forgotten nurtured in secret as things too aggred sacred to be opened to the public gize the performance becomes not only supremely lii ili culous but extravagantly exper expensive sive all ail this abb public ic sorrow has to flow through the telegraph wires at a cost to the newspapers of the country of thousands of dollars the public business has also to be stopped st ed for days davs tiit tilt the members have had the heir cry out while the tha entire public are laughing at the folly of the exhibition why not exercise a little common ense in this matier mallet when a ti member aits during the tha session 14 another allude to it in becoming ter terms s and herret the matter drop and tha public ile lie fadness fa iness ainess go aaa oab 95 usual visual in the lin tissue is suf friends know the melancholy melan oly fact cm g it with a privations P of forced breaud in th the public asse iv of the n nation atlon Phit aphia ledger f r i |