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Show The Fifty-third congress adjourned at noon yesterday. The closing hours were distinguished by hard work, and now no further mischief can be expected ex-pected from that body until late in December De-cember next. The country experiences a feeling of reBt and relief, If only all memory of it could be blotted out also what a blessed thing it would be, and yet it is rather the executive branch, than the legislative, to which this remark re-mark is applicable. It seems too bad that another congress has served out its time and still no adequate remedy has been offered for the crippled commerce com-merce of the nation, and for the i ard panic conditious ;which prevail, liow congressmen can meet their constituents constitu-ents with nothing better to point to as the result of their deliberations for two years, we cannot see. It is gone, it is over, and now we must do better when we elect another. Wm. Eveeett Hicks is extremely hard on Ladv Henry Summerset, but his idea, which is a good one, is she might find necessary reforms enoug h in England to keep her at home. Our idea is that those women who rage over the world seeking vices to reform are not of those who care much for reformation reform-ation at their own hearthstones. If Lady Henry will go to London, Liverpool Liver-pool or Birmingham she will find as much unreformed vice as she wants to face and its partial reformation will exhaust the strength of a thousand stronger women than she is. We can do pretty well over here without her. The constitutional convention met at noon yesterday and effected a temporary tem-porary organization with J. N. Kimball Kim-ball as president and Heber M. Wells as secretary, and adjourned until 10:30 this morning. Mr. Cannon's inyoca-tory inyoca-tory prayer waa very eloquent and sweeping. If the Almighty only an swers half of it we will haye a good constitution and the members will be good boys throughout the session. One women who stays at home, takes care of her husband, children, servants and such little matters, is worth all the petticoated statesmen and rt formers form-ers who eyer traveled abroad, mounted rostrum or swayed a listening Eenate. The men all think this way anyhow, and "they'll import such womanly women wo-men if they can't get them at home. West's speech to the convention was a short, but most excellent one. One can always depend upon the governor to do the right thing, in the right way, and at exactly the right moment. Neither onjeorthe other of Charley Crane's constitutions have as yet been adopted by the convention. There is some good in the world still remaining. It isn't all black midnight. We are very orthodox when it becomes be-comes necessary to bestow other people's peo-ple's money in charity, but it is another thing quite when we come to divide our own up with the poor. The ex-queen of Hawaii is sentenced to five years in the pen and a fine of $5,000. Our dignities in this world cost us something, sometimes. Sam Thurman has excellent cause for libel against the Tribune, because a more horrible caricature never did duty as a likeness before. Crisp is a member of tbe monetary commission. That vote will be for free coinage. The next president of the United States will be a free coinage man. Echoes still come from that terrible railroad disaster in Mexico. |