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Show A HISTOjIOAIi liETROSPECT. OhffANlZATlPK OF 'CONGRESS. 'Wmttjr the 'last twenty years tbero havobeeitKtinstatJces of a ldng delay Ift-.tbe brgafiizaifbit of tbc House of Kcp-risentativeaf. Kcp-risentativeaf. a$vVishingtoo, -Tlie Cin-cinna'ttXnqnirer'recalla'-thb facts Jn the following, skcfcli: l'' '-" ? ' - t In 1830'and '4$ toward the,' losbv of Mff'Van tBarcn 'adtnihistrutlori, ' the 'Honscwhicli-metcarly in December, did. riot snccccd in choosing a Speaker until' hbout-thoiirst of January The choice; .then fell-nponB, M. Hunter, uovvat United Stated Senator from Virgirilo but then serTtng in' the House of Ilcpresen-tatives; Ilcpresen-tatives; ItpWaBjifs first session; nnd fie was entirely unknown td the country; He was a Southern State-rights whlgf and wns elected1' by tho.whtgs.and vthe.qeinocratie friehda of' Mr. CalhounT Before the' session ses-sion waff over Mr, Hnnterjoineil thedomo-cratic thedomo-cratic party, and suppprtel.iMTa'n Buren for President iti the' mcnioraBIc" "ImrdideV contest oflS40.' ' Again, InJ849 amV$0, there was; long'delay in the; organization The, candidates can-didates for Speaker were R. 0. WInthrop-whig, WInthrop-whig, of Massachusetts and Howell Cobb, 3em.,' of Gd.f now SecjrcYary pf tho Treasury. After balloting 'for three wceka.it was. found impossible to eject by araajorityVso a rule was adopted.dcclur-ing adopted.dcclur-ing that the person who had the highest number of votes should be elected, jvhVther ft waa amajoritV f number of votes cnstr or Jtot. under this rule Mr. Cobb, democrat, or Georgia, was elected. But tho most remarkable Instance oi delay wps in ,1855 and 1856, The Hpuso of Representatives which con venedin December, 1855, did not succeed in eIectingaSpeakerhntilFebrnary,1856, a per?od Pf elevcn'pr twelve weeks Mr. Bunks, republican, of Massachusetts, ms then elected nndcr tlte; plurality, rule, semi? Inr to that adbptcd in IJfStt, Hp, received onp hundred and , three; tptci tfl' one hoii dred cast for Wm Allien dcniocratfof Sotttb Carolina. With these exceptions, :,wo believe,, there iiM instance in our con-' ; gressipnal hfstory, where the house failed lb, organize .the; first week, Pf the. session1. The Spefakerjs a very important political politi-cal jpfficer, and is wor.Ui, conteiidiug for; He .has;,thpnpppiutmenlPf alt tho committees com-mittees of tho Houfce, andi fltder tho; rules ;of Parlirfmcntarjf 'laVia regard to the dispatch of busintssenn, by Wa dfr cisions, have,. atnes. potent infiluencb In detdrminiug tho character of t.he ltgisla-" tloi) of the country " ..V., " ' . i |