THE SESSION OF CONGRESS.
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The lntelligencer Of day before yesterday, has the
following paragraph as to the probable continuance
of the present session of Congress:


Beginning upon its regular business 80 late, il
would be difficult TO say when this session. which
has 80 long detained the members of Congress from
Their homes and their affairs, may be expected TO
close. Judging from the experience Of many years.
we should say that II Is quite possible that the dog
days VIII sui find them at their posts. We found
this probability upon the supposton that there is
serious intention on the part Of the administration par
~ IN Congress to perseyere In the purpose of
vision and reduction OF the tariff, and in other meas
ures OF kindred character, intended TO effect rad
cal change IN the domestic policy of the country.
The previous question is, we know, in the House
OF Representatives, a powerful engine in the hands
Oh an assured and disciplined majority. 1t has al
ready been made effective in the suppression Of de-
bate upon the subtreasury BILL Zone ofthe measures
referred to- just il was six years ago. But the
previous question will fail of its usual sringency
when II comes In contact with the tariff. In the bill
On that subject, there too many and too import
ant interests at stake TO be crushed or sed by any
such appliance. The members who represent those
interests on the floor must and will be heard In
the Senate, besides, there is such instrument Of
coercion as the previous question In that body de.
bate wall have Its course and every form of amend
ment will assert Its rights before final vote can be
taken on the tariff bill, should the bill depending in
me House OF Representatives ever reach the Senate.
80 that We consider ourselves within bounds in
allotung two entire months to the tariff question
alone"


We know of no business for Congress more Greg
ular" or more proper than such legislation as may
be demanded by the foreign relations of the country
and upon such topics, the time of the present ses-
sion has thus far been mainly taken up, though
the discussion Of the notice has been unnecessarily
protracted.


The inteligencsr Is unquestonsbly right in as
suming that is the "serious intention of the ad-
minstratisn party in Congress to persevere in the
purpose Of revision and reduction of the tariff" but
although we are not in favor Of any precpiate decs-
ION OF the question, yet differ from that journal in
its estimate of the length of time which will probably
be allotted to its discussion. We have no doubt, con-
sldering how thoroughly the whole question has
been ofentimes discussed before, that the debate
upon it this session will occupy far less time than
the lnelligencer seems to imagine. We are for do
ing the business of the country well and effectively;
and we scarcely hope for the termination Of the
session by the coming in of the dogdays, which ex-
tend from the Oath July to the Oath August, Z" be-
cause the dog-star (SinuS) during this period rises
with the sun" A few more episodes may bring the
session to the end than the beginning of the
dog days.