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The LONG SESSION. The New York Her
aid says, that, cat the rate business in both
houses has progressed within the past weeks
this session will probably run into next, giving
no time for members to separate and reach their
homes" Many months having been passed
by the House of Representatives in idle decla-
nation, as a necessary consequence the real
business to be transacted has been thrown to-
wards what ought to be the close of the session
and great despatch must be used, or this ses-
sion will, as the Herald suggests, run into the
next. The best remedy for this gross abuse of
time and robbery of the people, by their repre-
sontatives, would be to apply the graduating
principle to their per diem. Allow them eight
dollars per day for SO many months, then six,
four, two and nothing. After session of six
months they should not receive a dollar. II
this plan of compensating them were adopted,
the sessions of Congress would never be pro-
tracted as they are at present; for it is the com
pensation which influences many nembers.-
Let a member have to make his political
speeGhes-hs harangues "to bunkum"-at his
own expense, and our word for it he will not
consume much time. Some members are moi
in cond tisn, one half of their time, to dis
charge their duty, which they seldom do; ant
whilst such men can frolic at the public ex
pense, it is not likely that they will be anxious
for the session to close. People begin to dreaC
the meeting of Congress, particularly at the
long session; for they know that the treasury
will be pIundored without benefit to the coun
try. The idle and the disspated prevent we'll.
disposed members from progressing with the
public business-but why should people COM
plain of the sacrifice of time and of money.
whilst they continue to send Incorporate and
worthless men to Congress7