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 Inc following letter from the New ork Journal ol Commerce Willgiee the reader better idea of tile proceedings =oi Congress, than any thing else we can offer. That the evil complained of i'll thls letter,is great and crying one, is beyond all fquestion. Months, and tens of thousands ofdollars arc annually ex- pended by Congress, that the members may be indulged in making speeches that arc neither listened to bv that boz diy, Or read bby their constituents.

 NoRFoLv. VA, March g, 1889.

 >.'tiesSrs. Editors :--I have been spend ing several months al Washington, not as an office seeker, politician, or man of fashion, but as a plain locker on, in the httle world of tumult and power. [ closely observed the nlanaer, in which the interests of the nation arc disposed of in Congress. l had supposed that the object of the meeting of that great body was to do business; but find that l was cgrcgiously mstaken,-their on- y purpose appears to be to make speeches. It would be some consolation to my disappointment, if these speeches bad any relevancy to the subjects be- fore the house. Now and then one in. decd hits somewhere in the neiehbor- hood ofhis subject, but generally they arcas wild and wandering. as the con. ccits which float through manic's dream. l am told that the object of these speeches IS to make the constitQ- cnts of those who are delivered ofthen, thInk that their representatives are some great things at Washington-tha they have man who darcs to lift his voice before the great aristocrats of the nation. Now am a democrat my sell, and hate this new-dubbed aristoe- racy, that has just stuck its nose out of a log hovcl, but would not make myself ridiculous for the sake of showing that l feared nobody. The truth is, this specch-malSlng propensity, that has grownup in Congress, has become an afllicting disease. The silly notion seems to have obtained credit, that a mans worth and weight of character depend upon tho number and length of his speeches; when in reality the re- verse is more frequently the case. A deep current makes no noise, while a little brook that has only depth enough to float q goose. is eternally sending ID its shallow babblings. You will say thIs IS a severe. ungenerous insinuation: but am plain man; I am accustomed to do business in a plain, straightfor- ward n1anner,-an like to sec other people do it in the same way. l can not tolerate this restless itching after the contemptiblc notoriety which a aspcech of no possible utility gives man. No one speech in twenty of those which arc delivered in Congress, weighs one hair in the decision of the question: and as for any hght which they may cas, on the subject, it is only

 "a pale thin flame,

 Upon whose quivering edge

 The darkness seems to press.

 Had Congress nothing else to do, would not complain of their useless waste of time in speech making; they might talk out of every pore in their l .