Mr. Hewitt's Plan

Representative Hewitt, of New York, contemplates Rubmitting to the House a plan to facilítate the transaction of public business. .Some change is imperatively needed, as, under the present system, the greatei1 portiou of the time is waster], and the expeusos of the Government greatly increased. Hewitt's plan is to leave the present Representative Hall as a sitting-room, and where conversation and private businesa can be transacted, after the nature of what is called the Smoking-Room in the Houses of Pnrliament, and to convert the Statuary Hall into a chamber exclusivcly for the transaotion of business. In this latter chamber no desks are to be allowed, nor is writing, loud speaking, nor auything to bo permitted except the closest attention to the Congressional business. Written speeches are not to be delivered there. It is to be in the power of the mnjority at any time to occupy the largo hall whenever a great occasion may seem to demand it. Hewitt will propose this scheme as an experiment, and, from estimates, it appears that Statuary Hall can be arranged for that purooso at an