Why Congress Doesn't Get Reported

Ttoe Englteh ,h ave a much better notion of what happens in parliameait tluan we havei of the proceediogg af thie house and Ño mieter how suddsiniy the debute gprimgs ip, nor how uiiexpected the occasion, in blue Loudon nawpapers tlli satdsfactory account oí all vh.it waa said and deme ia nest Üay ■befone the Brtttóh people. Such a tfbíng hiardly ever takes place wirth s. If a membar makes an import,ait speech, it musb be wriitten out Tiii'Ore delívery alud seat by mail, and tihein ilgtwes in the telegraphic minin as a monument alike oí Amertcau eloquience and American enterp:de. Oae disadvantage ve labor umder is tilia t ve have no central London. Onr capítol ia not a Londoai, tfluough ít la no mean city. The country at large lias more thaa oue aeivs center. New York tne G-reater will hiave a populatiou oí 8,500,000, Tjut te 225 miles avay. CMcaigo has 1,500,000, and ts the ceater of a vast coumta-y, but is 800' oo1 1,000 miles miles away. San Francisco tos The gieat eonipüire oí the Paciiic coaet beblud ib and ai-ound' it, but 3,000 mijes oí railway divide us. New Orleans lies a dlstctnoa oi two days íurtlser south, and St. Louis and Cineinua-ti would be mucl aggriev-ed not to be dieemed eeiuters of ueivs di-tribuUon. Wliijie, thweíore, ve are satitílied with our cou-atry, and know tli-at ali tho wasbe planes will be i'Hled up, and tlíiait ive shall nave Lojiiloas ou eiKoeir coast and ín the eeatier, nevertlueless just nam we are too mnch spread out to kuow about cougress qxj&tm as well as ome ot(her people do flbouit theiï-s.- Speaker Beied in The Illusííated American.