Mr. Speaker. complaint has been made that free speech upon this floor has been curtailed. Sir. the House has been talking this session and the Senate has been talking. and while time has been taken up with talk the warehouses of all our ports have been filled with importations of articles of European and Asiatic manufacture. The country demands " action.II not "talk." I have the last copy of the REcoRD here. and I find that its last page is 10931. in round numbers. 11.000 for a tenmonth session of twentysix working days per month (I do not say talking days). this makes 42 pages a day. and this. divided between the two Houses. makes 21 pages of doublecolumn matter for the House. And free speech has been curtailed.