If every one of us had been as efficient as he is. there ought to be 11.966 bills here now. and more coming at the rate of several hundred a day. How long would it take for this House to discuss all of the bills that I hold in my handa bill to increase the pay of the Cabinet officers to $25.000 a year. a bill covering almost every subject of American thought. American politics. from individual pensions up to immigration. and the subject of prohibition by Congress. and many others? And we are asked deliberately that 386 gentlemen shall have free and unlimited debatethat "free and unlimited" is a kind of an echo of the past -upon every one of these questions. Why. in the good old daysI had a memorandum here that I seem to have lostbut in the early Congresses of the United Statesin the First.
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