National Affairs: Hustling Homeward

At the end of a long voyage through a long fog, there comes a time when visibility improves, when men can again take a sight on the sun and calculate their day of making port. Last week, after nearly six months in a legislative pea soup. Congress suddenly reached the fringes of the murk. The gentleman from Texas said to the gentleman from Oregon and the gentleman from Oregon said to the gentleman from Maine: "It looks like we might go home about the 15th of July." Then they all said to one another:...

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