Has it come to this, that Congress could sit here content when paid by the day, and now that it is paid by the year it leaves its important business to be neglected entirely, or to be hurried forward without that discussion which it ought to receive?
Sumner questions the integrity of Congress's commitment to its duties based on its compensation structure.
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