The Week.

This article presents information regarding political and economic developments in the U.S. and the world. The folly and inefficiency of this proceeding is not unlikely to hasten the return of sounder views on this whole matter of legislative inquisitions. During the excitement of the war, and under the influence of the passions which grew out of the war, and under the instigation of sages like Thaddeus Stevens and B.F. Butler, Congress fell into the habit of "investigating " on the most frivolous pretexts and examining people on all sorts of subjects with which the legislature had nothing to do, and which in no way concerned public business. The Attorney-General asked that the defendants be restrained from the prosecution of further suits brought in relation to the matter in controversy.