Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1822-03-19
FOR THE SPECTATOR.

10 the Electors g'the state of Illinois.
FELLOW CITIzENs--I conceive it high |
~ necessary that you should in future be |
more cautious in your choice of men to
enact laws for you, in the legislature
men OF judgment, experience, and atten-
ton to their business while out of the lc-
gislalEe hall, as well as within it, and
not as soon as they leave their seats, in
stead OF preparing and Maturing business
| Tor their respective houses, descend to
and set practice which is a disgrace and
reproach to-sAg man, engross their at
tenuon; men who acceptable OF Judging
] when lazy is aaeonS sfutional, incon-
isisfsft, and ccatredictory.
! a few specimens Of such laws passed
at the iast session Of our legislature, /
beg leave to lay before yos.
The lawcommonly csiledthe stop law,
lprobibiti'g executions from being issued
ill November ooth last, had a tendency
in its effects in a degree to impair conf
tracts, but chat part ofthe law permitting
executions TO be issued on proof being
made of danger Of losing The debt by SUCH
delay, would in good degree have re-
medied the evil and prevented loss, had it
been left to operate; but the ertreordi. |
cary and 1aaccoR0table 27th section oil
the bank law inhi5iting any execution
! from being issued I'LL ghe .,frst day oil
| oyember last, in direct contradiction of
the other, and utterly and comp le,ely
,impairing contracts, by enabling dis
honest debtor to defraud his creditor by
leaving tie country, ard laugh with con-
tempt at him il he attempted TO stop, even
il a Judgment had been obtained against
him; which section is giaringiy and no
toriouofy unconstitutional
By the llth section OF The law entitled
aRact regulating appeals from justices
OF tec peace" &c. passed February le,
1891, executions may be fesplted for 80,
80, 90, 40, and SO days, in proportion
to the sums mentioned in such such exc
! cutions, without any regard to the con-
tract Oh which the judgment should be
rendered; and by a proviso in the last
part OF the same section il is enacted,
81 That ,hn rneai,ss ssa4;s,s. AA~. .e..p
be construed to authorize any Ieple, in
or stay cfexecutioa CD judgments 10 be
hereafter rendered On contracts which
may Ae entered into after the first day OF
May next" [now last.)
The Sd section Of the act supplement
tary 10 Tie bank law, passed February . j,
1921, on the same day as the law last
mentioned, directs that defendant in AL
execution shall be allowed 10 repeyy the
same for sirty days and no longer, with
out any respect to The sum ia The execu-
ton or the contract on which tue iudg-
! ment may be obtaiEcd, directly contrary
TO the lllh section OF the law above men
toned. BY the same Sd section on ALL
contracts catered into after the fret day
CT May next, (las,,) for money OF the
state bank, the same ,stay 81. execution
shall be allowed, and il the same way as
is expressed in the 27th SECTION of the
bank law; but where the contract is for
gold or silver there shall be a rspevin Of
so, 60, 90 days, sc. inconsistent in itself
and in direct contradiction to the proyiso
of the llth section Of the law above men.
toned.
should be glad some sage casuist of
the last legislature, would be so good as
to reconcile and explain such a heleroge-
neus, contradictory,saand inconsistent
iumbled mess Of laws, much Of which
was passed at one and the same day !;
such explanation il practicable, pre-
sumo, would be very acceptable to our
justices, for believe they are very
much perplexed in theirproceedings. 1
Again, contrary to established pTinci-
Piles of jurisprudence, Of keeping the
civil and military departments OF govern
ment separate the legislature by the act
entitled, San act amending an act orga-
nizins the militia Of this state" passed
February 6, 1921, directed the county
commissioners court, in the new coun-
ties lately formed, to interfere with the
militia OF those counties by laying them
off into company apd battalion districts,
thereby disoryanizhg the regiments, Sc.
formed under the law passed March IS,
llsl9, for by thst law the militia of the
whole state wera particularly, expressly |
and perfectly organized, agrceabiy to the
title of the iaw y therefore, all that the
commissioners ceurs have done under
that law is perfectly snullity and an I'm
: necessary intermediing with the regular
organized militia Of this state.
i The Sd section Of the sa4,c amending
j law directs that to each regimen. there
shall be one colonel, one lieufnant-coio-
mel, and one major, which offers, BY the
constitution Of this state, are y be siec'eo
, by the people, butthe sams iatt oosises
J the people to choose tsD0 snsyors' ana :
what is most extraordinary, the CLERK o.