Litchfield enquirer., 1838-06-21
THE CONNECTICUT LEGISLATURE. Correspondence ofthe ". Y. Express.

Correspondence of the ". Y. Express.
 NEW HAVEN, June 5 1893.
 Our legislature having just closed the.r session, a synopsis of their proceedings will probably be interest ing to your readers. am sure that repeat the con: victions of every unbiased and honest man, when say, that for years have had no assembly % dis tngnshed for talent or who have done more for the true interests of State. than the one which has just finished it's session. Scarcely had the members menced the first steps in the back track of Loco. Foco experiments was made. and the infamous bill passed by the Legislature, prohibiting our citizens from receiving the small notes of their own solvent and well known banks, and forcing upon them the worthless emission of foreign shin plaster mannlaco res, was almost unanimously repealed. Nor did the work stop here next bill was passed for the pur' pose of giving the election of sherfs and Justices of the Peace to the people, thus destroying one m- prtant source Of patronage once held by the Govern ment This, when you consider that the whole ap- pointing power is vested in the Wings, is certainly very strong evidence of their disinterestedness. and of the democratic character of their principles They then repealed the law giving the appointment to the srictng the time of their appointment 10 two years They aso passed laws for the better supervision of Common Schools, by the appointment of Board of Commissioners whose duty it is to make reports Of the condition of education throughout the State, and to adopt such means may tend to diffuse it's advan- tages. complete reform has been effected in rela- ton to the expenditures the most sartsng rs abuses substituted for most lavish waste, and the State Debt contractedbya Loco-FOco Legislature, has been diminished. and with Whig Assembly, will, in ano- thcr year, be entirely cancelled. But no act of the Legislature has given satisfaction to our citizens generally, without distinction of party. than the era. sure of the stigma inflicted upon our State, by being represented in the United States Senate by J. M. Niles This disgrace, thank God, is now wiped out :; the {" man that speaks Franklin wrote," having received permission to retire, and good Whig having been elected in his place. The utmost unanmity has prevailed on all questions, save one, the "hl for loaning the credit of the State to certain Rail Road Companies" Win this solitary exception, the utmost unanimty has prevailed among the Whig members. all being actuaied by desire legsate for the good, not of the party only, hut of the whole State. This being ihe first Whig Legislature with which Connecticut has been blessed for many years. much curiosity was evnced to see whether the principles which that party has always professed would. now that an op- portuny afforded, be acted upon and practically exemplifed. The result is before us, and is most gratifying one Our Legislature has proved that their professions not unmeaning wOrdS or their pro misses of reform like their opponents, only made to be broken. On the contrary. they in the majority majority they recommended. and the people judging them by their works. will say to them "well done. good and faithful servants"
 Spinning Street Y0rn.-This expression IS some times applied by captous old chaps to ladies, who keep the bloom upon their cheeks by healthy exer- else and save doctors bill inhalng fresh. pure air. But have got literal fnl6lment of the expression. The Boston Centinel and Gazette says, last week a Souih Bridge street having in her train an almost in- teFmipable length of nnTavellng hosiery. h appears that she had her knitting work in her pocket, and by some mishap the bah escaped, and hence from the bridge to the brow of the hill, she all the while spinning street. yaTn'"