Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1849-07-06

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to be assured that they are properly chargcable
to the LEGO Focos-they would like the Express
to give the yeas and nays that it might be seen
whether they were really party derelictions, or
whether they were common to all. 1t is but
poor and unsatisfactory logic to say, that because
the loco focos are i'll the majority, they alone
must be condemned. If whiggery has the saw
ing influence claimed for it, it certainly should
have the effect to restrain its votaries from any
violation of Duty and hence the public would ma
turaIly expect to find no wing name recorded in
favor of any Of these violations. But should
they be disappointed, and should it appear that
wings as well as loco focos had voted for them,
might they not with some propriety entertain the
idea that the supremacy of whiggeryis not a sure
guaranty against the commission of all offences
hereafter?
The first specification of the Express refers to
the action of the old constitutional convention
in voting extra pay to its members. We have
no means of knowing how the votes were on
that question, and whether wings had anything
to do with it or not, nor do we care.
The next is relative to the recess last summer.
We are familiar with the action of the Senate
on that question, and will confne our statement
to that body. The vote for recess stood 9 ayes
and nays There were three wing members.
Had they voted in the negative no recess would
have been held, and the State would have been
saved the $4,000 which it is claimed were thus
lost. So much for that loco foco encrmity.
Next comes the famous Hog act, as it has been
called, by which the Express says, the Legisla-
ture appropriated all tie araila5ze funds 10 its
o,cn use. Perhaps it would be sufficient an
swer to this to say, that the Express itself, which
did part of the printing for the Legislature, got
its own pay after this act passed. or at least got
much greater proportion of it than any member
of the Legislature. But with reference to the
vote In the Senate there were but three votes
against it, Smith, Williams and Sholes, two loco
focos and one free sol-erery whig present TO-
ting IN The affirmative. Another loco foco enor-
nifty disposed of.
The next is the statute printing outrage.
Erery member of the Senate present, ttcelre in
number, voted for this, so that comparisons are
odious. The only expression we heard fiom any
quarter on the question, came from a wing who
thought the price was too low for the publisher
to live, and moved that it be raised, and his mo-
Hon preraiied. Ten thousand dollars it is said
the work will cost more than it would have cost
had been done by the regular contractor. In
asmuch as there is no earthly probability that it
will cost that much altogether, this may be taken
as specimen brick" of the whole article.
Next comes a proposition which passed the
Assembly, but was lost in the Senate, to pay ten
dollars extra for stationery. We know nothing
about the vote on it in the house. We only
know that its warmest advocate was a leading
,chig.
In conclusion the Express says: tax of
100000 has been levied on the tax payers for
State purposes, the coming year. The COM
mittee on finance estimated for S80,OOO-Therc
may be hundred. The object was simply that
all State and Territorial Indebtedness might be
wiped out at once and forever and the State
credit placed on par basis. This is not a very
Objectionable effort forany party, and we have no
idea the people of the State will find fault with it.
We think we have here shown from facts the
folly of setting down these measures, admitting
them to be Objectionable, to any party; and the
equal folly of expecting to remedy all errors of
legislation by giving power to any particular
party. Legislators are but men; they may err;
and we have not yet learned that wings are ex-
empt from human fraities. The parties have
their existence from certain difference of opinion
upon principles of government, When ques-
tions come up involving these principles, we
may expect men to rangethcmselves on their
party grounds; but on questions such as are here
alluded to, we reckon the people are about as
safe in loco foco as in wing hands.