Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1852-04-30
LEGFsEATTEE.

!. The Session just closed has proved to be the
longest session of any Legislature which has
ever convened In the state. From the appear
ance Of things Ct the commencement of the SEES
sion, we were induced to think that but little Of
the public money would be wasted but the facts
force upon US different conclusion. There was
never a session held, in our opinion, when the
public money was squandered by wholesale, as
ii has been by this Legislature. For every pr-
vate purpose, they have been as lavish as spend
Thrills Is Stationery wanted, give each men,
Der two reams of pa per, Envelopes by the thou
sand, daily papers, as many as they can find time
to frank-pencils and pens of every variety, and
unlimited quantity. Pay their own postage ont
OF the state Golfers, 10 the tune othree thousand
dollars, and then turn around and jew down the
price of newspaper to two cents o. less
Does Reynolds or Nc Neil present claim, for
$4,000 or $1,000, let them "fx the members"
and goes through the forms of law, like fire
through field of dried flax, without cutting
down the clair. single cent. But, let bill Of
two dollars be presented for papers had and used
by the members, they will investigate week,
waste $500 worth of tme and cut it down to
four and six pence, and pass it, Does the Le-
gislature wish 20 60 10 their families, let them
vote spree to Milwaukee, and it is done-and
these same sticklers for sPunging two cents out
OF righteous bill, have no scrupies about taking
pay for their time, at the rate Of twenty shillings
| per day, out OF the state fund, while they were
pursuing their own business or pleasure at home,
or somewhere else. The most glaring robbery
of the public money, in our opinion was the
! Mcneil claim, We suppose, however, that he is
more astonishcd at its passage, than we are
At the commencement Of the session, he made
affidavit, that he did not expect the use of the
dredgc when he made his contract, and now he
is paid 81 500, or Whereabouts, for being depri-
we'd the use Of the dredgc. This affidavit was
said to have been put in as evidence, to defeat the
Reynolds claim Of $4,000, which was for vo-
lation of contract on the part of the state for not
having the dredge ready in season. The Chair
man of the Senate committee, which reported in
favor Of McNeil's claim, Che Senator from this
countyO reported, thar it vas just as valid as the
ReynoI claim which had just passed, and the
Senate voted the money. BY tight vote it got
through the House, both of the representatives
from this county voting against il.
Take all the circumstances of their eXtrava-
;s@.ctoe together with their penuriousnoss at the
:art,-thcir buying charts at the Argns Office,
! by the wholesale, for children to play with
their refusing to publish the laws in the papers
in the vicinity, where the importance of them
should be made known, and publishing local laws
in Madison papers, which nobody will ever know
anything about, except the compositor who set
them up, and the publishers who have to lobsy
their bill through at the next scssion,-their ap-
propriating thousand dollars to the supcr-an-
nuatcd Gen Smith, to compile history of Wis
consin,--(why did they not remember the past
services Of the wisconsin Bard" and vote him
thousand year ?)-this extravaganza and a
thousand others, TO say nothing about paying
the It. Gov and President Of the Senate So
a day, each, for the same service, while the 1t.
Gov. was at home, specializing in village lots,)
condemn this Legislature as the most pernurious
and the most wasteful which ever met in the
State of Wisconsin.