New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-02-19

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SATURDAY MORNING, FEB'Y 10, 1868
INTERHaL HETWEE.Nr THE .acTs
on public places are at present enliyene
~ ~ presence Of the larger number Of tn
Legislators of the State. You find them lolline
With III air Of the most elegant leisure, upoi
The cushioned furniture Of the Verandah, St
Charles, City Hotel and St. Louis. You heai
them chatting, as merrily as boys let out o
y school, BIT Banks Arcade. You see them, smi
ling, DIT the Ruby, Gem, Shades, etc You dis
cover them at work on bivalYes at Sans OF
Holbrook' Is disposing Of the subjects before
them with much more avidity and zeal than
they ever 4anifested in attending to subjects
Ia which the State IS concerned. You encounter
4 them 1T every street corner You turn, and be-
hold them in frequented places. such as the
corners Of Common and ST. Charles, in the most
graceful and statuesque positions imaginable
AT the dining tables Of the hotels and restau
rants their knives and forks have the iyelies
rattle, and their cry for waiter " rings out
above all other dins Oysters and champagne
they punish most severely.
We learn that we are to have these Jolly good
fellows with us for some seven or eight days, in
addition to those during which they have al
ready favored us with their presence They
have voted themselves unanimously whata wag-
gish friend of ours calls good boys" and
claimed d holiday Of something like two weeks.
#ss We cannot say that we admire the vote or
admit the claim, though any censure we might
make Is somewhat moderated by the recollec-
ton Of the large increase Of receipts they bring
touur hotels, theatres, public exhibitions, opera,
bar rooms, restaurants, billiard saloons etc.
The proprietors Of these places have our con-
gratulations upon the easy, good-natured, holt
dayslcving disposition Of cur Legislators.
Our congratulations are, however, somewhat
tempered and overshadowed by the reflection
that, just now, the State is poor, has creditors
and is borrowing Or begging in money markets,
whilst ourS honorable Legislators ars, carelessly
and ii idleness, scattering some $4,000 Of her
mdey. We made the calculation yesterday,
itsm BY item, and found it to be undeniable, that,
during this Legislative holiday, the members
will take from the impoverished and almost ex-
hsusted Treasury Of the State nearly sic, 900,
Tor doing nothing. The joke may be Yery
good one, but il 10 rather expensive
New good reader, what think You is the rea-
sun given il excuse Of this conduct Hear, and
marvel There are two or three committees,
comprising some fifteen Or twenty members,
remarkably insignificant portion Of the whole
number, absent from the Capital and busy in
this citys and the two branches not being able
70 ct along without their presence, adjourned
This is rather singular confession of general
iunspaoity. When there was whig majority
IL Tie Legislature, at the last session, commit
tees Of the same character and number were 90
casionaily absent, and yet the business Of the
branches went on smoothly and regularly
But times change, and 50 do legislatures. A
legislature, largely whig, could afford to dis
pstse with the presence Of few committee gen.
flemens and could find enough intelligence, com.
mon sense. and legislative tact left to proceed
with the regular order Of business It appears
Tint Tho case is different with the present legis
lsture, With rs large democratic majority.
And because Of this large democratic major
ity, the wing members Of the present legislature
can do nothing towards ordering different re-
snlt Their hands are tied, They are pitifully
IN minority. They have not even chairman
:f 4
ship Of committee. They are entirely at the
mercy OF tue aemocratle majority
what mas that majority done What law has
y passed. Wna1 act mas u amended What
great public interest has 1T benefited ! It has
been il session nearly q month-caused count
less but costly columns Of yerbiage to be publish
ed in the State paper, and cost the State Trea-
sury some $s25, 600 to 100000 We forgot: i'll
has done one important thing, done it at an
early hour, and done it Thoroughly and well it
suthclent 70 pay members their per diem and
mileage, wisely and ludiolously done, grave
and honorable legislators With you, duty,
iike charity, properly begins at home,
Well, We presume the people, like decoroua
audience, must patiently bear this dull interval
between the acts Of the legislative comedy
When the curtain rises again, we are apprehen-
ave the actors will be no better studied in their
parts, no easier in their carriage, no more regu-
Lar ~ The business Of the play, than they are
now, because Of the fact that they have quaffea
sparkling hook or bubbling champagne at one
q the splendid hotels Of NewOrleans, imbibed
hulds at the counters Of its popular bar-rooms,
Or swallowed oysters at one of its fashionable