New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-01-10
A GOOD IDEA.
We take pleasure in extracting the following from
The Natchifoches Chronicle Of the Sd inst:

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our Goysnoss during ihefr ees The failure Hitherto
md the msnsien sTseed viii The
there expected Of him those hospalte eiytes
which, when extended reflect credit npon the once and the
reduce sin farther yrequiring him rent his
which high position imposes npo hm INV Ne nfr ps
taken to erect The building. go -
We cordially concur in the views advanced by the
Chronicle, so far as they go. We regard it as re-
proach upon the proyerbal. berality of our people
that the erection Of suitable mansion for their State
Executive has been so long deferred In almost all
the States of the Union if not in all except louisiana
the people, through their representatives in the Less
iature have caused to be erected and furnished ap
proprlate houses for their Governors Some of these
residences are on scale of princely magnifcence
and we have yet to hear of any complaining on the
part OF the taxpayers. Instead of complaining the
people Immediately interested seem to take lauda.
Bile pride in the fact that their chief agistrate pro-
vlded for in manner becoming his position and their
wealth. hberalty and strength. This is the correct
view to take of the question 1t is not for the ndiy
dual accommodation of the Governors that these ey.
penses are incurred-not at all. The individuals as
SUCH have nothing to do with the matter. But it is
TO surround the Governors with proper appointments
and conveniences, as the embodiments of the execu
tive sovereignty of the commonwealth in order that
they may be enabled to receive visitors from abroad
and dispense the Inequalities incident to their exalted
Office, that the argument in favor of the erection of
stately editiee for their accommodation should be
founded. Justice to our Governors, justice to our
selves, as well as State PRIDE all call for the CARRYING
out ofthe Chronicles recommendation.
Even with a suitable residence, furnished by the
State the Governors salary would be too low by at
least fifty per cent This is fact which no one cog
n'zsnt of the circumstances will dispute. And as we
do not believe the people of Louisiana desire that
their Executives should work for nothing and find
themselves we advocate the building of Cover
nors mansion, and an increase Of salary at one and
the same time.
In connection with this, the nadequacy of the COM
pensaton allowed District Judges naturally presents
itself for consideration. We have alluded to this sub.
Ject frequently and intend to press upon the Legs
lature frequently hereafter We regard it as one of
paramount importance-as question that directly
concerns every man, woman and child in the State.
We can get along indiferently well with poor legs.
lators poor Governors and poor State officers but we
cannot get along with poor judges any great length of
time without entailing evils of the most fearful de-
scription upon ourselves and upon those who will in
few brief years. take our places on the stage of
human action.
Without dissenting voice, the whole community
VIII agree that the best legal talent should put upon
the BENCH and yet, right in the face of this unver
sally admitted proposition, the legislation of the State
has been so shaped as to produce opposite result
The law imposes tasks upon Judges that make them
Toll like galley and then pays them for the labor
thus performed at starvation rates The consequence
is that few OF our eminent lawyers will abandon
lucrative practice to accept posts of judicial dstinc
ton where the labor is immense, the responsibility |
great, and the pay wretchedly small.
We hold to the opinion, deliberately made up, that
it would be wise policy and judcious economy in the
Legislature to at double the salaries of our Dis
trict Judges.