The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1858-07-31
Tbe Cecil ll)bia.
ELK TON, JULY 81. 1853.


We print below a communication
from correspondent, in reply to the ar
ticle The Cecil Democrat adopted as its
leader last week. If the Il or 90 MEM
hers mentioned, refers to the Committee
to examine the code, it is marvellous that
party organ should be so simple as
to copy the article. We do not see
that it can refer to any body else, and
that Committee, as every man ought to
know was appointed at the request of
the democratic codi6ers, who themselves,
were appointed by democratic lcgisla-
ture. The matter having been brought
up as political thing, every reader must
see at glance the turn it would take, if
followed. A sharp party organ, is that
same Cecil Democrat.
For Tile Cecil HAig.
e'LOOk at Home"
The Cecil Democrat Of last Saturday copies,
and endorses to mislead its readers, by
placing it at the head of his editorial column,
an article from the Maryland Union, ia pa
per printed at Frederick and edited by Brad
ley Z. johnson, late candidate for Comptrol-
Ter of the Treasury headed as above, in which
the following extraordinary statement &C.
curs:-
"Thc last Legislature s1uandcrcd $50 900
OF the peoples money to enlarge the State
capitol, when there was not the least necessity
for it and some fifteen or twenty members
are now receiving four dollars Il day, and will
in all probability continue that game till the
next Legislature. Every day since the ad-
iournment, these gentlemen have been draw
ing the peoples money from the State Trea-
sury at the rate Of $50 or $50 ad,y.'
The State House at Annapolis was built
before the Revolution and the Halls Of the
two Houses of the Legislature are exactly the
same size. The Senate Chamber has ample
accommodations for its twenty two members;
but it has been a well known fact, for many
years, land no man knows it better than the
Editor of the Md Union,) that the Hall Of
the House of Delegates is entirely too small
to accommodate its scventy-lour members
and numerous employees. About eighty men
arc cooped up in little narrow ROOM so
close together that member wishing to
change his scat, incommodcs half Il dozen
others This miserable want Of room was so
evident that two years ago Ex-senator Mer.
lick hen the Democratic leader in the
ouse-introduccd a Bill providing for the en-
largemcnt of the State House the building OF
File Proof Record Offices, Committee Rooms
&c. That Bill failed but at the last Session an
act was passed providing for Tie building Of
Fire Proof Record offices, separate from the
State House, (of which the Md Union is sin.
guar'y oblivous,) the enlargme of the Hall
of the House OF Delegates. the State Library
&c. The vote or that Bill, on its passage in
the House, stood as follows:
Affirmative IL Negative %.
In the affirmative, Americans 90, and the
following Democrats: Messrs Morgan Neale,
| Mackubln, kllbouIT, StOncSireet, Walker
AIender, Ford Of BALTIC. Co., Lynch of BAIT
Co., Smith Of BALTIC. Co., GoldSl"rough, K,dd
Belt, Wyville, Contcc Sudlcr Of Q. A., Duval,
Rddlcmoser and Thluston TO-
In the Negative Democrats, Mesyrs, Lari-
more, Landing, Barnard, kilgore and Montz,
5; and 20 Americans.
The House was composed of 1 t Americans
and 80 Democrats. Compare the strength OF
parties and any man can see how the Bill was
passed, Let the Editor of Md. Uniou L" iooh
al home,' and see his chosen friend and ally,
Edward W. Belt, the great gun of the West
crn Maryland locofocos, voting for this un-
necessary expenditure and let Tile Cec,I
Democrat man take glance at the name of
Milton Y. Kidd among the men who
" sqnander,d $4,000" Of Tie people smoncy.
No blame is given to these gentlemen by the
writer of this article, but if there was money
sqnandered, MesSrs Kidd and Bllt and two
thirds of the ocofoco members of the House
with them, were among the squandcrrrS.
BY the testimony of the Maryland Union they
are squandelers of the peoples money" Let
these locofoco Editors " look al home -
But the after par. of the extract quoted
from the Maryland Union is by far the most
enter tanning and refreshing. Mr. johnson
gives his reader the pleasant piece Of in(or-
nation that fifteen or twenty members of the
late Legislature are men drawing their 81 90
Per day regularly from the Treasury that
the peoples money is now flying into their
pockets at the rate Of $50 per day. The
Edi;o, of the Maryland Unon is a lawyer ;
some of his readers are probably well inform.
ell men, and how he can possibly expect to
make them believe such an arrant falschood
as this, is the pcrplcxng thing. Had the
statement come, originally, from The Cecil
| Democrat, it would have surprised no one
and probably elected no reply; Tut Mr..
Bradley L. johnson Is of respectable stand.
ing and was late a candidate for high office
in the statc--Comptroller Of the Treasury
and he would be supposed 10 know the mean
ing Of the following clause Of Act 8. Sec. 20,
Of the Constitution:
"No money shall be drawn from the Treas.
ury ofthe State except in accordance with
provision, made by law, and every such law
Shall distinctly specify the sum appropriated
and the object to which it shall be applied"
Can the Editor ofthc Maryland Union show
any record of an appropriation made to pay
- fifteen or twenty members 81 90 day y
after the adjournment If not. why make
such an assertion? The members of both
Houses are paid by drafts on the Treasury,
signed by the Chairman of the House Com.
mittec on Claims and counlcrsigncd by the
Clerk. liza Committee on claims of the late
House, is still i'll existence, these Editors arc
J the only parties in the state who know it /;
certainly no information would more surprise
the late Chairman, Major Dali off, Old Dor
set, than this startling revelation that $50
600 are now flying through his hands into the
palms Of twenty members Of the late Legisla-
| ture.
These assertions OF the Maryland Union are
being copied extensively in the Democratic
| papers as an instance of " Know Noil,inp