Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1858-12-10

account for this vote after looking over
the acts of that House on that night, but
then good hearted men sometimes find
themselves led little too far. and in this
case the enquiry naturally arose, what
shall we not be asked to do next? The
refusal of the Legislature to complete the
State House unless at the expense of
Montpelier, we consider as unworthy of
honorable men and unprecedented in the
annals of legislation. 1t must be looked
upon by other States as niggardly and
selfish in the extreme.
These remarks will not be considered
harsh when it is remembered that from
the first we have repudiated the idea of
any town rebuilding the capitol. These
were our views expressed before and at
the time Of the extra session. We never
had the remotest idea that any town ever
should or ever would be required 10 build
House for the State.
Much has been said about q certain
bond, but we would away with all this
talk as unworthy language to be put into
the mouth of a sovereign state, and the
Legislature has belittled itself in jock
eying with town-insisting that it shall
build house for the use of a State, or
even of assisting in the completion of
that work. 1t is no honor to a man. to
be able to say that he was mem
Der of the Legislature of 1858, IN
less he can at the same time produce
4 record of the votes to prove that he
voted for an appropriation to Be made By
the State OUT OF ITS OWN FUNDS TO fin
ish the House. We are proud to state
in this connection that every member
from Orleans County voted right. II
the last act of the extra session had been
to consume that Bond" in the dying
embers of The old capitol, that act would
not only have been wise. but eminently
Just. for there the vexed question would
have been settled, and they who own tbs
house would pay for it. We regret the
course pursued by the Legislature or
this question. the more because we do no
believe it was met on its merits alone =
In support of this we again refer to s
Burlington paper. In an article in re
cent number of the Times, speaking O
the casting vote of the President of tht
Senate on the appropriation bill, it says
&" We have no fault to find, he voTEI
!, GEOGRAPHICALLY" Here the who'll
thing is out al once. The question O
completing a great public work is a geo
graphical one, claimed so by those wh,
ale the disappointed party-considere,
so BY the section who would most natu
rally incline to make it so. \ feeling c
disappointment pervading the entire ives
side of the mountain, it was easy enoug
: for men to create a public sentiment, :
that when their representatives come u
" to the capitol they could say that th
people demand that Montpelier shout
: rebuild the capitol, or we will remove til
= Legislature to Burlington, Rutland, an
i to as many other places as may ask for
in exchange for a vote, when the truth
Il that had vote been taken at any tim
( previous to August last. the State woul
IL have voted by an overwhelming majorit
I to build their own house, let It be bui
ID WREN It might.
That this has become a sectional que
is ton is apparent from the fact that the o.
II posers of State appropriation are four
ie in the same section. in the same town.
4 which the friends of rebuilding at Bu
10 lington or Rutland were found. The
re again, the opPosers of an untrameled q
IL preparation gained an accession TO the
70 numbers by the management 10 secure Il
= passage Of the bill to amend the charter
he the Vt. Il Canada Railroad, and therel
n the area of the a" west side was extende
as Then again, members were found in 4;
O. parts Of the State, who for one reason
Is another would ike to see DR.. Powers di
- graced, for in 50 hewing to the line" the L
lis has not only made his strong friends b
BY his bitter enemies, especially among th
ty class who claim the largest liberty to do
nd they please in all matters touching me-
5h als-and they are to be found all the VI
It's from the priest in the pulpit to the sot
zir the guiteF-the DR.. has his inplacaE
foes These questions being somewh
I'LL allied-not all naturally so-they aid
e each other, 30 that a majority was q
E. tanned for near all the measures Of /
K, west side Of the mountain.
he We have mentioned the acts of t
II last night Of the session. We viii nj
by speak Of one or two more.
o. The superintendent of the State Hou
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