Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1860-08-31

From that it will be seen that the members of
the legislature travelled three thousand one
hundred and six miles, say from l46 to us
miles, which viii average about l64 miles to
each one, when the legal travel on the nearest
stage route would not be far from fifty four
miles, or about one third the distance for which
they have received twenty cents per mile.
We learn that congress has spent many thou
sand dollars and much time to ascertain the
frauds which have been committed on the do
main of the United States, wherein the president
and others high in authority have been aces
sorry. If these things are worthy the attention
of congress, why may we not enquire into the
/ faithfulness of the representatives of our state
and county Every person knows very near
how far he would have to travel by stage to go
to Montpelier; whether it would be fifty or one
hundred and fifty miles, orwhether they should
receive ten or thirty dollars for travelling fees.
The nineteen representatives from Orleans
county actually raised and retained not far from
: four hundred dollars OF money from the treas
ury of the state more than what was legal, just
or right. Is this republcanism Is it honora
BILE? Are such men to be patronisedf Are they
10 be trusted? No verify; the honest voters o
Orleans county ought not to do any such thing
and they cannot do it with a clear conscience
If the travelling fees are not enough at ten cent
per mile each way, Il think it ISL let them max
law TO raise it to any desirable amount, if i
should be sixty seven cents per mile, (as som
of the above have taken) and risk their secon,
I election on such law, but for the bonor of tn
r man, and for conscience sake, do not permi
them to have an opportunity to commit the Xix
: trespass again upon the public treasury.
y Now we would make an earnest appeal to tn
freemen who are legal voters IN freemen's meet
ing, in Orleans county, as it is for them to sa
whether they viii support any man at the SeI
d TENDER election for representative, who has pas:
ed the boundaries of common honesty by d.
frauding the treasury of this state to satiate a
appetite for gain
If there is not moral honesty enough IN tt
people of Orleans county to rectify gross vie
:. lation of honest principle, we certainly ougl
not TO complain of the greater frauds upon II
q property of the general government.
-e If this is republicnism in Vermont, let
praise our democratic brethren, or fathers if yC
please, in Washington, if they can exceed us
e dishonesty by having the greater skill in exec
sr ting their frauds.
at Let every town find a sufficient number of Y
Il tiers who Will by their votes prevent any m:
from being returned to the assembly who h
Al betrayed your confidence heretofore on the lol
mileage question.
Is There was law passed Nov. 6, 1884, whit
required the secretary of state to prepare
~ BILE showing accurately the distance of the Sc
nt eral towns in the state the nearest stage rou
S. &C., and from which table the mileage of t
7 members of the general assembly and of {
council shall hereafter be computed. Efthert
~ secretary has not prepared such table of mi
be age, or it has not been called for by those who
n duty it was to make up the debentures.
ABEL CURTIS
vi Lowell, August Is, 1860