, 1870-07-02

out extra charge. Our Sunday readers in
town also receive Supplement with their
paper, in addition to the ordinary sheet, the
appreciation Of which is shown by ita great
and increasing popularity.
TIE MoNET VALUE OF To+DAY's WORK
While it is not possible to estimate the
whole Ealue Of any reforms in dollars and
cents, it mag aid us in obtaining compre-
lensive estimate of the advantages of the
new constitution, to sum up its value in q
purely economical sense, and, by offsetting
against this its cost, present and future, to
arrive ut an ldea of its net value.
First Let us try to estimate the econo-
my Of prohibiting special legislation, as-
suming, as We safely may, that there is
nothing which any body ought to have, and
Gun obtain by special law, that cannot be
as well obtained under q general law, with
the great advantage that, after the general
law is once enacted, all others who need the
same relief can obtain it by the same law.
Before us lie the three volumes, octave, of
s'Pirate Laws of the Session of 1867"
1hey NIL e,525 printed pages, and IN
clude some l,5oo special acts, while
the public laws passed at the
sarne session fill only 1877 pages, show
ing that thirteen times more OF the atten-
lion OF the Legislature was gwen to pr1-
Ente bills affecting the lobby than to public
bills nhectmg she whole people. II we
suppose the session Of Six weeks to include
thirty working days, over and above those
epeut in electing United states senator
and visiting state ansntutlons, We nno that
fifty private bills and five public laws we're
the average days work Of the Legislature.
1twas pretty veil known that, with rare e1-
cephons, aA OF these Pf1Fase onis were nano-
somely, some OF them nunlhcently, pad
for. In view OF the TACT that many thoa-
sands OF dollars we're expended On large
number OF the bulls, we doubt II S'oo
would be above the average for the l,ooo
bills which "had money IN them. Here
is an expense of S5oo, 600 paid by the peo-
PIE OF the State tor rehet under private
laws which they ought to have
had, it it wAs Just, under
pubic laws ana without eose
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capital ~ tee Ia" oeiay 10 amount TO
5 per cent, which IS about one-hfth the aV-
erage value Of invested capital this would
be still further ta1 on the industry OF the
State amounting to S, sol, 600 year. We
do not believe this estimate will seem large
to those who are familiar with the large
amount of properly whose value is affected
by Itgations in our courts, and by The
delay in their trials and decisiona.
The substitution of fixed salaries payable
out of their fees for the ices themselves,
as the means of compromising county Off