The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1871-03-30

made to suffer. j might give mauy other
cogent reasons why this bill should not be-
eoue law. but time prevents my doing more
tban giving il my unqualified disapproval,
Deiieying that the members of the General AS
scmbly win themselves corrcct an error that
mustbaye crept into this bill elandestinely In
its cnrollment'
| The members who "expressed their surprise
at nnding the appropriation changed were 40
doubt, the few honest men who are not mem
bers Of .'the partv." But the Speaker Of the
House and President Of the Senate gave their
Official sanction TO the fraud, and tried 10 pass
the bill over the Governors veto. In the
House It was SO passed by an overwhelming
vote, in defiance OF the executive rem onstrance.
But in the Senate il failed, and why ? In that
oouy the Governor seems 10 have formed a
ring" just strong enough to defeat the meas
uro; And now observe what follows, as key
TO the bOverEi.'s sudden assumption OF henest
virtue in the premises. The members and at
taches are all ahoat with clearinghouse bills
10 pay, and anxious to leave, but unwilling TO
go until they. can add TO their other stealings
tue cash Tor their pay certificates. In this cx-
trene moment persons carelessly pass among
them AND intimate that ''the bank will cash
tue certificates at a small discount" The bank,
with II. Solomon at lis head, is the Governors
machine. The bank Is visited. The first com
ers are accommodated at ten per cent OF;
soon there Il rush, when the rate is increased
to fifteen, twenty, thirty per cent. of, and the
amount realized by the veto may be imagined
IA crop OF virtue and crop Of greenbacks
the resultant harvest Of our. < gubcrnatorial act.
The newspapers 0f the state, although 4
number OF them have valuable reporters here,
iail to give any such inkling OF the disgusting
scenes attending the last days of the session as
an unaccustomed and unhardened eyewitness
would receive during a few hours attendance.
Looking in upon the House on one occasion
every sofa assigned to.visifors admitted TO the
hoor was occupied by women, all u whom,
win three exceptions, were blacks, and all Of
whom, with no exception, we're well-known
courtesans- Judging By the attention paid 10
these .ladies," by the members, il was evident
| that "no discrimination on account of race,
color, or previous Cor presently condition"
would DO tolerated here. Ia the lobby were
stands for the sale ofspysters and other refresh
ments, including liquors Of all kinds, and about
hundred negroes were there eongregated,
smoking, drinking, eating, and smelling lond
enough 10 collapse, in ten minutes the stomach
of any man not thoroughly acclimated. A
| drunken uproar, which | VIII not attempt TO
| describe, was under full htadwAy nihe House,
and drunken uproar was under full headway
10 the lobby. The most shocking profanity,
| the most lasciyious and indecent conduct the
most acrid, wild animal odors, the most dia
bOlical expressions of passions OF which the
worst OF faces capable-ali of these gave a
lufid, fetd revolving character to the scene.
| In the midst Of il all fhe ''busirassp went on
| A half drunken member with tbereal old plan.
tation dialect moved that Slb0 be paid to some
man who had repaired the clock. The motion
was carried by reclamation. Another moved
that present Of s. 1000 be given The Speaker,
| and this WAS in like manner carried 10 the
midst Of wells which would have done no dis
| credit to pandemonium. And so were num-
berless other sums voted recklessy away, In
| the midst Of cries which plainly indicated how
liberal some people can be in voting, away
other peoples money. IA eil
How far these geatry succeed in feathering
I their nests at the expense OF this ruined cum
monweath may 20 some extent be realized by
| a few figures. The Speaker Of the House
| (Mnses1 receives bis $Gper diem every session,
| aud this session includes four months Before
adjournment $1,000 are voted him as a pres
ent, extra, all from the State Treasurer. He
| is also Adjutant General aud as such receives
a salary OF 50, 500, with 81, 900 more as a con-
,ingeDt fund, and 81 ,Ooc more for expenses
| (yl Of the militia. He also WAS Allowed sell
| 700 TO buy furniture for the hall, and $50 900
10 buy arms, &C., for the blacks. These are
| the figures which the records show, and be-
siies all this there Is wide margin for peroni-
sites and shares In railroad, bvnd and other
| spccuatons, in which the credit of the State
| is used al iibifnn. q rant and the Denis are
admirably initiated, thusly, The Speakers
| father is the Chief Justice, with h salary Of
$4,000 and a contingent fund in his hands OF
i
| are not tabulated. The Speakers fathsr.ip-
Law has 81 500 for one Office and $1,000 for
| another. The Speakers uncle {still Mosesl Is
| Circuit Judge, with salary Of 50, 500; and then
follows a small army Of the Speakers kip,
white and yellow, who hare what to them
seems liberal share Of the pickings. Somuch
| for one nest, and like exhibit could be shown
| OF the others. t ~ Niasf
To meet all this demand for pIunder, tho
| taxes must be and are enormous. gentle.
| man has just been introduced 10 me who owas
n large tract OF very poor and upimprcvsd pine
land, utterly worthless and unstable at pres
| emit and which tho Radical assessors haye nj
ucd at Sc per acre As he has lost almost eyery-
thing, be told them he coald not par 81, ,O0O
taxes. but offered them land enough 1t its as
sessed value TO make that amount They said
they were willing 10 take the land, but would
not allow him more than seyenty-tive cents per
| acre, as that was all II was worth. The very
men who assess his land al 50, and require and
| will compel him to pay taxes on Il at that val.
| uation, are unwilling to receive II as taxes at
| more than seventy live cents per acre This
gentleman stands descrvedly high AMONG tke
best men 10 the State, and his case In only in
troduced as specimen OF the way such matters
are now managed here. There Is no doubt
that these outrageous wrongs are driving the
white population 70 the verge OF distraction.
The State Is utterly unable to meet n. a.
nnands of the rebber crew, and the remorsclcss
! csrmorants are snatching the last crumb Of
bread from the poor widows and orphans who
lie helpless At their feet o men and women
of the North ye who read this in your happv
homes, still Tree, protected and blest think
| OF those with faces as fair a. your own and
| hearts as pure ground in the dust and writh-
ing under torinres in hch only savaees De-
| light, aud all this with the approval of great
1 and enlightened Government claiming 10 he
| the friend and refuge Of the Impressed I sftf
Aud the saints prey upon each other. Not
only here ID every officer grand shaving ma
chine and every movement and Dperiij ijon
shave Of high or low degrec, but ail daroueh
the State the. Same thing i being dime. a
juror serves two weeks.at $i.50 per diem and
gets HE ticket calling for SIS. He presents
money" but offers finally TO s.adyance, and
takes bis ticket at SO or even less And this
| Is constantly done. Persons working on ronds
or bridges are paid IN .arders from The county
commissioners on the treasurer, who, Of course,
had no money, bat cashed the orders Qua of
Il Il easy to see to whose benefit all this inures.
and the persons 50 1eoced are mosily negroes.
by whose votes these very sfshavers" were
placed In Office. The State III the hands ~
this Radical Crew has become the honest
white mars purRAtory, and the II Dorado for
swinderN andrognes- sfs4lss s.
Three hundred thousand dollars were amply
sufficient before the war for all the ordinary
expenses Of the State Government for twelve
mopths. Now single session of the Lcxlsla-
ture-the one just closed--cosis $3.50, ,D00. tho
sum which this body unhIusningly voted for
IL own hsne6f 10 three appropriation BILLS
The first was for $l26,0 passed just before
the Christmas recess for holiday frolics The
sscond, after the reoe.z. was for 1880 and
the last was, as already stated. for <365. .000
agRregating nearly "6alf million Il dollsra
imposed on an impoverished and down trnddc1
people as the price Of single scssinn Of he
Legislature, whose only mission has hssu d
misrepresent the peoplS and 10 waste he pub
lie treasury" wiihoat any regard for III.
public good.
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