Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1873-06-07
SPECIAL LEGISLATION.
MI. Townsend Rises TO Expiain-soms
Gossip About log Rolling.

Messrs. Editors: My reasons last week
for writing a communication on Stat
bonds was induced by reading an extract
IN your paper from the SUSSEX JoVrnal,
Not but what believed the people o.
Kent and Sussex as safe TO trust with
general legislation as the people OF New
Castle county, II was the right doubted
Of the Legislature granting the issuing o.
State bonds for local or sectional pur
poses. have always been opposed tc
this doubtful right assumed by our Legis'
latnre. You. Mr.. Editor. seem TO thint
that increased representation of New
Castle county would cure or prevent The
evil complained Of II may 10 a certain
extent. prevent this county from being
made to pay more than her inst share o.
such grants, bnt to cure the evil we neee
+, decision in our Court Of Chancery.
II that failed an amendment 10 our con-
stitntion.
Some peopleln our county are as anx
ions for the issuing of State bonds as
Kent aud Sussex. Thirty years ago Las
winter the officers of the Newark col
lere personally called on me Chen mem
her OF the Legislature) and asked me &c
vote for the issuing Of State bonds for tn
especial benefit Of said college. | told
them no, never; that poor and rich ch'l
dren all alike had the same claim on on
State Treasury, and that would not rol
the poor 10 benefit the rich. After knock
ing at the legislative doors for thirty
years, last season this said Newark col
lege got an appropriation Of three thou
sand dollars gear, whether by log roll
ing with the Sussex bond issuing railroad
do not exactly know. Amer these mea-
sures passed the Legislature another
scheme was got mp to issue bonds to
the amount OF from one to two hundred
thousand to what Is called the Delaware
Bay Shore proposed railroad from Dover
to Milford, and on the tendency OF this
measure | was an eye witness and saw
! Mr.. Silver, one OF the Republican mem
bers from this county, propose to amend
the bill by inserting either twenty-five or
thirty thousand dollars for the Edge Moor
Railroad In New Castle county, and be
made speech 10 favor and claimed the
right Of the Legislature 10 issue State
bonds to railroad enterprises. This pro-
ject, however, was killed. so II we had
increased representation from this county
and If Mr.. Silver represented the senti
ment Of the upper portions Of this county
we would be in no better hands than
Kent and Sussex. A better remedy
would be llrst an injunction against issu-
ing bonds to the Frankford Railroad pro
ject and Newark college, and then make
two counties out of New Castle county
and then an amendment in our State
Constitution taking that doubtful right
if it does exist, from the Legislature &c
grant the isauing of State bonds or lend
ing Of credit In any manner to individ
nails or corporations, or associations o.
any kind. This will protect the peoples
treasury, and do not know II Il would
he amiss TO erect a gqllows before thu
State House door so that members NIGH
see The emblem Of the h CHEST process o.
clsil law. &c. SAMUEL TOWNSEND.
TowSsEED, june I'd, 1878.
P.S.-Asa private citizen have entered
my protest in the public papers agains
the issuing of State bonds to beuetlt pri
yste Individuals or corporations, and as
stated IL former communication. | an
willing, as Que tax payer, to join in will
others to ask the Chancellor to issue al
injunction to restrain the State Treasure
from issuing said bonds. ! now leav
:. the subject in the papers to others, as
have not time to say more in the paner
at present. s. T.