Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1879-04-17
Correspondence.
Reflections on the Maine Legislature
Of 1879.

Reflections on the Maine Legislature
OF 1879.
No one can review the acts OF the Legs
lature of 1879 without a sense OF mingled
shame and pity. No Legislature since
Maine was admitted as a state has striyen
50 hard to win Immortality by is wise aud
statesmanlike acts. and yet none has pre-
sented 20 pltlablc aud ridiculous specta-
Gle before the world. Our statute laws
have received the usual amount OF tinker
Jog. and there ha. been a fair share OF spc-
clal legislation, bu; no single enactment Of
significance aud general importance has
been passed.
The new party took ~ place among the
political powers Of the state. proudly
haunting the banner Of Reform. but il sui
denly disappeared ike Jonah 10 the whales
belly, with \ vague sense OF H. individual
i,y. Il came into power hubblug with en-
thusiasm for rctrenchment. bat X retire.
IN company with rs associate party with
the stigma OF having committed the mean
est partisan act OF extrayagance on record
in the annals Of this state by actually Civ
iug hundreds Of dollars mot paying to a
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wearing i . ''In ''lh' nones' people VINO
nave pee" ue''ueu ny" me snA'e are o.-
cunning 10 see 'hfouSh-
me rate o' vac "e" p-'' may oe c'ea'v
see" Ia '"'s ''''p'ura' '''u''fa''on' Ana
ho man pu''eln ne" WINE INTO oia bottles
e''e the Ne" VINE VIII our>t the bottles
A,lu De spiI!vd' anu ''e bottles VIII perish.
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among ne hfsI ac'' oi thls Legislature
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ior reform they oSe'iooheu subject oil leg
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their attention. te'eF 10 tue miiea.e OF
menoers Oh 'ne Le2l-'a'"re' kno" OF
no IA" thN ""N more uhequaily and
uhJnsty than the m'eaee law
ishe ior instance Two members, one re-
suing wv" Hu"u'eu u'ies iroh tue capllai
OF the slate' and the other only ten miles
ana the hrst member gels eighty dollars
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