The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-04-29

listers Wife, (which quaint is laughabe and
funny and without exaggeration book
that laymen should buy and read. "The
Native Cure a common sense view of dis
ease and its cure, by a physician, and
"Sartar Resartus," one of Carlyle's most
famous works. These books can be OBJ.
tanned of the publisher at the nominal cost
of IS cents each for the former and 25
cents for the last named.
Two men were at work on Second
street, near the Halliday House, yesterday,
arranging the gas pipes connecting the
hotel with the mains, They had dug a
deep pit and had disconnected the pipes,
allowing the gas to escape. They had
worked for some hours in the pit, constant.
ly breathing the escaping gas and were
warned several times to come out at regu-
lar intervals and take fresh air, but they
refused, saying that they were experienced
hands at the gas fitting and could stand it,
But subsequent events proved that they
were too self-confident. About three
o'clock in the afternoon, while several per-
sons were standing around the pit watching
the progress of the work, both of the men
suddenly aightened themselves up, q
SILVER ran through their bodies, and they
broke down, dead, as everybody there
thought. But they were both speedily
pulled out and, with plentiful use of
spirits, brought back to consciousness. 1t
was fortunate for the men that help was so
near at hand, for had they been permitted
to lay in the pit but few minutes longer
they would have certainly been beyond all
human assistance.
The present republican general assem-
bly, will go down to generations yet unborn
as the grand aggregation of human sloths.
No legislative body ever moved so slowly;
and had the majority Of the members taken
an oath, before entering upon discharge
Of their duties, that the progress of every
measure should be impeded by all the
tactics known to the most skilled paria-
mentarian-that nothing should be dis
posed of that admitted of further postpone
ment-had motives of this kind governed
from the start, matters could not have
moved more sluggishly than they have
moved. If the majority had worked
as hard to forward business as il has to kill
time its record would be infinitely more
credi.abe than it now is. Wearied from
non-action during the week, the majority
90 home on Saturday, and returning on
Monday, too late in the day to convene for
business, it is Tuesday morning before
quorum is secured. Thus it OCCURS that
during three days out of seven there is no
pretense of business, of course the respon-
sbility for this state of affairs rests upon
the shoulders of the republican majority. |
While there are democrats who are willing |
to avail themselves of the luxurious idle
ness consequent upon these adjournments,
they are utterly powerless either to hasten
business or delay it. The republicans have
complete and undenlable control and can
do precisely as they please. 1t pleases
them to do nothing-to idle away their
time, and make the people pay them five
dollars per day while they are doing it.
They have been in session now about 112
days. During that time they have passed
exactly twenty-one bills. Several of these
are in the form of deficiency bills in order
to meet the expense of the Legislature be-
cause of its Frustrated session; the balance
are of purely local import; not one Of the
whole number is of any importance to the
state at large. There has been no bill
passed making the necessary provision
for the support Of the state
government; no bill making appropriations
for the necessary annual expenses of the
state charitable, penal or reformatory insti-
tutions. During the one hundred and
twelve days the per diem of the two hun
dred and four members, at five dollars for
each, amounts to $1,000 per day,or $114240
for the l12 days. This is only the salary
OF members and does not include the sal
aries of clerks Of the houses, clerks of
committees, pages, janitors and
other employees besides thousands
of dollars spent on so called investigations.
According to the State journal, a repub-
lican paper, the cost to the people of the
state Of this Legislature is not less than
$500 per day, or about two hundred
thousand dollars for the 1l2 days that it
has now been in session. 1t remains to be
seen what the people are going to do about
it. II they tamely submit If they fail to
rebuke the guilty parties, they will show
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