Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1885-04-28

| to the Confederate secret service fund were
left in London and Paris banks when the
Confederacy collapsed. The money was not
| surrendered to the United States, but the
| custodians of it agreed that it should be dis
tributed among those who had given their
means to the Confederacy for the bonds.
There is a show of fairness in this arrange
ment, which disappears, however, when the
method of carrying it into effect is known
The plan was for those who were in the Sc
eret to buy up the bends for trife and pre-
sent the coupons for payment. This was
| done, the money was paid out and the ac=
| count closed. Instead of beneftting those
| who had given their means to the Confeder-
acy, who were presumably the holders of
bonds, the money distributed among a
| ring of Spectators, who were allowed to
cheat bondholders by purchasing their
bonds without giving them notice of the
facts which gave the bonds their value.
/ A notable scheme has been entered upon
| by some influential English land owners, who
have begun to realize that the gradual dis
| appearance of the small farmers is a social
| and industrial evil to be dealt with in some
| the purpose of buying land and reselling it,
| by system Of easy payments, to laborers
wanting land for cultivation or the erection
| of cottages for their own occupation. It is
| intended, also,- to encourage cooperative
farming, wherever it may be practicable, to
reduce individual expense by this means; in
some cases, in fact, such method would be
necessary for the success of the scheme.
There are two great difficulties in the way of
peasant farming in England. One is the
cost of tillage, where the farm is large
enough to make the use of horse desirable,
and the other is to make farming pay at all
upon very small scale. A cooperative
method, making horses and implements COM
mon to a limited number of farmers, may
possibly solve both these problems.
Since the Hon. Lynde Harrison entered
public life he has had great deal to do with
legislation in this State and the taxpayers are
! much indebted to him for the way in which
he has looked after their interests. The
| Hartford correspondent of the New York
Tribune thus refers to some of his achieve
ments: The most important work of the ses-
sion (of the last legislature) was done by the
Appropriations committee, under the Specific
Appropriation act passed last year and which
goes into effect July 1. The estimates made
and adopted for the next fiscal year will save
the State at least 100000 compared with
the expenditures of last year This measure
was opposed for two or three years. But it
is now agreed on all hands that the State will
derive great benefit from it. The original
bill, which was finally passed, was drawn by
Lynde Harrison, chairman of the Re-
publican State committee, who pushed
it persistently inside and outside the
legislature until it was carried through To
this able representative of the Republican
party in Connecticut the taxpayers are much
indebted for important legislation. AS
Speaker of the House and a leader upon its
floor, besides being influential in the councils
of the party, he has been in a position to ac-
complish much and the party has backed
him. He was the author of the constitu-
tional amendment prohibiting an increase of
salaries during given terms of office; also
of another controlling the expenditure of
public money by towns. He originated and
drafted the amendment for biennial sessions
of the legislature, which will save at least
$125, 900 in every alternate year. It is a
pretty good record for a man still in his for
ties.