Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-05-12

prn legislation is the careless and imper-
feet manner in which bills are generally
framed, Much needed legislation Is annu-
ally lost because of the large number OF
measures which are left in the hand OF the
Executive at the adjournment OF the Leg
islature which are so defective that they
cannot properly be approved, and when all |
opportunity for correction Is gene 1t is
suooested that provision be made by law
for the appointment Of a competent person
TO act as counsel to the Legislature during
lis session. who shall receive reasonable
compensation, to be paid by the State,
whose duty shall be, at the request of any
is4enlber, 10 prepare any measure desired to
be introduced in either House; to give
legal advice in reference to proposed legis-
lation, 10 the members and to the various
committees; and to inspect the various
bills before their final passage, in order TO
detect errors and imperfections and to sug-
gest the necessary amendments; and gener-
ally to act as the legal adviser Of the Legs
lature"
The subject opens up a very broad field
for inquiry and debate. 1t can no more
than be referred in a single article. 1t
should engage earnest public attention with
view to the application OF remedies
These must come or legislation viii go on
in its present patchwork and selfish way
from bad to worse. 1t is a subject upon
which there must no longer be thought
stagnation There must be more orderly
method in The discharge of legislative du-
ties, less hurry and less Of sacri-
fcing of general bills to the
chance Of energy, public spirit and
unseifishaess in the individual legislator.
| The time Of all others in which to discuss
plans for the correction of the evils COM
planned of is now, in the vacation Of the
State Legislatures. In this way the views
of the people can be ascertaned and plans
formulated for the application of remedies
when the State Legislatures reconvene.
1t is to be hoped, therefore, that the sub
iect will be thoroughly debated during this
year, and the public intelligence thorough
| " informed concerning the correction of
| defects in our legislative system.
A NEWSPAPER NUISANCE
The indecency and vulgarity of the Or
binary newspaper interviewing bore was
wildly illustrated in San Francisco on
Sunday, when one of the gang who does
the bidding CT constituencies paper
invaded the privacy of family and sought
to pry into affairs with which the public
has no concern. A daughter of the family,
it had been rumored, was engaged to be
married to man who has, it is said, trans
ferred his affections to another object. This
is not matter Of public concern; it is the
business of no one whomsoever but the par
ties concerned. Yet one of the interview
ing crew of live" paper, which is the
lsynonyom for journalistic Paul Pry, OBJ
truded his unwelcome presence upon the
parents of the young lady, and by the most
limpertinent interrogatories sought to drag
the privacy of the family into public light
and make its personal concerns food for Il
morbid appetite to which such journals
cater 1t made no difference whatever to
1.-THE cheeky bore that the head of the house
emphatically refused to be interviewed"
fand over and again declined to make pub
lie the affairs of his household the fellow
iwould not be shaken off; he was there
Iafter scandal, and something with which to
satisfy the vulgar personality that stood
behind him, and urged him on, must be
evoked. For once firm man successfully
resisted impertinence and PERSISTENCE He
would have deserved better of right-think-
ing men and women had he kicked the
Ioltrusive intermeddler from his door. The
" interviewer who intruGc~ into the homes
OF citizens for the purpose of parading its
private affairs in print Is little better than
the burglar who forces his way with the
jimmy and the crowhar, and deserves to be
treated as such trespassers are when dis
covered. The vile practice deserves the
outspoken condemnation of self-respecting
journalism The man who buys type,
hires printers and reporters and sets up
in the newspaper business gains thereby no
right TO pry into the private affairs of citi-
zens In the exposure of crime and the
conservation of the ends of public justice,
a certain license is conceded to the Journal
ist, but the limit is 4 circumscribed one,
and should be so hedged about by regard
70: private rights as to prevent the inva-
sion of the household for mere purposes of
idle gossip.
TIE attorneys for the State OF Virginia
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