Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-10-16

and when the middle Of the week has
receded into the past then comes the
desire to 20 home. One and another
"skins out, aud about Friday all feel
that il is important to 90 home and
rub against heir constituents. Now,
we do not care to indulge extensively
in criticism upon this way Of doing bus
mess when we consider that the public
good viii not be likely TO suffer ia con-
sequence, and that the work of legisla-
tion rapidly exhausts the gray matter
Of the brain in the case Of the average
legislator, necessitating not only con.
tact with watchful constituency but
the laying in Of a new supply Of pbos-
phorus. But the thing that impresses
us as most open violation Of the rules
of economy is the attempt on the part
of any member to secure an adjourn
ment Of the House because be had fall
ed to write to his wife as he had prom
ised and must needs hurry home and
apologize. The writing Of a letter to
IA wife must be considered among the
imperative duties Of an absent husband.
Where it is too much neglected there
lis danger of the loss of the wife. Ii
some men are too much absent others
are too frequent. That member who
would have set the legislature from
Friday morning into the middle of the
following week that he might hurry
home and assure the powers that ruled
in that region that he was still loyal,
may have feared the swapping Of the
cord already stretched to an unusual
tension. Whether OF not this was the
case did not transpire. Conscience
seems To have worried him into an OPP
en- confession OF the wrong be had done.
There must have been present TO his
mind a picture Of his wife or some of
the children hanging around the post
office, looking anXiously for a letter,
asking the postmaster II he was sure
he had not dropped it into the wrong
box, and then facing towards home,
perchanee, with an apron or fist wip-
ing the dust out Of the corner of the
left eve. Is member so careless in
regard to his promises. fit to make laws
tor great aud free commonwealth !
This man stands self-conyicted Of a
great wrong. He may gloss it overly
calling ii carelessness, but this will
soon wear off and the wrong stand ont
in all its hideous deformity. No man
should enter into a contract TO write to
his wife at specified time without
taking full account of his own powers.
He may be compelled to meet other
forces that will surely break down any /
thing but well fortified purpose. Is
pecially is this true in the case of one
suddenly brought into contact with the
gay and dissipated life Of our State Cap /
itol. The confession of one member
would doubtless be that of many 9TH
ers were moral courage equal to the
But carelessness Of this
kind, under ordinary circumstances
might make no expense. But in this
case it came near being expensive. We
are not certain but that il did have
effect. Tor although the
confession and pleadings OF the guilty
did not bring about an imme-
diate adjournment, one soon followed,
aud there was hurrying to and fro.
The legislature of Vermont costs the
State about $1,000 per day. But it
does not work by the day, it works by
The job and sets nolimit to the job. Ev-
cry move il makes costs. Even its
eisure must be reckoned with. To adj !
ourn that a member may go home and
confess must cost the State twoor three
thousand dollars. What one member
las right to require every member ,
las a right to require. What menu
,er has a right to require one week he !
las a right to require every week, and !
he same is true OF every member un-
Ter a like foruitous concurrence of cir +
Should something of this e
lind be carried ont continuously the a
ost TO the State would be enormous.
Jan the taxpayers of the State calmly