Morning journal and courier., 1893-06-12
DON'T SLIGHT ANY,

There are only a few days more left for the legislature to work in, and we hope it will improve the time. And we partieu- larly hops that before 1t adjourns those members of 1t who have not been provided with offices will be. Most of them are al- ready supplied, thanks to their own inge- nuity and the loyal friendliness of their fellow members, and 1t wouldn't be fair for the many who are "al right" to go home and leave the few who are not all right without the solace of an office and the salary thereunto appsrtaining.
 Of course there will have to be some skirmishipg around to find or make places for the rest of the members of the legislature who are not yet placed. But 1t can be done, and more easily done than may be thought possible by those who do not know how easily 1t can be done. For instance, 1t may be thought that no more members of the legislature can make them selves or be made judges. But those who so think are wrong. A distinguished at torney of this city has indicated what can be done in this line. He suggests reopen ing the old canal, which once ran through ven, bearing on its raging waters twith the assistance of the patient mule and its Inn patient and profane urger) the i'm ports and exports of what is now a happy and . memorable past. On this reopened canal he would base an admiralty court, which would deal with the complicated questions constantly arising in connection with canals. Such q court would furnish place for 6 judge and an assistant judge, and perhaps msm- bers of the legislature might be found who would take place as clerk, or even mes | senger, in such a high toned and high salaried court as this would be sure to be. But all the members of the legislature can't be judges. There Is no limit, how ever, to the number of commissions that can be established. and here can be found 6 way to give every member an office. And we need more commissions, qaite az much as we need more courts and judges. Connecticut Is behind the times in the miorobe business, in spite of the public spirited and self sacrificing work of our Old Sanitarian. A commission should be appointed, including. him, although he Is not . member of the legislature, to search the State and make careful and accurate census of the microbes in 1t. If what the health sharps say is true 1t would take some time to count them,~but 1t is to be remembered that the salaries would last a. long as the count did. They ought to be counted, regardlesfof the cost. Another comnission might be appointed to inquire why aeas have 50 long been associated with yellow dogs in Christian poesy. Still another might inquire why the moral tone of Bridgeport, az revealed in the contest for the Normal School, is so low. And fl is about time that this old hot-gospellinR State had standing commission of inquiry concerning the spread of heresy. Such 6
 commission would have many years to live
 before fiuishing Its work.
 So there is no lack of ways to make places for those members of the legislature
 who have generously helped their brethren
 to good things and are lscking themselves
 It Is not fitting that this legislature should l finally adjourn with any of its member,
 unprovided for.