The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1894-03-17

are willing to conform to a higher
standard, but who find the mselves
passed by for libertines and roues,
and that too by good women who
know the character Of these latter
and who are blinded, not so much by
the prejudices of society, as by
their own weakness and infirmity of
judgment; and we very much fear it
will take more than education to
change it.
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Now that the Legislature has ad-
journed and a resume can be made of
it's work, as compared with that of
other Legislatures of the past, it is
being complimented on all sides by
the State press. Nor are these COM
pliments undeserved, although the
people of Frankfort are so much dis
appointed by the failure to make any
provision for new State Capitol that
they at least do not endorse them as
heartily as would otherwise be the
case. 1t is true that economy was
necessary, but provision could have
been made for commencing the work
which would not have required i'm
mediate outlay, and would have al
lowed time for the State to recover
from the business depression while at
the same time it would have insured
the erection of buildings, which are
almost absolutely necessary, at no
distant day. There never was
Legislature whose work gave entire
satisfaction, and the one just de-
ceased probably accomplished more
good work in shorter time that most
of it's predecessors. Better than this,
however, is the absence of that USE
less legislation which merely cum
bers the Statute Books, and which
the new Constitution, however it
may be maligned, had much to do
with stopping.
Mr.. Albert Voiles, the Legislative
Correspondent of the Louisville Com
mercial, in a resume of it's acts in his
paper, calls attention to the good
work which was accomplished by the
Republican minority during the
session. 1t would be much better for
the State if the minority were 80
much larger as to keep the party in
power constantly on the alert to
guard against mistakes (which might
at any time lose it the control of leg
islation. The minority was larger
this time than it has been for twenty
FIVE years, and if its action was not
characterized by single mistake, as
Mr.. Voiles says, at least they were
few and far between. The fact that
they always voted as an unit gave
them considerable influence on all
measures, and it is to be hoped that
their number will be increased in
the next Legislature, not 80 much
because they are Republicans as be-
cause they are not Democrats.
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The new battle ship, the Indiana,
will soon be ready for her official
trial, and it is said that the Messrs.
Cramp are satisfied that she will
make 1871 knots an hour, the contract
being 10 knots. To the
ordinary mind the amount Of money
which single war ship costs seems
but visit to the i'm
mense ship-yards of this firm while a
vessel is in course of construction
will prove an education in the mat
ter. While in Philadelphia some
years since 1 was shown over the
cruiser New York, which was then
receiving her machinery, by one of
the officials of the company, and was
also shown the keel of the Indiana,
which had then just been laid. The
way in which the immense vessels
are built up, piece by piece, and the