The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1894-04-07
WHAT IT HAS COST.

Vic uulldlSu oHo SiAty tillSS
thousand and five hundred dollars
SI63,5co. oo-is the tune which the
taxpayers piped, while their merry
representatives at Annapolis danced,
during the Legislative session OF
ninety days which closed by limita-
ton on Monday night.
What a grim satire upon the
hypocritical denunciation of Repub-
lican extravaganza at Washington,
is this unprecedented cost to the
people of Maryland OF a single session
of d Legislature, at a time when
every industry in the State is suffer-
ing the throes OF financial depression!
What a commentary upon the
| administrative honesty of the leaders
OF the Democratic party of Maryland !!
What a reflection upon the busi-
ness intelligence of our people, whom
crafty political leaders have cunningly
| beguiled into a continuance of the
Democratic party in power in the
State!
That deficiency bill for s3S. $4,000
should in its closing hours be passed,
to meet its current expenses, and that
| right upon an appropriation OF
SI25,ooo.oo, made by the Legislature
of 1892, to meet the expenses of the
session of 1894, is, in view OF the
general financial condition of all the
industrial classes of our people,
nothing less than a political infamy,
that should cost the Democratic
party its lease of power in the State.
Is it any wonder, that honest men
upon the floor of the Senate OF Mary
land, and theyDemocrats, denounced
the extravaganza OF this Legislature
as unprecedented, and urged that
the Senate should do nothing to
countenance it?
Is it any wonder, with S163, 10000
staring them in the face, as the net
cost to the people of a ninety day
session of the Legislature, that now,
the session being ended, conscien-
tious members of that body deplore
the reckless waste of the public
money!
Listen to this truthful confession
OF a Democratic Senator taken from
the columns of the Baltimore SIN of
Thursday last:
IAN active lobby, insidiously weaving its web
OF seduction about weaker members during the
session, and after the session blatantIy boasting
Of real or pretended gains derived from the sale
OF its influence over them, is a spectacle which
does democratic institutions little honor. Equally
trying to any man who feels that the relation OF
the citizen to the State ought to be one of the
proudest and noblest of all human relations is
the spectacle of thousands of dollars, wrung from
the pockets OF the taxpayer, squandered upon a
horde of supernumeraries and sinecursts, with
duties about palpable the cOnjured up sub
jects of a spiritualistic seance. Such wanton
waste despoils the people of their just earnings
degrades conceptions OF public duty, and is an
insult to the other faithful employees of the Gen
eral Assembly who have duties to perform, and
conscientiously perform them.
This is the expression of individual
honesty, against the dishonesty of
Democratic practice and performance
at Annapolis.
And what is the net outcome OF
this daily expenditure of nearly two
thousand dollars for ninety days, in
the way Of general legislation useful
or beneficial to our people?
The apologize tone of the Demo
cratic papers of the State, suggests
significant answer to this question,
and which in candor plead little
good, as an Offset to a great deal
that is bad.
Interpreted in the fairest light Of
Democratic pledges and promises,
on the credit side stands:
A childlabor bill.
An anti sweating system bill.
An nti-pool bill-secured by pop
ular pressure from the outside and not
through honesty OF conviction on the
inside, which prohibits public gam
bling eleven months and allows it one
month of the year.
A free school book bill-a vote
catching piece OF demagogy, which
the Governor has very properly allowed
to die for want OF his approval.
A new insane asylum bill-prospect-
lvely needed institution in Maryland,
to be located in Annapolis as an annex
to the State House.
A bill reducing the present exorbi-
tant costs of the Court of Appeals,
with possibly two or three other
measures of general interest.