Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-03-28
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AOI CouOluueu COuuueuCe Oh Ine ICCOIu
of that legislature, we cannot I'M
aglne. 1t was thought that defeat
and exclusion from power for
two years would have been a les
SOD, and that when they returned to
power they would have used extra
exertlons to commend themselves to
the people; but instead, they seem to
have become ravenous by their en-.
forced absence from the fodder rack,
and to have gone IN to gorge them
selves, regardless Of all else.
LIKE A HERD OF TEXAS STEERS.
"lhr Legislature passed few com
mendshle laws-ss what one ever
failed to do 80? There were also a
few able, level headed members of
the house who occasionally managed
to hold that body steady But IA a
wbol- it was Il herd of Texas steers
without any conception Of the duties
of lawmakers, bent upon running
things wide open.
"rheIr first stampede was in the
selection Of Il United States senator.
they had discov, red, or heard, or
thought they smelIed noodle in one
of the camps, aud they rushed to that
camp with force that threatened to
carry everything before them. 1t
WAS only by means Of the sharpest
kind of strategy that they did not
saddle a scandal upon the state
THE republican state platform
promised the people an honest aud
economical administration of the state
government.
"The appropriations (of the legisla-
ture) aggregate over three and
quarter millions of dollars. And then
it is boosted that the tax levy is not
increased, but remains as it was be-
fore, when things were prosperous
and crops good.
CowARDLY COMPROMISE.
"The worst feature of the whole
business is, that the entire proceed
ings we're characterized by tyranical
disregard of the rights of their pollt-
ical friends, and cowardly comprom-
Use with their enemies-yes, worse
than compromise; it was abject sur
render. The calamity majority in
the senate got everything it asked
for. 1t coerCed the house into yield
ing to all its demands; while the
house passed all the senate measures
without even demanding anything
for itself in return The governor as
we'll as the house succumed to this
system of coercion, and both became
the meek doors Of calamity work.
Zone Of the very first acts of the
Legislature was the appointment Of a
swarm of clerks and other subordin-
ate officers, four times as many as
was necessary at any time, and placed
them upon the payroll for the entire
session, and long before the services
of any of them were needed.
"There was a great ado made about
abollshing useless Offices; but the re-
suit was that just one Office was abol-
lshed-thht of state veterinarian,
which many persons insist was really
a necessary Office.
ION the other hand, not less than
twenty-five new salarled or feed offices
we're created, that the people must
pay for.
IAN appellate court was created
with six judges, each Judge with a
clerk and a stenographer, making
eighteen Offices right there. There
is no dispute that the supreme court
is over. crowded and behind with it's
work; but this appellate court is but
a temporary mRkesbift.
MosF sCANDALOUs PART.
But the most scandalous part OF it
was the terms upon which the court
was created. The senate would not
permit the passage Of the bill with
out provision that at least two Of
the judges should be members Of the
calamity party, and one democrat.
The house meekly yielded to the
cheeky demand. But after the pass
age of the bill, 1t was discovered, to
the general CONSERVATION, that the
law with that provision would be I'M
constitutional.
"But bargain was entered into by
the calamity pirates in the senate. by
which the unconstitutional provision
a.