Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1896-02-13
STRUGGLE OVER SPOILS.
PUBLIC INTERESTS NEGLECTED.

fairs at Annapolis.
PUBLIC INTERESTS NEGLECTED.
Members Of the Lsgisiaturs Tss Busy
Seeking Places.
Hall the Representatives after Once
for Themsslves-one.th!rd Of the ses-
sisn Gene and . Private Bill the
Only One Passed.
From the Bakim0-s San.
ANNAPOLIS, Nd, Feb. 4.--Goy-
Lownaes, accompanied by Judge
David W. Sloan, left Annapolis this
afternoon for Clarksburg. W. Va,
to attend the marriage of his broth
Iss o sIiss Cod. niece Of. Judge
Get. Of the United States Circuit
Court. 1t was a hard task for the
Governor to get away.
He will return in time to give
the members of the Board Of Trade
of Baltimore hearing in regard
to the election of police commits
sioners and the appointment of su-
pervisors Of election and liquor IL
quor license commissioners for the
city. Before he went away he earn.
estly applied himself to the work
OF impressing upon the members
of the Legislature the Importance
of consulting public sentiment in
Baltimore with respect to the po-
lice commissioners. He was sup
ported in this by Judge Sloan, of
Allegheny, and MIR. Wellington en-
couraged the idea. Attorney Cen
eral Clabaugh, Senator Scott, of
Washington. and other Republican
leaders exerted their influence
among the members to such an ex-
tent that the affair was set last night
in a hopeful train. To-day a great
deal Of missionary work was done.
The leaders of the party are be-
ginning to realize that too much
time has been needlessly consumed
without any result and they have
seen the necessity of curbing the
rank spirit of spoils which is ram
pant everywhere.
1t is learned from the applica-
tions filed in the executive depart
ment that nearly one-half the men,
bers of the Legislature are after Of
flee for themselves and in their pur-
suit Of spoils seem to wholly neg
lect the interest of their constitu-
encies.
Nothing like it was ever known
in Maryland Legislature before.
Up to date only one bill has been
passed by both houses and that re-
ceived the approval of the Govern
or this morning. 1t was bill
sanctioning the sale and convey
arce by John NJ. Glenn of lot of
ground at the southwest corner OF
Preston and Chester streets in the
city Of Baltimore TO the vestry Of
the church of the Atonement. This
is the first fruit of legislation.
A third OF the session has elaps-
ed and nothing in the way of leg
islation has been completed except
this private bill. The difficulty of
the situation seems to be not so
much with the party leaders as with
the members of the Legislature
who are more engrossed in the
struggle over spoils than in the
struggle for good government.
AS an addendum to the above We
reprint the speech of Charles J.
Bonaparts before the Civil Service
Reform Association in Baltimore
on the evening of February 4tb,
instant
BoNAPARTE's SPEECH.
"Gentlemen of the Association, !"
said Mr.. Bonaparte, "the time has
come to speak plainly.
ga little more than a year ago,
in an address to the Unit Club of
the Twelfth Ward, / told the man
ayers of the Democratic party that
in the choice of Judge Dobler, in
the Republican majority through
out the State at the election of 1894,