The weekly examiner., 1901-05-18
PRACTICE THE SAME RULE.

PRACTICE THE SAME RULE.
 Our genial and, consolidationally speaking, successful friend and repre- sentative, George L. Lilley, once said, with much emphasis, while criticizing a thousand things in the selectmen's report for one year as in the lot he re- embracing services of several lawyers: Reading over these law items, as l have done, though I doubt not the services were rendered all right enough, and the charges are probably the GUS tomary ones, yet after all the convic- ton is thus forced home to me with much weight that, the town having laid out for law what these accounts show, it would appear to be the fact that we people in Waterbury are very quarrelsome set'' The Examiner man, recognizing the shrewd humor and partially just gag which MT. Lilley thus slyly got off upon our lawyers, and caused thereby much mirth, wish
 
 humor and truthful jest to now say to MT. Li1ley-borrowing his own idea above quoted and giving him due cred it for it's wit: Your legislature, friend Li1ley, has been now in session nearly five months. It is true that we do not know what services it has rendered the state during that period in return for the enormous daily expense wherewith it burdens the commonwealth. We pre- sume, however, that they are not very great, else The Examiner man would have heard of the fact. Looking, how ever, at the bills of several hundred thousand dollars which a i've months session costs and assuming that it's legislative services to compensate for this outlay of the peoples money are all right, will you pardon us for using regarding yourself and fellow legisla- tors exactly your own expression when criticizing our; lawyers that, the state having laid out for, IaHmaaing lnot |lawyersJ what these (state) accounts of the cost to us of your legislature to date disclose, it would appear to be the fact that the people of Connecticut are very laWless set" especially to require every two years the close and confning services for six months or over of lawmaking body to get them up to the line of civilization which this century requires. In other -.W words friend Lilley The Examiner man says to you-and says because in the legis- lature of 1901 you are certainly en- titled to be credited with capacity and intelligence far beyond the ordinary herd whose seats surround largely your own and reach, yourself being bright focus north east, south and west to the side Hobbies of the hall of rep resentatives-sYou are a business man; you conduct your own est ishment in this city on business principles; your chief and leading point in favor of con solidation was that town as well as city affairs would thus be conducted on business principles; you believe and quite correctly, that all public affairs. of city town, county and state and nation should, to give the people the best kind of government be con- ducted exactly as man successfully conducts his own business; why, then, as a legislator do you not insist, in this latter half of May that the Connecti- cut assembly, be conducted on busi- ness principles? Why is it not the proper business principle that it pass at once, it's first session day of next week joint resolution to adjourn sine die? Is it business principles to con- tinue a session of the legislature of this state, on any pretext, from Janu- ary to June? Is there at any time any business before it which 30 days of four hours work per day would not finish up completely? Do you run business as a lawmaker the same as you do as a dealer here at home? If not, why not?