Year: 1870

SACRAMENTO. April 1st 1870.


EpiToR JorRNAL But three days more, and
the body now assembled under the name OF the
Legislature will have ceased TO exist, after hav-
ing covered themselves with infamy by the pas
sage of the most unscrupulously partisan bills
and by the creation Of numerous offices for po-
litical bummers, who, too lazy to earn their own
livelihood by laboring at some honest trade or
profession, desire to steal from the treasury and
plunder the people, the jackallS who take the
leayings when the Legislative lions have fin
ished their meal off the body corporate of the
State. One hundred and twenty days spent in
the pay and supposed service of the State, and
what have they done to benefit the people
Nothing. Hundreds of bills of a special nature
benefting the particular localities for which
they were intenied-prncipally San Francisco
have oeen passed, but when we look to see
what has been made that will benefit the entire
State, we ind-notbing. The motives which
have actuated the present Legislature, seem to
have been self first, then party. Where motey
was to be made for the members themselves,
their own interests were worked for most siren
uously. If not that, then have ;hey cast about
to see what official of opposite political tenden-
cies could be legslated out of Office to make
room for one of their own party, else what
new berth could be created to which the State
must pey subsidy These, to an impartial per-
SON. see m to have been the sole IDEAS of the
Democratic majority. They promised us in the
outset a short and economical session. How
have they kept that promise For its breYity it
cannot be complimented, for they have extended
it to the full measure Of the Iaw-one hundred
and twenty days--aDd if they could draw any
pay for longer session would undoubtedly con-
tinue it for months to come. For its economy,
either, very little can be said IL has overbur-
dened itself with useless clerks at six ana eight
dollars per day many Of whom have done moth
ing but draw their pay, and some Of whom have
held two or more clerkships, drawing full pay
for each it has passed bills for the relief of
many who were entitled TO nothing of the kind
and, finally, it has manufactured offices for
worn-out, broken down, political hacks with
large sa laries for them and clerks, which the
people must be taxed to pay. This is the, only
sort of economy practiced by this Democratic
LEGISLATURE. They have also passed partisan
acts, without stint, for the purpose of enhancing
the political and financial condition Of members
OF their own party, such as no other law-making
body ever disgraced himself by doing, all Of
which are TO be paid for by the conhding people
who were foolish enough to believe in its prom
loes vi tCDuOuly. AS LOT lnStanCej tDe lltgantS
and State paper bills, which will compel all no
tices to be published in sckly Democratic pa
pcrs, which, not having brains or tact and bust
ness capacity enough to make bare living for
themselves, must force the people to pay them
for their silly vaporings by the money derived
from their advertisements. This is Democratic
economy. 1t has also placed itself on the record
as sympathizng with treason by its resolution
expunging from the records the sentence of the
high court of impeachment passed by former
Senate on Judge II. Hardy, thereby opening old
sores and rakng up dead and buried issues, and
showing that the Democratic party of California
still believe in the right Of secession, and still
bear their hate toward the government and the
union. All this has this body Of Democrats,
who promised so much, done, and nothing has
IT done by which the State s in general bene-
fitted. VIII the people of California send to the
State capitol two years hence another Demo-
cratic Legislature to disgrace itself and the
State by similar shameless acts of extravaganza
and ultra partisauism2 If they do then will they
deserve TO pay for it by the extra taxes that will
be levied to meet the expenses that they reck-
lessly incur, and by the scorn and contempt of
all right minded men which they will so well
merit in that case. | cannot, however, believe
that the people will be SO foolbardy, and in the
hope that time may give them wisdom in this
respect, sign myself for the last time.