LEGISLATIVE BARRENNESS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 211, 4 September 1880, Page 2

LEGISLATIVE BARRENNESS.

TO ?HB ; EpiTOK: Off THB " EVENING .MAI;!..! 1 Sib -In your paper/of the -Ist instant yo)i characterise the past session asj bawen in. ilia extreme, and your?. words'^ arel echoed by :\'a Wellington 'correspondent! A creaturt, I suppope, i 9 properly called barren when it has ceased to produce after its 'kind, wh|t r eyer^that maxib8 v - . Now, in your paper pf the 2nd instant, we are informedjthat AP thii sepsion. 79 Public Acts had, beeji! passed, b« r §idea, ■pnjß^reaervßd' for the ; Queen's; assent, making an average, I think, of one and;* quarter a day for each sitting day. If this is to be barren, heaven saveus'from a-pro-lific-Parliament! The new departure in finance— the first substantial beginning of retrenchment — ia not of course worth mentioning.—l am, &c.,i .v .; . ; ; [Jn objecting to the application; of the word . ; " barren "i; to, the work of ttie late r session of^ Parliament our correspondent is peculiarly; unhappy in selecting. :a« a, proof to the contrary •,'tbe firßt «ubBtantiai beginning pf, retrenchment." If ever .- barrenness of brains, barrenness of ordinary discretion, barrenness :of justice, ■were, shown, they have been displayed: in a marked.degree in tho conception of, and .carrying into effect, the plan of indiscriminately reducing the salaries of the Civil Bervants by ten percent all round. The idea was worthy of a little child, the difficulty is to' understand bow any body. *of men could have adopted it.— Ed. N.E.M.]