.MARYLAND.
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! A curions ENHANCEMENT exists in tho
political condition of this State BY the
0td constitution, Representatives IN the Leg
islature is most glaringly unequal and un.
just. The Senate is composedo Of Is mem.
bers, who are elected for .6Ue years, by 40
Electors. At the recent election of these


40 electors, the federalists carried 2I, and
the democrats l9; but as by the old con-
stitution of l776, Kent and Calvert coun.


ties with only l9,4Ol inhabitants, are al.


lowed to choose as many Electors as Fred.
erick and Washington counties, with more
than 7 I 600 inhabitants as the 10


democratic electors were pledged to bring


about reform of the defects of the consi.
tuition, and as they represented counties


containing white population Of 205, 1922,


while the 81 federal electors only repre-


sented 9 white population Of S5.H9-and


moreover. as the 10 democfafi0 electors


were chosen by majority Of more. than


5000 Of all the voters in the slafe--they


contended they had a right to demand sf
the g Electors that part of the Senators
about to be elected should be Democrats
and friends Of reform but as the FL fede-
ralists were stubborn and incompromising,
and would listen tono compromise-and
as the constitution required that "a electors
should be requisite to Constitute quorum,
.-no election was made, 81 the l9 Electors
adjourned. So Maryland has no Senate
for the present year. 1t is provided by the
constitution, however, that the Governor &
Council, lwho are elected annually by the
two houses Of the Legislature) in case Of
failure to re-elect them, shall continue to
hold their Offices until an election shall be
legally made; SO that there can be no in.
terregnum IN the Government.


A eonvention ofthe people Of Maryland


will now doubtless be held and her mons
trous, Peterborough system Of representa-
tion, reformed.