Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1841-07-03

the contractors to SUSPEND their work upon
said road, from and aitcr The said frs, day of Janu.
ary
This act was intended to become law, and TO
take effect the Is, day of January, 1888, hut owing
to miserable and patry TRICK, played of by the
then Executive, JosKru RirSEa, doubtless at the
ns,igaion Of Thadjeus Stevens the act in question
was not returned to the Legislature until after the
Is, Of January, by which mems its operation was
postponed for ONE YEAR and the reasonable and
just expectations Of the Legislature were ffustra.
ted
BY the act ofthe 10Th Of Aptil, 1888, the further
sum Of 81 900 was appropriated to this rail road
10 be applied to the work hready under contract,
and the resolution which had previously passed the
Legislature rs aforesaid, was repealed. But by the
9th section Of this oct, il was provided, that ',hc
Canal Commissioners shall not be authorized 70
incur any debt on The faith ofMe Commonwealth,
in any ,cay or manner, BEYOND THE AP-
PREPARATION aforesaid"
Instead, however, of stopping the work on the
road, the moment the specific appropriations there
to were exhausted, the then federal Canal Commits
soners, incurred heavy responsibilities beyond them,
in violation of the previous Legislative enactments,
aud i, was not until Governor PonrEn came into
power, that tic work upon the road suspended,
and the consequen; drain upon the Treasury cut
of. In accordance with his recommendations, the
woIk was ordered to be suspended after the Is, of
March. 1889, and a temporary loan of s25O,00O
authorized, for the purpose of paying debts plevi-
ously contracted.
A single glance OF these several acts Of Assembly
must bring irresistible conviction to the mind of
every one, that they did not invest the contractors
on the Gettysburg rail road with claims to favor,
peror 10 those of any other contractors They were
cognizant of the fact that the Legislature had or.
dered the work to be suspended, and that this de,
cree met with almost universal favor from the peo-
pe--they knew also, that the very act under which
they continued to work the road intended
to have taken effect the lsl day Of January, be-
fore, and that this intention defeated by a con.
temptible ARTIFICE-,hey were also fully a.
ware Of the specific appropriated to the work,
and that the Canal Commissioners were prohibited,
by express law, from contracting eny additional
debt the faith of The State beyond these sums,
and tina, they were cooperating with those Off.
GERS to employ an extraordinary force on the road,
especially about the candidates in ls3s-and yet,
possessing all this knowledge, the federal major-
ties in the recent Legislature gravely enacted law,
TO grant them EXTRA compensation-NEVER
ENJOYED BY OTHER CONTRACTORS
and Unprecedented, as it would have been RU-
lNOUS and UNJUST 10 the State =!
After this undeniable statement of FACTS,
which will chollaDge contradiction, we again
put the solemn question to the honest, industrou.
taxpayers of Pennsy syl,ania-WHOSE CON,
DUCT DO YOU APPROVE7 Tha, of the fed
ers members of the legislature, who were anxious
to set the precedent for unheard of species Of
FAVORlTISM, in the disbursement of public
mones or that of DAvIp Il. PonrEn, who wished
all the creditors Of the state placed upon EQUAL.
lTr, and who ly this single exercise of the Veto
power, saved MILLIONS to the state, TO your
intelligence and patr oiism we cheorfuy submit it
to decide, who was right, and who was wrong.
In our subsequent addresses we purpose analy-
zing the several bunk.bs passed by the federal
legislature, snd vetoed by patriotic enlightened
Executive. They WILL we confidently predict, es-
hibi, his conduct in the same glorious light, and
give him additional claims 10 the gfaude and sup
poIt OF every rue.heartc1 Pennsyl lvanian.
II. BEUHLER, Chairman.