Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1841-05-29
From the Harrisburg Chronicle.

LIST OF BILLS VETOED BY Gov
ERNOR PORTER DURING THE
SESSION OF ls4l.
LIST. A Bill TO pay the Harrisburg Bank
and the United States Bank money adj
vanced by them TO repair the Huntingdon
Breach, which prevented the entire trade
on our public works from being destroyed
for one whole season.
The State has already borrowed the
money to pay these Loans-nearly 100000
dollars-and has been paying interest on it
for more than year. But for want of the
authority of law, it cannot be appropriated
to the object for which it was borrowed,
and is now laying dead in the Girard Bank
and in the Harrisburg Bank. The State,
therefore, is paying in reality ten per cent.
on this sum, or has been until recently, and
we feel confident is now on all except
$4,000, fpe per cent, to the United States
Bank and the Harrisburg Bank which first
advanced it, and .foe per cent. on the loan
contracted to pay them. This Bill has been
vetoed twice this session and once or twice
last-thus loosng the State in unnecessary
interest above thirty thousand dollars per.
annuml
2nd. A Bill to enable the people of Ches-
ter county to elect the Directors Of the
Chester county Prisonl
81. A Bill relative to the Mayors Court
of Lancaster, tWice-once, to abolish the
Court as burden and a nuisance, and once
to leave it to the people of Lancaster
county, who have TO pay the expense of
this Court, whether it should be abolished
or not--whch subjects them to an expense
Of about $4,000 for Court, the business
Of which could better be done in the Court
of Quarter Sessions of the county. This
last Bill was vetoed, notwithstanding the
Governor had said in his first vetoe, that if
a Bill should pass leaving it to the people,
he would approve i'll
4th. A Bill to appoint and elect Canal
Commissioners so as to dvest the Board
of its political complexion, and carry out
the spirit of the New Constitution by de-
priving the Executive of the most power
full and dangerous part of his patronage.
5th. A Bill to relieve the Banks and to
restrain them within safe limits, and to re-
lieve the people of their distresses. This
Bill was vetoed Notwithstanding it contain
ed many, if not all the restrictions that
Porter and his party have so long demanded.
9th. A Bill to enable Religious Societies
to hold real estate.
18th. A Bill to relieve the Gettysburg Con.
tractors who have been kept out of their
money more than two years, most of whom
in consequence, have had their effects sold
under the hammer of the sheriff, and all o!
whom must now be hopelessly ruined
9Th. A Bill to provide revenue to meet
demands on the Treasury and to relieve the
people. This Bill was veoted on the very
eve Of the session, when the Governor hac
every reason to suppose that no other meas
ure of relief could be passed, and when he
knew that the consequence must be the alb
solute destruction of our State credit, in The
non payment of the interest on our State
debt, the ruin of our domestic creditors anc
misery and beggary to thousands and thou
sands of the most deserving citizens of the
Commonwealth
). These are some of the measures-passeC
by immediate representatives of the people
which have been defeated by the Veto
King from the abuse of prerogative give,
the Executive for wise and salutary pur
poses-mcasures, too, it will be preceived
which involve no Constitutional question
or no sacrifice of principle, but merely
question of expedency with the Governor
| Besides these ten Bills the Governor ha
suffered five others to become laws withou
his signature by the expiration of the te
days, because he had not independence t
| sign them;-add he has several more nov
in his hands, some of which will undoubt
2: edly be vetoed. So much for the defer
. ence of man for the will of the peopl,
h who makes such noisy professions of de
: mocracy--richly has he earned the title o
y; the Veto-King.
e A BLOODY TRAGEDY AT TALLAuAssEE!-