Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1842-04-26

Gov. Dory.-A Washington letter writer for the
Herald gives the following account OF the proceed
ings in the House of Representatives, on the ques-
ton of granting appropriation to pay the salary
of the Governor of Wisconsin.
The House next resolved itself into a
Commute Of the whole, and proceeded with
the consideration Of the .Civu and Diploma
tic Appropriation Bill. The committee
proceeded TO the clause making an appro-
sprialion for the Governor Of the Territory
of Wisconsin. This gave rise TO debate
which occupied much Of the day. The
immediate cause Of the discussion was
motion made by Mr.. Modcll, to strike out
the approp ration, and this he justified on
the ground that Gov. Doty was criminal
and degraded man, and as such ought not
to be supported by the Government. Some
Of the charges against the Governor were,
that he had converted to his own use,
large sam Of money that had been appro-
priated by Congress for the use Of the Ter
ritory, for which he had refused 10 account,
setting the Legislature and its laws at de-
fance; and when suits were commenced
against him, he for the purpose Of GLIDING
Justice, removed the judge who was TO try
the case, and put one OF his own creatures
on the bench: further that he removed the
sheriff and prosecuting attorney for the
same purpose, and supplied their places
with his own creatures and the partners Of
his crimes shat he had violated the law
of Congress, which in sanc,ionng the es-
adjustment of a bank in that territory de-
carcd that il should not 60 into operation
until $4,000 in specie was paid in, by gi-
wing false certificates that the requisite
amount was paid, when in fact the sum
received was only $1,000; and likewise
that he then procured assignments Of the
stock in his own name and managed the
bank rs his own. And Mr.. Mcdell in the
simplicity of his guleless heart would treat
Governor Doty as criminal for these
things, and deprive him of the poor pit
lance which the government affords; he
must have been as blind as the mole not to
have seen that Governor Doty was but Ia
king an elevated position among The pipe
layers and financiers and patriots of this
blessed era, and that instead Of martyrdom
he deserved to be eternized in hard cider
melodies The Governor has exhibited an
heroic daring which will alone preserve
his name for the admiration and emulation
of posterity, if the ancestors Of posterity
should leave anything behind them where
on the emulators Of a Doty can operate
Mr.. Morgan, bless his innocent soul, con-
sidcred the confirmation of that appoint
ment by the Senate, as in truth furnishing
clean bill OF health-a sort Of quarantine
operation--and confirmation, too, by the
Senate, which confirmed an Alexander
Powell to the Consulate of Rio de Janeiro.
But Mr.. Adams offered stronger consoa-
ton. He assumed it as settled principle
that, admitting the facts to be as stated by
Mr.. Medel, yea, worse still, if his crimes
were capital crimes, his faults and vices
and crimes did not affect his salary so long
as he remained in office, and therefore
that the course pursued was erroneous; i'm
parchment or IN address to the President
for his removal being the only remedies
To this, however, Mr.. G.. J. Ingersoll did
not subscribe; he thought it monstrous that
they should vote salary to an infamous
and degraded man, or that they should ad-
dress the Executive cap in hand for his
removal. when the Executive might tell
the collective wisdom OF the nation, that he
should not be guided by their desires; i'm
parchment, he deemed would be useless
and Improbable. There were only 80
members found willing to supper, the mo-
ton, and Gov. Doty's salary is safe.