The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1853-01-25

ton OF the State treasury, and while admitting
that It's available RESOURCES aYe amply adequate
to meet its responsibilities, the Governor takes
occasion to inculcate the necessity of vigilant
econQany as one of the surest safeguards Of re-
publHan freedom. He thinks that mischiev-
oussIave of Inv making, and growing tenden-
cy u debate Dpics having no practical connex-
ionAwith the welfare Of the people, are prima-
.ry causes of the increased expenses of the an
nual session of the Legislature. The rebuke
administered by Governor CROSBY upon this
point is too good to be lost. 1t is applicable to
other attitudes as well as to that in which it
was delivered:
sProtracted sessions of the Legislature have
been attributable in slight degree to the intro
duction and discussion of matters not legitimately
within it's province. The appropriate business of
State Legislature is to legsiate for the people Of
the State. and provide ways and means for meet
ing the expenses necessary in carrying on the
government may, it is true, resolve itself into
a. committee of the whole on the state of the
UnionS it may discuss the expediency of the an
nexation of Cuba or the Canadas; it may moraiize
upon the subject Of slavery OF phiosophize on the
right and duty Of national Intervention, and by 80
doing convert itself into safety-valve for the
escape OF q large amount of pent-up eIoquence,
morbid philanthropy and wordy patriotism,
but it thereby subjects itself to the imputa-
ton of squandering time and money which
belong to the people. The results at which it
arrives are, at best, but the expression of the
opinion entertained by majority of the indiyi-
duals VINO compose 1t, not OF the people at large.
Common sense, as we'll as the common law, re-
cognises the correctness of the well established
maxim, that the principal is not bound by the act
OF his agent when he exceeds his authority. You
are, however, your own masters-accountabIe
only to the people-and it is not for the Executive
to undertake the exercise of any control your
deliberations. 1t will, however, be to me source
of satisfaction to feel when the abors of your pre-
sent session concluded, that the only legislative
body ever addressed, or ever expect to address, |
was marked by its fidelity to the trust committed
to it. by the devotion of its time and talents to the
OBJECTS for which it was convened, and was en-
phaticaiiy soorking rather than talking Legis-
The extent to which certain parts of the
State have been abandoned by persons bent on
the acquisition of fortune in California or else
where, leads the Governor to dwell upon the
need that exists for action on the part of the
Legislature to render their own State more at
tractive to its people. He recommends liberal
policy toward companies and individuals de-
string to labor in the development of its re-
sources, and especially refers to steps which
may be advantageously taken to facilitate the
occupancy and improvement of the land within |
Its borders. The appropriation of money to
complete geological survey, begun some years
since, is suggested; and plans are proposed for
the efficiency of the State Board of
Agriculture. Il,