Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-04-24
RE y;o1ators Of the Constitution.

The violators of the Constitution.
The Kenosha Telegraph Of Thursday
last containsthe following paragraph, IL
reference to certain Executive appoint-
ments, recently made by Gov. Barstow.
I'D. S. Vittum and DIR. Bugh, are two
of the Commissioners appointed by the
Governor to locate the Lunatie Assy-
|lum. Another is yet to be appointed.
G.. r.. Nc Lane is secretary OF The
Commission. Vittum and Me Lane
/ ere members Of the last Senate, and
Bnga Secretary Of that body. We be-
lieye theles has been no appointment Of
any profit yes made, by the Governor,
Iereept from among a'enabers Of the Legas-
tature.o $3.50
To the above list musr be added the
names Of Speaker Horn, appointed En-
ligrant Ag mt at New York { Cows Bar
stow having voted the bill which abols
ished that Office, in order TO keep the
place for the Speakes and Senator Hun
ter appointed Private Secretary TO the
Governor. These appointm ents-the
consideration for party or personal SER
vice-are not only objectionable in them
selves, corrupting in their tendency and
at war with. public policy and
public good, but they involve an open,
wilful, fragrant and scandalv,.- r~ielstinn
of the State Constitution. That instru-
ment, with the design of guarding against
the dangerous and dem oralizing effects
lprecisely such abuses of Executive au-
thority and official patronage, contains
the following positive and emphatic pro-
Ihibition: ~ sa# Ysa IS
'sNo Member of the Legislature shall,
during the term for which he was elect
ed, be appointed or elected to any ciua
Office an the State, which shall have been
created, or the emoluments of which
shall have been increased during the
term for which he was elected
! In the case of Senators Vittum and
Nc Lane the offices to which they have
been appointed by our Constitution de-
flying Governor, were sscreated" during
the term for which they were elected
In the case of Senator Hunter, the Office
vas created and the emoluments increas-
ed during his term. To the $500 here
tofore allowed the Governor for "Clerk
hire,'' the Legislature, at its late Session,
added $4O0 and title-Senatar Hunter,
who helped TO create the Office ana to
increase the emoluments, becoming the
recipient of both!
What is to be said--what can be said
In excuse, palliation of this deliber-I
ate, wanton, palpable infraction of the
Fundamental Law of the State II
cannot have been done in ignorance, for
even William A. Barstow must be pre-
Isumed to have read the constitution
which he has sworn to support. 1t
must then have been done with 'smallce
prepense and aforethought - in the full
knowledge that the People of Wisconsin,
speaking thro' and by their Constitution,
mad forbidden such appointments and
with the deliberate purpose to set both
the will of the People and the letter and
spirit of that Constitution at open deli
ance! And this is done by the Cover
nor of the State, sworn to support the
IConstitution, to administer the Law, and
faithfully to guard the rights and inter-
ests Of the People How shall the Law
find respect and obedience within the
limits of Wisconsin, when our Law-ma-
| kers thus set the example of open and
wilful disobedence With what face
can the ministers of Justice arraign some
Ipoor and ignorant criminal driven by hun
ger, poverty, dispair, or drink 10 'he
commission Of crime, when the Ihiei
Officer Of the Law, the head OF the
State Government, the man OF ali other
whose sworn and special duty it is TO
stake care that the laws be faithfully ex-
ecuted" -when he, knowingly, wickediy
and corruptly, disobeys the Law ana
trampels upon the Constitution OF the
State?-[ Milwaukee Sen.
MAD Docs AND MAD CATs.-The mad
ldog and cat epidemic appears to be ra-
ging in the vicinity of Platteville. Con-
sequently, these animals, innocent or
guilty, are shown no mercy. Forum
ately, however, they have asMad Stone"
at Potosi that takes all the hydrophobia
out of men, Women and childrn who have
been bitten. No death of any human
being has ever yet occurred from the
above disease in the Lead Mines, and
we hope to hear Of none hereafter
Rev. Arthur Bronson, of Parire du
Chen, prescribes decoction Of Black
Ash Bark. We imagine, that either
that or said Mad Stone would be effec-
1tual for cure, in most cases. II; cases
Of dogs and cats, however, il must be
conceded on all hands, that the remedy
recommended by the Platteville meeting
cannot be beat, if thoroughly applied
lTGalena Advertiser.
Mail ROBBERY CoNFEssED.-We
learn, that Sylvester King, the stage
driver arrested for robbing the eastern
mail this side of Warren, last Monday
might, has made full confession of his