The Empire County argus., 1856-05-03
County Seat Biil.

Under this heading the Pacervills american
grows wroth in contemplation of Mr.. Welch's
conduct, in maliciously OBTAINING the bill, as the
editor still insists with the design of starving it
to death. He says:
AFTER the bill had passed both houses, and only
awaited the signature of the Governor to become
law, base attempt to stife an expression of the
popular will upon the measure was made that can
not but recol upon the perpetrators of the perfd-
ious act We don't call the act stealing of the
BILL but only taking and secreting with vew of
killing it. The bill. however, at length found
secreted, as we learn, in the breeeches pocket of
l.. S. Welch, a Representative from this county.
where it would doubtless have remained had ne
not been called upon to disgorge."
UNFORTUNATELY for this grievous story of our
neighbor, that hue and cry about the suppression
of the bill was not begun until after the Governor
had signed it, The bill was approved Thursday,
17th and then its wilful detention had not been
bruited but, in Fridays Union appeared a COM
munication from some Placervlle lookout and in
order to set the subject to rights Mr. Welch stated
on the floor of the House that morning, that the
bill had been detained for correct enrolment in
consequence of the substitution, by authority of a
member favorable to the bill, of word which ma.
teriay affected its force. But no matter for that
tho american knows this whole history, and if it
chose could speak the truth in regard to it but
if it will not there's no need of multiplying words
We correct it and pass on.
But--one word more: The editor of the Aneri-
can is aware that he is week after week giving
publicity to willul and unbushing falsehood, by
stating that the $4,000 which they undertook to
procure on the credit of the city, was ever designed
to be used in relieving the county from any part of
the expense attending removal of the County
Seat. The editor knows that it was never SO in
tended and that the title of the ordinance was
guardedly worded for blind and that the money,
if they had succeeded in borrowing it on such pre-
carous security, was to have been absorbed for the
use and behoof Of Placerve, in defrayng the
expenses of an electioneering campaign on the
Co. Seat question, and for other city purposes -
If the Placervie Common Council ever meditated
an appropriation to pay the expenses of removal,
and not to raise money to be used in fastening
those expenses on the county, why did not the
ordinance place the money subject to draft of the
Board of Supervisors, to be by it used in defrayng
such expenses -, and for other CITY purposes?"
But let that rest--their agents failed to get the
money 10 San Francisco and citizens of Hangtown
know too we'll the value of their scrip ever to invest
cent in it themselves, and the $4,000 will never
be raised
Members of the late legislature will be surprised
to learn what noodles they have made of them
selves, in passing bills which have received the
approval of His Excellency, and after all some of
their most important features being imperative
and no one knowing it but that Humboldtian
prince of discoverers the erudte editor of the
Placrville american!