The Davenport daily gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1869, 1856-07-19
RE psnssrat's ralssAssds.

II M. ~AxETTE.-
perceive BY this morn
ing's State Democrat, that Governor
Grimes is accused Of bassnsss and corrup
ton, and simply fer following the ins,ruc
tons Of the General Assembly. And VIII,
is his accuser, A low, ranting. second
rate pestifogger. Of this | am confident
- | heard this ps,tifogger rehearse his BASE
and foul ISLANDERS the day previous to his
publication of the But ! need NO,
brand him; he is known, and the mere men,
ton of the name of one 30 base and low
would de6le the tongue. But to the re-
cord.
The Governor, in his Message of July
Sd inst. calls the attention Of the General
Assembly to the bonds of the State, issued
in 1856. for $4,000, which will mature on
the FIRST of January next in the city of New
York. When his Message came before
the Senate, that portion referring to the
bonds WAS, upon motion of A. C. Fulton.
referred to the Committee Of Ways and
Means. On the l2th of July, Mr.. Preston,
Chairman of said Committee, made a re-
port on the subject, which was as fol-
iows:-
Mr.. Preston, of Committee on Ways and
Means, introduced a substitute for the reso-
luton authorizing the State Treasurer to
borrow $4,000 of the School Funds. The
substitute authorizing the Governor to bor-
row 100000 of the same, was adopted, and
on motion of Mr.. Preston read a third time
and passed.
This bill is known az Senate file No. ~,
and was reported to the House the same
day, and was acted upon as follows:-
The special committee on Senate file
No. "a, TO investigate the time when the
State bonds become due, reported, recon-
mending the passage Of said Senate file Ne.
"a, whereupon the bill for an act to All thor
ize the borrowing of money from the State
School Fund was taken up. Mr.. Holmes,
Of Jones, withdrew his amendment on sus-
pension Of the A2d rule, and on third read
ing the bill was passed.
Here is the Governors authority. Now,
Mr.. Gazette, in reference to the special
pleadings Of the person heretofore referred
to, respecting the Governors creating a
debt greater than the Constitution admits
of. The writer, If not as ignorant as he is
base, does know that ifty-6ve thousand dol
lars of the money to be taken from the
school fund Of the State 10 to pay a like sum
Of the State Debt, and consequently does
NOT increase the State Indebtedness one
cent, and the Governor is a mere agent OF
| ! the State to remove the funds from one de.
partment to cancel u debt due by another
department. And further, there is at pres
ent, l am informed, bu, forty OF fifty thou
sand dollars in the treasury of the school
fund, and cut of this sum | also learn tina
twelve thousand dollars is Apr opriated to
wards the construction of the Insane Asy
Ium, and several thousand for repairs on tn
Pen%iientiary.
! In respect to the painful duty that thi
miserable creature had to r e rform, as he as
, serts, in making known to the citizens o
: Iowa that the corrupt Governor had expen
|, ded fifteen thousand dollars without tn
shadow of an appropriation in erecting
e building about the size of a common smok
{ house,-I think that it would have been les
painful if the writer had adhered to tn
$ truth, and deducted about thirteen thousan
/, dollars from the amount that he declare
! was expended. | have a knowledge Of thi
transaction, and do know that the building
, was absolutely called for to protect the Stat
/ weights and measures, and such was tn,
opinion of the members of the Legislatur
that inspected the premises. A worth,
citizen Of Iowa City now in Davenport in
forms me that the building referred to cos
about fifteen hundred dollars.
Yours, &c. ARUNDEL.