New-York daily tribune., 1858-02-22
A VETO.
From Our Special Correspondent.
4 .uorNcr X T Feb y 4

LAWRENCE, n. l., rto. y, 1000. q.
His a Acting" Denyeric Excellency has not had
very extensive opportunity, so lar, OF signing or
,etoing bills. Only limited number Of general
hills have come before him. He vetoed several
charters for towns, on the ground that they were
4" Aosting;" but as he approved Mianeola, which
is not only floating" but gives the company me
extraordinary power of converting 1000 acres OF
land into lots, it IN ght be suggested that he lad
:" strained at gnat and swallowed camel" he
has now. however, as was expected, vetoed the
bill which locates the Territorial capital at Mime
ola. He sends in lengthy message with this veto'
He evidently wants to yindicate himself before the
world from all participation ln this wicked and
corrupt MinneOla scheme. Still he does not daooo
extensively in the moral objections that could Do
raised but 10 legal technical, and ponderously pro-
found in precedent. The mantle OF Attorney-Gen-
eral Black covers him like garment. He sets
ont bv stating that the Territorial capital has
already been located in accordance with the pro-
visions of the Organic act; that the first Legsla-
tpre possessed power that subsequent one can.
This Mede and Persanic" view OF the subject no
borrowed from the Attorney. General. Then ioi-
lows the next pont-also Attorney -Generansn'
Congress has already appropriated money Tor inc
erection of buildings, and "the Legislature having
used it," the location of the capital becomes con-
tract between the General and Territorial Govern
ments Without attempting to oter any oplnloo on
this concentration Of legal lore, whetner bac hsn
or Denyerish there are still few points worthy OF
note In the first place, while the money mas
nnouestiopably been " used, it is equally notorious
that the capital buildings are not erected. What
nrecise effect the latter fact should have on this
byaotbetcal contract between the Federal Govern
mept and the bogus Missouri Legislature his Excel
ency has not thought proper to detail. This is to
be regretted, as it is, unfortunately, important.
| If the General Government recognizes band Of
swipdlers and pays into their rsscay hands money
| voted for the people of Kansas by Congress, how
| far should the people be held as "bound" by such
contract As this is the age OF Investigating Com.
mittees, let us have an investigation. live cannot
have Territorial buildings let at least have somo
| fuss about it. j,
The next point raised by his Dcnveric Exccency
| is an old sterectyped one. Congress- and the Cen
| eral Government have recognized the laws OF tho
bogus Legislature under which the capital was 10
Gated consequently the location must not be inter-
fered with Now, on this point would merely re.
mark that not only his Excellency the Governor,
but his Excellency the President is too sensitive
by half If the bogus laws are all nfallible, why
fall back go often to assert their infallibity Such
constant insinuatOns may be fatal TO them. Every
body knows that they are idols in the political pau
theon. Don't
But at the close his Acting" Excellency chooses
to be satrical. He reminds the august body that
they moved the Legislature from Lecompton to
Lawrence on the ground that there was no ade-
quate accommodation at the former place, and now
they have moved to paper town, where they could
not hide their legislative heads unless it were under
blade of prairie grass. Here the Governor un.
auestionaby makes a point. 1t II the only in
vdious thing in the whole veto message. Its rather
clever, but shabby. However, it 10 more of hit at
Lawrence, or the Legislature, than Minneoa. At
least so the friends OF the latter regard it, Such is
the veto message.
We are told that at the Straits of Gibraltar the
currents which flow into and out of the Mediterra-
mean Sea are divided; that the surface there is
ceaseless current in direction, but that below,
where mortal eye cannot scan it, there is another
deeper and stronger current ever flowing powerful
and unnOted 1t is 30 with too many of the acts Of
our modern politicians. They cast their straws be-
fore the wind that the people may look at them, but
the grain they have stripped from its husk lies
deep in the caverned abysses of their pockets, lost
to the vulgar gaze, and only to be discovered by the
Investigations Of profound but sOrrowful science.