The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1858-09-23

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hostility to a conspicuous banking firm
in the State, who were supposed to be
the friends of the Treasurer.
QUARTERS SALARY OF SEC. OF STATE.
The next assault was upon Gen. Sells,
the Secretary of State, for receiving
$3.50 as salary for Governor during the
absence of Gov. GRIMES from the State,
in Sept, 1857. It did not matter that
the Constitution and laws of the State re-
quired the Secretary of State to discharge
the duties of Governor, and conferred
upon him the salary belonging to the Of
fee during the absence of the Governor.
They were resolved to make something
heinously wrong out of the receipt OF
this small sum, no matter what the Con-
stitution said on the subject. But this
charge. also. soon "went to roost," when
it was shown that similar practice had
prevailed since the foundation Of the
Government, and that that most popular
Democrat, who is kept in training for a
future occasion, Gen. McCleary. whilst
Secretary of State, received, under pre-
cisely similar circumstances, $3.50, on
the 18th of January, 1854, and $3.50 on
the goth of Sept, 1856.
PUBLIC PRINTING
The next assault was upon the late
Public Printer. Peter Moriarty, Esq, and
upon the Auditor of State, for paving
Mr.. Moriarty his claims for printing an
appendix to the Journals Of 1861. The
Constitution, Art 3, Sec. 10, required
each house to "keep a Journal of its
proceedings. and publish the same" The
Senate concluded not to obey this Con-
stitutional injunction, and adopted res
olution declaring that certain documents
among them the census report, the
most important that had ever been SUBJ
mitted to any General Assembly in the
State-should not be published with the
Journal. The House declared that they
should be published with their Journal.
and they were published as an appendix
thereto. Mr.. Moriarty was paid for the
publication. A document submitted to
either branch Of the General Assembly
by public officer goes upon the Journal
of the House to which it is sent, and be-
comes part of that Journal. 1t was not
competent for either branch Of the AS
sembly to expurgate public document.
and refuse to print it. Besides, just con-
ceive of the improperly of refusing to
print the census report, which was the
basis of great deal of the most impor-
tant Legislation of the session. The Du.
buque Express d Herald was the great
fulminator of this charge. butt was soon
allowed to ego to roost" when the pro.
prietors of that paper, Dorr & Mahony,
were reminded of the expensive append iN
they published, as State Printers, 1ti
years before, wtthom authority from
er House of the General Assembly tlI
great burden of their Appendix being the
utterly valueless report of Des Moines
River Committee. embracing two hum
dred and thirty-six pages. The only
difference between the two was, that Mo-
riarty had the authority of one House to
do the prinling-Dorr Il Mahony had no
authority from either House Moriarty
received pay for the press-work and com
position of one appendix-Dorr d Ma
hony received pay for the press-work and
composition of an appendix for both the
Senate and House of Representatives.
SCHOOL FUND AGENTS.
The next charge was that the Repub-
licans had done a great wrong in passing
a law authorizing the appointment ol
agents to examine the affairs of the sew
eral County School Fund Commissioners
But this charge was also allowed to &C
quietly " to roost, when reference was
made to the Journals of the General As
sembly, which showed that the law was
reported TO the Senate just as it passed,
fixing the compensation of the agents,
DC, by select committee composed OF
Messrs. Coolbaugh, Saunders and Trim
ble-two Democrats and one Republican
and passed the Senate by unanimous
vote, (see Senate jour-, p. 434 }. and that
it was introduced into the House by Mr..
Hardie, of Dubuque, from the same joint
committee, and was there passed uithou.
a dissenting roiee. See House Jour. Ses.
l856-7:) They then began clamor
against Gov. Grimes, because Of the ap-
pointments made under the law, aIledy-
ing that they were made with view to
promote his election to the Senate. But
it was shown that several of the appoint
ments were made after he left office, BY
his successor, and that majority Of those
he did appoint were actually opposed to
has election, some of them being 50 vio-
lent in their opposition as to make pill
grimage all the way to Des Moines to aid
in securing his defeat and all declared
that they had never, either directly or
indirectly, had any communication with
him on the subject. Thus, this lie
went home to roost."
THE INSANE HOSPITAL.
The next charge made was, that the
appropriations made TO erect the Insane
Hospital at Mt. Pleasant had been used
to promote partizan purposes. This lie
g. went to roost'' when it was shown that
if used to promote any party interests at
all it must have been those Of the DEM
ocratic party, because the Superinlen-
dent, Henry Winslow, Esq, who en-
ploys all the men engaged on the work
and pays out every dollar expended up
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