White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1859-01-06
We see that the Legislature anproprii-

pie have to pay Now, as we understand
it. every cent Of that sum is Illegally ap-
propriated. The Organic Act is as Con-
stitution TO the Territory. and certainly
the larger portion of these appropriations
are in opposition to that Act. The Gov
ernmentof the United States pays all the
Territorial expenses. while the people
have TO keep mp tile County organizations.
Here is q portion Of Section 30 Of the
Organic Act:
The Governor shall receive an annual
salary Of two thousand FIVE hundred dol
lars. The Chief Justice and Associate
Justices shall receive an annual salary Of
two Thousand dollars. The Secretary
shall receive an annual salary of two
thousand dollars. The said salaries shall
be paid arter-yearly, from the dates Of
the respective appointments, at the Urea
sury # the United States but no such
payment shall lie made until said officers
Shall have entered upon the duties Of
their respective appointments. The mem :
bers of the Legislative Assembly shall be
entitled to receive three dollars each per
day, during their attendance at the sess-
ions thereof, and three dollars each for
every twenty miles travel in going to and
returning from the said sessions, estima-
ted according to the nearest usually trav-
elled route :; and an additional allowance
Of three dollars shall be paid to the pre-
siding officer Of each house, for earh day
he shall so preside. And a chief clerk,
one assistant clerk, sergcat- at. arms and
door keeper, may be chosen for each
House and the chief clerk shall receive
four dollars per day, and the said other
officers three dollars per day during the
session of the Legislative Assembly ; but
no other officers shall be paid by the Uni
ted States Procided, that there shall be
but one session of the Legislature anuu-
ally, unless, on an extraordinary occasion,
the Governor shall think proper to call
the Legislature together There shall be
appropriated annually, the usual sum to
be expended by the Governor, to defray
the contingent expenses of the Territory,
including the salary of clerk Of the ex-
ecutive department, and there shall also
be appropriated annually, a sufficient sum
to be expended by the Secretary of the
Territory. and upon an estimate to be
made by the Secretary of the Treasury of
the United States, to defray the expenses
of the Legislative Assembly, the printing
of the laws, and other incidental expenses;
and the Governor and Secretary of the
Territory shall, in the disbursement Of all
moneys entrusted to them, be governed
solely by the instructions of the Secretary
OF the Treasury of the United States, and
shall, semi-annnally, account to the said
Secretary for the manner in which the
aforesaid moneys shall have been expcnd-
ed and no expenditure shall be made by
said Legislative Assembly for objects not
specially authorized by the acts of Con-
gress making the appropriations. nor be-
yond the sums thus appropriated for such
objects.
By the above, it will be seen to what
salaries the various officers. are entitled.
In the foregoing statement, it will be seen
that salaries have been appropriated to
an Auditor General, Fiscal Agent, and
Librarian, together with Office rents, which
are illegal. If these officers were author
lied by Congress, that body would have
appropriated money for their salaries if
Congress did not do so, the Legislature had
no right to tax the people for the amounts,
as the latter clause of the above extract
from the Organic Act expressly says that
emo expenditures shall be made by the
Legislative Assembly for objects not spe-
cially authorized by the acts of Congress
making appropriations, nor beyond the
sums thus appropriated for such objects"
We see that $4,000 were appropria-
ted to ray the members of the Leavcn-
worth Convention. That Convention was
not authorized by Congress, and its legal
ity has not been established therefore,
they had no right to tax the people for
the expenses of the Convention.
We find $500 appropriated as the sal
aries of an Adiutant and Inspector Gen.
eral, which officers the Legislature had
no right to appoint, as the Governor is
the Commander of tie militia, and has
control over all matters relating thereto.
This 5000 goes to Gen. Lane and some
other favorite, who went down South, and
accomplished nothing.
We find $4,000 appropriated for sup
pressing the disturbances in Bourbon
County, which were not suppressed. That
is matter for which the Legislature had
no right to tax the people.
We find $4,000 appropriated to pay
the expenses Of investigating the Kicka-
poo, Oxford, and other election frauds.
1t was very necessary that these investi-
cations should be made, but we do not
believe that the Legislature has right to
make the people pay the expenses. The
United States Government, of right,
should pay them.
For incidental expenses of Probate
Court, and contingent expenses arising
under law. we find $500 appropriated.
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