Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1859-08-30
Coy. Chasn on the stnmn.

Gov Chase on the Stump.
Gov. Chase made a characteristic speech
at Sandusky the other day in which he talk
cd in his usual fatherly strain, about the
domestic affairs Of Ohio and evidently want
ed his audience to believe, that his adminis,
tration was oil that saved the State from
ruin, during the past four years. After Civ
ing short sketch Of the use Of the Repub'
lican party, and raking the Sub Treasury
System, fore and oft, he proceeded TO pitch
into the Legislature, for making appoints
ments, which he declared with becoming
medesty, no body but himself had any right
to make and when he had got his feelings
sufficiently worked upon this subject he en-
tered into vehement defamation against
what, he was pleased to style, partisan lsgis-
lation This point he dwelt upon at some
length, and attempted to make it one of the
strong points of his speech, the action of
the Legislature, to which be objected was
in few words, as follows Gov. Chase and
the State officers, during the recess between
the first and second session Of the last Leg
islature, drew $1,000 out of the State Trea.
sury, without warrant of law, without an ap.
preparation to that effect and applied it, or
at least said that they applied it, to making
repairs, in the Hooking canal. Tho Legis'
lature, at its succeeding session, considered
this to be an outrage upon the people Of the
State, gross violation of the Constitution,
and they justly and firmly refused to pay
the amount Some Of the Democratic mem
bers even went so far as to talk of impeach'
ing Gov Chase for violating the provisions
of the State Constitution.
The 22d section of the I'd article of the
Constitution, reads as follows, "No money
shall be drawn from the treasury, except in
pursuance of a specific appropriation, made
by law; and no appropriation shall be made
for longer period than two years. This
article of the Constitution, Gov. Chase swore
to obey as much as any other article, and
yet he disObeyed it openly, when he sane
toned the drawing of money from the treas
ury, and applying it to objects, for which
the Legislature had not appropriated it He
laid himself liable to impeachment and if he
had been impeached, it might have had a
beneficial effects on his moral character and
his succeeding conduct He raises great
outcry about the Legislative transgressing
upon the Executive powers in making ap-
pointments, but what reason does he vouch,
safe why he takes the power of the Legis-
lature into his own hands, and makes ap-
propriations2 His excuse for transgressing
the precepts of the Constitution is, that a
freshet had injured the Hooking canal So
that the appropriation made for keeping il
;n repair, gss not sufficient "And now" he
says, "ought to have drawn $4,000 dol
lars from the treasury for that object, or to
have called the Legislature together againY
We answer at once that he in such an emer-
gency ought to have called the Legislature
together again; he ought to have called il
together even if it costs twice the amount
To abstract the public funds, without an ap
preparation, is dangerous precedent in any
case; the recent deialcations showed that
the treasury could not be too rigidly guard
ed, and it has unsafe as well as unwise Il
weaken or abolish any of the safeguards u
which il was surrounded.
Bat even the necessity of an extra sess
Iun, VA. extremely doubtful. la the Pub
hc WTSs blll, passed the Och day of las
April, an error involving a much greater
amount occurred, without producing am
such necessity, According to the provis-
ions Of that bill, in case the Public Work
of the State we're not leased on the l4tE
day Of August the sum Of forty one thou
sand dollars was appropriated for keeping
Section No. . in repair In the uproar anC
confusion always attending the last night O
session, the word forty was left out, lsav-
ing only one Thousand dollars appropriated
rne Public Works were offered to be LEASED
r5r se-m OF Eve years, on the steps Of tn,
.tr Hnnse- o.ting tas 9rseer mesth, -.
a0rcirF %. provision p, t4e llI, -
lkel we're a4- -zd li.5a tayy a. 20
main in the hands OF tns Doa.4 y "rha
Works, with the enormous deficiency o
$4,000 to be supplied What do Gov Chas
a, the State Oiicers DO in this emergency
They dare not draw the amount out Of tn
treasury, after the lesson taught them by tn
last Legislature, aad they are afraid to ca
an extra session, for fear such a Proceedin
would have bad effect on the coming elec