The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1860-04-26

patients. Again is Col. LANE responsible,
by sustaining the action of his political
friends. for sending home to the counties.
the poor, friendless, homeless, wandering
maniac"
Governor WILLARD instead of being in
favor of closing these intitutions. as is
charged by Col. LANE, was in favor of con-
tinuing them open, and drawing money
from the Treasury for that purpose. But
he had no more control over the pulic
funds than had Col. LAEN. and he could
only give his counsel and advice, This he
did. He united with the State officers in
written recommendation to the Treasurer
of State to supply the funds in hands to
their support, for the reason, in addition to
philanthropic considerations, that it was
1.-THE clear provision of the Constitution
that those institution should be supported"
The Tr asurer of State. after the adjourn
ment of the Legislature, refused to pay
warrants Tor the support of those institu
ton for the reasons that the Legislature
had failed to pass the revenue and appro-
priation bills, and that the money he had
on hand would be only sufficient to pay
the interest upon the public debt and the
necessary expenses ofthe Government until
the Legislature should again meet. After
this refusal, it was found "that the laws of
the State provided that the Auditor, Treas
urer and Governor. were authorized to
procure money to pay the interest upon the
public debt" Means having thus been
found to protect the faith of the State in
the payment of the interest upon the public
debt, the Treasurer consented to disburse
the public funds to meet her other consti-
tutional obligations, one of which the
Constitution thus defines:
at shall be the duty of the General
Assembly to provid, by law, for the sup
port of the Institutions for the Education OF
Of the Deaf and Dumb and of the Blind and
and also for the treatment of the Insane
This expins the causes and reasons why
two of the institutions were temporarily
closed, and answers the charge made by
Col. LANE that governor WILLARD said first
"there was not money in the Treasury to
support these PATIENTS" and then that
there was plentyof money"
Colonel LANE cannot take advantage oil
his own party's wrongs. They had the
power topass the necessary laws, but for the
purpose of advancing partizan chemes. the
Republicans Senate of 1887 refused to do
it. They well knew the consequences OF
refusing to enact those laws, and for what
ever evil that followed, then are clearly responsible
They determined to cary a party measure to the
sacrifice of the general interests of the State and
every feeling of humanity. They would rather see
the wheels of government blocked, and the poor
blind, deaf and qumb, and insane, turded out to
wander homeless, and friendless, rather than yield
partisan scheme by which they hoped to gain a
darty advantage. The Republican Senate of 657
refused to pass the necessary laws unless Senator
MULLER was ousted from his seat, and the Repub-
ican Senator of 1858 confirmed the election ofthat
Senator, upon which the issue was made two years
previous. We advise Colonel LANE to understand
the facts before he butts up against the Demecrotc
record. He will do pretty well where he confines
himselftO grimaces, anecdote telling and borrowed
rhetoric. That is about mis- estimate of stateman-
ship He will find that his feet will ship from un
der him whenever he trenches upon arguments
and facts. lie makes poor prosecuting attorn-
ey," unless he gets up better indictments than he
has thus far framed against tie Democrtic party.