The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-09-13

ed for their government or some man at the
head of affairs as Governor, that will sec
that The laws are faithfully executed. For
the Treasury Bill which we passed lps'
winter, 8 iaw now on the statute hoax, Is
being daily Violated 10 tue Following par
ticulars: -
Isl, Tue sth specification Of section 9,
Acts 1853, page rs, expressly provides as
follows: Every fee, perquisite, or bonus
received by any State officer in the discharge
OF the duties of his office, shall be paid
into. the State Treasury That law went
into force on the 9Th day Of August, \. D.
1859 yet on examining the Auditor 5 re-
port, made some two months after, not one
cent do you see received into the State
. Treasury, when everybody knows that
scarcely a day passes but what some per-
quisites are received by some of the officers.
/ What do they do with them That ques-
ton they must answer for themselves.
There is one thing certain, they did not pay
them in to the treasury as the law directs.
They may say that they never charged or
collected any, yet sec. ,, Acts 1859, page
l75, expressly requires them to collect and
pay them into the treasury. ~ .-,
Il I'd. Sec. of the same act expressly pro-
hibits the Treasurer of State from lodnilg,
using or permitting any other person to use,
or deposit in any bank or with any person or
persons the money or funds of the State
Yet the present treasurer. of State has de-
posted thousands of dollars of the public
funds with the banks at indianapolis. - 81
3D. See. 8 of the same act expressly pro-
hibits the Auditor from drawing warrant
upon the treasury OF State unless there be
money in the treasury belonging to the fund
upon which the same is drawn to pay the
same, and in conformity 10 APPROPRIATIONS
made Js, iaao, and on money actually ia the
trsdsury subject to the payment of the same.
And section Of the same act expressly
prohibits the Treasurer of State from paying
out money upon the warrants of the audit
or, unless there is money in the treasury te-
longing to the particular fund upon which
it is drawn, yet according to the Auditors
last report, see pages II, II, and I3, there
were warrants drawn, and money paid ont,
that had never been appropriated by the
Legislature, amounting in all to S45, 92T85
the State officers turning themselves into
q legislature and appropriating money with
out authority of law, but in direct violation
of law. But they may say that this was all
done before the law of 1889 took effect, yet
that viii not help them, for the constitution
of our State, which they took an oath to
support expressly provides, article 10. sec
-tion 3, 20 No money shall be drawn from
the treasury, but in pursuance Of appropria-
tons made 6y Iaac." Certainly when officers
will neither obey laws nor constitutions, but
violate their express letter with impunity,
you need something stronger than bonds 10
compel them to do their duty
4th. Sec. 8 of the same act expressly pro-
vdes, that the Auditor and Treasurer ''shall
make out, sign, and cause to be published
once in faco newspapers of general circula-
ton, at Indianapolis, statement of the er-
act amount of money in the State treasury,
at the close of business, on the last business
day of each and every month, specifying
the amount belonging to each particular
fund This provision is for the purpose of
letting the public know at the end of every
month, precisely, how the financial affairs
of the State stand, yet not single State
ment has been published since March last,
about the time the money commenced pour
|. ing into the treasury from various counties,
and since which time the publications would
have been most desirable to the people
Ar a}1 (CONCLCDED TO- MORROW