Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-12-18

70 de money received. then the Commissioners
Of the Sinking Fund were directed toinvest the
sane in the purchase Of Indiana Is and q 5.
And we believe that the War commissioners
Stipulated. as one Of the conditions in the saleot
the bends, that the State was to have the
privilege of purchasing them the same
rate they were sold by paying per cent.
interest. This action was in accordance
with the policy Of the Legislature in aa-
thcrizing the loan SO il seems that the Cover
nor has set at defiance the win ofthe Legislature
and assumed an unwarranted power in his ar
rangeneut with Secretary CHASE. And more
than this, he attempts a deception which is too
barefaced to deceive any one. He claims that
by setting of the amount due from the General
Government to Indiana for advances made by the
latter for equipping volunteers, that more than
half million Of dollars win be saved to lie State
The State owes the money thus set of. and i'm
stead Of paying that debt the Governor appro-
PIRATES it to another purpose. This is robbing
Peter to pay Paul. We only know of one hypoth-
esis which viii justify the boast Of His ExceIlency
that he has saved more than half million OF dol
lars to the State by his financial dodge
Perhaps the Governor anticipates that this war
loan will be repudiated, and by aPprOpriating the
money that should 90 to the creditors of the State
to the payment Of our national taxes. that
much will be saved by the operation. Such ap-
pears to be His ExceIlency's idea Of pub
lie integrity and public faith. But the great
object which the Governor had in view in ma.
king his arrangement with Secretary CHASE
was to prevent the necessity of calling an
extra session of the Legislature. He feared
the damaging effect that the calling together
of that body at the present time would nave upon
him. He has not the least desire to have his ad-
ministration go thrc ugh the ordeal of legisla-
tive investigation, until his schemes for personel
advancement and aggrandizement have culmi-
mated. Until then. he will not face
that music, if il is in his power to
prevent it. Never before have the people
been so DESTROYS for an assembling of the Leg
stature They are solicitous to know the con.
months. as the law regulating the treasury sys
TEN requires there should be, no monthly or even
annual expose has been made of the operations
Of the Treasury. Why this secresyI And in
violation of law, very large amount of money
has been discussed without passing through the
Treasury Why should this check upon fraud
and errors be disregaried? The administration
of His Excelency thus far may have been char
acterzed with great skill and integrity, bat if So
certainly no good object is to be accomplished by
concealng from the people what has been done,
or preventing the sovereigns of the State from
passing judgment upon it. No man was more
bitter in his denunciations of the late Governor
WILLARD for not calling am extra session of the
Legislature in 1851 than Governor MoRroS. The
considerations urged why that call should BE
made were infnitesimal in their character and
Importance compared with those which public
policy now demands for assembling the Legisla-
ture. We do not believe that the Republican
party even will justify the Governor in his at
tempts to cover up his official acts and prevent
the people from deciding upon their State policy
one of the most important periods in the history
of the State, and under circumstances entirely
unanticipated