The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1863-03-05
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Legislature in breaking a quorum
and returning to their homes They be-
came well satisfied that there was a we'll
matured plan on the part of the majority
to depose the Governor, secure the with
drawal of the Indiana troops from the
Federal army by encouraging assertions
and preventing the arrest of deserters;
to break up the Indiana Legion by de-
priving the officers of their commissions
and the private soldiers of their arms,
and to place the entire military power Of
the State in the hands of Board of
c., nm ssioners composed of the various
State officers. To resist this infamous
scheme, there was but one recourse
break quorum To prevent legisla-
ton which would have resulted in blood
shed and the transferring OF the war
within the boundaries of our own State,
the minority adopted the precedents fire.
quently set diem by the Democratic
members of other Legislatures, when no
higher interest was at stake than the
settling of contested seat, apportioning
the State, or the election of a United
States Senator-they went home. We
think they did right We are confident
the people will endorse their conduct
Perhaps many of our citizens remem
Der Bayless ". Hanna. We are conf
dent some of our hotel proprietors do.
Those who know him can form a very
good idea of the character of the Bill,
which takes the military power of the
State out Of the hands of Gov. Morton,
and places it under the control of gentle
men who were recently elected to fill
other and very different positions, when
we inform them that said Bayless W.
Hanna is its reputed father Some of
the provisions of the bill bear so strong
a resemblance to that worthy that any
person who reads the one and is ac-
quainted with the other, will have no
hesitation in pronouneing the child legiti-
mate
The clause of the bill making the Gov
ernor and militia suhiaa+-+o- Tho coll ,,r
every Justice of the Peace within the
oCaJe, c0uIu never have originated with
any body but Mr. Hanna, and that clause
alone stamps him as the genuine author
of the bill. The idea of the Governor of
the State and all the militia turning
out upon the warrant of Justice of
the Peace, and being subject 10 his com
msnd while in the field, is worthy the
military genius of Grand Commander
OF Lodge Of the Sons of Malta. We
presume it was in lodge of this charac-
ter that Mr.. Hanna received the military
training, which is embodied in the
bill, whose attempted passage has dis
solved the Legislature and seriously en-
barrassed the State Government.
We believe the Legislature have passed
none Of the appropriation bills. 1t will
be impossible for the State Treasurer,
without the passage of such bills, to pay
money olt of the Treasury, except he
becomes liable to severe penalties of law.
What will become of the State benevo-
lent institutions, is not yet definitely
settled. We presume, hogever, the Gov
ernor viii be able to make some arrange
ment by which they will be kept up as
usual. The people have confidence in
his ability and integrity, and will sustain
him in his laudable efforts TO carry on
the State Government. despite the mad
efforts Of rebel sylnpathizers to over
throw 1t and annex it to Southern Con-
federacy. We are assured the people
are aroused, and will call the men who
would trample the plainest provisions of
our State Constitution under their feet in
order to destroy political opponent, to
fearful account The boys in the army
will admire the nerve and discrimination
of the. minority, and by the time the APP
peal is taken before the people, Will be at
their homes, to sustain the men who
would not permit secession sympathizers
to stab them in the back while they
were struggling with the rebels in their
front.