Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-04-09

which be drew TIE money When thi. sun
hausfet Their lile DELAY IN the payments, but
harnE become bo'ter and the nrceiies 81 fhe editor
the = fs7et becoming greater. they disrensed With az
pTeiezi ~ form. u as. paid him large sums %
matey from time tine. iu sll iaz 90 abcui
teety thou-ard coil4rs- When asked 70 pay fr tn
-appnT q TIE Beufsoeni lustfutofs hey plead The al
sencs q appropriations and lie erTors oi tie emhezze-
meu biil. Blt asked T. pay h editor % paru-
An FeNssal ey laughed ~ Toe ~mtezzement bl a.
soo oks and treated tie plea u no agpropr x on As
ever thng iu way ouf TOO rt infsreTe with
.hs support q the DeEspaPer ors-n q he party. am
informed that The Attorney Gencral opinion to
Should have been s-lpr sed u &c lad not"
Le. US examine briefly the action of the Senate
aud the State officers In regard TO the State
Printing.
On the LAST day Of the session Of the Legisla-
ture OF 1868, (Moaday) Mr. Williams offered the
following, which was adopted:
Res,lssd. that JOsepa J Bingham. stare Printer. be
sha before The money l. allowed. fired n ofce q
u. Secretary Of Sise and BY him certified 10 Be eOrrc
p ,, res PAID Out ne '''- Senate ''-'''
On the same day Mr. New, the Senator from
Marion aud after the adoption of the foregoing
resolution, offered the following:
esoed That the state Printer be dered to print Of
the journals Of the present General Assembly
and the Documentary Journals, the number provided W
law. Senate Journal P. TO.
The Governor says, under the himsy pre-
texts Of this resolution, warrants were issued to
the State Printer for twelve thousand dollars, on
which he drew the money" No such warrants
were issued. That sum was never exhausted.
The Senate passed the resolution allowing the
State Printer twelve thousand dollars for print
inc done on order of the Senate, to be paid out
of the Legislative Fund, but not one cent of that
fund has been so appropriated or charged TO the
State Printing account Not one dollar has been
paid to the State Printer for any public printing,
"Jm in pursuance Of appropriations made By tar, .
and this fact his Excellency could have ascer-
tanned, if he had desired TO know the truth.
The Governor has something to say about
"the support of the newspaper organ of the
party" In 1861, the editor of the State Journal,
a partisan newspaper, was the State Printer. AT
that time, o. Z. Morton, Republican, was Gov
ernor; A. LANCE, Republican, was Auditor OF
State; and Jonathan S. Harvey, Republican,
was Treasurer of State. There was an unex-
pended balanceIto the credit of the Legislative
Fund, for the session of 1861 of 50 l44 60, after
the payment of all the warrants issued upon that
Fund, vet without even resolution Of either
branch of the Legislature of that year, that bal
ance appropriated to the State Printing ac-
count by those very virtuous Republican State
officers And all this was done TO support the
newspaper organ OF the Hepubllcan party. Does
not this record most forcibly illustrate the old
legal axiom, "Faisus in uno, talsus IN omnibus
False in one matter, deceitful in everything o.
The Governor has wilfully misrepresented the
facts in regard to the State Printer, hence is il
not fair to infer that he is "decetful in every
thng!'
We will now leave this part of the Governors
address, which was confined to the narrow con.
fines of State policy only and follow him to the
broader field of national policy. We will in
dulge in this single remark in dismissing it, viz
BY his own showing the Governor has had
trouble with every single State officer with whom
/ he has attempted to transact business. This he
intimates is, because he is perfect and they are
imperfect He is honest, and they are dishonest
He is wise, and they are foolish. He is patriotic
and they are disloyal. Unfortunately for this
perfect honest, wise and patriotic public func
tionary. in each contest his opponent in ia
vor of maintaining the Constitution and the
laws, and he was for setting them at naught
and, in the instance of breaking up the Legisla
ture. he was for revolutionary measures to carry
his ends. very similar to the means resorted &c
by Southern rebels to effect the same end, that
is, to usurp authority.
lCoScLus,oN on MONDAY