Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1864-08-11

9N0i notnihg WAlcn incHneS m
le to believe that the forty days of a ealIe
r, session would be as fruitless of good !
"a ihe sixty-one Of the last | do no. b.
:, iieve that it is either for the welfare Z
!. hohor oi the State that special session
"a should De called and sixty thousand dol
d lars mere OF YOUR money expended +,
e. re-enaetIng the scenes Of last winter. I
/ You desire the passage Of these laws
5 you have It IN your power to make youl
Z representatives obey your will
, Afterwards, on the 10Th of Septembsr
: 1898, Lieutenant Governor Hammond
L IN a pablle speech, referring 10 the sams
i guage:
dovernor Willard would have con.
Vened the last Legislature Immediately
upon IT'S adjournment, but as nothing
, had been done by the Republican Sc,
ate be, as any sensible man would de-
manded guarantees that they would pro.
esea vita the necessary legisIafion.-
they had already consumed a whole
session passing only two laws-ona
ABOUT BIDS, and the othsr to secure their
pay What could Governor Willard 40
VITA such an nnprincipled set Of fellows
oat demand pledges Of them? He CON
eeded d great deal to them tu ,iojng this
Tor yioIators OF the Constltution ,nj
peuarers as respects their oatb- cop-
eerning II, can only, by the most CHART
ao!e man m the world, be supposed ca.
pa5le Of living BY pledge honestly de-.
manded
II - true my competitor saws he ad-
vised Governor Willard to call an extra
/ sess'onseut Il is equally true that what
ever he may have said privately 10 Gov.
ernor Willard, that publicly and before 1
the country he endorsed and sustainsd 4
hls Administration. On the Sth of L.
uary, 1898, the Democratic State Con.
vention adopted the following resolution
as part Of the platform
hes0feed, That We endorse and an.
prove the Administration of our Staie
hoyernment, as conducted by AsbbsI p
1856 '0 "sh' OF
The same Convention nominated If.
AeDohald for the Office of Attorney Gen.
era, and be accepted the nomination
and accepted the platform. aud / b.ve ,
never yet heard Of his having spi. anon I
~ The fact Is, the action Of Goyernor !
willard IN refusing TO call an extra sss. I
SION Was formally approved and en. :
dorsed by Mr. Mcdonald and the Demo. I
cratic party Of Indiana, and when bs .
arraigued me on that charge he stnIt;6-s !,
his own and the record Of The nsr,, I,
which he represents lie further ebarg-
IS that after the Legislature adionrnea q,
without making appropriations that / il
'eized the entire power Of the State Coz d,
,fhment as BY revolutionary authority n
SUI vili quote bis language. a,
rs soon "a the Legislature had al ~
oonrned, Governor Morton at once seized /.
ne entire power Of the State Gove,n. NJ
nenI as by revolutionary nuthor.tv ana ~
as controlled the affairs of State ~ 10 IN
must meet this broad ststerneut oy -
n absolute denial Ithas not the slight dr
., foundation IL fact, and / defy Mr.. VI
icD0uald or any one else 70 show where h'
have usurped a single power or exer- ag
ised any authority not conferred upon ~
ne by law lie attempts TO make out 90
he case by showing that ! procured u
money with which - carry on the Peni- ST
eutiafies aud Benevolent Institutions, d
md kept the machinery of the State ir
Government in motion But very lit hl
ie consideration will show that this ci
proposition is absolutely rreposterous. q
Il is trne ! might Save broken up the q
Benevolent Institutions and turned their N
inmates out of doors as Gov. Willard %
.nd Mr.. Mcdonald, his Attorney Gener- u
Il and confidential adviser, did in 1857. te
But there we're persons and counties 81
L Z. fha 3 =
money with which to support all these q
Institutions, not the money OF the State II
but their own money. They said, We e
are not willing to have the machinery Of it
the State Government stopped; we are =
not willing 10 have the State disgraeee /
before the world As it was in 1857, and q
we, therefore provide you with the nee q
essary means taking all the risk and re- g
sponsibility upon ourselves. II the }
State shall hereafter, in spirit Of good e
faith, reimburse Us, we'll and good; If )
not, we prefer TO lose the money to hav- p
ing the State dishousred. But upon Z
that point we have no fear, and are will o
ing TO take the chaEces" Now, when | i
took this money and applied il TO the !
purposes for which il was contributed, e
what law did ! violate? Upon what pro {
vision Of the constitution did | trample2
II the parties contributing this money I
had applied il directly to these purposes, 4
without my Intervention, the case would 6
not have been different It is simply the {
case of one man paying Anoihers debts,
against which there is no Law, human or {
divine, If the creditor accepts the mon I
ey the debtor mag or may not IN his own {
good pleasure. reimburse his friend who
has paid his debts, bat surely The iTisnd
bv 50 doing has committed no offence
But upon this point must be allowed to
express my astonishment that Mr.. Nc
Donald woald have ventured to prefer q
charge against me. Surely, his desire 10
assail me has overleaped all discretion.
He cannot have forgotten his own rec
ord. deliberately made in q similar case,
but If he has | will refresh his memory
and thai Of the public As before sta
ted in 1857. there being no apprOpria-
tions to carry on the Benevolent lnsti-
tuuons, they were broken up, the in
mates scattered, and the Institutions re-
mained empty for more that six months
The Constitution then as now forbade
the taxing Of money from the State
Treasury. except upon appropriations
made by Law. But on the 10th Of Sep
tember, 1851, Mr.. Mcdonald, then being
the Attorney General Of the State, made
a written request to Aquilla Jones, The
State Treasurer, TO take from the . Feas-
ury money for the support OF the beneV-
olent Institutions. confessedly IN viola- I
ton of the Constitution. Bot | Will let /
this remarkable document with its sign
ers, speak for itself:
Pesolred. That We advise the Treasu-
rer of State to advance out of any
money in his possession, belonging to
the State Of Indiana, sufficient funds to
support the Indiana Hospital for the In
sane, and the institutions for educating
the deaf and dumb aud blind.