Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-04-11

clever thing way, but trng to interfere with
the support u newspaper organ of the party am
tbe effect that il was legal pay the Printer
should have been surprised II be had not"
Let US examine briefly the action of the Senate
and the State officers in regard to the State
Printing.
On the last day of the session of the Legisla-
ture of 1868, (Monday) Mr.. Williams offered the
following, which was adopted:
Resosued That Joseph J. Bingham, State Printer. be
allowed Of twelve thousand dollars for printing
done Of the Senate the account Of which work
the secretary Of State and BY him certified 10 be correct
paid Of the Legislative Fund Senate Journal
p. Tss.
On the same day Mr.. New, the Senator from
Marion, and after the adoption of the foregoing
resolution, offered the following:
Reolrd That the State Printer directed print Of
the Acts and Journals of the present General Assembly
and the Documentary Journals the number provided by
Law. Senate Journal, p. 30
The Governor says, under the fimsy 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
ing 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 10 the State Printer for any public printing,
''bu in pursuance of appropriations made by Lar,
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,
partisan newspaper, was the State Printer. AT
that time, o. p Morton, Republican, was Gov
ernor; A. LANCE, q Republican, was Auditor of
State; and Jonathan S. Harvey, Republican,
was Treasurer of State. There was an unex-
pended BALANCED to the credit of the Legislative
FUND for the session of 1861, of Sc IA 60, after
the payment of all the warrants issued upon that
Fund, yet without even resolution of either
branch of the Legislature of that year, that bal
ance was 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 Republican party. Does
not this record most forcibly illustrate the old
legal axiom, "FaLsus ,po. firLsus IN omnibus
False in one matter, deceitful in everything 2"
The Governor has wilfully misrepresented the
facts in regard to the State Printer, hence is it
not fair to infer that he is "decetful in every
thing9"
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
due In THIS Single relnark IN ulsInlsSihg III, 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 was in fa'
vor of maintaining the Constitution and the
h Cor at
and, in the instance of breaking up the Legisla-
ture, he was for revolutionary measures to caNy
his ends, very similar to the means resorted to
by Southern rebels to effect the same end, that
is, to usurp authority.
(OoScLusION NEXT WEEK.