The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1868-11-21

DEFEAT OF THE APPROPRIA-
sTION BILL.

TION BILL.
A late number of the Salem Union.
ist makes feeble attempt to justify
the action of the fifteen Radical
members who resigned. 1t says:
"Howover much tho Republicans may bo blam-
cd for resigning, Democrats never success
fully charge the dcfeat of tho appropriation bill to
them"
Why not ?-pray tell. 1t is admit
ted by all, we believe, that the APP
preparation bill should have passed.
Everybody admits that 10 money can
be lawfully drawn from the Treasury
until one has passed. Everybody ad.
mits that the State owes sgndry indi-
viduals quite large sums of money /;
and as time progresses, the State will
owe still more and that these debts
ought, in honor and justice, to be
promptly cancelled. All this is adj
mittcd on all sides. Now, whose
fault is it that the appropriation bill
did not pass? We say that the rea-
son why this important bill failed to
pass was because fifteen members of
the Radical party resigned, and thus
broke the quorum. Does anybody
deny this If they will, we can
plaster the proof positive OH their
backs, so that .he who runs can read.
But, say some, the Legislature ought
to have passed this bill earlier in the
session. Well perhaps it would have
becn better to have passed it before
the forty days expired. But We think
not because several bills were pend
ing which, if they had become laws
would require greater or less appro
priation to put their provisions into
execution. 1t is customary in all leg
islative bodies-State and National
to pass the appropriation bill at tho
very heel of the session for this very
reason and when the Legislature o
Oregon put off the passage of an ap
preparation bill Till nearly the last enc
of the session, they only followed wei
established prccedents, and what the
exigencics of the case Imperiously dc
manded.
The Unioaist says 1T was not th'
intention OF the Legislature to adjourn
on Monday or even Tuesday," anC
urges this in justification of the action
of the immortal Fifteen Radical mem
bers. May we be permitted 10 in
qnire how the editor knows so much
aud so positively, about the $ intention
of the Legislature 2" A joint Rcsolu
tion had passed that they would al
journ, sine die, on Monday; and W
knoin, from the asseverations of score
Of members, that such was their intcn
ton. What motive could any Demo
cratic member have in prolonging tn
session beyond that time ? Were no
they working without pay and board
ing themselves as well as the Radi
Gals? Most certainly and ther
was every induccmcnt to make then
adjourn at the time specified AN,
they would have surely done so ha,
not the immortal Fifteen resigned, an
thus left the House without quorum
All the reasons We have yet see
urged in defence, or extenuation, c
the action of the Radical Fifteen, ar
unsound and sophistical in the C,
treme. There is no use in arguing o
talking the truth of the matter j
that those Radicals who resigned, Il
gether with the Governor, arc cor
spirators against the State of Oregon
and we do not intend to permit an
; pettifogging, on their part, to extr
cate them from the unenviable pos
ton in which they have placed then
/ selves