The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1877-03-08

contract is satisfied. = The power given
becomes q trust which the doner cannot |
annul, and which the donee is bound to |
execute"
The spirit of this decision by the United |
States Court is in full accord with the let !
ter OF the constitution Of your own state, !
which has in terms forbidden the state to |
do for itself the precise thing this bill pro- !,
poses to compel the commissioners to do for |
Leavenworth county.
SEC. 5 OF the constitution of the state
which provides for the creation Of state
debt, and the issuance of bonds therefor,
says that every Law authorizing such obii-
cation "Shali provide for iesying an an
nual tax sufficient to pay the annual in
terest of such debt and the principal there
OF when II shall become due and such
appropriation shall not be repealed nor the
tdJss postponed or diminished wntd the interest
and principal of such deb. ihaii hare been rhotly
paid"
In view of the many ingenious devices
heretofore and by you enacted to aid
municipalities to incur the character of
liabilities, this bill vainly undertakes to
shield Lesvenworth county from the conse-
quences OF, it is both wise and Just to have
1t understood that no act of the state can
ever impair the obligations they are given
the opportunity to assume.
1t is kind of legislation which cannot
materially aid those in whose interest it is
had, and can do no less than work an i'm
pairment of the honor and credit OF the
state. GEO. 7. ANTHONY,
Governor.
Executive Department,
Topeka. March Sd. 1877,
WARM RECEPTION.
When the above message from the gov
ernor was read in the house, Messrs. Still
lings and Wheat both made able arguments
against the positions assumed by the gov
ernor. and showed clearly that he had
MIsCoNsTRUcTED AND MRREPREsENrED
the provisions of the measure. The Law OF
rs, BOW in force, covers all the ground
sought to be covered by this bill except in
one particular, and forbids the commits
sioners to levy a tax for the payment Of
any railroad bonds except those Issued to
the Kansas Pacific; to put these K. P.
bonds on a level with all the others, was
the object of the new law, and the only new
feature there was in it; the only effect OF
the veto, therefore, is to make the county
commissioners levy tax to psy the interest
on the
KANSAS PACIFIC BONDS,
and leave out all others, while these K. P.
bonds, it will be remembered, were issued
under = contract which the road has lever
made the slightest effort to comply with.
The people Of Leavenworth are we'll aware
that the bulk of the railroad Indebtedness
of Leavenwoith city and county, is, in fact,
frsudulent-that the consideration promised
US by the roads, for the bonds, has never
been given, and that the people are there
fore not under any moral obligation and
should not be held under any
LEGAL OBLIa ATOMS,
to pay the debt. Mr.. Stillings thought,
while the people Of Leavenworth county
were grooming beneath the burden of q
debt for which they had never
received the promised consideration, that it
came in very bad taste from the governor
OF the state to officially denounce their at
tempts to secure justice from their creditors
as acts of reputation and dishonesty, and
he condemned in the severe.t terms the
condnct OF the governor in interposiDg his
veto in the interests OF the corporations and
against the people.
made some remarks in the senate upon the
same subject, ard when referring to the
n,onEea!,h's endorsement Of it, he sug-
gested that it might be we'll for governors
and newspaper editors, before reading the
legislature a moral essay upon the Gin OF
attempting to avoid the payment Of debts,
to look nearer home, and see if they
hadn't come creditors of their own who
had been defrauded of wha. was
justly due them by the bogus
transfer of property into the names of 9TH
er parties. He thought that such high
toned talk about "honesty," came with a
very poor grace from the present governor
of Kansas or the editor OF the Common
ueal,h.
DR.. KNAPP
resigned his position OF superintendent OF
the insane as, lam few days ago, and the
special committee Yesterday reported that
no further investigs alton INFO the affairs of
the institution was necessary. In this con-
nec,ion deem it proper to make the fol-
lowing
CORRECTION
In my letter of February ~, there is q
reference TO DR.. knapp's memorial to the
legislature, and 4 statement, that j. ?.
Bauserman, in the main, corroborates the
same and endorses the management OF the
institution by the superintendent. His en-
dorsement referred only TO the executive
management and sanitary regulations OF
the asylum, and in this Mr.. BIuserman goes
no farther than all Legislative committees
that have visited the institution.
Mr.. Bauserman stated that he was
not satisfied with the per centsge of cures
in the asylum, and that he mad 30 express
ed himself to the board of trustees. He
also said that if the least of the ecandalous
reports, touching the character anu con-
duct of the Superintendent, were true, he
was not the man for the place and should
be removed. / make this correction for
fear some one might infer from the former
statement that Mr.. Bausermsn was dis
posed to shield the doctor in any wrong
doing such is not the case, he merely ask
ed for DIR. Knapp a fair and impartial
hearing. such a. the lower criminal is en-
titled to, and then if guilty he said let the
punishment follow quick and sure.
w. s. B
THE ANNUAL MEETING.
ST. LOUIS, March 6.-At the annual
meeting to-day of the sIocs holders of the
St. Louis, Iron Mountain 4 Southern rail-
way, dispute arose As to who should vote
the twenty-five thousand ehares Of stock
which we're some three years ago placed in
the hands of Barring Bros, Of London, by
Thos. Allen, presideut, and Henry J. Mar
quand, VICE president Of the road, to be
held in trust by them As security 70 the
English bondhoiders for defzulted interest
Both parties claimed the right to vote