Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-01-12
ROW DELANEY HAS BEEN Pa
$s. SO5 go For Salary and Services in Two
Sessions and The lnrerven-

Why should there be Senate librarian.
Has the Senate library. If not, why
librarian ? If it has library why is it not
merged in the state library? Has the
Office any other reason for existence than
for Delaney's sake:
1t is to be noticed that since Delaney
first got into the meal tub he has drawn
in the way of funds for alleged contingen-
cies, &c., tho following amounts
lss)-Sawine and putting away woods 81 90
lSSl-POstago, labor, express charges,
NC. ............................. ,20i OO
Repairs and book cases ,S!5 90
Desks, tables &c.................. AS co
l5o2-POStage, labor, express charges
Nc......... ........................... ,2V3 W
Those who will may believe that he has
honestly expended these amounts drawn
for repairs aud improvements. Those
who do not may have chance to anlight-
en- the investigating committee when it
gets down to work.
Those who will may believe that Dels-
ney honestly expended an even 200 for
postage, express, &C., in the year 1881,
when there was legislative session and
exactly the same even amount in 1882,
aohen there :cus no legis,atiye session.
But this is not my present business with
Delaney. l trust his investigating COM
mittee will discover how the money was
spent which he reported to have applied
to book cases &C., and to postage, express
&c, and how it comes that he needed as
much for these miscellanies during q lc-
cess year as in a year of legislative session,
and whether or not the stamps bought by
the state were used to mail tho campaign
life of Gen. Beaver-all this for the CON-
mittee.
Let us look at Delaney's salary. The
act Of 1874 creates his Office, and fixes it's
salary at $500 fer the regular session and
S. day for each adjourned session-or
81, ,050, for session of $50 days the ex-
treme length. Sec. II, act i'll Of the con
stitution says : NO bill shall be passed
giving any extra compensation to any
public officer, servant, employee, agent or
contractor after services shaU Aage been
rendered or contract made, nor providing
for the payment of any claim against the
commonwealth without previous authority
of law.' Sec. 13, of the same article says:
"No law shall extend the term of any
salary or cmo!uments after his election or
appointment
And yet, in the face Of these provisions
of law, these are the amounts Delaney has
drawn for "s;.lary" or for ':soryicas -
| 1919, Salary .....................Sl,2o Dos
Services during li.c.'.s.. 200 2,iOs
1851. Sal&rF... .................... l,Gm
Isl, Services. %1,@i
w !2erElceS...... .-........... iaO 1,E'I,6O
| 1892, S:.iary Observation-Disclosures. l,SOO
Total in tour years. ,S55 60
For this there is a SHADOW Of authority
only i'll the unconstitutional provisions
made for its payment by the Legislature.
Although the law Of 1874 fixed his salary
at 81, ,050 for a session OF $50 days, and di-
rected that no greater compensation should
be voted by either House to any officer
thereof than is allowed by this act, yet,
despite the constitutional prohibition, it
has been the fashion since 1874 to insert
in the general appropriation bill a clause
that each officer and employee be paid pro
rata according to their salaries for every
day exceeding 100. Under this plain con
traveution of the constitution the salaries
Of the clerks, which the law of 1874 ex-
pressIy says shall cover all services ren-
dercd BY them 1T at regular or adjourned
sessions and during the recess" have
every session had so per cent. added to
them by the 'ride,s' i'll the appropriation.
bill, of which Governor IIoyt took coca
sion to thus express himself in 1881
In approving the general appropriation
bill, think it NY duty to say that the at
tempt made in the second section to iu-
crease the compensation of the officers
and employees of the Senate and House,
| by adding to their salaries for every day
exceeding one hundred days a pro rGht
sum based on the amount of their said
salaries, is in my opinion Il palpable VIC
lation of the eleventh section of the third
article of the constitution, which fOrbids
the giving by the general Assembly OF
"extra compensation to any public officer,
servant employees, &o., after services
rendered CT contract m ,de.' The salaries
of most of the officers and employees OF
the general Assembly are fixed by the act
| Of May II, 1874, in round sums and by
the year. This clause Of the anpropria
tion bill increases tile amount to be re
ceived by them probably fifty per centum
and is clearly within the constitutional
prohibition. This appropriation bill was
not received by me until the last hour of
the session and when no time was left for
examination thereof before final adjourn.
ment. As the item, in which this Objec.
tionable clause, IN the nature Of a rider,
occurs, contains the appropriation cover
ing the proper pay OF all members and
officers, and large portion Of which had
been already advanced by the treasurer,
and as am not clear of my right to veto
a portion of an item in an appropriation
bill, | am constrained to approve the
Who'll item with this protest against such
i'll considered and unconstitutional iegisla-
tiOn.
This GILL considered and unconstitu.
tional legislation will account for the
increase of Delaney's salary in 1879 and
1881 from s1,050, as it is fixed by law, to
s1,20S and $1,000 respectively; and ex-
plains how Chief Clerk Cochran on a
legal salary Of $4,000 manages to get
So, $50 a year and 81 900 for services during
the years when there is 10 session.
But even more thar this was necessary
to secure for Delaney the double pay, for
services" in addition to his ''sa!ary"
as librarian, and consequently there was