Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1883-03-30
N.GNI.NG and PRINTIN1;H,
L1H.S

he adjournment Of the Legislature
We are inclined to agree with ou'
contemporary that all bills presented Q.
him aud approved ought to be .jgnci
before the All 'urnment, and none pre-
sented afterwards should be gersp
proved
The Governor, in one Of HI. nr..,ees,
presented this view Of the subjec, 70 tbr
Legislature, aud argued upon ltrs eui
ncmt propriety Of hayin d, them All ready
for presentation to the Govcrnor before
adjournment. But in this, as in omauy
other cases, the Legislature paid po at
tention Whatever to what he ss but
continued IN tho old and repreAeu,IJIc
practice Of rushing bills through lunn-
the late hour- Of the session never. III
fact expressing them before passage.
but leaving them to be eugrosseI after
the adjournment, aud then present q r.
Now, will our contemporary know a fact
or two that must have escaped oJ.erya-
ton when it made its unjust and iIliber-
al attack upon the Governor
A large number Of bills were passed
in the closing hours of the session and
went over until after the adjournment
Indeed it took many days after the .I-
journment for the clerks to transcribe or
engross the bills for the Signatures Of the
presiding officers Of both Houses
When this large number Of birs were
gotten ready for the officers to SIGN. the
Speaker, Mr. Keilholtz, was so serious
ly i'll that he could not be seen As
soon as he was sufficiently recovered
these bills were taken to his sick room.
aud in bed he signed as long as he was
able, and then, under the instruction Of
the Attorney General, who was present
with the GOV and President Williams
of the Senate, as we were then advised
Mr. Keilholtz executed an instrument,
in writing, appointing a gentleman to
sign for him. These bills are never
presented to the Governor until attested
by the signatures Of presiding officers.
Our contemporary, will, therefore.
perceive that this large number of bills
was not only never signed by the officers
nor presented to the Governor before
the adjournment, and not until weeks
did they 90 to him in any
kind Of legal or proper form. The only
question is whether the Governor should
have signed at all such bills as were
presented to him after the adjournment.
Our contemporary says that none should
be signed after, and this would seem to
be the expedient and just thing but
then, had the Governor refused to sign
all presented to him after the adjourn
ment, large number of bills-some
would have failed to become
laws, aud then what? 1t is our i'm
preston indeed we are certain-that
tho general appropriation bills alanot
reach the Governor before The ADJOURN
ment and if the Governor had refused
to approve them, then what? An extra
session of the Legislature He rather
preferred to approve them and let the
Courts determine the question
Our contemporary will admit. We be-
liovc, upon the information that the
Governor had not the bills before him
to approve before the adjournment and
therefore he shoRld not be held account
able for not approving them before
Another fact, will our contemporary
be pleased to observe when he doubts
the constitutionaIity of Mr. Wander
ford's bill for the publication Of the laws
that it was not this bill that limited the
publication to the laws to take effect be-
fore the LIST Gay of June, but that limi-
tation was in the law first passed by the
Republican Legislature upon that sub
ject in 1868 and afterwards in 1855
Before that time there WIS no law what
ever authorizing newspaper publication,
and all the laws were published in book
form a, now and for all time before -
We refer our contemporary to the acts
of 1863. chap. 81. and 1868, chap. 81
for information on this subject.
We trust our contemporary will then
know more and be INST enough to ac
knowledge that whilst the Governor
would be expected to Do the right. he
would not be required to do The impossi
bic thing Of approving bills before they
were presented to him for the purpose.
And we would further most respect
fully enjoin upon our friend thatthe dis
enssion Of any question in good temper
is more likely to lead to just and rational
conclusions Hagrsora Ml
The death of Prince GortscbakoF
removes the greatest of Rus
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