Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-07-06

tho state? Are not its members omeers q
The state I? And do not all ofRceS Of the
state telong either to the judicial, ex-
ecutive or legislative branches: What
other branches are there? The members
and officers of the board Of public chari
ties clearly are not legislative or judicial
officers of the state, and just as clearly
are executive officers of it, If they are
its officers at all that they are its Off
GERS cannot he denied, and the governors
objection to paying the secretary The
money that is due does not seem to have
anything to stand on. II the en-
ployes in the auditor generals office,
or any other office of the state, are en-
titled to have their salaries appropriated
in the general appropriation bill, the
board of public charities is entitled to
have its salaries appropriated in the same
bill. 1t is of no consequence at all that
heretofore its appropriation may have
been in a separate bill. If the Legisla-
turc is entitled to put this appropriation
ia the general bill it cannot be deprived
of that right by the fact that it choose
at another time to put it in a separate
bill. We presume the board of pardon
has its appropriation in this bill, as it
had in the last appropriation bill.
There seems to be an appropriation in it
for the public grounds, as the governor
strikes out 81 500 for a public walk. And
if the board of pardons and the garden
ers are executive officers Of the state,
why should the board of charities Ike de-
MED such classification IL is an ungra
cious thing to deny payment of a debt
that is admitted to he due, and the gov
ernor needs to have strong reasons for
refusing to permit the payment which
the Legislature directed to be made to
DR.. Luther. His further objection that
this being the appropriation bill to pay
the ordinary expenses of the government
for 1883 81 cannot properly contain an
appropriation for debt previously con
tracted does not seem to he valid. The
ordinary expense which was not paid in
1882, becomes a debt for ordinary ex
pense in 1888, and will continue debt
of each year until it is paid.
The governor may be as rigid as he
can be in examining the states expend
itures, and if he is just in his conclusions
the people will sustain and applaud him
but he must be careful not to become
hypercritical.~ illiberal and unfair.
In this regard the governor has
again erred, We fear, in refusing ia
allow an item of Sc, 600 for postage, tele
grams, express charges and other Incl
dental expenses of the state treasurer
auditor general and attorney general FOL
1883 and 1884, in addition to the 5000
given for these purposes to these depart
ments by the law of 1874. The governor
objection TO this additional allowance is
not placed upon the ground that it is not
needed: but upon the argument that as
the act of 1874 appropriated Sc, 900 for the
ordinary expenses Of these departments
for these purposes and as the general
appropriation can only provide for Ordi
nary expenses, and has elsewhere pro
1
vided $4,000 for these expenses. the
Sc, 600 additional cannot be included in
the bill, not being for an ordinary ex
pense, but mus, be granted, if at all in a
separate bill. That is Il very bad speci
men of hypercriticism. As the Sc, ,OO(
additional is appropriated for the same
purpose as the SIS, 900, it is certainly fol
the same character of expense. II
one is for an "Ordinary expense D
the other must lie and if one can go Ill
the general appropriation bill the Other
may. The governor must look out a
little for his logic. He certainly can
not expect the people to believe that
So, 600 is an ordinary expense under the
constitution while $l4 900 cannot be.