Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-03-29

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! OFFICE OF TIE Acknowledgement. }
| SACRAMENTO March y, 1854 I
/ TeGoyernor George Stonemau-Sir: Your ulessa- e
to the Legislature in session contains certain
statements and insinuStions rejecting most iniur1.
ousiy upon the conduct Of the Attorney Generals
office. The same statements and lusinuSt ons rsre
pelSstenty published IN one daily Journal ard was
\ IN tle same journal corrected and disproved The
wounded he has craSed from the ephemeral Journal
10 the Executive message. Twill not submit TO this
malignant peryersi Of history without pubhe pro
test. F-'''> t''-
Page ! OF your message SAYS Certain railroad
SorpoIatlons, delnqueBt iSX-payers on the one
hand and Boards Of supervisors District Attorneys
aud the Attorney General on the other bavs l.,
many cases compromised or ATTEMPTED to cnmuro.
mise taxes due the State and certain counties II
thsse compromises are good in law, thea the pen.
ATTY anu interest due from these denaucnt tax.
payers, as well as III slme instances portion OF the
face OF the taxes, has been lost" Here the Attorney
General Is included in one class with the Boards IT
supervisors and District Attorneys who have really
scaled the face OF the taxes, and, so far as euuld
have remitted the penllti,s ana inte est thereon
and his action in the late tax cases i described AZ
identical with the compromises made by those n.
GERS
Now, your Exeellency knew that the Attorney
General had opposed those compromises in omen
Court with violence barely permissible in Court
and your ENcellency knew that those compromises
in the only course OF review and correction,
possible, and that the Attorney eusral has done
and is doing all in the power OF any attorney To set
knows hat in
those cases spueiions reseryiug and protecting the
rights OF the State aud uuties We're made Your
bNceency also knows that in the late cases the Al
tOrney -Gentra made no compromise, RENTED no
clIim-but, both by verbal statement in open Court
and written stipulation in the record aud state
ment on appeal, reserved all the que tons
and claims Of the people as TO peua ties
and interest we'll attorneys fees
Your EXcellency knows aud knew when YOU wrote
the woros quoIed the broad distinction between the
action Of the Attorney General and the officers Of
the counties between a compromise and a payment
on account. 1t is idle to say that you do not he
lieve that the stipulation reseryng the right Of the
State TO appeal Will not be effectua You are
bound in censuring constitutional officer to state
his fairly and truthfully. You did not do it
but YOU suppressed, Of set AMI wicked purpose all
the facts within your knowledge which tended to his
yindcation. Your ENcellency permits some one to
say for you on the same page % "Such proceed
ings (confoundiug aud including the action OF the
Attorney General with the action Of the county Of
fcers) being without authority of law the compro-
MISS and Iudgments!by whichlthe sums were SO lost
to the State and ought 10 be sec aside and the
full amount recovered. therefore recommend
that on provide by law for the employment of spe-
ciIl counsel for the purposes above mentioned and
that you further provide for the payment Of the
cost aud expenses thereof"
You know that sums have been lost as yet
even in the county compromises; for you know
have gone as far as possib to set them aside, and
that and will 90 if the cases on appeal are
decided for the state. You know that special
I
ought to know that in the cases out Of which this
discussion has grown; first, that nothing has been
lost and second, that no power earth can open
those judgments except by appeal, and you know
that In one OF them test case, the appeal is
perfected.
You know no good can come Of the employment
OF special counsel except the special counsel and
the recommendation has no motive but the resulting
fee. To serve the intere of a greedy petit ogger
you have fixed in the archives Of the State peryer-
sion of history and crystahzed in public document
a libel on a coordinate department, betrayed your
faith as public servant and your honor private
f c. MARSHALL.
A few moments after the Attorney.Gen-
ersl had delivered copies of the above to the
representatives of the dsiy morning papers,
two If the reporters stepped into the Cow
ernor's private office. The Governor was re-
clining in large easy chair, enjoying fine
Havana. Ole Of the reporters asked the
Governor il he had seen copy of the Attor-
nay. Generals letter. He replied he had not.
He was handed copy of the document,
which was read in a very short time. Hand
iog back the manuscript, he said Much
Obliged. 1t is quite a good letter very
spicy guess he is mad"
When ssked il he mad anything further TO
say regarding the matter he replied No,
sir; when 1 have anything to say to the
public l will DO so officially. l hope Mr..
Marshall will be sble to set himself right
with his constituency. l shall certainly throw
no obstacle in his way"
The Governor thea dropped the subject,
and looking out of the window in sort of
prospecting manner commenced talking
about the glorious climate Of California