Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-07-13
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LANCASTER. JULY I3, las,
The Governors yetocs.

The governor has relentlessly exercised
his veto power and has slaughtered the
legislation of the past session in an un-
exampled way. lie has carefully ex-
amined the bills submitted to him, with the |
aid Of the attorney general, it is said, and |
Of Secretary of State Stenger and ex Senator
Gordon and has completed the labor
within the thirty days to which he was
limited after the adjournment. The work
seems to have been well done. The causes
named for the disapproval of the proposed
laws are generally good and disapproval
would have been justified even where ap-
proval has been given. What is not clearly
good should never be put upon the statute
book. The doubt should always be in favor
Of existing law. Change in the law should
clearly be improvement to justify it being
made.
Legislatures act upon contrary idea.
Legislation is considered good in itself and
is adopted unless clearly bad and even
when clearly bad, as the governor has
shown. Our laws, in fact, are not passed
by the Legislature with an intelligent
appreciation of them. A few comprehend
them, but the many give no heed to such as
they are not especially interested in. Each
member has measures which he seeks to
engineer through, and they are not disposed
to interfere with the pet schemes of Others
lest their own be damaged in retaliation.
The careful attention of the Cover.
nor and the attorney general to the
embryo laws, has become absolutely
unnecessary in view of the food Of
crude, absurd and unintelligible bills
that make their way into laws, unob
structed and unpruned by the Legislative
machinery. 1t certainly would be better
that the legislature of Pennsylvania
should never meet than that all the bill
it passes should become laws. Ou
only projection is in the governor
veto ;,aM if the time should come that TIN
should be as careless Of TIN
public interests and as unintelligent a
the legislature, we would be in
very unhappy state. We applaud tn
freedom with which Governor Pattisol
has exercised his power TO strangle legisa
tion. That he has vetoed so many bills
q reflection upon the wisdom, and eve
sanity, of the legislature, but credit I
). him. We would have had him slaughte
still other measures. There are FOOLS
laws on the statute book, as the wor
of the last legislature, for which th
governor is responsible with it notabl
theSaw requiring public schoolpupils of a
degrees to be taught the physiological effec
of rum.
And we would have had him disapprOv
many more of the appropriations fo
charitable institutions than he has. Th
fourteen selected for slaughter seem
to be a small number to offer up as a sacr
flee to the declaration which the governo
seems to make, that institutions not con
trolled by the state should not be
burthen upon the treasury. That
a good rule, but the governor doe
not establish it by limiting himsel
to the disapproval of the appropriations +
fourteen institutions, and approving thos
TO many more which are not under stat
control.
Our view, as we have often said, is tina
charitable institutions founded by pri
yate benevolence, should be left +
private benevolence to be sustained
andI that good samaritan Tom, Dick an,
Harrys throughout the state, who gushing
ly get up hospitals, and dump them on tn
state when they tire or die in their goo'
work, should not thus easily get rid o
their load
Every district in the state is entitled t
/, an equal proportion of the money which tn
state has to eXpend for charitable uses
There should be a per capita distribution o
it, and it should be dispensed through
institutions controlled wholly by the stat
and located in the districts entitled to tn,
appropriation. If there is to be hospita
for every hundred thousand of tn,
population or for each million, the mil
lion or the hundred Thousand are entitle,
to its location centrally among them
There is no propriety in the states permit
ting private individuals to create chart
able institutions where they please, and t,
run them, when the state is expected t,
sustain them. The governor was not thor
ough or logical in his fourteen charit,
yetoes.
An Imposition.
With ha boct ~ mood ,aaonno tl,o 1900;