The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-05-29
GOV. HOVEY STILL MULISH.
HE ovERRULEs THE SUPREME COURT.
He Holds That the Decision in the Riley
Case Was Wrong and Claims He WIN
Ask For a MISUNDERSTANDING
Only Scheme For Delay.
Daily sentinel. Ma 81


Monday THE SENTINEL expressed some
doubts as to what course the spirit of the late
lamented Napoleon Bonaparte would inspire
the governor of Indiana TO take in regard to
the trustees Of the benevolent institutions in
view of the supreme courts ruling in the Riley
case. The spirit of Napoleon, after three or
four days of contemplation in retirement at
Mt Vernon, has moved the governor to defy
the supreme court, and he yesterday announced
the decision arrived at by the spirit Of Ma
poleon.
DR.. NJ. c. Benham of Richmond. one of the
gentlemen elected trustee Of the eastern hos
pital for the insane by the legislature, arrived
in the city yesterday ana applied to Gov
Hovey for his commission. Much to his sur
prise the governor refused to issue it, stating
that he would issue no commission until the
matter had been finally disposed of
in the courts. DIR. Benham replied that
his understanding that the decision
In the Riley case had settled the matter, or h c
would not have applied for the commission
az the present time: Inc governors re-
ply was that the question was not yet settled,
and that he would not issue any commissions
Tor the present, at least.
DIR. Benham was thus ~subiected~tO the
pense and waste OF time OF a visit to this city,
and that his journey was a fruitless one is GER
NdAHlg no I&ulN Oh MS. Everybody III lHQlaIa.
outside OF Gov. Hovey and few, possibly, of
his republican advisers, supposed with DR..
Benham that the decision of the supreme court
IN the Riley case, which was expressed in IN
mistakable English, put TO rest all contest over
the legislative appointments But sOre-head
governor, with a lot of disappointed applicants
at his back, has found a reason to antagonize
even the supreme court and Will evidently do
everything in his power to embarrass the le-
gally elected trustees, putting them to much
expense as possible in assuming their charges,
and leaving no stone unturned that Will make
their pathway rough one.
\ SENTINEL reporter sent to Gov.
Hovey's Office shortly after DIR. Benham had
left it and asked him on what ground he had
refused 10 grant the commission.
I'VE will grant no commissions until the case
is finally settled in court, was the reply.
"Mhat case is that?" the reporter asked.
"The Riley case"
HAS not that been settled@'
'No; a motion will be entered for rehear-
ing. | think the supreme court was wrong in
its decision"
The reporter then sought Atty.-Gen. Kitchener
and asked him when the motion for a rehearing
would be filed. The attorney-generaPs reply
indicated very plainly that he was not sure that
such motion would be filed at all. 1--WE have
sixty days in which to file IL, he explained.
con what ground will you base an appeal for
a rehearing."
81 do not know. am notprepared to speak
on the subject at present"
''Is the probability that you VIII, or viii not,
bring the notion"
81 do not know myself. l do not care to
talk on the subject"
This conversation indicates that the attorney
general does not share the governors fancy for
a new trial. As an attorney, he undoubtedly
knows that such a motion would be immedi-
ately refused, and does not care TO assume the
responsibility for IL
There is no doubt that Gov. Hovey's sole in
tention in assuming his present attitude is to
hinder and embarrass the gentlemen chosen as
trustees of the various institutions He will
keep them out of Office as long as possible, and
will put them to all the expense he can 10 get
the places. \ motion for a rehearing, if filed
at all, will probably be entered as late as posi-
bic, and the hearing of it prolonged as much
as possible. The state has sixty days from
May Is to file a motion for a new trial. There
is bare possibility that Gov Hovey and some
of the other republican politicians of the state
imagine that some OF the judges of the supreme
court will undergo a change of opinion on the
subject, but this hardly seems possible. In the
meantime the small and contemplate spirit
which is being displayed by the chief executive
of the state will be remembered against him
by the people at large, and will iniure him in
the eyes of respectable republicans as well as
democrats.