The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1893-05-25
OUR MODERN CESAR.

The governor has again vetoed the
law passed by the Legislature author
izing the reception by the state
Texas of the sugar bounty due the
state by an act of congress. There
was debt due the state of Texas for
two years previous to this session OF
tn legislature amounting toabout VA, =
900 q year, or $50, 900, which by a
former veto of Governor Hogg was
irrevocably lost to tie state. Again
ct the last session of the legis-
ature, similar, but not the
s9me claim, was authorized
by the legislature of the state, but
again IT has bten vetoed, amounting
as before to about $4,000. The two
totally uncalled for and unauthorized
voices amount in the four years of his
administration to cost to the State OF
Texas of SIG, 000-that is to say, the
state of Texas loses by an arbitrary
ruling of the governor that much
money justly due under the laws OF
congress. Because, forsooth, Gov
ernor Hogg as lawyer thinks
the law OF congress Is an unconstitu-
tional law under technical con
struction, he takes advantage of the
technical right vested in him as gov
ernor to veto the bill passed by the
legislature of the state authorizing the
eceipt of this money. Be it remem-
bored that the bill granting this boun-
ty was passed by the aid of the votes
of the Southern members of congress
and afterwards ratified and confirmed
by the state legislature of
Texas, said to have been
elected on the same platform
upon which Governor Hogg ran and
was elected governor of Texas.
We have heretofore maintained and
we maintain now that Governor Hogg
had no more right to veto this bill and
refuse to allow the state of Texas to
receive this money than the guardian
of minor children would have the
right to decline to receive money
awarded to them by a probate court,
because he did not believe the law
under which the court made the de.
cree was constitutional. We GER
tainlv have arrived at an embarrass'
ing condition of affairs when
the governor of Texas steps
in and arbitrarily refuses to permit
the state to receive money justly due
it under the laws of the land. Gov
ernor Hogg had before his last cleo
ton vetoed similar bill and he
might claim that his reelection con-
doned and authorized another veto on
the same subject. That would not be,
however, true for the legislature, fresh
from the people, repudiated that &C.
tiou and passed similar bill which
he has also arbitrarily vetoed. The
people of Texas can stand a good deal
of oppression, but their patience is
entirely aud completely worn out
with the repeated aud defiant contu-
macy as exhibited by the governor
in this last veto.
Verify it seems that Governor Hogg
is assuming to run all the depart
ments of the state government. He
repeats statute permitting court a
little pay Cor stenographer by quiet
ly running his pen through that item
in the appropriation bill and assumes
the authority to say in regard to Ap.
propriatious made by the Legislature
for stenographers for other newly
created courts that the courts do
not need them. There never has
been in the history of this
country such arbitrary power
assumed by any governor of any state
nor has any governor SO boldly and
= ,,ruthlessly marched into the courts of
.euhe country, infringing upon their
ant