The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1893-06-08
And if Mr.. Childs position is correct,


why did he not, as the legal adviser Of |
the governor, notify him before he !
signed these bills that money could not
be appropriated by such a form Of legis-
lation, and the governor could have re-
turned them to the house and senate
for; amendment? No; that was not
what was wanted by the thieves who
We're eonspiring to rob the commons
wealth. No objection was raised to the
joint resolutions until the legislature
had adjourned.
And who raised the question then?
The State auditor, who was himself
charged in the legislature, by almost
unanimous vote, with having united
with the pine land thieves to rob the.
State Of its property -the very prop
erty placed in his hands for safe-keep-
ing. And what light has an official Of
this State, a servant of the people, an
underling of the commonwealth, to
presume that the legislature did not do
it's duty and to call upon the attorney
general to affirm it's methods before
he recognized its enactments? Has
the legislature have the people which
represents fallen so low, in these
degenerate days, that no action of
theirs is binding on anybody until
viseed by the law clerk of the execu-
tive? The courts, without any war
rant Of law, have usurped a right to
nullify any and all acts of the legisla-
ture, and place their will and judy
ment above the will and Judgment Of
the whole people; and now the attor-
ney general assumes the same tremen-
dous prerogative. I shall next expect
to see the ma gnifcent and patriotic
grand jury of Ramsey county, on mo-
tion Of Crawford Livingstone, submit
the entire statutes Of the state of Min
nesota to the dogcatcher of St. Paul
for his approval or rejection. And
now I perceive that the State auditor,
not satisfied with blocking the inten-
tion Of the legislature, and the demand
of the whole people, that the pine land
rObberies and his own land depart
ment, in connection Herewith, should
be investigated, is so afraid lest the
governor should raise the money in
some way to continue the. exposure Of
The rotteness, that he tells us it will
rGosts an immense sum of money to carry
it on: while the attorney general, not
So listed with ngs.t the joint reso-
luton appropriation unconstitutio nal,
goes out Of his way to warn even the
State treasurer that he must not pay
the money, though the State auditor
should draw his warrant on him! Any
man with a modicum of sense can see
what is the purpose of all this wire
drawn quibbling. 10
! And then your fool-editor says the
! grand jury did not indict Rhodes be-
cause the resolution appointing the
committee on the coal investigation
did not authorize the committee to adj
minister oaths. You should take i'm
i mediate steps to prevent that fellow
from propagating his species, or pos
terity will be the losers by it. Does
he not know that statutes Of the State
( (see Kelly's statute, volumn2 page Ill,
section 4278), distinctly empower all
committees of the legislature to ad-
minister oaths Tin any matter coming
before such committee?;' And it was
in evidence that the committee, as the
4 oath could only be administered by one
person at time, authorized me to adj
minister the oath for them Your
prevaricator must find some better ex-
cuse for that shameful coterie of rich
men who deliberately declared that
the robbery of their fellow citizens by
the coal trust must continue indef-
nitely.
And-meanest of all!-the same chap
tries to make me responsible for a
/ fraud or mistake committed by a
woman clerk Of the legislature Of 1891,
in deliberately changing the wording
of hill after its passage, by adding an
So and inserting. a comma, when did
not know the clerk, never saw her, and
had not the slightest connection with
the enrolment Of the bill. And wbyt
Because at an earlier stage had
moved to insert the word railroad
before sleeping car, : so that it would
read railroad sleeping carr II had
not done so, some court or attorney
general would have held that there
was nothing in the act to show that i
4 referred to railroad sleeping cars, )
or cars operated BY a railroad corpora
q ton. The amendment was a proper
3 one, and no one but a villain WoulG
4 charge me with a subsequent forgery
q with which I had nothing to do, with
q out the slightest iota Of proof to sus
4 tain his allegation. # the woman wa