The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-10-07

1885. and to my mind they did not then
and never have since, furnished any suffi.
Client ground for the severance OF our
/ official relations IL was your privilege
| as II was mine. to think and act as you
pleased In regard to differences existing
In our own political party. and I desire
once for all, to disabuse your mind OF
any thought that such n reason could
have prompted my action.
The attorney general and his deputy
are the official advisers of the heads OF
the executive departments of the state
government. l conceive II to be my duty
and yours to see to 1t that the constitu-
tion is obeyed and the law observed. II
appears, however. that, not only by your
own admission to me. but by what seems
10 nave been an authorized and authentic
interview. widely published throughout
the state, you saw no impropriety In join
Ing with other public officials in an obli-
cation to the state treasurer during the
last session of the legislature to protect
him against the payment OF moneys from
the state treasury not authorized by law.
This was in effect, and so intended,
an agreement on your part and the others
who Joined with you, to invite the state
treasurer to unlawfully disburse the
public fund, and If the appropriation
therefor by the Legislature should fail, by
reason OF executive disapproval, that you
and the others joining with you would
hoid the treasurer harmless. cannot
81 i'e -, i"s ae'i " peiie'e tha' an ACT ol
o,n,,,a ~, e'' en ov Ju''iieu upo,, any
and employees of the legislature not au-
thorized by any statute, should be placed
upon the rolls for the purpose of redeem
ing political promises in greater number
than the places would justify caneOt re-
hoI,a,,S ''.u iui 'tsl.'s me as
our ne,ioi ,.oii.ti 'e"'o' io' s''e''"e
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hENEkAL ELklNS FULL ENPLA-
NATION.
The cv-danut,, ,ttorro,, ,ro,,o,.oI ,h,,,
S'''' !" A'''Ii'S 'ehcThl McIorilllcK Il
lengthy answer to the reasons as
signed for his removal from the office
of dnrutv ott,rno,, ,,o,o,.,I !, g., o,oo,.
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anu uiSHiiIeu' anu we present IL with
out comment. 1t is as follows:
Hon. Henry G. Mccormick, Attorney Cen
eral, HARRISBURG Pa
MY Dear General: have the honor IN
acknowledge the receipt of your com
munication of recent date, setting forth
reasons for requesting my resignation ms
deputy attorney general. II is gratifying
to know that my official relations and
professional work while connected with
the legal department have merited your
appreciation and receive your commenda-
ton.
You speak of the reluctance with which
you state to the public the reasons for
my removal Ii is much better. in nv
judgment, that you should state your
reasons by letter addressed to me than
that the public press should assign them
for you. For this reason | requested
them. |. too, desire to assure you that 1t
would have been more agreeable to me to
have remained silent on the subject. but
would be untrue to myself. unfair to the
public and unjust to my friends If failed
to make answer to your charges
Inasmuch AS you have based my re-
moval upon grounds which involve my
official integrity, | assume there can be
no impropriety in my stating all the facts
In connection with the transaction about
which you complain.
You will remember that the act of 1874.
passed after the adoption of the new CON
stitution, designated the employees of the
senate ard house of representatives. This
act remained unchanged until 1895, al
though IL was known to every one famil- |
lar with legislative routine that there
We're not sufficient number of employes
therein designated to do the work and
transact the business of the legislature. |
This act provided for the appointmcnt of |
only two transcribing clerks In the house
and two in the senate This was not n |
number to do the work necessary
TO be done in the transcrlblng rooms and
1t became necessary to cmplo. additional |
clerks during the sessions of the lcgis- |
laturc These additional rlrrks varn naid |
out of contingent funds or provided for |
by items in the general appropriation bill |
For more than 70 years this has been the |
uniform and unbrukcn custom of the log
islaturc
At the opening OF raCh session II &c
the practice of the slate committees of |
the senate and house to scIcct tho nm
pointcos for the different places. These |
lppointcos are recommended by mrmbnrs
Of the respective bodies. At the begin
ming of the last session of the legislature
Senator Thomas, who was chairman of