The Monticellonian., 1903-06-25
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I
 week, in defense of the Govern or's action in vetoing ninety bills passed by the last legisla- ture, occurs in the following lan- guage:-'The President of the Senate and the Speaker of the
 House were both at home draw ing eight dollars per day, wait ing on the two enrolling clerks
 to finish their work. They say, after about two days study of Constitutional law, that it isn't necessary for bill to be enrolled anyway; neither IS 1t essential that the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House should sign a bill to make 1t a law. Yet these two personages have been drawing eight dollars day for twenty days extra. We do not care to discuss the legal phases of the dispute that is now on concern ifg the Governors action in ve- toing the bills under considera- ton. That is a matter that will be settled in due season by the courts. What we desire to call attention to, however, is the twice repeated statement i'll the Post-Dispatch's editorial tha ! the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House had been drawing eight dollars per day all during the period after the adjournment of the legisla- ture and until the bills were en- rolled and handed to Governor Davis. Now the fact is, neither President Short nor Speaker Moore have ever drawn a single cent of pay since the legislature adjourned. The World has this upon the authority of the Audi tors office, and there can be no doubt 1t is correct. Moreover. the Post-Dispatch must have known as much when the above editorial was written, other wise 1t is criminally negligent,- for 1t was announced in both the
 Democrat and the Gazette, of Little Rock, that Speaker Moore did not intend to draw a cent of pay for any service whatsoever rendered after the adjournment of the House. We thus have ad- ditional evidence of the desire and intention of the Davis ad- ministration to overlook no op- portunity, whether of islander or hypocricy, or demagogy, to dis credit any and every agency that seems in any way inimical to its interests. The World does not have the pleasure of knowing
 President Short, but 1t is advis- ed that he IS an honorable man. We do know Speaker Moore, however, and we know whereof we speak when we say his honor has never before been assailed. Having announced that he would not accept pay from the State for any service rendered after the adjournment of the leg islature, and that announce ment having been made public by the two newspapers of Little Rock, 1t is difficult to account tor this attack upon him by a newspaper edited by the close personal friend of Gov. Davis, except upon the hypothesis that 1t was deemed expedient to cast odium upon his official acts by charging him with practical dis honesty "-Helena World
 The gratuitous insult offered Senator Short and Representa- tive Moore and the members of the committee, by Gov. Davis, in his famous omnibus veto proclamation should be resented by their friends everywhere, as, also, by all lovers of justice and fair play; but the blind followers of Jeff. Davis cannot be induced to consider or inspect his con duct, no matter how outrageous 1t may be. The whimperings of Page about the $s. per day IS