Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1883 — THE APPROPRIATION BILL. [ARTICLE]

THE APPROPRIATION BILL.

[Huntington Democrat ] It can not be suece-sfully denied that the Republican party through tne action of Lieutenant Governor Hanna, is responsible for the defeat of the general appropriation bill. If Banna had signed the bill as er its passage, as was bis duty as Presi dent of the Senate, it would now brfa law. This proposPion is clearly laid down by the Supreme Court of our State and a man occupying the posi tion of Mr. Hanna should have been sufficiently versed in this matter to have caused him to act intelligently In the case of Tarlton vs Preggs, 18th JndUna, page 24, we find the following! S “When the Legislature, on the day of its final adjournment, in the due course of legislation, sends a bill to the Governor for hla official action and he on the same day, and after the final adjournment of the Legislature, flies it in tde office or the Sec-, retkry of Stat- without approval, or objections thereto, it becomes a aw.” The Supreme Court of our State has never changed or overruled this opinion. On the contrary, it has been confirmed in the case of Van Dor.n $• Bodley, 68th Indiana, page 402.

In the matter of leislation. our SuConrt has gone even farther than the pases above cited. The Court says: “ Where a statute is au henticated by the signature of th presiding officers es the two Houses of the Legislature, the Courts will not search futher to ascertain whether such facts existed as gave Constitutional warra>>t to those officers to thus autben ticate the act as having received legislative sanction in such a manner as to give it force of law.” In support of this we cite the rfOth fnciana, page 514; 18th Indiana, page 402; 53d Indiana, page 244, and 70th Indiana, page 338. Other authorir ties could be given, but ibis we deem sufficient to establish clearly the fact that Thomas Hanna and the party he represents are responsible for the fait* ure of the apDvopiiution bilb ExGov? root Baker well understood this when he stated that lie and Governor Morton had acted in similar cases in harmony with the theory here laid upwp b tlie Court. No amount of dust throwing by the Hepublicqn press of the Btate paq shift thp responsibility of the failure of tho appropriation bill It Is the illegitimate ofispring of their party through the action of the Lieutenaut Governor, and the authorities say that they must “daddy the bantling”