Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1895 — It is Now Warden Harley. [ARTICLE]

It is Now Warden Harley.

The supreme court last week affirmed the prison directors suit. It came up from L&Porte county where Ihe circuit cou-t decided against the governor in the contentipn over the appointing power in the matter of the selection of trustees for the state prisons. ? The law of the last legislature delegated to a board of officers including the governor, secretary of state, auditor, treasurer and attorney general the right to appoint directors for the state prisons. The governor refused to act with the board, or to commission the directors selected by it. He attacked the constitutionality of the law, holding that the legislature might create an office but had no power to fill it. The governor claimed that the appointing power was lodged in him. and could not be otherwise delegated. The court held against him in all the material allegations, and Charles Harley, warden of the northern prison, according to the board’s election, has succeeded J. W. French. The case applies with equal force to the prison south and the nominee of the board will succeed Patten there.

The decision places the prison boards appointed by the state officers’ appointing board in possession of the state prisons and the board of the prison north now stands: Henry VanVorst, Monticello. Gen. B. S. Foster, Indianapolis. Hon. H. E. Nebaker, Covington. ... This board met on March 15th and ■— • p. 7~r ~ appointed Charles E. Harley, of Delphi, warden. The contest was a friendly one from the first and ended in the same mannei. Mr. Harley took charge of the prison last Wednesday.