Show hie sugar bounty special the decision of the hon R B bowler comptroller of the treasury holding up the appropriation to pay the sugar bounty for 1891 broaches a question AS benom senom as it is interesting the money was duly appropriated by congress the act waa duly approved by the president and now mr bowler a subordinate officer of the treasury announces the opinion that the law ie invalid and declares that he will not permit action would be ludicrous if it were not of such grave importance if mr bowler has the right to pronounce upon the validity and constitutionality of acts of congress ahn his power is greater than that of alie prisident dent the congress and alie supreme court combined tha law in question appropriated a certain sum to pay the american producers of ugar the bounty on tha crop of 1894 the controversy and facts relating to the passage of the act will be remembered all alie points however had been fully debated and considered by congress and alie appropriation pria tion was tho result of a deliberate conclusion of alie lawmaking law making power arrived at in the light of all the facet and this is the law which mr bowler an accounting officer of the treasury telli us lie proposes to repudiate and nullify the axt question is what shall be done if this and extraordinary condition of affairs is permitted to ebitt it ia certainly an absurd and intolerable situation if a mere subordinate of an executive department can overrule congress and the president perhaps after all Cong jesa needs gome sort of a legal guardian like mr comptroller Camp bowler but if chii bo the case it is important for the legislative welfare of the country that the new executive duties of the comptroller be promptly incorporated in the constitution |