| Show the question of the expenditure of public moneys in the event of the passage of an appropriation bill at an extra session of the legis legislature lature has been sprung by the little party of ob there need be no dubiety on that point the de facto auditor and treasurer have the undoubted right to act while they retain possession of their offices they have faithfully performed their duties while they have been entrusted with the handling of the territorial finances and aad there is nothing to hinder their doing so the suit against them is still undecided the bogus appointees have merely gained one step in their advance to grasp the offices which the I 1 people do not want them to obtain they are not in inayet yet the de facto officers are in and the flimsy objection to their old bonds bonds is removed for the they are under new bonds against which whick no objection cabbe raised but in either event they are fully competent until the dispute is finally settled and they have turned over their offices to their successors to handle the moneys belonging to the people who elected them and who as ia a matter of right ought to decide as to the disbursement of their own finances anything that seeks to deprive them of this power whether it be in the form of a congressional statute an executive edict or a judicial ruling is opposed to democratic principles is usurpation and oppression and is in violation of the spirit of those institutions which every patriot should struggle to maintain in their primitive integrity |
