Show THE OP OF THE GOVERNORS DURING the celebration of the constitutions tut ions centennial tennial teD at philadelphia last week the governors of all the st states ates who we r present met at the pennsylvania executives headquarters and arranged plans for the erection erection of a monument mona elt commemorative cem of the event of adoption id td option this seems to be a most fitting movement for while that oc occasion cAslon will always have a pi place ace within the book and volume of every americans brain it is proper that a reminder to the world ige be erected of enduring stone and imperishable brass in the prosecution of this work all the governors are expected to take part bartall par tall all but those of the territories we suppose su ose aner domain lying outside t the ap e united states politically and the patriotism of their respective peoples being restricted to raising revenue and talk at the meeting another useful suggestion made by Kentuck ys governor buckner was adopted and a committee appointed to carry it out this was a plan to bring all ae the state executives together every year at a stated time for the purpose burno e of interchange of views and social socia intercourse nothing ot more strictly in the line of federal feda 1 government was ever evar developed than this at present the governors are almost strangers to each other they know one another officially fici ally they have to do this because the general law of the land res ithem to recognize official communications from the heads of otner commonwealths mon mun wealth and in this respect the territories cut cat a figure for a very wonder but that thai kind of intimacy is as cold as some kinds of charity chanty and it Is not nol in kt k with the supposedly sociable and neighborly character of our political genius by all means let the governors assemble annually there be a law enacted by congress making such a proceeding proc eeling if not compulsory at least diree directory twy and the expenses ot of their excell enties going coming and while on duty should oe be paid either out of the national treasury or by a national f fund and created tor for that express purpose and let the people who are sill sail languishing languis ning under what is left of the old colonial system have a representation sen tation and thus make this thia a more democratic jattie ring than congress is the good results that would w 0 flow from it would justify all tae and expense by providing for a gathering agin in which not statutory enactments but something better a good understanding all round and a feeling of ione one for far all and all tor for one would be developed and cultivated I 1 it is all the more gratifying that tas important and timely suggestion shau should d come from the long but no long iong er glo downtrodden wn trodden south gen buckner its author held gen grant giant at bay at fort donelson till crushed by superior power and resources and he it was that grasped the dying chieftains hand in sincere friendship had and after death bore his remains to the tomb |