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Show riiif- h x vittfi IfiilirtLu Duty Should Be Taken From Governors of States Syracuse, N. Y., Jan. "13. Former Governor Horace White believes the right of executive clemency In the various states of the union should vest with tribunals especially equipped, not with the governors. In reviewing his record of pardons, he says in a statement over his signature: signa-ture: "In my opinion, our governors should be relieved from the arduous duty of Investigating, considering and deciding applications for paidons, commutations, reprieves and restorations restora-tions to citizenship. The work and responsibility should be vested in tribunals tri-bunals especially equipped by training train-ing and fitness to undertake this Important Im-portant and laborious work. "It Is physically impossible for ary governor to perform his other constitutional con-stitutional and statutory duties, hae opportunity for study and reflection on great public duties and at the I same time give application to this j line of work. The interests of a state require thorough scrutiny of, and jir J diclal action on. these application. Each year the need becomes more apparent from a moral, economical and sociological point of view " During his brief t?rm as governor only a month Mr. "White sas that out of S00 applications for pardons, he found not one which seemed to justify itself and that accordingly he issued no pardons and no reprieves. . rr |