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Show TWO RUMORS. The Herald of this morning says there is a rumor in circulation to the effect that the Governor will not sign any bills that the Legislature may pass unless the Legislature Leg-islature will pass such bills as the Governor Gover-nor desires. That is one' rumor. An-ptherrumor An-ptherrumor is that if the Governor will hot approve the bills passed by the Legislature, Leg-islature, the Legislature will refuse to pass any appropriation bill. Whether there is any truth in either of these rumors ru-mors we do not know. If the rumors ru-mors are well founded, they do not reflect any credit "on the Governor Gov-ernor or the Legislature. It must be taken for granted that the Executive and the Legislature of the Territory are not mere lads quarrelling over their play.- If the Legislature pass just and needed laws, the Governor should approve them although the Legislature may refuse to pass other just and needed laws. If the Governor refuses to approve certain just and proper laws, that is no reason why the Legislature should refuse to make appropriations ap-propriations to carry on the government of the Territory. Men may differ as to the policy or impolicy of enacting certain cer-tain laws, but this difference should, not extend to laws upon which .they arc agreed, and they cannot plead that a refusal re-fusal to do or not to do a thing is a justification justi-fication for refusing to do a tiling both parties agree upon. These two rumors of which we speak should be looked upon as mere rumors until something more definite is known concerning them, and we have merely discussed them by way of illustration.. Rumors are not always well-founded, and until they are pretty definitely traced to a correct source, should be held to be idle. |