Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 7, Number 7, Decatur, Adams County, 8 January 1909 — Page 4

THE GOVERNOR'S FINAL MESSAGE Eanlfs Closing Recommendations to Legislature. AN IMPORTANT STATE PAPER In Handing Down to the General Assembly "Information Touching the Condition of the State,” Governor Haniy Makes Many Recommendations Concerning Legislation Which He Deems to Be Expedient at the Present Time. Indianapolis, Jan. 8. —In his final message to the General Assembly, Governor Haniy said: Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Senate and House of Representa- . tives '-y Upon your assembling it becomes the duty of the executive to submit to you ‘‘information touching the condition of the state, and to recommend such measures as he shall judge to be expedient.” I n their majorities your respective bodies are not in political accord. This is a condition that not infrequently effectively prevents much desirable legislation. But the greater part of the business that will come before you will not be partisan in character, and should have consideration quite aside from politics. In every such case it becomes the duty of the majority and the minority to rise above differences and meet each other on the higher, broader plane of common citizenship and the public welfare. This I shall sincerely endeavor to do in what I here present. The information submitted is the result of four years of close touch with the Institutions and the affairs of the state and of painstaking effort, and is, I believe, expressed in accurate figures and reliable statements, while the measures recommended are suggested by the experience and observation incident to a full constitutional term in the executive office. Finances. The financial condition of the state is exceptionally good. The revenues lor the fiscal year ending September 30, 190", exclusive of transfer funds •nd including a balance in the treasury October 31, 1906, of $507,654.60, aggregated $4,599,333.58; the expenditures were $3,701,705.97, leaving a balance in the treasury at the close of the fiscal year ending September 30. 1907, of $897,627.61. The revenues lor the fiscal year ending September 30, 1908, exclusive of transfer funds and including the balance in the treasury at the end of the fiscal year 1907. aggregated $5,217,370,85; the expenditures were $4,724,253.85, leaving a balance in the treasury September 30, 1908, of $493,117.00. In this balance there was no advance payment, nor were the revenues for the present year anticipated or impaired. The revenues for the present fiscal year, exclusive of transfer funds and including the balance in the treasury September 30, 1908, will aggregate $4,637,152.00. Appropriations heretofore made for this year and liable to be disbursed aggregate $4,189,121.00, leaving an available balance for specific purposes of $448,031.00. From this balance, however, must be deducted the probable expense of the present session of the General Assembly, $120,000.00, leaving a net balance from the regular revenues of $328,031.00, available for specific purposes for the present fiscal year. The 3 cent sinking fund levy made last year will create a revenue during the present fiscal year, coming into the treasury in June, of $260,000,00, If this fund be transferred to the general fund the net balance available tor specific purposes for the present fiscal year will be $588,031.00. The revenues, based upon present levies and existing valuations, for the fiscal year 1910, exclusive of transfer funds, are conservatively estimated at $3,927,888.00. The regular expenditures for 1911 are estimated •t $2,991,326.00, leaving a balance for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1910, available for specific purposes, of $936,562.00. The 3 cent sinking fund levy made last year, coming into the treasury in December, 1909, •nd during the fiscal year 1910, will produce $240,000.00. If this fund be transferred to the general fund the aggregate sum available for specific purposes for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1910, is conservatively •stimated at $1,176,562.00. The revenues for the fiscal year 1911, exclusive of transfer funds based on present levies and valuations, are estimated at $3,927,888. The regular expenses for the fiscal year 1911 are •stimated at $2,991,326.00, leaving a balance available for specific purposes foi the fiscal year ending September 39, 1911, of $936,562.00. These estimates are believed to be conservative and reliable. The total funds, therefore, available for specific purposes, between now and September 30, .1911, if sinking fund revenue coining into the treasury dur'ng the present calendar year is transferred to the general fund. gregatc $2,701,155. This sum mens-1 ares the limit ot specific appropria- 1 tions for the term indicated it tnel revenues for the fiscal year ending 1

September 30, 1912, are not to b« Impaired. If the sinking fund revenue for the i present calendar year is not transferred to the general fund, the funds available for specific purposes be tween now and September 30. 1911, 1 will aggregate $2,201,155.00, and will. measure the limit of specific appropriations unless the revenues for the! fiscal year ending September 30, 1912, | are anticipated and impaired. On the 31st day of October, 1904,! the close of the fiscal year last preceding the present administration, the treasury balance was $60,601.93, but to obtain this balance advance payments from county treasurers had ■ been called and received, and the revenues for 1905 anticipated in the sum of $154,740.00. But for these advance payments there would have been no treasury balance, but a deficit of $94,138.07. September 30, 1908, after four years of extensive construction of public buildings aggregating $3,362,566.90, this deficit was recouped and an actual balance of $493,117.00 accumulated without calling a single advance payment from any county treasurer or anticipating the revenues of this year a single dollar, and without increasing the total tax levy on account thereof the fraction of a mill. To do this, however, the 3 cent sinking fund levy was transferred to the general fund for the years 1905, 1906 and 1907. This was done without impairing our ability to meet the foreign bonded indebtedness of the state within six months after the privilege to pay accrues, and four years and a half before the debt matures. Under the two preceding administrations a remarkable record was made in the payment of the public debt. Under the first $2,216,000.00, under the second, $3,003,000, an aggregate during the two administrations of $5,224,000.00. During the present administration 1 $407,000.00 have been paid on the principal of the state debt and the ; last dollar of the debt now payable ; cancelled. This leaves a total for- ; eign bonded indebtedness of only ‘ SBOO,OOO, none of which will be payable until January, 1910, and none of which will be due until 1915. This entire 1 debt can be paid within six months from the date the privilege of payment obtains, from the sinking fund 1 which will come into the treasury during the present calendar year and the first half of next year. The institutional needs of the state, however, are so Imperative and our duty to those whose care we have undertaken out of feelings of humanity and for the public good, is so clear and insistent that I am impressed with the belief that an act should be passed by you during the present session transferring the sinking fund to be derived from the 3-cent levy for the 1 year 1908 and coming into the treasury in June and December of the present calendar year, to the general fund that it may become available for specific purposes. If this is done the i sinking fund from the levy of the present year coming into the treasury during the calendar year 1910 will remain ■ intact. This fund will aggregate $5lO,- . 000.00 and will enable the incoming administration to pay $510,000 on the , principal of the state debt within a , year after the same becomes payable, , and within six months thereafter the fund derived from the sinking fund , levy will be sufficient to retire every dollar of *he debt and leave the state absolutely unincumbered, except a nominal sum on account of certain university bonds which are really due to , itself. In my message to the sixty-fifth general assembly I recommended the transfer of the sinking fund levy for , the year 1908 to the general fund, fore- J seeing the present necessity and the general assembly passed a bill for that ' purpose on the eve of adjournment which I was compelled to veto because J of an error in naming the year for 1 which the transfer was made. The transfer of this fund will en- ‘ able us to complete Southeastern Hos- i pital for the Insane and the School for the Deaf, and to make needed improvements and additions at the State ■ Prison, the Reformatory, the Boys’ School, the Girls’ School, the Epileptic ■ Village and the School for Feebleminded Youth, and to provide effectively for the other hospitals for the insane, and begin in a substantial way the institution for the treatment of tuberculosis; also to construct and equip at Purdue University and at the State University additional buildings somewhat commensurate with their present insistent need. The just consideration of obligations Incurred and every dictate of duty assumed demands that these things be done. We are in a position to, and can, if we will, do them all without calling upon posterity to pay any portion of the cost, and we can, at the same time, pay the foreign bonded Indebtedness of the state before the expiration of the first two years of the incoming administration. The transfer of this fund as here i suggested will create a general fund somewhat in excess of the specific appropriations imperatively needed; if ■ so the surplus can be applied to the payment of the state debt as such pay- i ■ ments may be lawfully made from the ’ general fund. These state institutions— education- ' al, benevolent and penal—have been upon my conscience every hour since I took the oath of office as governor of the state, as few other things have I been, and they will continue to be on ' my conscience long after I have left th® office. In this there fs no politics, but there Is in it an appeal to civic pride and

to humanity that cannot well be de- ’ nled by a civilized and Christian peoi pie. I am profoundly impressed with the conviction that in the degree you fail in this, you will fail in your obligation to the people you represent Governor’s Emergency Contingent | Fund. During the fiscal year ending Sep- ! tember 30, 1907, there was expended i from the governor's emergency conttn- ' gent fund the sum of $27,365.34 less $119.82 returned to the treasury, leaving an unexpended balance of $254.48. The expenditures were for the following purposes and in the following ! amounts: Completion and furnishing two new cottages at the Northern Hospital for the 1n5ane56,150.49 Southern Hospital for the Insane 14.01 Maintenance, Boys' school... 2,256.21 Maintenance, Girls’ School... 3,388.87 Maintenance, Women's Prison 6,226.55 Expenses in the case of McCormack vs. State 1,426.65 In the case of Samuel Peters. 11.76 Investigation of Elkhart Insurance Company 12.75 Investigation of State Life Insurance Company 1,917.80 Expense of Tuberculosis Commission 540.15 Expense of Committee investigating Auditor’s office 145.00 Expense incured in the closing es the Dearborn Park Casino, in Lake county, Indiana. 816.57 Expense in French Lick litigation 1-45 Aid to flood sufferers under authorization of special act of the 65th General Assembly. 4,457.08 For the year ending September 30, 1908, there was expended from the Emergency Contingent Fund $26,113.42 less $146.53 returned by committees having in charge the distribution of funds contributed to the flood sufferers, leaving an unexpended balance of $4,033.11. Said expenditures were in the following amounts and for the following purposes, to-wit: Maintenance, Boys School... .$2,743.73 Maintenance, Girls’ School .. 8,944.95 Maintenance, Womens’ Prison 3,539.22 Electric wiring. Soldiers’ Home 2,245.00 Furnishing and equipping two cottages at the Eastern Hospital for the Insane 4,095.84 Expense in the prosecution cf the White Cap cases in the Bartholomew Circuit Court 3,225.50 Expense in the disbarment of George Kurtz 10.89 Expense in Dearborn Park Casino case 355.00 Expense in French Lick litigagation 365.48 Expense in relation to State lands 43.96 Records for State Finance Board 318.00 Expense incurred in Muncie strike riot 8.50 ( Expense incurred in litigation by the State vs. J. O. Henderson 219.35 Governor's Civil and Military Contingent Fund. For the year ending September 30, 1907, there was expended from this fund the sum of $1,606.90, leaving an unexpended balance of $7,559.74. These expenditures were in the following sums and for the following purposes: Expense incurred in prosecution of French Lick litigation.s249.3l Expense in Dearborn Park Casino case * .... 155.00 Expense in the prosecution of the white cap cases in Bartholomew county 402.23 Expense of National Guard account Tell City strike 800.36 For the year ending September 30, 1908, there was expended from the Civil and Military Contingent Fund the sum of $7,251.87, leaving an unexpended balance of $2,768.13 less $20.00 returned to the treasury. These expenditures were made for the following purposes and in the following sum: Expense of National Guard account Tell City strike $ 311.83 Expense of National Guard ac count powder mill explosion at Fontanet, Indiana 1,260.23 Expense of National Guard account Muncie riot 3,119.73 Expense of investigating “Night Rider” depredations in Dearborn, Switzerland and Ohio counties 680.00 Expense account special election in White, Newton, Stark and Jasper counties 21.21 Expense in French Lick litigagation 510.37 Expense in the prosecution of the white cap cases in Bartholomew county 1,007.75 Legal opinion in Vincennes University bond matter.... 200.00 Expense of National Guard on account of Aveline hotel fire at Fort Wayne 140.75 Claim of the One Hundred and SixtyFirst Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry. By an act of the Sixty-fifth General Assembly $11,674,61 was appropriated to remiburse the members of the One Hundred and Sixty-first Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry and of Companies A and B, colored infantry, for i the sum paid for counsel fees out of the allowance made to them by thte j Federal government. Os this sum : there still remains a balance in the treasury of $2,648.82. Os the original sum. $35,023.86, placed in the hands of the governor for distribution, there still remains undistributed, $5,736.04. Both these funds are being distributed , as rapidly as the persons entitled to ’ ‘h- can be found and proof of their claims made. lucre is.no law requiring the gov-

— , ernor to act ss custodian of this fund, but I have distributed it, through the adjutant-general of the state, lu-eo-far as distribution has been made, simply as a matter of good will to the members of these organizations, that tha expense of distribution might be saved them. Their individual claims are small, often but a very few dollars. The balance of this fund, $5,736.04, I shall turn over to the succeeding governor, if he is willing to accept the trust, that the distribution may continue without cost to the claimants. Claim of the 161st Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry. The original fund has been kept in bank since it came into my hands, as a fund to be checked against as distribution was made. Interest thereon has been paid by the bank at the rate of three per cent per annum, amounting in the aggregate to $812.77. The appropriation of $11,674.61 made by the general assembly has made good the whole sum allowed by the general government. Every member of either of the organizations interested has received or will receive the full share of the whole allowance due to him. It has therefore seemed just to me that the interest accruing should be paid into the state treasury to reimburse the state in part for the appropriation so made. The interest does not belong to me. The claims of the members of these organizations are being paid in full through the generosity of the state and the free services of its officers, without cost to them for counsel fee or even of distribution. I have, therefore, paid the interest accruing, $812.77, into the state treasury for the use of the state. State Avenue Street Assessment. The purchase price of that portion of the site of the present school for the deaf sold to the city of Indianapolis during the preceding administration has been fully paid and the property transferred by deed of conveyance to the city <jf Indianapolis. Prior to such transfer said avenue from Washington street to English avenue was improved with a brick roadway and curbing under proceedings begun and had before the Board of Public Works of said city. The property sold to the city abuts upon this improvement and was assessed for its construction in the sum of $2,448.26, which, with interest accrued thereon, now amounts to $2,629.34, As the state still occupies the property and will of necessity continue to occupy it until the new buildings for the school for the deaf are ready for occupancy, and the improvement was constructed and the assessment levied before the deed of conveyance was executed, it is just that the state should pay the assessment. I, therefore, recommend the appropriation of a sum sufficient to pay principal and interest, and that the same be made payable to the American Construction Company, • the contractor constructing the improvement. Claim of John R. Warren. The contract for the construction of the buildings of the Girls’ School was awarded to John R. Warren. Upon the completion of said buildings a claim of more than $12,000.00 for extras was presented by Mr. Warren to the commission having in charge the construction of said work. This claim the commission refused to allow, but it allowed a claim of $3,190.10 as the fair value of the extras which Mr. Warren had furnished under the direction of the board. Only the sum of $481.05 remained of the fund available for the payment of the cost of construction of this institution. A balance, therefore, of $2,709.05 still remains unpaid. The debt is a just one and an appropriation should be made to Mr. Warren, to be immediately available. Grave cf Nancy Hanks Lincoln. Under an act of the Sixty-fifth General Assembly title to a small tract of land containing the grave of Nancy Hanks Lincoln, mother of Abraham Lincoln, has been acquired, a commission appointed and steps taken to beautify the grounds and preserve the grave. The annual appropriation of $500.00 made in this behalf should be con-' ’ tinued. Morton Monument. An act of the Sixty-fourth General Assembly, approved March 25, 1905, authorized the erection of a monument and statue to the memory of Oliver P. Morton, to be located in a conspicuous place on the state house grounds, and appropriated therefor the sum of $35,000. Under this act a commission was appointed, and the plaza at the east entrance of the state house selected as a site. The monument wim erected and the statue placed, and dedicated July 25, 1907. The statue is the work of Mr, Adolph Schwartz of the city of Indianapolis. The whole memorial, monument and statue, was constructed within the appropriation made. Tippecanoe Battlefield Monument Under an act of the Sixty-fifth General Assembly, and an act of the federal congress, authorizing the construction of a monument on the Tippecanoe battlefield, ana appropriating therefor the sum of $12,500 by the state and a like sum by the federal government, a beautiful monument of granite has been erected on that historic field. ’lt was formally dedicated with appropriate and impressive ceremonies November 7, 1908. Official report of the proceedings of the commission having in charge its construction is now in the hands of the public printer and will shortly be laid upon your desks. This monument was also constructed within the appropriation made by the two governments.

i ' Andersonville Monument. The late general assembly by an act approved March 9, 1907. authorized the construction of a monument at Andersonville. Georgia, as a tribute to the soldiers of Indiana who died in Andersonville prison during the civil (war, and appropriated therefor SIO,OOO. On the 26th of November last the memorial was formally dedicated and turned over to the care and custody of the federal government. The commission having its construction in charge was peculiarly fortunate in the selection of both design and material. The appropriation was small, but with it a monument has been provided, the most appropriate and beautiful so far erected at Andersonville. The report of this commission is in preparation, and will be published at an early date. Vicksburg Monuments. An act of the Sixty-fifth genera! assembly, approved March 10, 1907, authorized the construction of monuments to the twenty-eight military organizations from Indiana which participated in the campaign and siege resulting in the capture of Vicksburg July 4, 1863, and markers designating the lines occupied by such organizations at the time of such capture, and appropriating $38,000 therefor. Under this act sixteen monuments and fifty-three markers have been constructed and placed in position. The markers are of granite, and are of substantial size. The monuments are of the same material, beautiful in design and distinctive in appearance. These were dedicated on December 29th. The dedicatory ceremonies were participated in by the governor of Mississippi and many of the people of Vicksburg. The report of the proceedings of the commission is in preparation and will soon be submitted. The reports of the Commissions having in charge the construction of monuments at Chickamauga and at Shiloh were published in somewhat extensive form, and it is desirable that the report of these Commissions be published in like form, giving a brief history of each Indiana organization participating in the campaign. It is estimated that the publication of such report will cost $3,000. The appropriation of this sum is recommended. State Memorial at Vicksburg. In many respects the Vicksburg campaign was the most important campaign of the Civil War. This fact is widely recognized, and many states in adidtion to regimental monuments and markers have and are appropriating substantial sums for the construction of state memorials. Pennsylvania has constructed a state mem-

sjnauia llcib wiioiiuvicu ci state mvutorial costing $15,000, New York $12,500, Minnesota $23,000, Mississippi $50,000, Illinois $200,000, and Wisconsin has recently appropriated SIOO,000. A beautiful and impresive memorial can be constructed and dedicated for $50,000. A site therefor, centrally located and of commanding position, has been reserved by the national commission, and I certainly recommend that an appropriation of such sum be made by you. But three other states had more organizations in the siege of Vicksburg or in the campaign preceding it than Indiana. Her troops bore the brunt of the most hotly contested battle of the campaign and she should not be behind in the expression of her appreciation and gratitude. General Pleasant A. Hackelman. General Pleasant A. Hackleman was killed in the battle of Corinth, Mississippi, October 3rd, 1862. He was the only general officer from Indiana to fall in battle during the Civil War. His services to the state and the nation ought to be perpetuated. His last message, "I am dying, but I am dying for my country,” ought to

be remembered by our people. I recommend an appropriation of $35,000 for the construction of a monument and statute to his memory, to be located in University Park in the city of Indianapolis, under the direction of a commission to be created and appointed for that purpose. Private Bank Legislation A step in the direction of state supervision and inspection of private banks was taken by the sixty-fourth general assembly, The law as then enacted was crude and ineffective. It was valuable only as a beginning. But the legislation had during the session of the sixty-fourth general assembly was of more value. The result of its operation has been to lessen somewhat the number of private banks in the state and to increase the number of state banks. The number of private banks in the state September 30, 1907, was 213, on September 30, 1908, 188, a deorease of 25. The number of state banks in the state September 30, 1907, was 255; the number September 30, 1908, 256, an Increase of*2l. During the fiscal year 1908 there was no state bank failure within the State. During the same time there were seven private banks failures. One of these failed before the operation of the private banking act providing for examinations became effective. The other six were closed by the order of the auditor of state shortly after the private banking act went into effect, upon examination made under its provisions showing the banks to be insolvent. Depository Law. The act of the late general assembly providing depositories for public funds has now been in operation one year. In that time it has vindicated In the most remarkable manner the claims made for it by its friends at the time, of its enactment The interest collected on the gen-

.J „ JB , SetD "’"LTi. » “ tember 30, 19-- department administer the t cri fig 80238 tr administer the Ex “ d tiS X * tro °^ C wn the interest to the state cos* of administering and “SriSr **<■' o ** r * tk 7 in the several counties of the state is little less satisfactory than in the S. Th. of the ninety-two counties of the state aggregate $273,250.00. Reports from X-fix of the ninety-two counties indicate that the intereß ‘ the several counties will aggregat SBO4 934.00, a sum only $68,316.00 less than the aggregate salaries of tne treasurers of all the co “ ntleß . . Actual data from the sixty-»U counties reporting, discloses the fact that in the counties of Whitley. Lake, Randolph, Morgan, Carroll, Lawrence, Warren, Decatur. Hamilton, Jay. Clay, Fulton. Sullivan. Adams. Bartholomew, Posey, Starke, Wells and Jasper, the interest accruing to the county more than equalled the salary of the treasurer. The salaries of the treasurers of these eighteen counties aggregate $47,450.00, the interest collected $59,895.92, an excess of interest In the eighteen counties over treasurers’ salaires of $12,445.92. Renorts indicate that interest ac-

neporis iuuiL-Miu — cruing to the several towns and cities of the state, civil and school, and to the several townships, civil and school, will equal, it not exceed, the interest accruing to the counties, making a total saving to the people of the state of more than $440,000.00. In the county of Marion interest on the county fund aggregated $11,817.11, while the total interest collected by the county for the school city of Indianapolis and from other sources, exclusive of townships, equals $17,352.37, a total collection of $29,169.50. The financial gain indicated by these figures is not, however, the' most valuable result of the operation • of this law. It has ended speculation in public funds, secured their honest and safe administration, and saved weak and inefficient custodians of such funds from embezzlement and dishonor. The principle embodied in the law should be preserved. Experience may have indicated here and there defects in it of minor character, but these do not seriously affect its value. If amendatory legislation is had the

autmuaiut y itgicauvu io uau tuu greatest care should be exercised to preserve unimpaired every vital feature of the law. The provision of the law requiring daily settlements on the part ot all administrative officers of the state handling public funds, is no less valuable. Its effects has been to revolutionize the administration of these offices, in so far as the same relates ; to public moneys, and in connection, with the work of the executive ac-1 countant, to minimize the hazard of their misappropriation or loss. State Institutions. The state institutions, taken as a whole, have been most efficiently ad- - ministered. They have been kept out I of politics absolutely. Character, 1 ability and fitness alone have deter-■ mined every apointnient made either by the executive, by the several boards, or by the several superintendents. In the four years no recommendation has gone from the executive to the members of any board or to the superintendent of any institution for the appointment of any person. The executive has selected the boards and has charged them with

the responsibility of selecting the superintendents and of supervising their respective institutions, and the superintendents have been left free to select their own subordinates. I Responsibility for the several boards’ has devolved upon the executive, for the superintendent upon the boards, and for the immediate administration of the institutions upon the superintendents. Few changes in the superintendents have occurred during the administration. The State Prison, I the Reformatory, the Women's Prison, the Boys' School, the School for Feeble-Minded Youth, the School for the Deaf, the School for ths Blind, the Eastern Hospital for the Insane, the Southern Hospital for the Insane, the Central Hospital for the Insane and the Soldiers’ Home have today the same superintendents they had at the beginning of the administration. The selection of the new superintendent for the Girts’ School was due to the separation of that institution from the Women’s Prison; while the change of superintendents at the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Orphans’ Home and at the Northern Hospital for the Insane was due to the death of the respective superintendents of those institutions. Both Dr. Rogers and Colonel Graham died within the year. Both were long in the service of the State and each had served it with credit and distinction. Their deaths were distinct losses to the comomnwealth. The highest compliment the present administration can pay to the three preceding administrations has been the fact that the superintendents of the several institutions appointed by them, have been retained in their respective positions, except in case of removal by death, throughout the life of the present administration because of exceptional worth and ’sunerlor ability. °' the late general “Bernbly ? 016 eovernme nt and administration of the penal, correctional

•nd benevolent Institutions of the state and providing for bi-partlu, boards of trustees has confirmed H established their non-partisan admia. M istratton. The present system I believe to be the best found in any O s the many states which I have visits •nd whose institutions I have fa. spected. It ought not to be departed from. The funds appropriated forth, maintenance of the Boys’ School, the Girls’ School and the Women's Prison have been greatly Inadequate for each of the past two fiscal years. For th* year ending September 30, 1907. I W£J compelled to pay out of the governer's emergency contingent fund for the maintenance of the Boys' School $2,250.21, for the maintenance of the Girls' School $3,388.87, and for the maintenance of teh Women's Prison $6,226.55, an aggregate expenditure out of this fund for maintenance of these three institutions of $11,87L6X For the year ending September 30, 1908, I was compelled to pay out ot tlhs fund an account of maintenance of the Boys’ School $2,743.73, for the Girls’ School $8,944.95 and for the Women’s Prison $3,539.22, an expenditure from this fund for the mainten ance of these three institutions aggregating $15,227.90. In addition to this appropriations were made at the special session of the general assembly in September on account of the I maintenance of these same institutions, as follows: Boys’ School $7,000.00, Girls’ School $8,000.00 and Women's Prison $1,000.00, an aggregate of $16,000.00.

The deficit in the maintenance fund of the Girls’ School for the last fiscal year was, therefore, $16,944.95, in the maintenance fund of the Boys' School $9,743.73 and In the maintenance fund 3 of the Women’s Prison $4,539.22, an aggregate deficit in the maintenance I fund of the three institutions of $31,227.90. It is the imperative duty ot the state to provide a sufficient maintenance fund for institutions. Ap propriations made therefor should not be so deficient in amount as to compel the governor to invade the emergency contingent fund for the purpose ot their maintenance. The governor 7 ! emergency contingent fund should be kept intact to meet such emergencies as may be occasioned to the buildings and equipment of the state institutions by fire or other accident, and for other emergency demands that may be made thereon. It is earnestly insisted that you make sufficient provision to feed the wards of the state for the next two fiscal years. Respect for the Law.

For four years there has been unbroken peace in Indiana. The National Guard, except in camps of instruction, upon civic occasions, or in case of fire, explosion or accident, has been under arms but twice, and was then used as prevention rather than as cure. In four years no shot has been fired by any member of the guard, in anger, or to preserve the peace or | maintain order. Crime has decreased. This is especially true of homicide and of all other crimes involving physical violence. Respect for the law has deepened and 1 sentiment for its enforcement in i creased. Legislation, however, ought to be en--1 acted giving the governor of the state ‘ greater authority and providing him better machinery for the enforcement of the law than he now has. Under the constitution he is charged with the faithful enforcement of’the law, but under the law he cannot act effectively ~ except through local officials. He has no authority to direct the action of any county sheriff or prosecuting attorney i in any case. It is as unjust as it is . idle to charge the executive with the

enforcement of the law, and then leave him without effective means to discharge the duty imposed upon him. . Conclusion. I close this message—probably my last official utterance —with malice toward no man. There are no foes that I desire to punish. I go out of office with an intensified love of the commonwealth and of its people. I have sought to serve them in all things ■ unselfishly and courageously. Their welfare has been my chief concern The recommendations I have mads from time to time to successive get* eral assemblies, I have believed to b< In tueir interests. The battles I havs waged, I have fought for them. I have made war on men only when they were inseparably Involved with public questions. The mistakes I have made, and there may be many, I have made with sincere purpose and In the white heat of zeal for what I conceived to be in the interests of the people. , The chapter is about finished. I wil. close It soon altogether and submit it to the impartial judgment of my countrymen, conscious that in the end their vision will be clear and their judgment true. In most part I would not rewrite nor change it if I could. l am content to let it stand. New Charges Filed. Jackson, Mich., .Tan, 8. —State Bank' Ing Commissioner Zimmerman hat filed a new complaint against Cashier William H. Burletson of the failed Parma (Mich.) bank, containing charges of making false statements w reports to the banking commissionet and five charges of making false en tries on the bank books. The originscomplaint charged only false entries on the books. Burletson is still » Jail here, unable to secure JB.OOO bail The sorrow of yesterday is as nothing, that of today is bearable, but that of tomorrow is gigantic because in* ' distinct—Euripides.