Daily Wabash Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 6 January 1883 — Page 1

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Weekly Established in 1811.

WASHINGTON.

The Senate Takes up tlie Presidential Succession Bill.

The House Debates on tbe Price of Gas for the District of Colombia.

A Bulletin of the Social Engagements of General Grant at the Capital.

It Will Take $00,000,000 to Completely Improve the Mississippi.

XLYII. CONGRESS.

SENATE.

WASHINGTON. Jan. 5.—Senato,r Van AVyck in presenting petitions. f0r the passage of the bill to give increaed pensions to one-armed and. one-legged soldiers said the comrajttee on pensions would probably reach a conclusion on the subject a,i a meeting Tuesday next and wou'id report immediately thereafter.

Senator Plat^ gaid he hoped the committee wou'.u be ready to report after its next, meeting, but he was not so confident of it as the Senator from NiDraska seemed to be.

Senator Ingalls presented a petition ior the admission of Dakota as a state and remarked that in his opinion the opposition to seek admission was wholly partisan and malignant.

Senator Vest denied that the opposition was of the character stated by Senator Ingalls, and asserted that it was made by Republicans as well as the Democrats, and was based upon •unanswerable facts.

Senator Garland charged that the first objection on the floor to the admission of Dakota came from Senator Hale, of Maine, on account of the manner in which the county of Yankton had dealt with its creditors.

Senator Hale said he had objected to the admission of Dakota on the ground stated by Senator Garland because the repudiation of Yankton, county had been sanctioned by territorial legislature, arid he thought it neither fit nor fair that his action should be characterized as it had been by Senator Ingalls.

Senator Vest, from the committee on territories, submitted a report in relation to Yellow Stone park and said he would call it at an early day.

At 2 o'clock the presidential succession bill came up as unfinished business.

HOUSE.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 5.—Mr. Ford, of Missouri, rising to a question of privilege, characterized as unqualifiedly lalse a dispatch to the St. LouisGlobeJDemocmt, speaking of him as a "crank" and charging him with obstructing public business.

Mr. Randall said he was unavoidably absent from the house yesterday. Had he been present lie would have voted for the passage of the civil service bill.

Mr. Singleton, of Illinois, did not hear his name called, lie would have voted against the bill.

The house then, in committee of the whole, took up the District of Columbia appropriation

bill.

It appropriates

§3,443,849, being !?81,G4o less than the estimate. During the discussion relative to the appropriation for the District of Columbia, Mr. Ivlotz, of Pennsylvania, charged that the Washington Gas .Light Company controlled congress, and that the company had a man in the employ of the house who kept them informed of the introduction of measures affecting gas interests.

Mr. Iliscock said if

(Ivlotz) made

the charge against any member of the house he would bring in a resolution of inquiry.

Gen. Grant's Social Engagements. WASHINGTON, Jan. 5.—Gen. Grant will dine with Senator Miller, of California, Monday, the secretary of state Tuesday and the president Wednesday. The Chinese minister visited him to-dav.

National Notes.

WASHINGTON, January 5.—Senator Harrison remains in New Y6rk with Mrs. Harrison, who has been under treatment of physicians there for some time. It is reported here to-day that her condition is growing somewhat precarious.

The president to-day nominated Gustavus Go ward, of Illinois, to be secretary of the legation of the United States to Japan also, Hughes Stirling to lie postmaster at Wheeling, West Virginia.

The treasury cattle commission estimate the sum of two millions will be required to stamp out the lung plague among the animals of this country., and recommend the required legislation.

The ways and means committee today are at work on the free list of the tariff commission report. They struck out the quinine and fixed the duty on preparations thereof at 10 per cent, ad valorem.

The Crop of Loss.

CHICAGO, Jan. o.—A Eau Claire, Wisconsin, special says that the news from tho pineries is decidedly favorable, the severe cold weather having hardened the roads and given exit to the logs. The crop is likely to be larger than heretofore expected.

Embezzled to $4,000 Trust Funds MILWAUKEE, a!. 5.—M. F. Kalmbach, a prominent lcrchant of Greenburg, was arrested on the charge of Sprague Warner & Co., of Chicago, that lie embezzled $4,000 of funds entrusted to him in the commission business.

Why Most "Was Unsuccessful. MILWAUKEE, Jan. 5.—Herr Most'sefforts here are not successful, most of the former Socialists being now property owners.

Buried In a Land Slide. PITTSBUKG, 1'a., .Ian. 3.—The wife and two children of Thomas Johnson, living in Westmoreland county, at the foot of the mountains, were buried and suffocated by a land slide, on Wednesday*.

Uodueing Puddlers* Pay. POTTS:-WS, PH., Jan. •"—The Potsttown Iron ciKiipjiny notified the piuhllers of reduction tcoin to pov ton .liinuiiry l"th.

uaol nonus {ia.-euiua*u on me pave^^whichwere echoed by the peoUpon the railing of

POLK'S PICKINGS.

Tl»e State Treasurer of Tennessee a Defaulter to the Amount of #100,000. NASHVILLE, Tenn., Jan. 5.—The announcementfrom the state capital this morning of the deficit in the state treasury, produced a genuine sensation throughout the city.

The following is the report of the legislative committee: -'The joint select committee to settle with the comptroller and treasurer, report that they have visited the office of the treasurer, and upon inquiry, find the treasurer away from the capital, and has been for two days, and they are not advised when he will return. His clerk states that he cannot go into the settlement of the treasurer's account until his return. They also have in formation from the bondsmen, or some of them, that the condition of the treasury is such that they feel justified to recommend that the working of the treasury be stopped until an examination can be had."

The senate adopted the following joint resolution: Whereas, The senate has reason to believe that M. T. Polk, the present treasurer, is a defaulter for about$400,000 and

Whereas, The bond given by said officer is not sufficient in amount to secure said deficit therefore, be it resolved, by the senate and house of representatives, that the attorney general of the state be, and is hereby instructed to attach instanter all available assets belonging to said M. T. Polk, provided that sufficient grounds exist to the end that the same may be held for the satisfaction of said deficit.

NASHVILLE,Tenn., Jan. 5.—The state treasurer's official bond fee was for $100,000. His bondsmen are Wm. M. and A. B. Duncan, of Navell, Duncan & Co., brokers Max Sax, cashier of the Nashville Savings Bank, Wm. Morrow, former state treasurer, Will Polk and J. E. Carpenter, all of Nashville, and A. S. Horsley, of Columbia.

At the last extra session of the legislature a bill was introduced to increase the bond of the state treasurer, but the bill was stolen from the desk of the clerk of the senate the night before the bill was to come up for final passage. The amount of the deficit in the tieasury can n6t be accurately ascertained until a thorough investigation. One of the bondsmen, who has been examining the accounts, says they show thus far a deficit of $380,000. The same bondsman says the treasurer's books and account at one of the banks show a discrepancy of over $30,000. Just before Christmas he drew out of the bank of Pulaski $5,000. The state funds were distributed in various banks at Nashville, Ivnoxville and Memphis. The missing funds are supposed'to have been lost in speculation or loaned to personal friends engaged in speculation in bonds and stocks.

Treasurer Polk left Nashville on Wednesday. He was last heard of at Milan, Tenn., from which point lie wrote back that he would return Sunday. His family here do not know of his whereabouts. Treasurer Polk is is 51 years old, a graduate of West Point, and served four years on the frontier. He was captain of artillery in the confederate army in Cheatam division and lost a leg at the battle of Shiloh. He afterwards served on the staff of Gen. Leonidas Polk, to whom he was related. After the war he resided on a farm near Bolivar, Tenn., until elected treasurer six years ago. He was a nephew of the late President Polk. He has a large family and occupied a high social position in this citv and state.

Miners' Wages.

CLEVELAND, Jan. 5.—A Massillon special to tho Leader reports that a committee of coal operators and miners of Tuscarwas Valley met to-day and discussed the situation without result, 'the miners were instructed to resist the reduction, and the operators were directed to report at a meeting to be held here on 6tli inst., so no compromise could.be effected.

Will Resist Raise on Beer. CHICAGO, Jan 5.—The Saloon Keepers' Association to-day concluded to resist the tire per cent, increase in the price of beer, as determined upon by the brewers. If the latter will not submit, the Association will import beer from Cincinnati, where the old prices prevail.

Oil in Michigan.

POUT HURON*, Mich., Jan. 5.—A good vein of oil has been struck itSarnia township, at ."jtw feet. A company will torpedo the well.

PERSONAL.

The Rev. F. S. Dunham returned from Chicago last night. Tom Collins, the Toledo grain man, is in the city, prospecting.

Miss Nellie Sibley is attending the Sisters' school at Vincennes. T. S. Moore, of Moore & Langen, was in Paris yesterday, on business.

John V. Calvert, son of officer Cat vert, is seriously sick with typhoid fever.

Wm. Schaal is quite sick, and has been confined to the house for nearly a week.

Ed. C. Lawrence has been confined to the house for a week past with an injured foot.

Jas. A. Dodson left last night for Chicago, where he will probably locate permanently.

Mayor Lyne returned yesterday from Indianapolis, where he attended the mayors' convention.

Clinton Herald: Mrs. Howard, of Terre Haute, was the guest of Mrs. Jane Hager, of this city, on Monday, this week.

Miss Eose Shuev, of West field, 111., who has been visiting Miss Kate Hughes in this city, returned home yesterday.

Bloomfield Democart: Miss Katie Reeves, of Terre Haute, has been spending the holidays with Harry Darnell and lady.

Clinton Herald: Miss Fanny Reed, of Terre Haute, was in the city a few days this week, the guest of Mattie and Ida Casey.

Clinton Herald: Miss Clara Hupp, after a pleasant visit with her brother Mounee, of Terre Haute, returned home last Monday.

Mrs. Morridge, of New York City, who has been visiting Mrs. R. L. Ball left for home yesterday. Mrs. Ball accompanied her as far as Indianapolis.

Clinton Herald: Lydia Little, of Terre Haute, spent a few days with her Clinton friends last week while here she was the guest of Mrs. Marv Crabb

A letter received from C. M. Carter, now at San Antonio, Texas, reports

armed with a rawhide, in search of the young lady. !*he went .to the room where the offender was employed and maita or* otiiimnt ndcoiilt ttor V»lif

the health of his wife as greatly improved. They will remain there until spring.

Representatives Kester and Schloss come over from Indianapolis last night, and will remain until Monday, in order to recover from their brief legislative experience.

Officer Ah. Buckingham's injuries received in jumping from the patrol wagon, early yesterday morning, while not as serious as first feared, still con fine him to the house.

By a mistake* in the types the marriage license of James Herring and Florence Law, published in yesterday's paper, the lady's name was made to read Florence Larr.

Indianapolis Times: Ex-Senator Newton Booth, of California, and Lyman Booth, Esq., of Paris, 111., artf in the citv called by the serious illness of their mother, who is visiting her daughter, Mrs. John S. Tarkington.

Paris Beacon: Frank Ilurty, of St. Paul, Minn., after making his parents and friends, here and Indianapolis, short visit, left for his home again Frank is highly pleased with the state of Minnesota and Dakota in which he travels.

Wm. P. Birch, formerly of this city, but now teaching school at Mt. Ida, Arkansas, has contributed a story to the Firemen's Magazine under the nom de plume of "Malcolm Meredith." The storv— said to possess unusual merit—is entitled "Harry Essler's Inheritance," and will be published in the March number of the magazine.

FATAL FOLLY!

George Burgett, an Employe at Kidder Bros.' Main Street Mill, Underestimates

The Strength of a Pine Stick, and Loses His Life Thereby.

George Burgett, floor foreman at Kidder Bros.' flouring mill, at the foot of Main street, was crushed between two cars on the switch near the mill, shortly after five o'clock last evening, and died in less than lutlf an hour from internal hemorrhage produced by'his injuries.

Burgett, with several of \the employes under him was engaged in shoving some cars from the scales down on to a side track. One of the cars was partly loaded, and some trouble,was had in pushing it over the wagon crossing. It was suggested that an empty car be pushed down the track leading to the switch and used to bump the forward car Over the crossing. The empty was pushed down a short distance for this purpose. Burgett, fearing that some injury might be done the cars by coming in -contact with such force, procured two pieces of light pine board, about six feet in lenght, and placed them against the end of the loaded car to protect it from injury. He gave the signal to ttie men to go ahead, and the empty car was started witn a smart speed. It struck the boards with considerable force, breaking them, and Burgett's body was caught between the bumpers. The force of the collision pushed the loaded car forward,a, little, and he dropped to the ground. Arlando Lewis, one of the laborers, ran to his aid, and he was carried to the mill office, and Drs. G. W. and John Crapo summoned. He was conscious when carried in, but soon became insensible, in which condition the physicians found him. An examination showed no external wounds, but he was beyond medical aid, and died at about a quarter before six o'clock.

Coroner Drought was summoned and lteld an inquest over the body. Jerry Cronin, Arlando Lewis and George Tormehlon, laborers at the mill, and Philadelphia Oldham, a boy, were the only witnesses of the sad affair, and the substance of tlieir testimony was as given above. A verdict of accidental death was returned. The body was turned over to Undertaker Ball for removal to Burgett's boarding place, at Mrs. Wolf's, at Third and Swan streets.

Burgett had been employed at the mill for over seven years, and was an industrious, sober workman. He is highly spoken of by his emplovers. For three years past ho lias acted as floor floorman, and was popular with the men under him. He was unmarried and had no relatives living in this city. A brother and a married sister live at Clay City. An especially sad feature of the unfortunate atTa'ir is that Burgett was soon to be married to a most estimable young lady of this city.

A strange fatality appears to attend the locality in which this accident occurred. Two boys have been killed in the machinery at the mill, and yesterday's death adds another to the fatal list—all brought about by the imprudence or carelessness of the parties losing their lives.

AMUSEMENTS.

Edgewood Folks.

Sol Smith Russell, one of the finest comedians on the stage, will appear at the Opera house to-night in his succe ssfnl comedy, "Edgewood Folks," of which the Philadelphia Times says: "Mr. Sol Smith Russell's work in his new play, 'Edgewood Folks,' has received most emphatic marks of popular approval. Mr. Russell has got hold of a comedy thoroughly American in subject and treatment and abounding in well-drawn characters, interesting incidents and entertaining, if not brilliant, dialogue. His own part, that of Tom Dilloway, is admirably adapted for the display of his unusual talents, and is nightly provocative of shouts of laughter.""but contrary to the rule in regard to plays made to order, the leading character is not all there is in the piece. There ai-e three or four characters equally well defined, and each contributing its share to the action of the play and the pleasure of the audience."

The Atlantic Theatre.

The amateur's night at the Atlantic theatre drew a good audience last evening, and an excellent entertainment was given. The amateurs appearing were John Gerome, Jas. Delanev, Billy Link, Geo. W. Rea and W. M." Iloyt, and their specialties were well received.

The Savings Bank.

As stated in the Express the savings bank people will, next week, move into their new quarters in the elegant new building at Sixth and Ohio streets. The Gazette of last evening, in speaking of the removal, pays the following merited compliment to the management of the bank:

Too much cannot be said in praise

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a new turn last night. A package of twere burned. No one killed. affidavits was received from Colorado refuting the recent attacks on Senator

of the management of this institution by which the trustees have been enabled to gather together from small savings a sum approximating the capital of the largest bank in this city."

Besides paying out to the depositors during their existence. $93,461.54in dividends, which is so much added wealth to the city, they have in addition set aside a sinking fund out of the earnings required by law sufficient to build for themselves a good and substantial banking house which will afford sufficient accommodations for their business for all future time, and thereby add to their revenues from the rents of the building not occupied by the bank proper. It is truly a philanthropic work that will gather in the small sums that would in a great measure be lost or squandered, and convert the same into a fund that iS loaned out to a large extent to those who are building homes upon property that has been purchasedfronw the small deposits in the Savings bank. Not alone is this class benefited but the farmers of this county have found' it greatly to their advantage to find a supply of capital at home to tide them over a season of bad crops instead of applying to foreign institutions and at greater expense and inconvenience. In fact it is doubly beneficial, providing funds on long time that can not be obtained from commercial banks, and also encouraging the old and young to lay up for "a rainy day."

C. E. Jennings, traveling passenger agent of the St. Louis & San Francisco, was in the city yesterday. He reports the opening of the St. Louis & San Francisco company's line (Arkansas division) for business to Fort Smith, Sebastian county, Ark., six miles south of Van Buren, Ark.

The United States circuit court appointed Charles Howard, of Boston, Massachusetts, receiver of the Danville, Olney and Ohio River railroad to succeed James A. Eads, resigned, fixing his bond at $25,000, the court reserving the right to increase the amount at pleasure.

The putting on of a new Sunday train both ways over the Cincinnati, Indianapolis, St. Louis & Chicago road gives passengers from the west over the Vandalia and Indianapolis & St. Louis a train to go through to Cincinnati. Heretofore, passengers arriving at Indianapolis Sunday afternoon, were obliged to lay over for a Cincinnati train until Monday at 4:20a. m.

Slippery Sidewalks.

W. C. McCoy, night watchman in the E. & T. II. yards, is off duty, as result of a sprained ankle, caused by slipping on the icy pavement.

A lady living on north First street, and whose name was not learned, slipped and fell, last evening, spraining her arm. Dr. G. W. Crapo dressed the member.

Mrs. Chas. IT. Jones, of the Merry Wtr party, while returning from rehearsal at the operahouse last evening, fell on the sidewalk in front of the Fiibeck house, and for a time it was feared she had broken an arm. This was not the case, liowe#r, and she was able to take part in the evening's performance.

Type Setting Contests. In a type-setting contest in this office, last night, between Will J. Col lins and J. M. Johnston, of five hours, on solid nonpareil, Mr. Collins set 8,125 and Mr. Johnston 8,250. The matter was run in solid, without paragraphs.—[Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.

That is nothing. On some of the Terre Haute papers as much as ten thousand has been "sawed off" in five minutes.

Festival of tlic Epiphany. To-day is tho church festival of the Epiphany, or the manifestation of Christ to the Gentiles. With last night ended the festivities of Christmas, which are prolonged to "Twelfth Night." There will be divine service at St. Stephen's church this morning,, commencing at ten o'clock.

High School Gymnasium. The members of the Gymnasium So ciety of the High School elected the following officers last evening:

President—W. Davis. Hocretary—T. A. Parker. Treasurer—W. W. layers. Committee ou apparatusJohn Mack, II. Holland.

TERRE HAUTE, INDIANA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 6, 1883.

RAILROAD EVENTS.

News all Along tbe Skirmish Line, and by Associated Press.

J. R. Kendall and N. K. Elliott were in Logansport yesterday. O. S. Lyford, superintendent of the C. & E. I., was in the city yesterday.

Jas. K. Zollinger of the Louisville, New Albany & Chicago, was in the city yesterday.

Clias. Pindar, of the T. H. & L., is taking a two days' vacation, and will spend Sunday in Lafayette.

Miss Nellie Thomas, of the C. & E. I. office, went up to Hoopeston, yesterday, to remain over Sunday with H. L. Bushnell's family.

The Buffalo, Pittsburg & Western people have decided to have only two classes of locomotives on their roadheavy passenger and ten-wheeler freight engines.

G. H. I'rescott, superintendent of motive power of the Vandalia, has issued a circular to train employes, de-' scribing the workings of the Westinghouse automatic air brake.

The Pullman car on the south-bound E. & T. H. passenger, yesterday morning, jumped the track in the yards and was considerably scratched up by scraping the side of a box car.

The Illinois Central line from Chicago, bv way of Gilman, to Springfield, Illinois, is to be extended to a connection with the I. & St. L. at Litchfield, which, with the latter road, will make a line to St. Louis.

John C. J. Clyne, the Vandalia watchman at Fifth street, asks a correction of the statement that the accident on New Year's day happened at his crossing. The man was struck by the train at Fourth street.

special train carrying the Bee line magnates, headed by General Manager Thomas, will leave Cleveland next Tuesday for an inspection trip of the Bee line and I. & St. L. They will decide upon the improvements to be made along the line during the coming year.

tand

-AV.S. Dunbar,

Stranger Than Fiction. An incident almost beyond belief oc curred yesterday. An umbrella was left in .John Taylor's barber shop New Year's and was found right where it had been left by the owner.

,Tins irnrmrper8un3 iTn ne crmeregatron'

"Kclwin Booth Abroad.

THE TERRE 5 HAUTE EXPRESS.

INDIANA.

it's Financial and General Con I v. dition.

!*he Biennial Message of the GOT ernor to the State Legislature.

jtyatitCeststo Conduct a Great State WMckStanln High In the Union.

and Day of the legislature— The Senate Swallows its Dignity.

THE LEGISLATURE.

STho Senate Swallows Its Dignity—Appotntments to Minor Offices. INDIANAPOLIS,

has, obtained all the glory to be had out of the foolishness. The following appointments to sub'ordinate positions have been made: JJy Secretary Kelley of the senate— 'John Patterson, of Vigo H. C. Smith, of Madison E. E. Davis,, of Vermillion A." J. Thurston, of Jackson Peter H. Pernot, of Allen: Bridges, of Clay, and Mr. Malpert. By Clerk Edwins, of the house—Emmett Rose, of Marion James Carleton, of Vigo Edward Fitzpatrick, of Clark T. W. W. Sudman, of Ripley j- M. D. Lee, of Bartholomew.

Creoxge Wipple, the New Albany blacksmith, has, received his reward for party services. He has charge of thelio^fje cloak room.

THE MESSAGE.

Governor Porter's Report to th© Stat© Legislature.

Gentlemen of the Senate and Jiouse of Representatives:

The circumstances under which you assemble could not well be more satisfactory. The condition of the state has never been more prosperous. During the year just ended the products of our fields have been unusually abundant. Our manufacturing and mining industries have yielded good returns. Within the past year five hundred and sixty miles of railway have been built within the state—a larger number than in any previous year. Of the ninety-two counties in the state, there are only four through which railroads do not pass, and three of these happily, border on the Ohio river. More than two hundred and twenty-five thousand acres of land have, during the year, been brought for the first time into cultivation. The practice of undei draining soils charged with an excess of moisture has never been so energetically prosecuted. Along with it has come increased productiveness, and a lessening of all malarial diseases. Our common schools, under the careful superintendence of a diligent and capable officer, have increased in usefulness and in public favor.

The State Debt.

The state is indebted as follows: Five percent, certificates, state stock i-M69

New York, due December 1, 18S9, but payable at the pleasure of the state after April 1,

Two and one-half per cent, certificates, state stock 2,dd3 Id Five per cent, bonds payable in

5oo,UW UU

Twenty-four internal Improvement- bonds, pastdue 24,COO 00 Six five per cent, internal improvement bonds, due Julyl, 1886, held by the United States.. o,000 03

Total $631,825 12 The accumulated interest upon the twenty-four old bonds above mentioned should be added, but the precise amount can not now be stated.

The indebtedness of the state to the school fund is evidenced by five nonnegotiable bonds for the aggregate sum of S3,904,783.22, bearing six per cent, interest and the indebtedness to Purdue university is evidenced by one bond for 8340,000, bearing five per cent, interest.

RECEIPTS ASD EXPENDITURES. At the beginning of the fiscal year, 1SS1, there was in the general fund of tho state treasurya balance of 5501,kh ji There was received into the fund from all sources during the year 1,408,02a 08

Total $1,912,920-02 The total disbursements from the funddurlngthe fiscal year wore 1,d34|W1 W Leaving a balance at the end of that year of 278,228 22 The estimate of expenditures for the support of the state government for 1881, made In pursuance of law by the auditor of state, In 1879, amounted to the aggregate sum of l,206,o6 09

These estimates were insufficient with respect to several Important Items. The expenditures on account of benevolent and penal institutions exceeded the estimates by lbo,a«o oi The expenses of the legislature consequent upon the extra session, made necessary by the revision of the laws, were in excess of the estimates In the sum of The estimates did not Include the following items of disbursement: A transfer from the general fund to tbe state liouso fund, pursuant to an act of the general assembly, of

26,626 58

100,000 00

National Vote*.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.—The hooae committee on expenditures of ihe de-

A payment of the remaining war loan bonds 139,000 00 A payment of an old internal improvement bond, principal and interest 5,388 16 A payment of 2% per cent, certiflcates of state stock 663 22 The salaries of five commissioners appointed pursuant

general

to an act of the general assembly, to aid the supreme court in bringing up its decisions In submitted cases 8,199 66 Expenses of commissioners of fisheries 500 00 Expenses relating to printing of revised statues 516 69

Total.. S 443,881 33 Deducting from tbe total disbursement for the year 1881, which were as above stated... 1,841,691 80 The unestimated amounts above specified, viz........ 413,381 33

A balance is left of #1,191,307 47

This amoant, it will be perceived, is considerably below.the auditor's estimate for that year: The balance in the general fund at the beginning of the fiscal year, 1882 (November 1, 1881)

Jan. 5.—The house

yesterday afternoon declined to recede from its action relative to the senate's refusal to receive tbe notification of organization at ehe hands of the house cfcrk, although Mr. Jewett, of Clark, made an effort to bring about a concurrence «with the wishes of the 'senate that a committee be appointed Jto notify the senate of the organization the house. The senate however pfter sleeping over the matter, this jmorning concluded to waive the question of etiquette. Senator Bell, as boon as the journal had been read, arose and stated there was no use in fighting a shadow and suggested that, while the house had not seen fit to extend the same courtesy to the senate that the senate bad extended to the house, the senate, irould probably be able to stand it if the house could. He therefore moved the senate take up the resolution for the appointment of a joint committee to wait upon the governor. This being done unanimously, the wheels of legislation were unlockedand business ^egan in earnest. It was a happy issue out' of a great affliction. The Jiouse feels rather proud of itself for having forced the senators to crawfish

as iTUjZfio

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The total receipts of the fund during the fiscal year were $1,260,401 64

Total amount of general fund during tbe fiscal year 1882 1,538,629 Deduct disbursements during this year. 1,436,900 65

A balance is left at the end of the fiscal year 1882 of The estimates of expenditure

101,729 21

for the support of the state government for 1882, made by the auditor of state In 1880, were .81,171,470 00 The disbursements were in fact 1,436,900 65 Being in excess of the estimates 319,430 65 This excess is explained by the following disbursements: There was transferred from the

fund to the state

ouse fund 200,000 00 The expenditures on account of the benevolent and penal institutions exceeded the estimates 41,077 05 Printing the revised statutes not estimated for 21,716 77 Other expenses connected with revision not estimated for 2,127 95 Appropriation by the general assembly to state university,

Purdue University, and State Normal school, in excess of estimates 11 500 00 Expenses of board of visitors to the Normal schoool not estimated for 113 85 Btate board of agriculture, regular annual appropriation and appropriation to pay interest on its bonds 10 700 00 Supreme court commisloners' salaries 19 951 48 Department of geology and natural history 4 510 SO Commlsloner of fisheries' salary and expenses 803 33 Mine Inspectors' salary 1 500 00 Appropriation for removing a bar in Calumet river, caused by the construction of a state ditch 5 800 90 Expenditure under act of the general assembly for the survey of Kankakee river region 3 930 31 Erroneous payment by county treasurers 956 45

Total 8325 295 42 Deducting from the disbursements for the year 1882, which were as above stated $1,436 900 00 The total amount of the items last mentioned for which no estimates were made 325 295 42

Leaves $1,111 005 23-

This amount, it will be perceived, falls considerablv below the estimate for 1882.

The estimate required by law to be made by the auditor of state to the generally assembly at each biennial meeting, of the expenditures to be paid from the treasury for the ensuing two fiscal years, can not, of course, anticipate all the expenditures which may prove to be necessary. There are always in the case even of items included in his estimate, appropriations which eiceed the sums estimated, and there are always appropriations for other proper and necessary objects which naturally could not be foreseen when the auditor's estimate was made.

It will be perceived that the receipts to the general fund from all sources during the fiscal years 1881 and 1882

have

fallen short to like receipts during the fiscal year 1880. The receipts to the general'fund in 1880 were $1, 477,609.92, and in 1882 were only $1,260,401.64, a falling off" of $217,208.28 during the latter year. The cause of this decrease is as follows:

The appraisement of all taxable real estate in this state was, prior to the passage of the statute of 1881, required by law to be made once in five years. The last appraisement was made in 1880. The next preceding one was in 1875, when the prices of real estate were yet inflated. The appraisement of 1880 fell below that of 1875 $155,424,507. The assessed value of personal property was also less than in 1879 by $54,223,545. None of the taxes levied under this lower assessment were payable to the state treasurer until in May, 1881. At that time half of the state taxes for 1880 were required, by law, to be paid into the treasury. The other half was not required to be paid into the treasury until in January, 1882. The taxes collected for the fiscal year 1881 were onehalf collected under the high valuation of real estate made in 1875, and one-half under the lower valuation of 1880. The taxes for the fiscal year 1882 were all collected under the lower valuation of 1880.

The taxes received into the general fund of the state treasury fell short of the taxes received in 1SS0, for the reasons above stated, $42,175.33, and in 1882 fall short of the taxes received in 1880 $158,063.97.

During the last fiscal year the state government has had to be conducted on less revenue than for several years proceeding.

For the last two fiscal years, therefqre, the state government had to be conducted on less revenue than for several years preceeding. Although, however, no new appraisement of the real estate will be made for purposes of taxation until the year 1886, the great increase of personal property lias begun to be apparent on the tax lists, and by 1884 will probably have swollen to the total value of taxables to as high an amount as they have ever been in any recent period of the state's history.

An addition to the revenue of the state will be apparent hereafter by the higher appraisementof the state board of equalization, during the years of 1881 and 1882, of the right of way and other property of railroad companies. The enlarged earnings of these companies were deemed to justify an average increase to the extent of ten per cent, in the valuation of property returned by them for taxation. In addition to this increase there has been an increased assessment, through the vigilance of the auditor of the state, Vy securing an assessment of buildings and improvements, such as machine shops and other expensive structures, situate on what the courts have interpreted to be the "right of way" of these companies' which, since 1872, had, for the most part, escaped taxation.

Under a loose interpretation given to our statute concerning voluntary associations, the state's revenuos from insurance companies are being diminished^and an injury is being inflicted upon

manv

communities by irrespon

sible and fraudulent insurance companies, from other Btates and at home, which are engaged in the transaction of business under the shelter of that enactment.

The Bneevolent Institution*.

The average daily number of in

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mates in the hospital for the insane, during the last fiscal year, was 1,070. The average, cost per capita for maintenance, exclusive of clothing, is stated to have been $184.97.

The number of pnpHs at the Inststntion for tbe edncation of the deaf and dumb, at the end of the last fiscal year, was 344. The averaee daily attendance is not given in the reports. The cost per capita is stated to have been $156.32.

The number of pupils enrolled at the Institute for the education of the blind, during the fiscal year, was 126. The reports do not give the average daily attendance. The cost per capita is stated to have been $216.57.

The number of pupils at the Soldiers' orphans' home and the asylum for feeble-minded children, institutions under one roof and one govern ment, is stated in the superintendent') report to have been as follows: Sol diers' orphans present at the end of fiscal year, 137. The cost of maintenance is stated by the superintendent to have been $125 per capita. The average daily attendance is not specified.

Your attention is specially invited to the recommendations contained in the report of the trustees of the hospital for the insane, and which are strongly reinforced in the able and instructive report of the superintendent of that institution.

The capacity of the buildings erected by the state for the care of tne insane, spacious and imposing as they are, is sufficient for little more than halt of the state's insane. Those who are unable, for lack of room in the stated hospital, to be admitted as patients, suffer great and ofter cruel neglect. They are confined in uncomfortable and sometimes shocking quarters in poorhouses, where they receive insufficient attention, or they area burden upon poor kindred who are unable to make adequate provision for them, and to whom they area source of distressing anxiety, and often of danger. Our provision for the insane is so inadequate that it falls quite below the provision made for the same class of sufferers by neighboring states. The mode suggested by the superintendent for enlarging hospital accommodations is commended to your "earnest consideration.

I recommend that in the departs ment for women in this hospital, it shall be required by law that at least one of the physicians shall be a woman.

Three claims of considerable magmitude are pending against the state for work and materials under contracts entered into with the provisional board of the insane hospital, it being the board, charged bv law with the duty of constructing the building for the department for women. Two of the claims have been refused. One has been allowed by a compromise with the contractor, subject to a condition that the legislature shall make an appropriation for its payment, there being now no appropriation available for that use.

The capacity of the institute for the education of the blind is now insufficient for the accommodation of more than half of the blind youth, who, by law, are entitled to the benefits of the institution. The edifice was completed for the admission of the blind pupils more than thirty years ago, and has never been enlarged. Applicants are constantly refused admission to the institution on account of want of room. Provision should be made by law for an enlargement of the building.

The soldiers' orphans' home and asylum for feeble-minded children should be regarded, on account of the character of both classes of pupils, with particular favor. It has had to struggle under the difficulty of narrow appropriations, and, during a part of it3 history, with other difficulties hardly less serious. The instructors have, however, been diligent and devoted to duty, and the progress of the pupils has been highly satisfactory.

Penal and Reformatory Institutions.

Your attention is particularly invited to the report of the house of refuge for juvenile offenders. The average number

vof

inmates during the year was

350.v The expense of providing the equipments and instructors requisite for teaching the boys in this institution, the most useful manual occupations, has been found too great, in the opinion of past legislatures, to warrant them in making the neeessary appropriations. A boy, as the case now is, though instructed in the simpler branches of education, leaves the institution, in most cases, little better fitted to earn a livelihood, so far as manual skill is concerned, than when he entered it. He is too apt, on that account, to fall back into a life of crime. A system of industrial education has recently found much favor, which, not professing to teach manual trades, gives boys a dexterity in handicraft which may be equally useful in many different trades.

Under the guise of committing children to this institution as incorrigible, or as juvenile offenders, children are often sent to it by the courts who are simply poor, or whose parents, desiring to get rid of the cost or care of rearing them, are willing to make them charge upon the state.

The recommendation of the superintendent that boys released from the institution upon tickets-of-leave shall be placed by law under the surveillance of the township trustees in the counties to which they are sent, seems to be a most judicious one.

The management of the reformatory for women and girls deserves unqualified commendation. The proportion of inmates who, after their return to their homes, lead correct lives, is greater than the most sanguine might reasonably have expected.

The state's prisons at Jeffersonville and at Michigan City are more nearly self-supporting than they have been for several years.

The average number of prisoners at the former prison during the past year was 564. The average number of prisoners at the prison of Michigan City was 621.

The

specific

appropriation bill which

failed at the last session of the general assembly, on account of its consideration having been deferred to too late a period of the session, contained an appropriation of $5,000 for building special wards at the prison of Michif£n City, for the use of insane .prisoners, and for a transfer to that prison of all insane prisoners in the prison at Jeffersonville. I earnestly urge the appropriation of a proper sum of money for the building of cells at the former prison for insane prisoners, which shall be remote from the cells of other convicts.

The abreviation of the terms of sentences allowed by statute to prisoners for good conduct is believed not to be sufficiently liberal. No incentive to good behavior is found to be so strong with them as a knowledge that such behavior will shorten the term of imprisonment. I earnestly recommend

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legislation giving to prisoners whose conduct has been continually exemplarv, a larger credit for good conduct on their sentences.

Redaction.

The number of persons in the state of school age, viz., between the ages of six and twenty-one years, is 709,424. The number admitted to the schools was, iir 1882,498,992. The average daily attendance of pupils last year was 305,513. The number of school teachers is 13,259. The number of schooi houses in the state is 9,556, of which forty-eight are log eightv-three are stone, 2,481 are brick, and 6,944 arc frame.

The amount of public school fund is $9,138,408.31. The addition made to it annually, taking as a basis the average of the past five years, exceeds $54,000. This sum does not include the large sum—about $260,000 a year— received from particular licenses and other sources, and applied each year to to tuition.

The amount of tuition money derived from interest on the school funds in 1882, was $2,059,616.44. The proportion of the entire expense of tuition paid from taxes, state and local, was twenty-five per cent.

It will thus be seen that, ample as our school fund is, three-fourths of the expenses of tuition are derived from puDlic taxes. The fact that these taxes are paid without complaint, is the highest evidence of the esteem in which the public school system is held.

The report of the state superintendent of public instruction isCreplete with interesting facts and suggestions.

The State Normal school is shown, by the report of the trustees and superintendent, to be in a highly flourishing condition. The number of students during the last year was 302. The need for a moderate appropriation for the purchase of apparatus for instruction in the sciences is urgent.

The important suggestions contained in the reports of the trustees of the State University, and the trustees and president of Purdue University, will properly engage your most considerate attention.

State Board of Agriculture,

The state board of agriculture has shown commendable zeal during the past year in the discharge of its official duties. It is required by law to hold a meeting in the month of January of every year, together with the delegates from the several county societies, for the purpose of deliberation and consultation respecting the "wants, prospects, and condition of a re he at A ,this meeting reports from the county societies, required to be made annually, with regard to the condition of agriculture in the several counties, are delivered, pursuant to law, to the president of the state board. mines and Miners.

The number of coal mines in the state is 150. The number of miners employed in them is 5,100. The production exceeds 2,000,000 tons a year.

Tne law in relation to coal mines, though carefully framed, is believed to need some amendment in order to give proper security to the lives of miners. The state inspector is a practical miner of long experience, and thoroughly acquainted with the needs of mines. Hempen ropes for hoisting, are, in his opinion, unsafe in cases oi fire. Besides, no ordinary inspection can detect with certainty secret defects which often render them unreliable. Steel-wire ropes should be requested to be substituted in their place. Every mine, in the inspector's opinion, should have two outlets. here a furnace is used for purposes of ventilation, and one of the outlets is used for the escape of smoke and steam, the outlet so used is useless as a means of retreat in case of sudden danger. A mine in this condition has practically but one outlet. An additional one should, in such cases, be required. .It is made the duty of the mine inspector to examine all scales used in any coal mine, for the purpose of weighing coal taken out of the mine mine. Miners are usually paid by the ton for their work. Justice to them and the preservation of harmony between them and their employers require that correct scales shall be used. The state, however, not having provided the inspector with sealed weights, he has no accurate means of determining satisfactorily whether scales are correct. The state should provide him with a set of sealed weights.

Commissioner of Fisheries.

The general assembly, at its special session of 1881, enacted a law providing for an appointment by the governor of a commissioner of fisheries. Commissioners had previously been appointed, under provisions of law, in tnirty-one states of the union and two of the territories. I appointed to the office a gentleman who had given much study to the habits of fishes and .to their propagation, and had been "specially successful in the cultivation of the carp. I invite your attention to the suggestions contained in his report. The law of 1881 seems to have been intended rather to set on foot an intelligent investigation into the best means of restoring our many fishing streams, and of preventing a renewal of the reprehensible practices by which they have been impoverished, than to "provide an efficient plan for supplying these streams, or to prevent a wanton or thoughtless depopulation of them.

The business of fishing, if our fishes were undisturbed in the spawning season, would soon become a profitable industry, and would give employment to many citizens. A most wholesome and nutritious food would soon be made abundant. The temperature of our streams and lakes, and their purity, adapt them to a great variety of fishes.

The Department of Statistics.

The department of statistics, separated by the last general assembly from the department of geology, has been conducted with zeal and energy, and has collected statistics on a variety of subjects of general popular interest. Its monthly crop reports have been received with much favor by farmers and by dealers in produce. It has, during the past year, organized a corps of efficient weather 'observers, who have reported monthly to the head of the department their daily observations. These reports,

having

been

transmitted regularly to the ollice of the signal service at Washington, have been commended for their fullness and accuracy. The

corps

has been equipped

with a small outfit of instruments by tlie United States signal service, bu! ^Continued on third

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