Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 January 1887 — Page 3
THE INDIAISTAPOLIS JOURNAIi, SATURDAY, JAKUAET 8 1887.
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GOVERNOR GRAY'S MESSAGE. I Review at Great Length of Official Reports and Affairs of the State. jLeccmmcndations Relative to Needed Legislation on Matters Affecting Tablic InterestsThe State's Institutions.
In his nrefatorv remarks the Governor ex5- pressed the hope that, in dedicating the new m State-house to legislative purposes, the Ueneral Assembly would, in tbe results of its session, 'leave an enviable and honorable record to wh'.ch, at all times, it would have just cause to refer with becoming pride." the state's finances. After giving a statement of the State's out standing indebtedness, as exhibited in the Auditor of State's report, the Governor com snentea on tne nnanciai auairs or the State gov ernment as follows: For the past ten years tbe tax levy for State pur Eose bas been fixed bv law at 12 cents on the one nndred dollars, and at tbe time such levy was fixed Itwas only deemed to be sufficient to meet the usual and ordinary expenses of the State and its institutions. In that period the State has largely developed in her material, financial and commercial resources, and the cost of the maintenance of her institutions bas also increased on account of the increased number of in mates. New offices have been created, and new duties have been added to tbe old offices, which have likewise largely aidea in increasing the current and ordinary expenses of. the state. In addition to such expenses. there have been, from time to time, as each General Assembly convened, appropriated from the general fund, from which all the expenses of the State gov eminent and her institutions are paid, large suras for unusual or extraordinary expenses. The State bas in part been enabled to pay the large amonnt of extra ordinary appropriations by anticipating the revenue of each ensuing year in the way of advances by the several county treasurers as provided bv law. The amount of the advances has increased from year to year. as the pressure upon the treasury for funds has grown, until such advances for the fiscal year ending Oct. -11, 1SSO, amounted to tbe sum of 440,804.65. The State government has, during said years, been carefully and economically administered without the low of a single dollar to its revenues by defalcation or official neglect ot duty. In the construction of tbe new State-bouse $200,000 has been appropriated and paid from the general fund. The construction of the female department of Die Indiana Hospital tor Insane, at Indianapolis, be gun in May. 185. arid completed June 2. 1884, was wholly paid for bv appropriations out of the general fund at a cost of $722,000, of which sum $522,000 has men paid since April I, 1877. Also the con traction of the three additional Hospitals for Insane has been entirely provided for out of the general fund. The amount now authorized by appropriations to be drawn from the general fund on account of these institutions is $1,163,800, of which amount there had bw.jt paid at. the close of the last fiscal year the sum of 9747,255.73. The appropriations from the general fund for ex traordinary expenses from the 1st dar of November, 1883. until the 1st day of November, 1886. as taken from the report of the Auditor of State, amount to $1,208,852.02, and show the continual sapping of the revenues, which were only intended to pay the eurrent expenses of administering the State govern ment. The amount expended for like purposes from Jan. 1, 187, to Nov. 1, loco, was perhaps as large. In the foregoing amount there has been no attempt to Include many small specific appropriations or the in crease in current expenses of our great and growing State, occasioned by the legitimate expansion of our public institutions, the creation ot newofhees, and the enlargement ot the duties ot older omces. After eiving a statement of the manner and terms of the refunding of $600,000 of the State's temporary loan indebtedness and tbe negotiation of an additional loan of $385,000, authorized by the last General Assembly, he saia: The credit of the State bas so improved that said loans were negotiated at a rate of interest, with the premiums received, that will make said loans average about J4 percent., ana tne rerunaingot saM tempo rary loan of April 1. 1879, will make an annual sav Ing of $8,775 in interest. Under provisions of "An act to provide a fund for the permanent endowment of the Indiana University and for the investment of the lame," approved March 3. 1883, a sum exceeding $60,000 of said permanent endowment fund bad been paid into the State treasury, and, the btate need ing a loan to meet a casual aencit in tne revenue ana to pay the interest .on the public debt, the sum of $60,000 was, in pursuance to Section 6 of said act, transferred from said fund to the credit of the general fund. As provided in taid act, a non-negotiable bond of the State for said amount was made and issued by the Governor and Treasurer, attested by the Secretary of State with the State seal, to the trustees of said university, dated Oct. 1, 1885, payable in fifty years at the option of tho State, bearing 5 per cent interest, to bo paid semi arnually on the first days of May and November, in each year, until said bond is paid. The ' total amount borrowed for the benefit of the general fund was $060,000, and, deducting such amount from the amount of the said extraordinary expenses. $1,204,852.02, will show that during said years 183, 1884, 1885 and 1886 the sum of $548,852.02 has been paid from the revenues of the State, over and above the ordinary expenses. It will be apparent to you that the State cannot en1 A. J1.1 1 i gage in the construction of expensive and elaborate improvement without increasing the tax levy for State purposes, or borrow in the necessary moneys to meet the additional cost of Mich improvements. Considering the excellent credit of the State, I have no besitation in recommending the borrowing of the necessary funds in preference to increasing the rate of , taxation. The rate of interest which tho State would be required to pay would not exceed one-half of the rate which individual tax-payers of the State would be oompelled to ray, aud a sinking fund to pay the bonds a rapidly as the State would have the right to redeem would tonally liquidate the State's indebtedness. Tne net receipts to the general fund from all sources, eiclusive of $257,030.75 advanced by counties and $079,215.75 received on loans, for the fiscal rear ending Oct. 31, 1885, were $1,424,249.10, while the expenditures from the samo fund, exclusive of advance returned to counties during such vear. pursuant to appropriations, were $2 083,085.61. The net receipts to the same fund, exclusive of advances bv counties, for the fiscal year ending Oct 31. 1886, were $1,421,350.84, while the expenditures from the same fund, exclusive of advances returned by Bounties, during such year, pursuant to appropriations, were $1,619,537.78. The expenditures of the last year arc not equal to those of the former year, because tho revenues of the State have not been sufficient to meet the appropriations. The State is paying annually about one-fifth of its entire revenue as interest on its domestic debt, which consists of non-negotiable school bonds of $3,904.783.22, issued in 1867 and 1868. bearing 6 per cent, interest: a non-negotiable Purdue University bond of $340,000, issued in 1881, bearing 5 per cent, inter- ?. and a non-negotiable State University bond of $00,000, bearing 5 per cent, interest: and I earnestly recommend a reduction in the interest on the $3.-
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renew iiib revenues to tne scnooi iuna woum suu continue to sumcient. If. however, it should be deemed preferable, inasmuch as tbe State can borrow money at a much lower rate of interest, a loan could be authorized to pay off Ue entire non-negotiable school bon5s, and after the payment thereof provide that the money shall be distributed to the counties in the manner heretofore provided by law, and that all school funds be loaned in the manner now directed at a rate of interest not exceeding 0 per cent, per annum. Either method, I believe, mould meet with popular approval. . II a funding loan for such purpose were negotiated at a rate of interest not exceeding 3 per cent., which I believe to be possible, it would result in an annual saving of interest of $117,143.50, besides providing iarge amount to t loaned to the people of the State at a fair rate of interest. It i evident that the tevenues are barely sufficient w meet we current expenses of the State government, aim wnn a decreased appraisement of nearly $54, 000,000 of the pronertv in the State subiect to tnxa Vkvu, tnii ciiiHusivciy m tne money necessary wj Complete and equip the now public buildings must be 4, jraisea either by increased taxation or the negotiation M1 a - temporary loan. In order tto provide for the I .wants of the State and the completion and equipment f of the pablic buildings now in process of coryi. 'tioo Bnffieient loan should be authorize ranninsr Wenty years, redeemable at the pUire 0f the State 1 y,Wr ft yr. t a rate of intect not exceeding I 4 pr cent, per annum, 1 M a meaus of c.-eatiug a sinking fund for the final I "lnihroeit of the State debt, I would rercomthat the present tax of two cents, levied for I nau-hous purpose, be continued permanently, and I t!,r',"TJJ', ud Sn or purchasing the I i;,?fA- , ,or cancellation and destruction, thus iquidatirg the State's indobtednes?. caused by the I "'oeton of the new pb'ic building, without inI "aing the preseut rate of taxation. With the signs S IhT 1,rork'''tr. I trust that we may reasoni ' ' Mti-'Pte some increase in the value of the peri rT.J,Pr'3r of State, and that the current Tret WiU.V? "mP" to discharge all current expenses, utTr0Vl'Vin tlM5 Pot contingencies. But i K iiKy0tUtUt,th,!('aa',otU! dcn without your a. I LLu?!i , IMjMtt"ly protecting the trea.ury from - -"..tun ana extravagant appropriation. CONSTRUCTION OF NEW HUILDINOS. After referring to tbe offleial reports of the itau heose Comtnia.loners recardinff the work n tbe Capitol building and their expenditures -reior, the fiovernor said: Ji !U UwVlJM ComfttUiu tUt the amount Aw w fraud, l,a tit amottut meiva fr0m taxes
next February, will be exhausted by next March in
payment oi worn now nnder contract, and such work will have to bo suspended unless tbe General Assembly makes provision to continue the same. TViow r of the opinion that the law prohibits them from incurnn vny indebtedness beyond the appropriations, and that, therefore, the amounts to b taxes in August, 1887, and February, 1888, should be retained to pay the unpaid per cent, due the contractors. I Would recommend an immediate f.nnid. f ratlo,n tne matter and the proper appropria ion. in order that the work upon the house may have the utmost possible advancement, and its completion in sured at the earliest prf jjticable date. Your attention is also cal:ed to needed legislation to provide for the care and custody of the new State-bouse after its completion and aocptance by the State. iaraing tne work on the three additional hospfals foi the insane, be said: The commissioners, in the construction of the hospitals, have kept in view the needs of the future, and have constructed each insti tution in such a manner that increased capacity can be obtained at a very low cost per capita. The medical engineer essimates the aggregate capacity of the three hospitals at 1.100, but more can be accommodated without serious inconvenience. The census of 1880 enumerated 3,530 insane persons in the State; 1.195 were males, and 1,835 were females. The State Hos pital tor Insane at Indianapolis has accommodations for about 1.500 patients, which number, if deducted from the number enumerated in the census of 1880, would leave without hospital accommodations 2.030. Inquiry made last September, through tne State Board of Health, showed the number of insane per sons confined in the jails and poor-bouses of the State to be about 1,100, and it is reported that some ot them are locked in cells, some wear ball aud chain. ana otners are chained to tne noor. l need not urge the necessity of an early completion of the hospitals in order that these poor unfortunates may have proper tare auu meuicai xreatmenb i he total amount aDnronriated for the construction of the throe hosDitabj is $1,163,800. and the board asks an additional appropriation of $107,000, to complete and equip the institutions. Of the allowances made to the contractors there bas been paid $747,2o5.73, leaving a balance of the ap propriations for said hospitals unexpended of $419.550.05, which amount was unexpended because the receipts to the general fund were not sufficient to pay allowances against the same and meet the large ex penditures tor the maintenance of the State govern ment and the public institutions. In the contracts for the construction of the hospitals it was provided that the board of commissioners might suspend their construction at any time, and the commissioners were unwilling to proceed with the construction and approve and allow the estimates of the contractors, pay able at once in the then condition of the treasury, and the wisdom of their judgment was demonstrated by the fact that at the close of the last fiscal year there was only $39,390.12 in the general fund. The contractors desired to continue their work and requested and agreed to take their estimates approved and al lowed for payment on future dates, rather than dis charge their organized force of employes, and, in pur suance ot such request and agreement, al lowances were made up to the 1st day of November, 1886, to the amount of $153,457.61. But it was provided in the order of allowance of said sum that vouchers for $99,550.75 should not be presented to the Auditor of State for warrants nntil Jan. 1, 1887, and that vouchers for $53,906.86 should not be presented until Feb. 20. 1887, on which dates.it was understood by the Board ot commissioners, sufficient funds would be m the treasury to pay such allowances, or the present ueneral Assembly would make provision for their payment. The medical engineer estimates the annual cost of maintenance for each of the three hospitals for the hsc&l year ending Oct. 31, 1887, $30,000; for the fiscal year ending Oct. 31, 1888, to be about $70.000, and for the fiscal year ending Oct. 31, 1889, JpU.UUO. v The board present with their report such bills as tney aeem necessary tor the organization and govern ment of each institution when completed the basis of which is a board of four trustees for eaeh hospital, the two leading political parties to be equally represented on each board. The commissioners also recommend the purchase of ten acres additional to the present grounds of the Northern hospital, for the purpose of adding to its symmetry and procuring better access to the grounds. The board having purchaeed to the limit authorized by law, must have some additional author ity to purchase the land. I commend the matter to your investigation and consideration. BENEVOLENT AND EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS. In speaking of the State's benevolent and edu cational institutions he said: Indiana University is taking rank with tbe very best educational institutions in the West. The number of students is steadily increasing each year, and the work done m the university is equal to that done in many of the more pretentious universities. The library bas been largely increased by well-selected vol umes. 1 he museum is very extensive. I be labor a tones now afford unsurrassed facilities for practical work. The faculty is composed of men of high char acter and finished education. I commend the univer sity to your favorable consideration. The success of the State Normal School has demonstrated its usefulness as a factor in developing professional teachers and in promoting the cause of education. During the seventeen years of its existence the average attendance has increased from 47 to 433 students. During the last two years 84 per cent, of the students has come from the homes of farmers and mechanics, and eightv-seven counties of the State have been represented. Tho excellent report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction contains the evidence of the increased prosperity and efficiency of our common-school sys tem. The common-school fund has been increasing at the rate of about $60,000 per year fr several years past, and now amounts to 5y,4oo.Oeo.71. The Su perintendent has spent much time and care in the preparation of valuable analytical tables and state ments for his report, which will give much interesting information in relation to the common schools. The report of the Institution for the Deaf and Dumb for the year 1886 shows the value of the real estate is $459,000; personal property, $44,890 total, $503,890.97; value of products of farm and earden, $3,61 8. tio: earnings of the institution. $6J.81; value of clothing furnished pupils and re turned to State treasury for collection, $963.93; ap propriation for maintenance. $55,000; expended from maintenance fund, Soa.Uby.uo. appropriated for re pairs, $3,000; expended from repair fund,$1.388.45: special fund, $726.27: expended from special fund. $195.35; number of pupils in attendance. 316; per capita cost, $161.52. The Superintendent's report shows that the health ot the pupils during the year has been good, and that a marked improvement has been made in educational methods. The trustees of tbe institution for the education of tbe blind, in their report, estimate the value of the realesta'e at $356,238; tbe personal property at $17,760.66; total valuation, $373,998.66. They re port expended for current support, $23,892: for repairs. $1,996.67; total expenditures. $25,888.67. The institution furnishes the pupils tuition, board and washing only. The whole number of nnnils enrolled durine tbe session of 1885 was 126. The total number enrolled during the session of 1886 was 130, 60 males and 70 females. The average monthly attendance was 93. The cost per capita for maintenance was $ly7 45 for forty weeks. Consid ering that the pupils are in the institution only forty weeks, the cost per capita, based on expenditure for current support, is equal to $256.90 for twelve months. The total amount expended was $25,888.67, making the cost per capita per annum $278 37, or $6.95 ner week for each pupil. The trustees of the Indiana Insane Hospital, in their report ending Oct. 31. 1886, estimate the value of the real estate at $1,430,150: value of personal prop erty. $221,060.95. Total, $1,651,210.95. There was appropriated for the fiscal year ending Oct. 31, 1885, for maintenance, clothing and repairs, !ZHU, OOO. There was appropriated for the hscai year 1886, for maintenance, clothing, repairs and improve meets. $354,500. That portion of which was desig nated for specific repairs was authorized to be ex pended between the 1st days of April, 1885 and 1886, making the total for the two fiscal years $634, 500. There was expended in the fiscal year ending Oct. 31,1885. 85319. 087.9O. and in the fiscal vear endins Oct. 31. 1886, $298,958.60, showing that the entire appropriations of the two years of $634,500 was al expecied except the sum or 19;A53.5' The average number of patients during the year 1885 was 1,422; the average number of patients for the year 1886 was 1,542. The per capita expense in 1885, based upon the expenditure for maintenance, was $173.43; the per capita expense for the year 1886, based on the expenditure for maintenance was $160.02. Taking the total disbursements pr each year, less the expenditure for clothing, fne per capita expense for 1885 would be $210.08, and for 1886 would be $186-19. Tbe superintendent's report shows 'cno number of officers and employes to be u-ara of 300, or one salaried person.for every far one-half patients, and the amount of U,mpeimtion paid to them to be about $7,OOO pej. month. The annual expense of mairrt'uniug tbmatitution consumes about one-fourth of the en tire revenue of the State. I earnestly recommend that the law govevning the institution be so amended that patients who have estates sufficient to support them should be compelled to pav for their mainf rr.. r . 1 e i tenance. x'i iuhumu, cre tor uiu lurnisn wiin medical treatment patients whose estates are ample to pay for the same is. in my judgment, a great wrong upon the tax -payers of the State, and for the purpose of ascertaining the ability of a patient to pay the lime, the justices of the peace, before whom the examination is made for the purpose of admission of patients, should be required to cause subpoenas to be issued for witnesses supposed to be acquainted with the nnanciai condition of the estate of the patient, or the husband, if the patient be a wife, and procure other evidence, if necessary, to folly ascertain the worth of the estate and its ability to pay all or a part of tbe expense of maintenance, to be estimated upon the fiublished per capita cost, and make certificate aceordpgly, to be forwarded to tbe superintendent of the ai lum with the other paper for admission. I deem such legislation important, owing to tbe growing magnitude of our benevolent institutions. Kvery principle of humanity demands that the State make ample provision for the kindly care and eustody of its insane, yet the burden of expeuse occasioned thereby should be made to rest where i properly belongs. The last General Assembly amended the law for the foverument of the Soldiers Orphans' Home and the nfttitutlon for Feeble-minded Children, which provided that tbe Oevernor should appoint three trustees, one of whom, at least, should be a woman, and the male members ui tbe board should be honorably dis
charged Union soldiers, and at least one member should be an adherent of one of each of the two political parties casting the largest number of votes at the
last general election. In pursuance to said amendment, I appointed as a board for the management of said institution the Hon. Ben I. Smith, of Rush county; Capt. James H. Harris, of Hamilton county, both honorably discharged Union soldiers, and Mrs. Sarah K. Irittman, of Monroe county, whose husband is also an honorably discharged Union soldier. They still constitute said board. The trustees had succeed ed, bv judicious management of the institution, in paying off a large portion of its indebtedness, and were conzratulatinz themselves upon being able to make repairs and beautify the grounds during the year without increasing the expense of their management. when, on the Hist cay ot July, leao, a disastrous fire destroyed tbe main building of the institution, but providentially no lives were lost. The building was insured for $25,000, $20,000 of which baa been paid, and $5,000 is now in litigation, me grounds consist ot ntty-seven acres, which r.re valued by the trustees at $4,500; the walls and foundation of the building at $17,000; boiler-bouse, boiler and engine, $4,500; laundry, bakery, school-house, nursery, barn and other buildings, $2 500; total valuation, $28,500. The trustees r ay in their report that they have received from insnance $20,000. and have borrowed from maintenance fund for repairs $488.29; totab $20,488.29; and that they have contracted for the con struction of a new building, according to the plans and specifications of their architect, for the sum of $54,000, exclusive of the cost of clearing away the debris, tearing down unsafe walls and repairing the foundation, the expenditure on account of which is set forth in their report. The trustees have been moved to prompt action x rebuild in order that a home may again be provided at as early a date as possible for the inmates, and I commend their action to your favorable consideration. . 1 recommend mat the Feeble-minded Institution be separated trom mat of the Soldiers' Orphans' Home, and suggest that the feeble-minded inmates be removed to one of the new hospitals now in course of construction. PENAL. AND REFORMATORY; INSTITUTIONS. In speakine of the State prisons, he said: The report of tbe directors for the State Prison South shows that tbe income of the prison bas not been quite sufficient to meet the current expenses. The total disbursements, including officers' salaries and $4,307.61 expended for repairs for the fiscal year ending Oct, 31, 1886. were $82,255.45; receipts and earnings. $79,590.12. showing excess of disbursements over receipts, $2,665.33. The directors say that the buildings are old and not convenient for manufacturing purposes, some of them having been con structed fully half a century ago, and trom tneir scat tered position contractors are deterred from bidding foi labor on account of not being able to work the men together. The directors recommend an appro priation for the purpose of making the chapel more attractive, thereby aiding in the moral reformation of the prisoners, and also recommend the purchase of the grounds adjacent to the prison on the west, to be added to the prison property for the purpose of storage for contractors and burial ground for the unclaimed dead. They advise that upon tbe completion of the new insane hospitals the hopelessly insane convicts be removed thereto, as the prison is unprovided for their care and humane treatment. The directors also say that there is an imperative need of a brick or stone wall npon tbe entire west side of the inclosure, and on nearly one half of both the north and south sides, the present walls being old and rick ety, composed of two-inch plank standing on end, and are in danger of being blown down or falling from age and dilapidation. The reports of the btate Frison .North tor the last two fiscal years show the prison to have been self-sus taining. For the nscal year ending Oct. 31, 1 000, the receipts and earnings were $103,221.67. Total disbursements, including repairs, officers' salaries And $26,657.25 expended for improvements, were $99,bbz. 15- The excess ot receipts over all expenditures was $3,559.52. The monthly average number of prisoners was 702; number of deaths, 8, and number of prisoners Oct. 31. 1885, 703. , For the fiscal year ending Oct. 31, 1886. the receipts and earnings were $111,430.10. Total disbursements, including re pairs, addition to library, and othcers salaries, were $96,712.37. The receipts over expenditures. $14, 717.73, showing an increase of receipts over previous vear of $8,U08.4o,and a decrease in expenditures of $ J, 950.15, and an increase in net earnings over previous year of $11,158.58. The sanitary condition of the prison during the last two fiscal years has been excel lent, and the health of the prisoners has been good. The report of the Reformatory for Women and Girls, for the year 1886, shows that there were in the penal department. 54, in the reformatory department, 1Z9. Average number for the year, lol. The ex penditure for maintenance and repairs was $30,000. The net earnings of the institution for the year, including amount "received for boarding one United States prisoner, were Swoo.ol, leaving as the net cost of the institution for the year, $29,241.19. Per capita cost, based on entire expenditure, $161.55. Earnings per capita, per annum, $4.19. Aggregate salaries paid officers and employes, $8,258.40. The managers recommend the building of a hospital and chapel Considering that the State is now encaged in the construction of a new State-house and three additional hospitals for tbe insane, and the rebuilding of the Soldiers' Orphans' Home, and that the chapel is of sufficient capacity, and can be used without much inconvenience, I do not feel like recommending its construction at present, but recommend to your con sideration the request 01 the managers for additional hospital room. Ihe appropriation last year for the maintenance of the Indiana Reform School for boys was $60,000.00. Phe trustees ask an additional appropriation of $5,000.00, on account of needed improvements, and also recommend that legislative provision be made for the appointment of a ' visitor to visit the boys out on ticket of -leavt, for the purpose of ascertaining the character of their homes, the influences that surround them and their general conduct, that the management of the institution may have reliable information in relation to the same, and also to procure suitat'.e homes for homeless boys, whose conduct in the institution entitles them to ticket-of-leave. I regard the Reform School as one of the most important institutions of the State, and believe that the results, in the way of reformation, are so great as to commend it to the fostering care of the State. I have commuted the sen tence of twenty-four boys, sentenced by the courts to the State prisons, to the care and custody of the insti tution. I recommend that the law governing the in stitution be amended so as to prevent the committal of boys to the institution that have been guilty of no crime, unless it is clearly shown- to tbe court that they are beyond parental control. This amendment I deem important, for the purpose of preventing step-fathers and step-mothers, whose children have committed no crime, and are Teally not beyond parental control, from procuring their admission to the Reform School, simply for the purpose of bringing about agreeable relations, and also to prevent parents from procuring their children to be sent to the institution for the purpose of relieving themselves of parental responsibility. The Constitution of the State provides that "the penal code shall be founded on the principles of reformation, and not of vindictive justice: that cruel and unusual punishments shall not be inflicted; that all penalties shall be proportioned to theiature of the offense:" yet our penal system and penal code, and especially the manner in which the latter is administered, could hardly be further from a compliance with those wise and humane provisions of our Constitution. Nearly every day our courts are sentencing to the penitentiary young men under twenty-one years of age, in many instances their first offense, and in many cases the offense a technical one, and hundreds are sent to the penitentiary by courts and juries, thereby blasting their characters forever, merely for the purpose of saving the county from tbe expense of a jail sentence, which would have been aufficient punishment for the crime committed, and not only increas- , . 1 . 1 . 1 , . , . n . .. ing tne uumuer 01 me criminal ciass, dui lnnicting.a punishment in violation of the above provisions of our Constitution, which says, "All punishment shall be proportioned to the nature of the offense." Twothirds of the prisoners in our State prisons are nnder thirty years of age. To expect to reform this class of prisoners with the forced association with hardened and confirmed criminals, murderers, thieves and coun terfeiters, would be to reason that evil associations do not contaminate or corrupt. Those who have had experience in the management of prisons, and also . t 1 n 1 . J . ... loose wno uavu givjn careim attention to tne impress made upon tbe character of the young and comparatively innoceet convict, by the aggreeal prison svstm, testify to its hurtful influence, and the almost -:v.:ifi. rn.: e 1: 1 , impo.?iouity V vaa vv irii mwriuauvs unaer such a system. The sending ot young men to the penitentiary for slight offenses is objectionable, tor the turther reason that however good bis conduct may have been while a prisoner, yet, when discharged, he finds that the world does not look kindly on an ex-penitentiary convict, notwithstanding tbe offense for which he was convicted was not a grave one. It is with great diffi culty he obtains honorable employment, and finds still greater difficulty in gaining admission to good society The ignominy of the ex-penitentiary convict follows bim like a destroying angel wherever he may co. It is cruel to visit such a terrible punishment for a slight offense. A punishment that ends only with death. and a punishment that deprives the voung and first offender from obtaining honorable employment and the association of reputable persons, is a disgrace to Christian civilization, a mockery of the administra tion of justice and a sad commentary upon statesman ship. If the State was not at this time so burdened with the expense of the construction of so many new buildings I would earnestly recommend the establishment of an institution to be called by some such name as an "industrial school, for the confinement of vounir convicts and of those guilty of their first ot tense, whose former character had been good, in order that they might have at least one chance to return to the path of rectitude and to the favorable recognition of their fellow-men. PUBLIC PRINTING AND STATIONERY. In speaking of the public printing, binding and stationery, he said: Under tbe law every office and institution bas been supplied at a uniform price, which bas been secured through competition, after due publie advertisement Referring to th public printing act of 1885. the law does not explicitly provide whether the number of reports named in the aet to be printed for the various institutions is exclusive of the number to be bound in the documentary journal, or whether the number authorized includes the sixteen hundred intended for the documentary joui .ial. As a matter of economy. on account of the limited appropriation, tbe bureau adopted tbe latter construction. The law should pro vide ipoiticali what reports the documentary joiu-
nal should contain, and should fix tbe number rej quired for tbe documentary journal in addition to the number to be printed: for the various offices and institutions. The law should be further amended, providing for the biennial publication of many reports
which are required to be published annually, thereby securing a great saving to the State. In making the appropriation for publia nrintinir. bindng and stationery. I would commend to your con sideration the propriety of appropriating a specific amount for each officer or department named, for the reason that the present law appropriates a fixed sum without limiting the amonnt that any officer may order. Mr. Jacob B."Mavnard the efficient r.lerk of the bureau, bas made a careful examination of the old records, posted them to make them intelligible, and brought a system outf a chaotic mass. For the first time since the organization of tbe bureau, be has provided; and earefully kept a complete record of the printing and binding done, and stationery furnished on account of the last General Assembly, and though his duties have been largely increased, there has been no lacking in tbe reliability and completeness of his records. It was due to his active and earnest efforts in devising for the existing contract specifications which enabled the State, for the first time, to determine with certainty who was the lowest and best bidder for the work to be done, and the materials to be furnished. " MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS. In commenting upon the report of the Adjutant-general relative to the military force of tne State, he said: Indiana has never made an appropriation for the support of her militia, and in that respect stands alone amon? her sister States. Illinois appropriates annually $19,000 for tbe support of her militia, and Ohio appropriates $100,000. Inconsequence of the non-support by the State, old companies are constantly disbanding and new c mnanies being organized. The result is that the State has but a very small force of trained and disciplined troops. Tbe regiments in several instances have attempted to raise means for their support by holding encampments and charging an admission fee, which has raiely proved a financial success, and in several cases has brought financial disaster upon the regiment. In my opinion, the holding of military encampments for tbe purpose of charging an admission fee. thus makinsr a show of the militia of the State for the purpose of raising means for its support, is humiliating alike to the mditia and the State. The State ought not to expect her citizens to organize military companies and bear all the expenses incident to their organization and drill and be subject to service on the call of the State. I recommend a reasonable appropriation for the support of the Legion, and that the number of troops be limited by law. so that the StatB may have, though it be small in numbers, a well-trained and disciplined military force. Indiana furnished 208,367 soldiers for tho Union army during the late war. Many of the muster-in and muster-out rolls in the Adjutant-general's office are worn out oy constant use. and many of them have become partially unintelligible, and if it is tbe desire of the State to preserve ber military records, provision should be made for that purpose. In my judgment the rolls should be transcribed in book form. The Secretary of War has proposed to furnish the rolls not on file in the Adjutant-general's office, in order that the records of each State may be completed, provided each State will pay the expense occasioned thereby, which expense he says will be the salary for the number of hours that the clerical force of the War Department shall be engaged in such work. The last General Assembly passed an act requiring township assessors to enroll all the surviving soldiers and widows of all tbe wars in which the United States has been engaged, but made no appropriation for tbe furnishing of blanks for that purpose. The assessors of many of the counties of the State have, therefore, made no enrollment. .The report of the mine inspector was referred to, and attention was called to his recommendation that a law should be enacted requiring owners and operators of mines to report accidents to the inspector. After speaking at some length of the recent outbreak in Indiana of pleuro-pneumonia, the Governor recommended ''the enactment of a law authorizing quarantine reeulation in regard to the importation of cattle into this State, and providing for its enforcement, fy order that the cattle-growers in Indiana may have that protection to which so great and growing an interest is entitled." On the subject of taxation the Governor said: The decrease of nearly $54.000.000 in the last appraisement of property, notwithstanding the State is constantly increasing in wealth and population, shows conclusively that a very large class of property is escaping taxation, and a law should be enacted providing for a system of tbe most rigid examination, in order to prevent the escape from taxation of various kinds of personal property, including money, promissory notes, stocks, mortgages and the property of telephone, sleepinsr-car, parlor-car and trust compa nies. 1 he attempt to tax sleeping-cars a few years ago was resisted by the company in the United States Circuit Court, and tbe case was appealed to the Sufreme Court of the United States, but tbe Legislature ailed to make any appropriation for tho prosecution of the suit to obtain a reversal. If it is tbe desire to test the qu-esttfe whether that class of property is liable to taxation, a new law should be enacted auth orizing its taxation for the reason that the Attorneygeneral expressed some doubt as to whether the question involved in said suit was res adjudicata, onaccount of the failure to continue its prosecution. Ihe aggregation of individual wealth in various combinations of power, the combination of manufacturing monopolies, and tho organization of coal mine and other syndicates with the railroad companies, are subjects that should receive your careful consideration. All these combinations of capital and corporate power are organized for the purpose of forcing up the prices of commodities and the necessaries of life, and of controlling the wages of labor, to the serious detrimeut of the people and oppression of the laboring masses. To such an extent has become the desire to rapidly accumulate wealth that, were it possible, the very air we breathe and the water we drink would be controlled and doled out to the people at such prices as monopolists might see proper to fix. The laboring classes constitute a large portion of our population; they comprise, in a great measure, the honest, intelli gent, thinking citizens, who seek good government. and are entitled to as full protection at . the hands of the law as capital or any other interest, and inasmuch as their capital comprises nothing but honest toil, the enactment of such laws as will protect their just rights against tne comuinacion 01 capital ana corporate pow er, secure to them the prompt and lull payment of their wages, and give relief from competition with convict contract labor, should receive your consideration. On account of the numerous casualties result ing from the defective construction and unsafe condition of steam boilers, he recommended the enactment of a law creating the office of boiler inspector. The recent fraudulent transactions of town ship trustees was mentioned, and on this sub ject he said: The duties of township trustee, township treasurer and township clerk beine combined in one officer, and thereby placing the entire management of township business in his hands without any check upon the transaction of bis business, the accomplishment of fraud is made more easy and less liable to detection. The fact that such fraudulent transactions did not oc cur in those States that have adhered to the old system of three trustees, a treasurer and a clerk, will be accepted as a better system than the combining of their duties in a single officer. Under our laws the common council of our cities, with a single exception, appoints three school trustees for the management of the city schools, and tor stronger reasons it would seem that the management of the schools in the town ships outside of the cities, as well as the management of other townsh'.p business, is sufficient to authorize the election of three township trustees, a treaurer and a clerk. I would recommend a return to that system. Owing to the frequent defalcations of persons in positions 01 puonc trust, ne recommended the 'enactment of a law requiring the official bonds of all State and countv treasurers to be signed by at least fifty freehold snreties, whose aggregate worth, over and above all their indebt edness and exemptions allowed bylaw, is double the amount of such bond, and that the severest penalties be attached to the crime of embezzle ment. In conclusion he expressed the wish that the proceedings of the Legislature might be har monious, that time would not be unnecessarily consumed at public expense, and that the Divine Ruler of all things might inspire the members with wisdom to perform their duties to the ac ceptability to th people of the State. Gedney House, New Torkf Broadway and Fortieth street, opposite Metro politan Opera-house and Casino. Hotel entirely new. Desirable lor business men or tamuies. European plan. Rooms, $ I per day upwards. Excellent restaurant Geo. Dan Macauley & W. B. Bowers. - DIED. STAPP-Thomas B. Stapp, of consumption, on Friday evening. Jan. 7, 1887, at 5 p. m., aged fortythree years aud one month. Tne funeral will take place from his late residence. No. 276 North Alabama street, on Sunday afternoon, Jan. 9, 1887, at 2 p. in. KRAMER Minnie, wife of Andrew Kramer, in ber forty-second year. Funeral will take place on Sunday morning, at 10 o'clock, at 323 East New York street, and at 10:30 at the First Evangelical Church, corner East and New York streets. Friends invited. STORMER On Thursday. Jan. 6. at 10:55 p. m . at the residence, 212 West New York street Sarah A. Stormer, wife of Espy Stoimer, of consumption. Funeral on Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock.
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WROUGHT IRON AND FITTINGS. Selling Agents for NATION AI Tcbi Works Co, Globe Valves, Stop Cocks, Engine Trimmings. PIPE TONGS, CUTTERS. VISES. TAPS, Stocks and Dies, Wrenches, Steam Traps. Pumps. Sinks. HOSE. BELTING, BABBIT METALS (25-poond boxes). Cotton Wiping Waste, white and colored (100-pound bales), and all other supplies used in connection with STEAM. WATER and GAS, in JOB or RETAIL LOTS. Do a regular' steam-fitting business. Estimate and contract to heat Mills, Shops, Factories and Lumber Dry -houses with live or exhaust steam. Pipe cut to order by eteam power. t ' Knight & Jillson,. 75 and 77 S. Penn. St. GRATEFUI COMFORTING. EPPSJ COCOA.. BREAKFAST. "Bv a thorough knowledge of the natural laws which govern the operations of digestion and nutrition. and by a careful application ot the fine properties or well-selected Cocoa, Mr. Epps baa provided our breakfast tables with a delicately flavored beverage which may save us many heavy doctors' bills. It is by the judicious use of such articles of diet that a constitution may be gradually built up until strong enough to resist, every tendency to disease. Hundreds of subtle maladies are floating around us ready to attack wherever there is a weak point. We may escape many a fatal shaft by keeping ourselves well fortified with pnre blood and a properly nourished frame." "Civil Service Gazette. Made simply with boiling water or milk. Sold only in half-pound tins, bv Grocers, labeled thus: JAMES EPPS "& CO., Homcepathio Chemists, London, England. JAHK STATEMENTS. REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF THE INDI. ana National Bank, at Indianapolis, in the State of Indiana, at the close of business, December 28,. 1886: RESOURCES. Loans and discounts $1,253,674.99 Overdrafts ... IT. S. bonds to secur 9 circulation 137.75 50.000.00 300,000.00 U. S. bonds to secure deposits U. S. bonds onband 200,000.00 Other stocks, bonds and mortgages.. . . 3,000.00 Premium on bonds 41,500.00 Due from approved reserve agents $460,713.35 Due from other national .banhs.. 59,937.88 Due from State banks and bankers 39,985.93 Checks and other cash items 5,865.82 Exchanges for clearingbouse 10,242.08 Bills of other banks 101,140.00 Fractional paper currency, nickels and cents.. 7C7.09 c . U4old,$430, 000.00 SPecie 5 Silver 14,872.50-444,372.50 Legal-tender notes 75.00O.00 -1,198,024.65Redemption fund with U. S. Treasurer (o per cent of circulation) ou.uu Total - $3,048,587.36 LIABILITIES. Capital stock paid in $300.000. 00 Surplus fund 100,000.00 Undivided profits 47.404.72" National bank notes outstanding 45.000. 00Individual deposits subject to check $1,427,101.UZ Demand certificates of deposit 306.356.69 Certified checks. 4,600.36 United States deposits 27,444.96 Deposits of United States disbursing ofcers 203,462.40 Due to other national banks 288,267.96 Due to State banks and bankers 298,948.652,556,182.64 Total $3,048,587.36State of Indiana, County of Marion, ss.: I. E. B. Porter, cashier of the above-named bank. do solemnly swear that the above statement is true to the best of my knowledge and belief. m. is. .TUitTttK. cashier. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 6th day of January, 1887. William Weslby Wooixen, notary ruonc. Correct Attest: v. T. malott. WM. COUGHLEN, Directors. R. S. McKee, CHURCH SERVICES. Christian. GENTRAL CHRISTIAN CHURCH CORNER OP Delaware and Ohio streets. Rev. E. J. Gantz, pastor. Services to-morrow at 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. The pulpit will be filled by Rev. Robert Moffett, of Cleveland. O. Tbe services will be continued evsry night during the week. Sunday-school at 2:80 p. m. Auxiliary Society at the residence oi airs. Carrie Gardiner. 314 College avenue, on Wednesday at 2:30 p. m. All are invited to attend the revival services daring the week. Congregational. MAYFLOWER CONGKKliATlUJNAlj U11UKC11 St. Clair street, near East. Rev. N. A. Hyde, D. D., pastor. Services to-morrow at lOuW a. re- ana 7:30 p. m. Preaching by S. T. Dunlap, of Galesburg. HL Sunday-school at 2 p. m. Strangers cordially invited. Methodist Episcopal. CENTRAL-AVENUE METHODIST EPISCOPAL. Church Corner of Central avenue and. Butler street. Rev. A. W. Lamport, pastor. Preaching by the pastor to-morrow at lO: JO a. m. and :.t p. to. Class-meeting at 9:30 a.m. Sunday-school at 2:15 p. m. : W. D. Cooper, superintendent. Young people'a meetingat 6:30 p. m. Strangers cordially invited. M1 Church O ERIDIAN-STREET METHODIST EPISCOPAL irner New York and .Meridian streets. Rev.tJ. E. Gilbert. V. !., pastor, n-eacninir at 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p. ni. Sunday-school at 2:15 p. m. Class-meetiTigs at if : a. m. ROBERTS PARK M. E. CUUKC11-Ctw i r;u Delaware and Vermont streets. Rev. I H. Mcn,n ntrtf. Class at 9 a. ra. and 6:30 p. m. Preachin at 10:30 a m. and 7:30 p. m. Sundayschool at 2 p. ra Young people's meeting on Monday at 7:30 p. ra. Mr. Philip i'uiuips. wno is 10 give an .r.w.mn.Ant. Jan. lO. 11 and in mis cnurcn, 10. 11 will sins a solo on Sunday morning, and will be at tho Sunday-school, ana win give ui ovu u evening. All invited. Presbyterian. FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH SOUTHwest corner Pennsylvania and New York streets. The pastor. Rev. M. I Haines, will preach to-morrow at 10:45 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Evenine text "Ther Pleasures of Sin." Sunday-school at 9:30 a. m. Tho publie cordially Invited. SECOND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH CORNER of Pennsylvania and Vermont streets. Rev. J am ft McLeod. D.D.. pastor. Services a 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p. in- Sunday-school at 2:30 p. m. Pastor's class on Tuesday evening at 7:3U. i'r aver-meeting on Thursday evening. Tbe public cordially Invitea to ail these services. SEVENTH PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH CORNER Cedar and Elm streets. Rev. H. V. Hunter, pastor. Preaching service to-nign. ommuuwuTice and the reception, of members Sabbath morning. t.kv..v "n.ritim.n with the Blaes. osuunut imuuis, wrf - riA.BERNACLE CHU B OH CORNER MERIDIAN A and Second streets Kev. d.Aioen xvoiiuuior.v tor. Service to-morrow morning at u'.ov; rcm by the pastor. Rev. Jehn Baltxly will preach to 7:30 pf m. Sabbath-school and Bibleclasses at 2:15 p. m. Young people's prayer-meeting at 3;45 p. m. publie eordiauy uiviwm.