Daily Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1854-1855, 1854-12-16
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ALFRED SASDkRs, Exsc2.
0Avaapore, Gotarda- DAG. to- 1854.
0yAsYsh " asv KsMpsssass Message
Had ~ been At our post we should have
treated our readers 10 Gov. Hempssead's
McSsaes eaGre. but being absens at the time
Of its reception. other matters. perhaps pos.
sesssng more Interest 70 the reader, were
permitted To- occupy It's place. That our
subscrisess msy be kept fully posted with
regard to everything transriring around
them, w propose to make . brief and i'm.
partial syucpsis Of this Interesting docu-
InenG
n the COMMENCEMENT Of his msasage
the retiring Governor informs the members
Of The Legislature the object for which they
hare sssembied, the duties devolving upon
them and the powers with which they are
invested. He then al!udcs to the prosper
Gus condition of our State, the increase Of
immigration. bountiful harvests, etc., for
whieh he very properly expresses gratitude
"to Him Who holds in His hand the destiny
cfmen and nations"
He proceeds to business" By referring
70 our financial affairs, which he does "with
Ride," when he contrasts them with our
sister States. The funded debt Of the State,
e. which bonds have been Issued, amounts
% ez9Fo5 IS. Ofthese bonds Sl6,4ae o5
eamedne in last May and the others are pay
able in 1856, 81 and 80. The Treasurer's
report, accompanying the message, shows
that from Nor. LIST. 1852, to Oct. slst. 1854,
there had been received into the treasury
ol25,4Gs 81. and during the same time there
had been paid cut Slls,542 80, the amount
Of money at that time in the treasury being
Sl5,522 p. In this connection tho Gov
ernor recommends the election OF County
instead Of Township Assessor, as more eco
nomical and liable to fewer errors.
Attention is then directed to the laws es-
tablishing Common Schools and the Uni
versity. and he recommends that the office |
Of School Fund Commissioner be abolished |
and that the laws be more simpifed. The |
multiplication of text books in the Common |
Schools receives the Governors unqualified |
disapproyal, while at the came time he rec.
onmends new dictionary gotten up by
enc Noah Webster. and also the study off
the Constitution Of the United States. an
as though he would cap the very climax of
absurdity, that Of the State OF lows itself |
In our younger days. those Constitutions
were taught to young men from is to 81
years Of age. and were considered rather
dif5cult Of comprehension even BY them,
but in these latter days, when little boys o.
Scr 10 pears Of age indicted into the Office |
Of FASTING papers for the members of the
Iowa Senate. have to take an oath in so
doing to support the Constitution OF the U. |
States and of the State OF Iowa, perhaps
10 necessary they be instructed into the
nature and requirements of the instruments
they are bound TO sustain.
The establishment and endowment Of
benevolent institutions, receive the sanction !
and the Recommendation of the Governor, |
and be suggests the sale of the saline
lands, and the interest Of tho money 70 be |
appropriated, in accordance with . former
act of the legislature to that purpose.
He next calls attention to the report of
the Warden Of the Peni,entisry and then 10
that fruitful source of official pep and hum
bug generally, the improvement Of the Des
MONIES river. We learn from the Govern.
or, as we did from his worthy predecessor,
none other than our old friend Ansel, the
gentleman from Briggs,"--as the worthy
Spesksr Of the House introduced Mr.. Holmes
en- Tuesday last-,hat tina, "work i, said to
Be progressing"
The militia comes In next for q notice
from the retiring Governor, and we learn
that the object of the Government in fur
nishiDg them with arms is, "to defend them
selves ia case Of emergency" Now as such
cases are much more common with the ed
isorial fraternity than with the men gener-
ally who parade towns with corn stalks and
broom-sticks on their shoulders, t. the tune i
OF drum not beaten 1.-THE so well as our
old friend, the Judge, beat ii in serenading
this very Governor last Saturday evening, I
We move that hey be supplied with arms ",o /
defend themselves in case of emergency" 1