The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1858-11-24

l have before alluded.
Although the Legislature failed to appre-
ciate the means which were then in the
Treasury to Sustain the interests for which
they had been raised, the Administrative
and Executive officers of the State believed
that such was the regard that the people of
Indiana had for the government they had
established-such their anxiety for the
maintenance of their constitution, and the
support of their laws, that it was their i'm
perative duty to apply the money in their
possession to the purpose for which it was
collected. From the adjournment of the
Legislature, those officers have endeavored
to sustain every interest of Indiana, as pro-
vided for her by her constitution and her
laws. They found that the laws of the
State provided that the Auditor, Treasurer
and Governor were authorized to procure
money to pay the interest upon the public
debt. Believing that the welfare of the
State would be promoted by paying such
interest, loan was negotiated on the ed
of June, 1858, with the Board of Commits
sioners of the Sinking Fund, for one hun
dred and sixty-fve thousand dollars, which
was applied to the payment of such inter-
est After the State has undertaken to pay all
the interest and principal of her debt, her
sovereign integrity demands that her obliga-
ationss,hould be redeemed. Sec. of art. 9 of
the constitution, declares that 1t shall be
the duty of the General Assembly to pro-
vide by law for the support of Institutions
for the education of the Def and Dumb and
of the Blind, and also for the treatment of
the Insane"
No appropriation was made by the Legis-
lature to sustain those Institutions, but the
money was in the Treasury-the clear pro-
vision of the Constitution that those Insti-
buttons should be supported, the officers of
the State thought should be supported and
executed, and accordingly they applied the
funds in their possession to that purpose.
The officers Of the State have been ena-
bled, by an economical administration of the
public funds, to thus far sustain every de-
partment of the government, and pay the
interest on our Indebtedness, leaving bal
lance in the treasury of Sl3l, 342 %, with
out making any loan except the one to
which have before alluded.
No tax having Goen levied forsthe years
1857 and 1858, al. the resources for sustain
ing the government, or maintaining its
credit, will, at an early day, be exhausted,
unless the Legislature shall provide a RENE
| dy. | recommend to you, therefore, that
at as early day as possible, you take into
| consideration the condition of the treasury
and that a tax be levied for the year 1858.
The report of the Auditor of State viii
exhibit to you the amount which it is esti-
mated will be necessary to raise. If the
tax is levied at once, it can be collected il
time to meet the ordinary Expenditures of the
government. 1t will be necessary to negO
ciate loan to meet the interest which will
be due upon the public debt upon the first
day of January, 1859. No difficulty vii
be found in negotiating such loan, provided
the levy is made for the year 1858.
Justice to the residents and owners of thu
property Of the State demands that the ex
penses of the government should be paid by
them equally, according to the value o
their property. To secure 30 desirable a re
suit it has long been the policy in Indians
to have frequent valuations of all the rea
property within the State. Accordingly, OF
the 18th of February, 1851, an act wa
passed to appraise the real estate, and t.
make the value of the same equal and uni
form. Since that time no act of the Legis
lature has been passed ordering a new APP
prasement In the meantime the increas
in the value OF that kind of property ha
been very large. If that increase had beel
uniform, necessity for q new appraisemen
would not exist. But since the passage Q
that law, great difference has arisen in re
ference to the relative value of real estate
When the last assessment was made Their
was but one railroad completed TO Indian
apolis, from any point in the State, nor wer
any other of the existing works finished
| W. lint of
those roads have had npon the value of tn
property of the State. Indeed, it has so in
creased the value of such property, that it
confidently believed that new assessment
would show that the taxables of the Stat
now amount to four hundred million dol
lars If this view of the subject is correct
it is manifestly unjust that the revenues pal
for the support of the government should b
levied upon the appraisemeEt of 1851.
At my request the Directors of the Stat
Prison have made a partial report as to til
condition of that Institution. You will OF
serve by an examination of that report tbs
the new cell house has been finished, bl
. even now, after the same has been con
J pleted, such is the limited capacity of thf
institution that it is impossible to retail
with safety, or employ with profit, more tina
three hundred and fifty convicts. The nun
Der which will be confined there by the fir
of January, 1859, viii, in all probabilit
amount to FIVE hundred. You will Their
fore see the absolute necessity of eth
greatly charging the existing prison, or
erecting an additional one in some other pa
of the State. In view of the prison beir
{ located upon the southern boundary of Il
: State thereby causing a heavy expense
: transporting The convicts from the val
i Gus counties, and believing that a pc
= ton of the labor.of the inmates could
j., more proftably employed in some 9th
y locality, and relying upon the adyi
} and opinion of those most experienced
managing such institutions that three hn
) bred to three hundred and fifty convicts q
as many as should be confined in one loealit
: | accordingly join with the Directors Al
. Warden of the Prison in recommending
% You that Il law be passed at an early da
! providing for the erection of another Sta
Prison, and that the same be located SON
g where in the northern portion of the Sta
Little can be done towards the erection
said Prison until the spring of 1859. If