New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-01-06

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al must coincide with the policy Of the Governor
in pushing the wcrk to the speedest possible COM
| pletiop.
The school expenditures for the year were
"a go 900. Of which about two thirds wss paid to
| teachers. The total number Of attendants on the
| public schcols during the year was 932, LBS, or
sixty.Dine per cent Of the population between the
ages Of four and twenty-cne.
The militia force Of the State under the present
sy-tem amounts to l6,44. Of their sOldier-lihe
bearing the Governor, from personal observation,
speaks favorably. But the committing system has
failed to produce the expected and necessary funds,
and needs amendment in that point Of view.
Perhaps the most important suggestion CON
tanned in the Message is the recommended % OF
registry law, BY which the right of voting may DO
aseertained and settled previous to the election.
and the door thus shut TO large part Of that fraud
Of which the polls are now but too often the
scene. In oil those States in which this precau-
ton exists il has been found universally satisfac-
tory, and the more our population concentrates IN
towns and cities, the more crying does its neces.
sity become for us. We trust this recommend
! ton will meet the cordial cooperation Of the
Legislature.
The Governor speaks with satisfaction Of tho
practical working Of the enactments Of tho last
Legislature for the better government of this city
and particularly Of the act establishing the existing
police. He recommends the enactment Of any
laws that may BE- needed to facilitate its complete
| organization.
He hopes that New.Jersey may yet forego her
| objections to the use Of Sandy Hook for Quaran-
| tine station.
He explains the failure to publish, as required
by the Constitution, the resolutions for an amend
ment of the Constitution in relation TO the suffrage
of men Of colsr and TO election frauds and rec om-
mends the re-passsse Of those resolutions.
The repair Of the State Lunatic Asylum OF Utica,
partially destroyed BY FIRE, which the Governor,
from the necessity of the case, took upon himself
to authorize, will cost 5000, to which amount
he asks appropriation. In this connection he
also calls attention to the subject of county asylums
for insane paupers.
He recommends reclamation on tho General
Government for the $4,000 expended under re-
solve Of the last Legislature for improving the nav.
cation Of the Hudson River and also that the water
lines for this city established by ths late Board of
Commissioners should be made final and unslter-
able.
The Governor dwels with considerable emphasis
on the extraordinary use to which the courts of
law, especially in this city, have put proceedings
by injunction, interfering in this way with the &C.
finn of public officers. and lending themselves a.
instruments of party strife. He proposes to for
bid the granting Of injunctions porte; to con6ue
procedure by injunction to cases where the in
jury apprehended would be otherwise irreparable;
to require security for damages; and in cases
affecting public officers, hearing at General
Term whence the case might at once be taken to the
Court Of Appeals, all other courts to be prohibited
from intervening in the case.
Some additional provisions are necessary, he
thinks, to ascertaining and declaring the result
of Judicial elections, instead of leaving the Judges
to hold Office, as they now do, under mere can.
vassers' certificate.
A greater discretion allowed to the criminal
courts in graduating punshments might save many
of the applications for pardons with which the Elk.
ecutlye Is now overwhelmed, and often greatly en-
barrassed.
The Governor refers with just6sble indignation
to the efforts still in progress to impose a Slave
Constitution on Kansas, against the struggles of
large majority of the inhabitants. He expresses
his satisfaction at the judgment lately rendered by
the Supreme Court for this District in the Lennon
case, somewhat dryly remarking that the dissent
ing Justice has not yet made public the grounds or
the extent of his disagreement from the opinion of
the majority of the Court. The State of Virginia
having intimated her intention to appeal, he recon-
mends further provision for maintaining the rights
of the State.
We may observe in conclusion, that the Message
is very well written, compact and to the point, and
wholly free from that surplusage which ia too often
the most marked feature of similar documents.