Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1859-01-04

OF lS45.
These Circumstances bave caused some diminu-
ton OF the revenue, aud present the question
whether the State will again contest in the Fedora
Courts the claim to exemption set up by the Banks
or so modify the act of last session as to the
Banks claiming it from lis operation. Should the
first Of these alternative be preferred, some amend
ment of the act may be found necessary, and ade-
quate provision for the unavoidable litigation should
be promptly mae.
The acts of the last session, appointing certain
citizens to int Directors of the Penitentiary
and Commissioners of the State House, having
been adjudged unconstitutional by the Supreme
Court, the Board Of Directors and the Board of
Commissioners organ zed under the act of 1856
have continued in the discharge OF their respective
duties
The increase OF the number of convicts beyond
the numbers ofcels renders it indispensable to pro
vide for the enlargement Of the existing or the
construction OF q new Pelitentiary. COnsidera-
tons o. economy recommend the former alterna-
tive Provision should also be made within the
Penitentiary enclosure for convict lunatics. The
General Assembly in lS45 directed such provision,
but the necessary appropriations having never
been made, the direction has never been executed.
In the absence Of proper accommodation in the
Penitentiary, such unaties must be transferred
under Executive warrant to one OF the existing
Asylums This is clearly wrong The criminal
insane should never be introduced into Asylums,
where the innocent and the respected, suffering
der the most fearful Of calamities, find their best
refuge.
The work on the State House advances towards
completion under the vigiant and judieiOus super
vision of the acting Commissioner and his assOei
ates Some alterations and additions a;e suggest
cd by the architect which would cerIsiuly improve
the proportions and enhance the simple grandeur
of this noble structure. Il will be for you to de-
ternine whether the condition OF the Treasury will
warrant your sanction Of them.
The rooms for the Library will sO0a be complet-
ed A small part only Of the small appropriations
made for books has been expended for several
years past. The COmmssi oners thought it iujudi-
ci Gus to make considerable additOnstO the library,
before it could be properly classified and peTma-
nently arranged. They now propose to make only
spch as seem most clearly necessary. The state
nents OF th=ir report 10 relation to the arrange
ments made for exchanges within the past year,
by which many valuable WORKS have been and more
Will be obtained. as well as its suggestions gener
ally, will properly receive your attention.
The collection of Arms required by your prede
cessOrs has been completed; and statement Of the
result will soon be land before you The proceeds
Of sales Of that portion unfit for service cannot with
propnety be appropriated to other than military
purposes No more beneficial application of them
will probably be suggested than to the construe
tion of a atSate Arsenal, and therefore recommend
their appropriation to that object.
There is probably considerable quantity OF
the cost of collecting them by special agents would
exceed their value. 1t may be exp9dient to re-
quire the Prosecuting Attorneys and Sheriis of
the several counties to collect and forward to the
State Arsenal suc1 they can lind, and to provide
for their compensation by liberal per centage.
To prevent as far as practicable future misuse
and loss, l recommend that hereafter no arms be
issued until bonds with sufficient sureties for their
safe-keeping and use according to law, shall have
heen deposited with the Quarter Master General.
Among the subjects proper for your considera-
ton, that Of the extradIton of fugitves from JUS
tice may well have place. Warrants of extradnion
issued upon requisition from other States have
been sometimes used for the purpose of extorting
compromises or enforcing payment Of peeunlary
demands Such use IS gross abuse, and should be
arrested by penalties adequate TO the Object
Some latitude of discretion has been evcerelsed by
my predecessors as well as myself in respect 10 the
rurrender of persons charged in other States with
Offences not punishable as crimes under our own
laws The general rule has been TO refuse inter-
position in such cases. 1t deserves consideration
whether the exercise of this discretion, especially
in cases of Indictment for obtaining goods by false
pretenses may not, with advantage, be regulated
by law.
is with great satisfaction that 1 again direct
your attention to the State Reform Farm Two
years since such an establishment in this county
was an untried experiment 1t IS no longer an ea-
pertinent but q success. That II IS so Is due, hTst
Of ALL to the prudent and yet liberal legislation OF
your predecessors and yourselves; but IN no less
degree to the fidelity, discretion energy and econ
omy which has characterized the Administration
of the acting Commissioner and his associates IN
obtaining large results from expenditures eOmpar-
ativey small; in method of accounts, and IN tull
and clear exhibition ofits working and condition,
this Institution may justly be proposed as model
to similar establishments.
The whole number of boys committed to the In
stitutiOn is fOrtyeight, of whom fourteen Fave
been hcnorably discharged and one has escaped
One hundred and twenty can be accommodated III
the three family buildings already erected, aud the
Deess - soon - be constructed VII
bic that any others than those now contemplated
/ will be needed for several years.
| Ii has been suggested that the farm and tamll.
system adopted III this Institution may be useluil.
introduced in the care and educatlOn OF 9eal ihu'e
and the suggestion merits careful consideration
/ venture 10 recommend, in this eonnexlon, leg
islatiye provision for meetings, from time 10 TIME
ofthe Superiutendents of the various BeneSolen
and Reformatory Institutions of the State Tor CON
parisOn and Improvement OF plans oil adnllhl5I Id
ton, methods Of reporting, and systems oI aC
counts. cannot doubt that mueh gOOd "Oulu II
suit from such conferences.
| Isurgest, also, that the time for making the II
ports now directed by law to be made Dy the zOt
Of November, be extended to the lst oil DeeehADS
in each year, and that the provisions oil law app
Cllle TO LQe-E QOcuLlGuls DC ~ =
brace all reports required to be laid before the Gei
Assembly. Such regulation, uniform IN operalio
and duly enforced, would essentially and the Ext
cutfye in preparing proper statement OF the COZ
dition of the State, and greatly iacllltate lne ul
= patch of business by the Legislature Such rePof
as have been prepared and printed VIII DC prOHP
iy laid before you. -
No financial interests more important than tno'
connected with tue Public Works demand yo'
care The immense sums invested IN them ; ths
extent and magnitude; their business relatlohs, III
the large revenues collected and dlsOursed IN me
administration, justify the solicude always zen
the people concerning their cOndlton anu u4aHai9
. ment The Constitution cOnndes tnelr supefl
tendence and control to board OF three memOel
and. to secure the constant advantage OfJudgme
improved by experience, through the eoNSt. =
j presence of some members who nave sefVed Il
considerable periods, assigns three years as tne
0 term of Office and requires the election oi o.
: member each year. The authority, entrusted
, the General Assembly, to prescribe the powers al
duties of the Board andits several members nu'
in nv Judgment, be limited necessarily Dy us U
ture and object So limited, 1t IS an authority
d prescribe the powers and duties OF the Board
q general superintendence and control ana not
e authority 10 divest the Board Of these Consti.
# tonaI functions; it is an authority TO prescribe
4 mowers and duties of lis several members u suO'
diuation 10 the Board, and not an authority toSo
:. stitute each member an independent Board, IN Sc
81 arate and substantially uncontrolled charse Oh
whole or part Of the Public VOTES II NOS
II limited, tine authority of the General Assent
!, over the Public Works is clearly unlimited 1t m
> restrict the superintendenee Of the Board TO !
L WaIhonding Canal with its insignificant reyen
b of seven or eight hundred do lars year, and g
E to some one member the entire mana 3genenl o. !
h rest Itrnay abrocafe the Constitutional Board
/ three members, and substitute three Legisiau
4 Boards Of one member each, giving in charge
5 each Just as much and just as little OF tins great
important property as it may see 1t l can!
- think that such construction 0' tue Cons9s9t
c. can commend itself to your Judgment, a1u .ne m
fs ,ssDtrre 10 recommend the reconsideration
tbose provisions OF the act Of the last session viii
n divide the Public Works iuto three sections, a
it excluding virtually all superintendence OF