Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1859-10-21
GOVERNORS MESSAGE.
FeHos0 Citizens oftbe Senate

assembled to perform the labors and du-
ties of State legislation, / am happy in
believing, are not of an unpleasant char
acter. During the past year the earth has
Welded its accustomed store of agricultur-
al productions, our people have been bless
ed with common measure of health, and
their business transactions and prospects
have undergone marked and decided
Improvement. The general business IN
terests of the State, indeed, appear to be
in healthy and prosperous condition.
We meet also for the first time in the
new State edifce, and can hardly fail to
be favorably and agreeably impressed
with its fine proportions and the beautiful
style of its finish, and also with the con-
venience of its arrangements, and the APP
propriate fitness of its furniture and ap-
pendages. The building is indeed a no
BILE and imposing structure, and we may
Justly be proud of it as our State Capitol.
congratulate you on its completion,
and l doubt not you will concur with me
that much credit is due to those who have
been concerned in its erection, as well for
the rapidly with which the work has
been pushed forward, as for the neat and
substantial manner in which it appears
to have been executed.
l trust we shall enter upon our legis-
lative labors in a just and commendable
spirit, and with determination to bring
them to as speedy close as the interests
and welfare o. the State will permit.
STATE FINANCES.
The condition of our State finances will
require, and will no doubt receive, your
careful consideration.
I think Tiny duty to call your atten-
ton to the fact, appearing by the Audit
or's Report, that the State expenditures
during the past political year have con-
siderably exceeded the accruing revenue
Such has also been the case for several
years past, requiring the adoption of g
more rigid system of economy, or a resort
to additional taxation, or both, in order tC
avoid the necessity of creating a new
State debt. am not disposed to recon
mend paTsimonious course of Legislation
in regard to proper objects of approPri
alton, but l deem it worthy of considera
ton whether some of our State expense
may not be reduced without violating thu
principles of a judicious economy.
CRIMINAL PROSECUTIONS.
Among the expenditures which, / thinl
deserve legislative consideration, are thoS
connected with prosecutions for crime il
the several counties. An examination
of the Auditors Reports for the presen
. and former years will show that the ex
penses in this branch of the public sery
ice are large, and that they have bee
y constantly increasing for several yeaI
q past without an apparent correspondent
increase in legitimate criminal business
O The accounts of states attorneys, sheriff
O clerks and others, connected with thes
o expenditures, are adjusted by county al
% ditors appointed by the supreme cour
and they are far from following uniforI
10 system of allowances. Charges whic
would be discarded in some counties {
10 illegal, would be allowed in others, ar
for the like service different rates of con
pensation are permitted by different al
70 ditors, some of them apparently of an in
70 provident character. 1t seems indispen
able that these accounts should be adjus
" ed in the several counties, and perha
~ the present system is liable to as few o
u iections as any that could be adopted
~ But it is respectfully submitted for yo
consideration whether it may not be il
w proved by further legislative regulatio
o. As one means of accomplishing this o
~ iect, would suggest that the State A
o. ditor be required to report to the Genel
Eo Assembly, during the first week in ca
o. session, a statement of the allowanc
so which Eave been made by the sever
county auditors during the preceding |
90 litical year, which in his opinion are eth
illegal or excessive in amount, togeth
so with such suggestions as he shall dee
so proper for producing more just and u
so form allowances. Such a requirement
rs the State Auditor, it is believed, wol
Is operate as a check upon improper allo
ances, and by bringing the subject am
so ally to the attention of the legislatu
70 would enable them to apply the prof.
IS remedy for any evils that should, fir
90 time to time, be found to exist.
90 In connexion with provision of t
o. kind, I would also recommend that all f
whatever to states attorneys, for their s
~ ~ vices, be abolished, and, in lieu there
- fixed salaries allowed them from the ST
AZ treasury. The rates of compensation
m the several states attorneys might
30 graduated either by the number of S
ators to which the counties are resp
lively entitled, or according to some OF
rule corresponding as nearly as prac
able to the amount of business to be z
~ formed by each. ! am persuaded t
e of salaries sufficiently liberal to ensure
alb just and proper attention TO the dutie.
" the office might be thus paid, and at
same time the expenditures in this bra
of the public service be very much less
ed.
BANKS, INSANE ASYLUM AND ST.
PRISON.
on. deem it unnecessary to call your
cial notice to the various important I
tiers embraced in the State Auditors
port. The Banks, now in operation
,ood the State, appear, from the Commiss
WINS er's Report, to be in safe and SO
and condition Tho A sx,Iup, g., A., y