The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1864-01-16
Governors Message.
SPECIAL Dispateh % TIE Eoaparca.
DIS MONIES, Iowa, Jan. Il.

yesterday afternoon. He SAYS our St&fe
finances have never before been In q
more healthy condition. Thseatire debt
is lS622, 29575; the moneys now in the
Treasury, the delinquent taxes, the am
CUNT estimated to be due from the Uni
ted States and the taxes of 1864 are
sufficient 10 pay the estimated expendi-
lures Of the next two years, the outstan-
ding warrants on the Treasury and our
entire State deLt-leaving O balance in
=, the Treasury of about 100000. To make
the revenue of the State more certain, he
recommends that County Treasurers be
required by law to pay at fixed times to
the State Treasurer. certain proportions
of the entire amount due the State, I'M
TIL all is paid, whether the County Treas
urers have received the entire amount of
State tax or not. He recommends q
change in the present law SO as TO give
County Treasures, in lieu of salary, a
per centum on the amount of money
collected and disbursed. He thinks this
change would tend TO more prompt col
lection of the revenue. ~. ..
. In my judgment all real estate should
be carried on the tax books in the mamie
of the true owners.
recommend the enactment of law
for receiving the new national currency
in payment of taxes, and change in the
present law so that the notes of the State
Bank and branches may be legally re-
ceived in payment so long as they shall
be redeemed in legal tender notes OF the
q. 3. As the law now stands, the notes
of said branches cannot legally be reeeir.
ed after any one of them shall have sus-
pended specie payment. III.
lie reviews in detail the condition of
the school and university funds-school
and university Landslide $500, 900 acres
grant'-the Des Moines River Grant
the Swamp Land Grant, and the Agricul-
tural College Grant; and nalses such
suggestieus as he deems best calculated
to secure the greatest good to the objects
for which these several grants were made.
The State University is now in very
hourishing condition over $50 students
are now in attendance, and they come
from all parts of the State. 1t is rapidly
becoming what it was intended to be. an
honor 10 the State and powerful aid in
promoting her highest interests.
very earnestly recommend that pro-5
vision Be made for the early appointment
and subsequent election of an additional
Judge of the Supreme Court. The Court
now consists of only three members, and
the amount of business before It is such,
that, either great delay must ensue in
disposing of it, or it must be transacted
in such haste as to preclude proper exam.
ina.ion and deliberation. The addition
of another Judge will largely increase its.
working capacity, and will afford more
time for careful and intelligent action.
He renews his former recommendation,
that provisions be made, by law. for a
Military Professership in the University.
Such professorship will not only popular.
izs theinstitution. but will impaYt to our
young men kind Of knowledge, the
want of which has cost US many men and
much treasure. since the commencement
of the rebellion; and the necessity for.
which, in the future, the history of other
nations teaches, may come upon us at
any time. :. -. -.
This State has sent into the field, 40.
regiments of infantry, Q regiments of cav
airy, and batteries of artillery; and be-
sides these complete erganizationsa large
number of men have been enlisted for
regiments in the field.
We owe much, very much, to the
brave men who have gone out from among
us to take their places in the ranks of
the army battling for the preservation of
the Constitution and the Union. We
owe much to those Of them who are still
living to fight for us, and much more to
the families of those who have given
their. lives for our protection. Their
duty to 60 was no greater than ours, but,
in patriotism they far exceiled us. How
shall we pay this debit The praise We 50
freely accord, the hef1ors we so joyfuily
confer upon them, and the gratitude We
80 deeply feel, are but small recompense
OF those who have died in the hospital
and on the battlefield, many have left
behind them young children, who need
care, protection and education, which
the State is under the most solemn obi
CATION to supply. Some of the soldiers,
yet living, have been so far disabled that
they cannot properly care for themselves.
These we should support and MAINTAIN.
very earnestly recommend, that, either
wholly by the State, or, by means of aid
furnished by the State TO those Of our
people who may be disposed to enter
} upon this work, ample provision be made
for home in which the children of our
deceased soldiers may be cared for and
educated, and in which those of our sol
disrs, who may be unable to support
themselves, may pleasantly live, the hon.
ored guests of a grateful people.
He recommends the passage OF law
exsmpting from all taxation under the
laws of the State, the real and personal
property of all non-commissioned oth-
GERS and privates, in the regiments OF this
State, aud that there be added 10 the per
centum of taxation of the property OF all
other taxpayers the sum Of one-fourth
nj one mill on each dollar. to cover the
deficiency thereby created. =,
very earnestly recommend, that some
systematic mode of furnishing aid to the
needy families of our soldiers be adopted,
Whether this can be best done by mo-
nsys furnished by the State, or, through
the fundamentally of local Aid socie-
ties, is question of doubt. 1t is very
certain the work should be done in some
way, and have no doubt your wisdom
will ascertain and adopt the proper
After .adrarting to the Presidents
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