The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-02-26

that the Governors written assent shall be oh.
tanned as to the sutflciency of securities where
bonds are deposited with the Auditor or sought
to be Withdrawn and others substituted.
We would also recommend that the Auditor
be required, at the commencement of every
term OF office, to give bond, to be approved
by the Governor, in the sum of 300, 1000. fol
Office under the banking law.
Your committee further report that they
have compared the books of the Auditor and
Treasurer, and find them to agree in all essen
tial particulars.
The balance in the Treasury on the list inst,
as appears by the books of the Office, was
$9S. 1878. Of this amount, $42, 600 belongs
to the United States War Fund But as the
general government is largely indebted to the
State for advances made, your committee think
the fund is subject to appropriation by the leg
islature, and constitutes part of the available
means of the treasury.
Your committee also examined the securities
held by the Treasurer, belonging to the per-
manent School Fund, consisting of interest
bearing bonds of this State and the United
States, amounting to the sum- at their par
value, of $112, 600. These bonds we find to be
properly endorsed, rs required by the statute,
nor can they be disposed of until cOuntersigned
| by the governor.
In consideration of the large amount of Sc
curities now deposited in the offices of the
Treasurer and Auditor, and which, under the
operation of the laws, is steadily increasing,
your committee would recommend that a fire
proof vault or vaults be built, large enough to
hold the iron safes and the most important
books belonging to the offices, and also that a
permanent watch be established in the capitol,
for the better protection of the public prop
erty.
Before closing this report, your committee
would take occasion to recommend, though
not strictly in the line of their prescribed du-
ties, that q sinking fund be created for the
payment of the per cent. State Bonds, falling
due i'm 1867, and that to effect this object, we
would respectfully call the attention OF the leg
islature to the proposed plan OF the State Au-
ditor, on pages 10 and 20 of his last annual re-
port, believing, as we d. that if his sugges-
tons are adopted, and an act passed at the
present session to carry them into effect, that
much embarrassment may be saved the State
which must otherwise occur, should this i'm
portant measure be longer postponed.
All of which is respectfully submitted
(Signed) JOHN NICOLS,
Chairman Senate Committee
T. H. ARMSTRONG,
Chairman House Committee.
IN COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE
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Committee rose, it reported H. F. No. 1O8, to
appropriate money to cover deficiencies therein
stated for 1868, with amendments and recon-
mendatiOn to pass. Report adopted.
On motion of Mr.. GIBBS. the House took
recess till ~ o'clock
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The House met at 21s o'clock.
The House Immediately resolved itself into
committee CT the whole.
II No fn fo
lands for the support of an Insane Asylum, a
School for Deaf and Dumb, Normal School,
and for q State Prison, was taken up
Mr. WISWELL. for the purpose of ascer-
tanning whether the House would take up fur
Their time on the bill, moved that the same be
reported back to be indefinitely postponed.
Mr.. YOUMANS objected to cutting the
question short by the motion to postpone. The
friends of the bill proposed to offer amendments
which would materially change its features, so
that it might be acceptable to a majority of
the House. He considered it the most impOr-
tant bill of the session, and if passed would
save to the people of the State one million dol,
lars of taxation within the next fifteen years
The State Institutions which this bill proposed
to aid in the erection, must be provided for by,
the State either by the setting aside of these
swamp lands or by direct taxation. The ones
ton was whether these lands should be used
for public institutions or be frittered away on
GubanatOrial addresses OF Governors Miller,
Swift and Ramsey, urging upon the Legisla-
ture to set aside these lands for the public III
situations named in the BILL 80.
Mr.. WISWELL stated that he had no dispo-
stiOn to give these lands to Railroad Corpora
tiors. He thought that the munificent bequest
of these lands as provided in this bill would
not enure to the benefit of the State. He cited
the State University to show what a munifcent
~ LAM hod h0or, 0udn
q single dollar of benefit to the State. He
wanted the title Of the lands to remain in the
State and with their increase in value the
fund from their sale hereafter could be used
with greater effect for the creation of these in
situations.
Mr.. GUITEAU wante to know about how
| much land the State would receive by the
Swamp Land Grant of Congress. p.
Mr.. YOUMANS said the amount could not
be told, but tits estimated to be about 8, 900 900
acres. ..-- .f
Mr.. GUITEAU thought it would be time to
make this grant of lands when the State re-
ceived the title to the same. He had no doubts
but future Legislatures could take care of this
matter.
The motion to report back for indefinite
pOstpOnement was agreed to.
Fl. F. No. So, amending ahe Apportionment
Bill SO that the Lake Shore should be entitled
to a representative in the House was reported
Dack WIFI RECOMMENDATION LOT lnOennlte
pOstponement.
House memorial for post road to the Pa
cific Coast, was recommended for indefinite
pOstpOnement
H. +. No. 70, for the establishment of an
Insane Asylum for the State of Minnesota at
Red Wing was taken up.
Mr.. SMITH moved the indefinite postpone
ment of the bill
Upon which Mr. GATES took up the de-
fence of the bill, in an urgent argument, that
the provision of the State for insane was not
sufficient. The City of Red Wing proposed to
donate twenty-five acres of land within its cor
porate limits for the location of the buildings,
and also to furnish for four years suitable build.
ings free of rent, for the accommodation OF the
insane, until a part of the building could be
erected; and also to donate go. 900 to the
Trustees as SOON as the buildings shall be
erected. He though that the enpense OF tax
ing care of the Insane, say twenty-five, could
he accommodated at Rcd Wing for "a 600