The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1865-01-12

the existing circumstances of the coun
try arc found to be utterly inadequate.
Taking the Governors salary for cx-
ample, he shows that New York and
Pennsylvania pay their Governors
81 1000 year, Indiana and Maryland
$4,000, in addition to furnishing them
a house New Jersey pays $4,000,
Massachusetts, last year 1890, this year
$4,000, while Ohio, the third State u
the Union, pays bu, $780, and no house
furnished. This is manilcstly unjust,
especially when it Is considered that the
labors Of every State officer have been
greatly increased by the war. We hope
the Legislature will promptly increase
their salaries to something like what
other States pay for similar services. -
This is but simple justice, and will be
heartily approved by the people.
BOARD OF MILITARY CLAIMS.
The Governor recommends that the
Adjutant General, Q. NJ. General and
Attorney-General, be constituted a
Board to examine and adjust certain
claims Of private citizens against the
State, growing out of the war.
REGIMENTAL FLAGS.
An appropriation is reocomme ended
to enable t"e Adjutant General to place
the flags Of our regiments which have
been presented to the State, in the ro.
tunda Of the Capitol building, where
they may be properly displayed and
preserved.
SOLDIERS RELIEF FUND.
An increased levy of one mill on the
dollar is recommended, owing to the
continued high prices of provisions
&c. The Governor last year appropri.
atcd $4,000 from the Extraordinary Con.
tingent Fund, which was paid out tC
soldiers families, in addition to the
funds raised by taxation. The law has
not worked as smoothly as desirable
but this seems to be more owing to the
neglect Of the proper officers to carry
out its provisions than to any defect in
the law itself. The Governor says:
GAS general thing, the county off.
GERS have performed their duties undo,
it with reasonable promptitude. Nu
merOus, aud in some cases serious, com.
plants have been made against Town.
ship Trustees, in regard to the distribu
ton Of the fund. The military com.
mittees have rendered very valuable as.
sistance in investigating these com.
plants. In some cases the omissions
were found to be accidental in others
they arose from the insufhcicncy of the
fund to meet the expectations of the
parties; in very few they we're found to
be exaggerated and fraudulent; and in
many, far too many, they were found ia
be correctly stated, and properly attrib-
utable to tho political hostility of the
officers, not only to the provisions of the
law, but to the prosecution of the war,
and the cause Of the country. In no
case reported to me did this amount to
absolute refusal to perform the required
duties; but in some instances they were
tardily performed; in others, women
were required to walk long distances to
get signatures to orders; and in Others,
again, the payments to them were ac
companied with harsh, and in somcH ca
scs ungentlemanly language, which in
many instances deferred females from
second applications. 1t is painful to
be compelled to record these facts; yet
it affords me pleasure to state that such
conduct has not been generally mani
Tested in the political party opposed to
the Government. The cases arc isola-
ted, and have usually been found con
nected with ignorance or intense parli
san bitterness"
We trust such disgracerul conduct as
the Governor here exposes will not ngain
occur. If it should, however, LIT the
uames Of the offenders be published
that they may be held up to the scorn
and contempt of all good citizens.
The county officers of only one couu-
ty refused to perform their duty under
the law. The Governor says: "Thc
Commissioners were Immediately noti-
fed that the provisions ofthe law would
be enforced; upon which the matter YVES
adjusted between them and the Military
Committee, and further action was thus
avoided"
Only 25 counties have made the re
ports to the State officers required b.,
law, and the Legislature is advised IA
afHx a penalty to the neglect Of this du,
ty on the part of township and county
officers.
OF the counties reporting, Columbiano,
.Cuyahogo, Coshocton, Fulton, Cucrn-
soy Huron, Hamilton, Lawrence, Mar.