Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-01-03
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Governor T1enton,s NIes.,,ge.

BUFFALO, Jan. 3.--Gov. Fenton's message
| spublished In this mornings papers, He
! recommends the establishment of claim
agencies for the collection of soldiers
claims for bounty and pay, advocates
manned and discharged soldiers be cared
for and their pensions be increased. The
present national guard consists of 112 regi-
ments, 3 independent battalions and bat
teries; aggregate force, officers and men,
uniformed and equipped, 2S009. He-adVo-
Gates tile general equipment of the National
Guard during the coming season, He says
the report OF the Superintendent Of the
Banking Department shows that on the
Both Of April, 1865, there were 100 banks
conducting business under laws of the
State, with an aggregate capital of $20,43G,-
$40; that 1913 banks have relinquished the
old system, and nearly all have been con-
verted into National Banks. The total
amount of outstanding circulation, in
cluding that of closed and closing banks
at that date, was $27,009,449, Of which
sum there was issued to Incorporated
banks, and not secured by deposit in
the Bank Department, $4,136,S66, and
to banking associations and individual
bankers, $22S72,593; decrease In circula-
tiOn, $l3,l0al96, and increase i'm banks of
S902l, $50. The system of annual cur
rency, though an innovation upon the care
fully devised and successful banking scheme
of the State, has attracted to itself most of
the banks OF the country at large, and
seems to have acquired favor and confidence
of the people. We discovered its benefits
in a uniformity based upon the National
faith, and in comparative immunity from
the unsecured and unreliable paper which
was formerly obtainedin some parts Of the
pnnntrU Tho Whn1o &c or1n h,t
enactments that combine the wisdom and
experience of the nation to make it the
most complete as well as the most reliable
system of banking ever devised.
The Governor deVotes some space to the
expected visit ofthe cholera, and commends
the views and recommendations of the
Commissioners and Health officers, and
that appropriations be promptly made to
pay for proper structures on water and
land for hospitals; and that the quarantine
regulations and health regulations of New
York and BROOKLYN are defective, and re-
quire severe modification. ....
The Governor embodes in his Message,
and refers to, a resolution passed by the
Delegate Convention last July, asking for
enlargement of New York locks and canals,
and says: Section II, Article Z, of the Con-
stituton of the State, prohibits contracting
debt for the purpose OF internal improve
ments, except upon the passage of law
which shall be submitted to the people at
the next general election and approved by
them. 1t will postpone this question but
short time, however, if allowed to await
the action of the Convention, which it is
now presumed will be called early in 1867.
by authority of Section 2, Article 13, of the
Constitution, to revise the organic law ofthe
State. Nor do l suppose that any great in
tercst of this Orany other State will be seri-
ously injured by such delay"
The Governor disapproves of the prac-
tice of leSislating tor relief of contractors
on public works. The Message concludes
as follows:
In the work of restoring revolted States
to their appropriate Federal rights, great
questions still remain for solution. While
we cannot ignore obligations which honor
and good faith impose on the Government
toward all who have been faithful in its be-
half we entertain confident hopes that en-
lightened craftsmanship will solve these
difficult problems in spirit at once hui
name, magnanimOus and just, and on prn-
ciples which will commend themselves to
the approval of all the friends OF the Gov
ernment and secure the public safety. We
must not be unmindful of the practical
difficulties which confront us in the
settlement of questions like these, nor
impatient of necessary delays incident
to the working out of conviction and at
tainment of results, when dealing with or
ganic reforms in the structure of political
institutions. Towards our mistaken coun-
trymen we entertain no feeling of bitter
ness or unkindncss. By quality of gem
erous forbearance we will cordially co-op-
crate in our respective spheres of influence
in supporting the general interests of all
those entitled to invoke our protection.
With. a firm adherence to the Just rights of
all, in a spirit of kindness, all traces of
alienation will gradually and forever dis
appear.