Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-11-24
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Small temporary appropriations are re
lquired as promptly. as practicable, for eacl
OF the following objects. the existing ap
prepria tions having been exhausted, viz
Expenses of the Presidential election; ex
penses of the General Assembly. Trustee
OF Benevolent Institutions, Care of Stat
House, Gas for State House, expenses O
Legislative Committees, Binding for tn,
State, and the new Idiotic Asylum.
In pursuance of an act, passed March1 Is
/ 1867, a board of commissioners, eonsistins
4 of Aaron F. Perry, of Hamilton county
i Charles E. Glidden, of Maloning county
and James Ii. Goldman. Auditor of State
was appointed by my predecessor, Gov
all the laws of this State relating to the as.
sessment and taxation of property, the col.
lection, safe-keeping and disbursement o.
the revenues, and all the laws constituting
the financial system of the State" and tc
report their proceedings to the next
session of the General Assembly
The report OF the commission wat
laid before you at your last session. II
tdisclosed many imperfections and incon.
sistencies in the existing legislation touch.
Ing the finances, and the urgent necessity
| for an elaborate revision of that legisla-
| tion.C Their report was accompanied by
eight separate bills, consolidating the pres
ent laws, removing contradictions, and
supplying defects, but introducing no rad
ical change in the general principles of our
financial system. These bills have already
been somewhat considered in both brarches
of the General Assembly; but no definite
action upon them has yet been had. I
respectfully recommend an early yconsidera-
ton OF the bills and their adoption, with
such amendments as in your Judgment the
public Interests may require. y
The destruction of the Central Lunatic
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18th instant causing the death by suffoca-
| ton of. six of the patients, and incalcula-
BILE distress and suffering to the remainder,
will require investigation and prompt ac-
ton on your part. In rebuilding the Asy-
lum, the erection of fire-proof building
will occur to you, as alike the suggestion
of prudence and humanity.
This calamity also suggests the propriety
of examining the condition, Of the other
Institutions of the State, with a view to
providing them with every proper means
of security against similar, disaster.
The interests of common school educa-
tton, in my opinion, will be promoted by
the early adoption of county superinten-
dency, as provided in a bill on that sub
ject, now pending in one branch of the
General Assembly, / therefore earnestly
recommend the consideration and passage
of the bill.
The Commissioner of Common Schools
is required. in the discharge of his du-
ties to pay out each year, for travelling lex-
penses. about 500. The propriety of re-
| funding to him, out of the State treasury.
his travelling expenses, will probably not
be called IN question.
During the last summer a cattle disease,
commonly known as the Spanish or Texas
| cattle fever, oeeasioned much alarm in the
| grazing counties of the State, and in few
| localities caused serious loss. On the rec
oInmendation of the State Board ofsAgTi-
culture, in the absence of effective legisla.
ton, it was deemed proper to appoint COM
missioners to take such measures as the
law w.auth thorized to prevent the spread of the
disease. A proclamation was issued to
prevent, as far as practicable, the intro-
| duction, movement, or transportation OF
diseased cattle within the limits of the
State. The railroad companies and the
owners of stock promptly complied with
| jury sustained by the cattle Interest was
happily not extensive. 1t is believed that,
upon investigation, it will be found neces-
sary to confer by law upon board
of commissioners, appointed for that
1 purpose or upon the executive com
mittee of the State Board of Ag-
riculture, power to "stamp out" the dis
ease wherever it appears, by destroy ing
all infected cattle, and to prohibit or regu-
late the transportation or movement OF
stock within the State during the prevail
ence of the disease. To the end that prop
er Investigation may be had, respect
fully recommend that authority be given
to appoint five Commissioners to attend a
meeting of Commissioners of other States,
to be held for the reconsideration of this sub
lject, at Springfield, Illinois, on the first oil
December next-said Commissioners to re-
port the results OF their investigation In
time for action by the present General As
sembly.
| submit to your consideration the i'm
portance of providing for thorough and
comprehensive geological survey of the
State. Many years ago partial survey
was prosecuted under many difficulties and
emharrassments, which was fruitful Of val
liable results. 1t is, beyond doubt, that
such work as it Is now practicable to car
4 ry out. win. by making known the mining
manufacturing and agricultural resources
of the State, lead to their developments to ar
extent which will, within few wears, am.
ply reimburse the State for its cost.
The annual report of pardons granted
and the communications of the sentences o.
convicts required by law; statement il
detail of the expenditure of the Governors
Contingent Fund; the semi-annual repor
| of the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund
for May; copies of proclamations ISSUED
4during the last year; and an acknowledg.
Ement of the presentation TO the State o
several of the portraits of former Cover
nors of Ohio, are transmitted herewith.
The most important subject of leeisla'
ton which. in my judgment, requires the
l.attention of the General Assembly at itl
+present session, relates TO the prevention O
frauds upon the elective franchise. Intel.
iIigent men of all parties are persuaded thai
at the recent important State ana NatiOna
elections great abuses of the right of suf-
frage were practiced. am not prepared
4 60 admit that the.Teports commonly circu'
lated and believed in regard to such abuses
would, so fafl as the elections in Ohio are
concerned, be fully sustained by thorough
investigation of the facts, But it is mol
dOub: ed that even at the elections IN oui
own State frauds were perpetrated to such
i an extent that all good citizens earnestly
desire that effective measures may be
adopted by you to prevent their repetition,
No elaborate attempt to portray the con-
lsednefices Of this evil is required If It ID
allowed to increase. the confidence of the