Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1868-12-05
TEMPORARY APPROPRIATIONS.

Small temporary appropriations are
required as promptly as practicable, for
each of the following objects, the exist
ing appropriations having been exhaust
ed, viz: Expenses of the presidential
election expenses of the general assem-
bly,, trustees of. benevolent institutions,
care of state house, gas for state house
expenses OF Legislative committees, bind
ing for the state, and the new idiotic asy-
lum. '@ ' d" '..-'A '';''.
REVISION OF TIE FINANCIALsYsTBM.
In pursuance of an act passed March
Is, 1867, board of commissioners, con-
sistIng OF Aaron +. Perry, of Hamilton
county, Charles E. Glidden, OF Mahon-
ing county, and James Ii. Goodman, aud
itor of state, was appointed by my pred
ecessor, Governor Cox, whose duty it
was "te revise all the laws of this. state
relating to the assessment aud taxation
ot.property, the collection, safe keeping
and disbursement Of the revenues, and
all the laws constituting the financial
system of the state" and to report their
proceedings to the next session of the
general assembly, The report Of the
commission was laid before you at your
last session. 1t disclosed many inper-
fectioDs and Inconsistencies in the exist
ing legislation touching the finances, and
the urgent necessity for an elaborate re-
vision of that legislation, Their report
was accompanied by eight separate bills,
consolidating the present laws, removing
contradictions, aud supplying defects,
but Introducing no radical change iii the
general principles of our financial sys-
TEN. These bills have already beeu some
what considered in both branches Of the
general assembly; but no definite action
upon them has yet been had. ! respect
fully recommend an early consideration
OF the bills aud their adoption, with such
amendments rs in your Judgment the
public interests may require. IN -. -,
s..., ,r CENTRAL LUNATIC AsYLUM.r ,,ra /
The destruction of the central lunatic
fire. during the night Of the
18th ipst., causing the death by sufoea-
tion of six of the patients, and incalcula-
BILE distress and suffering to the remain
der, will require ireinyestigation andTTempt
action on your part. q In rebuilding the
asylum, the erection of tire-preof bhild-
ing will OCCUR to you us alike the sug-
gestions ofprudence and. humanity. s.
% This calamity also suggests the pro-
prietv OF examining the condition; of 1.-The
'other institutions stlIei State, with n
view to providing them with every prep7
er mems OF security against similar dis
aster.iq99a9 efIG1 9aj vi bsdIIos11q 81 1
.iGnp9 s1ilo COMMON SCHOOLS. t9r3h ilai /
D The interests oficoinmon school educa-
tion, in my opinion '~ill.bc promoted by
the early adoption Of \ county superin-
tendency, as provided in a bill on that
subject now pending i'll one branch of
the general assembly u therefore earn
iestly recommend the consideration and
passage of the bill. seFiiofaI "'t a,ih1
1.-The commissioner of common schools
is required, in the discharge OF his duties,
to pay out each year for travelling expen-
lses, about $780,. The Rrepriety OIL irelpneI-
lug to him, out of the state treasury, ms
travelling expenses, Mill,probsoiN notiDe
called in question gu in4 o9ofdoi 2ni
h fire.rs THE CATTLE DISEASE. yiub 70 /!
naj Duri,o the last summer cattle dis
case commonly known as the Spanish or
Texas cattle fever, occasioned much
alarm in the grazing counties of the
state. and in few localities caused seri-
Gus loss. On the recommendation of the
state board of agriculture, IN the absence
OF effective legislation,f 1T was deemed
proper to appoint commissioners to take
such measures as the law authorized to
prevent, as tar 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
the requirements referred to, and the I'D