The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1872-01-18
GOV. WASHBURN,S MESSAGE.
Gov. Washburn delivered his annu

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of this State. The paner is comprehen
sive and concise and one of the ables
ever submitted to a Wisconsin Legisla
ture.
The State. he finds, is possessed of
balance of 1929. .S45.S .S2. There was re
ceived from all sources of revenue. dur
ing the previous year. 81 ,029, $40, 81, IAN,
paid out 1865, 377, A. The State deb
is s., ,252,0 ,057. The governor estimate
| the expenses of the present year at $775
O32, r. The resources of the State TO
the same period are estimated at $347,
600; the interest on the State debt vii
be Sl72, O32, leaving S256, 900 to be pro
vided for at this session. The assessed
valuation of the State for 1871 is $455,
900, 800, the rate per cent. OF tax being
l.3O mills. The Governor recommend:
the passage of stringent laws to prevent
under assessment. The State offers fol
sale 336, SPAS acres of school lands, g..
37S SO of university lands. and 86,673 A
of agricultural college lands. IfnatioDa
banks in the State pay at once the taxes
due upon their stock, the Governor re-
commends that the penalty be remitted
if not. that the banks be prosecuted.
He reviews the calamity of the forest
fires; states that he received $l66. 769. sc
for the sufferers thereby, and recomends
joint legislative committee to visit the
burned region and examIn into the
needs of the people.
He reports the State prison as lacking
only $4,000 to render it selfsustaining:
and recommends State reform school
for girls. Concerning the Madison hos
pital for the insane, the expenses he re-
ports as, $S7, 534. "a, the number of in
mates Being 524 Of these 54-were dis
charged cured, SO improved, "a unim-
proved, and % died. The Soldiers Or.
phan' Home, at Madison, contains 3lO
inmates, each of whom costs the State
SGT week. The State Capitol is COM
pieted and cost $3.50, 200.
The Governor records with satisfaction
the improvement of the Wisconsin river
and points with pride to the growth of
railroads in the State during the past
year, there being in operation !, ,5SS miles
representing cost-''actual or fctitius, !"
the Governor puts it-of 500, ZOO, ,000
He afirms vigorously the right of the
State to supervise the railroad corpora
tions under its authority, and strongly
recommends the passage of the necessary
legislation, and the apportionment of a
State Board of Commissioners. He also
recommends the passage oil law forbid
ding towns. counties, and cities from Gre
ating railroad or other public debt, in ex-
cess of five per cent. Of their assessed
valuation, constitutional amendment TO
this effect to be submitted to the people
He believes Congress should continue
the st. Croix and Lake Superior land
grant.
Concerning manufactures and minerals
in which the State abounds, and the tar
iff which, in his opinion, prevents the
State from making use of her resources,
Mr.. Washburn says:
while the interests of agriculture
have been in the main sati sfactory foi
the past year, and those of manufacturing
having been progressive, but not ali that
could be desired, there is no State In
the Union that can present as great ma
tural advantages for a manufacturing
State, as Wisconsin.
Her raw materials Of ron, copper, and
lead are found distributed over the State
in exhaustess quantities from the shores
of Lake Superior to our Southern bor-
der. Of-building stone, we have varieties
Of granite and Of limestone. and the bea-
tlfui and never-eHding fire proof brown
free-stone of Lake Superior.
kaolin, or the finest quality of porce
lain clay, exists In immense beds al
Grand Rapids, on the Wisconsin river
Our forests of pine, hemlock. and al
kinds of hard wood, are not exceeded by
those of any other State.
For the growth of wool, our State has
proved to be among the foremost, anC
the cotton Of Tennessee. Mississippi anc
Arkansas, can be Laird down in Wisconsin
for much less cost for transportation
than in New England. Bounded on the
north and east by two of the greatest in
land seas Of the werld, and on the west
by She Father of Waters, connected by
water communication stretching over one
half of our vast country, with water pow
ers running to waste equal to moving ev
cry waterwheel in the United States, the
State is far behind many of her sistc
States, which have no such natural ad
vantages In another year will be cong plct
ed the government improvements of th'
Mississippi s Rock Island and De
Moines rapids. This may be regarded a
The most valuable work ever undertake.
by the government When completed
steamers of 500 tons burden will be abl,
to navigate the Mississippi at all season
| when unubstructed by ice; aud wheI
supplemented by the Fox and Wisconsin
Improvement. cannot fail to exercise /;
wholesome influence over the question o
transportation Then the raw cottor
may be brought to us for less than ON,
half Of what it costs to transport it t,
Lowell, Manchester. Fall River or Lewis
ton; and, when manufactured, the who'll
like basin, and valley of Mississippi, of
fer unrivalled advantages for market
| reached by cheap transportation.
With the best iron ore In the world
| why should nine tcnths of all the irol
consumed in the State he brought from
distant State or from Europe?
Why send our wool to New Eng Ian,
to be worked into cloth and then bly i
back greatly enhanced in value? VIII.
60 to New England for our manufacture
| of cotton, when it Is so apparent that W.
can fabricate them with so much advan
| tage q home?
It's apparent that for many years
1 large portion of the revenues to supper
/ the government must be raised from tar
! iff duties. Common sense would lndicat
| that In raising a revenue, duties shoul
| be so levie1 as to best promote thos
branches of industry that can be present
ed here as we'll as in any ether country
bat for the dearcr capital and labor here
and hope that your legislation will b
so directed es to encourage the growth o
those branches of manufacturing indus
try, to which the State Is SO we'll adapt
ed.
The existing tariff no doubt require
! revision. the duties on many article
are unnecessarily high. Raw material
should be Admitted either free or at
very low rate of duty"
Here follow the Governor views o
National matters. heartily indorsing tb