The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1872-01-05
GOVERNORS MESSAGE.

GUVERNUR'S MESSRdEi
Fsuo,o Citizens of the General Assembly:
The finances OF the State Government are
! in satisfactory condition. The balance In
| the State Treasury on the 18th Of November,
! 1870, was S766, ,038.l0; the receipts during the
| last fiscal year were So, 5,Al, ,1849l; making the
total amount of available funds in the Treas
ury during the year ending November 5,l87l,
! S6,O07, ,223.0l.
The disbursements during the year have
been S5.259, ,046.74, leaving balance. in the
Treasury, November 10Th, 1871, Of S74S, 1857.
The estimates of the Auditor Of State Of re-
ceipts and expenditures for the current year,
are as folIows:
Estimated receipts from all sources, incIu-
ding balances, 81, ,205, ,366.27.
Estimated disbursements for all purposes,
| S4,776, 6,035.73.
Leaving an estimated balance ia the Treas
ury. November Is, 1872, Of S4S0, 0,330.54
The public funded debt OF the State, No
vembsr Is, 1870, after deducting the amount
invested in OHIO stocks, was s9,7S0, 1896.
During the past year the debt has been re-
duced S729,4l5.
Leaving the total debt yet to be provided
for, SO, 900, ,729. SO. OF this amount the sum of
| $44, ,5l8.3l has ceased to bear interest, the
holders thereof having been notified OF the
State TO pay the same This leaves the total
interest bearing debt Of the Stats, ,S8 1856,
The taxes levied in 1870, collectable in 1871,
were as follows:
Safe taxes 4,666,242 %
County and local levies. ........... 1S,797,SSe 50
Delinquencies and forfeitures in
! foriner years. bb7,lSS os
Total taxes, inolu ding delinquencies
eOllectable in S24, ,lso,S2o 81
| The taxes levied in 1871, collectable in 1872,
were as follows:
State taxes. 4,35O,!28 %
County and local leVies 1864 ESQ u
Delinquencies and forfeitures ....... ,275 81
Total taxes and delinqHencies collect
able In 1872 .S23, ,5s7, 1854 "a
It will be noticed, with qualification, that
the annual increase of taxation, tn which the
people have been long accustomed, has been
checked, and that the taxes, both State and
local, have been somewhat reduced
The increase of local indebtedness still con-
tinues. The returns made to the Auditor of
State are imperfect, but enough is shown to
warrant the opinion that during the past year
the Indebtedness Of the towns and cities of the
State has increased not less than one million
of dollars, and that their aggregate indebted
ness now equals the Indebtedness of the State.
I respectfully repeat, as the remedy for this
evil, the recommendation heretofore made, that
all public debts be prohibited, except in case
of emergency, analogous to those specified in
sections l and 2, Art s, of the Constitution
The report of the Adjutant General shows
that there has been collected by him from the
United States during the present year, on ac-
count of the State War Claims, the sum of
$I45, ,30460, making the total amout of war
claims collected 825,247.94. It is probable
that about 100000 more can be collected on
these claimes without additional legislation by
Congress. This will leave about 100000 OF
claims unpaid, which, it is believed, when pre-
sented to Congress, with proper vouchers and
explanations, will be provided for by special
act. As long, however, as the Board of Mill
tary Claims exists, these claims will continue
| to increase, and it would not be advisable to
seek Congressional action until the State, by
| closing its accounts with individuals, shall be
able to ask for final settlement
It is therefore recommended that the stat
utes providing for the allowance of claims
| against the State by the Commissioners of
Military Claims be repealed; the repeal to take
effect at such date in the future as will afford
| opportunity for the presentation and allow
ance of all Just claims.
/ The report of the Commissioner Of Common
| Schools shows that, upon the whole the edu-
cational interests of the State contasue to be
very prosperous. He presents, however, for
| your consideration, number of changes in
/ Tie hCuJOl AdWsJ hEllCu u6 ueoInS essential TO
further progress. The proposed reforms are
treated Of in his report under the following
heads: normal instruction, supervision, a codi-
| fication of the laws, and the township system.
The commanding position which Ohio has
held in the great transactions of our recent
civil and military history, is largely due to the
educational advantages enjoyed by her peo-
pie. Every measure which tends to continue
and incaease those advantages, merits your
earnest and favorable consideration.
For many years the most eminent teachers
and friends Of education have urged the neces-
sity of establishing institutions for the in
| str1ction of teachers in the principles and du-
ties of their high and honorable calling. A
few thousand dollars of the school fund appli-
ed every year to this purpose, will, it is be-
lieved, make the expenditures for shooI pur-
poses vastly more beneficial to the State
There are serious objections to the present
mixed system of school management by means
of township boards and sub-district directors.
It is believed that this system ought to give
place to the purely township system, in which
all of the schools Of the township are under
the exclusive control of board of education
chosen by the electors of the township. This
plan is in conformity with that which has been
adopted with satisfactory results in most Of
our towns, and is sustained by the experience
of other States in which the purely township
system has been tried.
In several counties of the State coloreC
children are practically deprived of the privil
ega of attending public schools. The denial
OF education to any citizens of Ohio is so man
ifestly unjust that it is confidently believed
that the Legislature needs only to be informed
that such wrong exists to promptly provide
remedy.
The official reports of the Penitentiary, the
Reform School for Boys, the Reform Schoo
for Girls, and the Benevolent Institutions o!
the State, which viii be laid before you, show
that the work of these institutions has, during
the past year, been well done They will
without question, receive from you all needed
= encouragement and support. It seems proper
however,to direct your attention to the urgent
necessity of such legislation as will empower
the Boards of Trustees and Directors charged
with the erection of buildings for the insane
and for the orphans of deceased soldiers, t.
complete them as soon as practicable.
By the census Of 1870, the number of insane
persons in the State was 8, ala. The number
of patients under treatment in the insane asy
lums of this State was last year only 1916
The trustees Of the Soldiers and Sailors Or
phans' Home report that the number of or.
, phans in Ohio needing care is about eight
hundred, and that the number cared for is on
ly about two hundred and fifty. These fact
sufficiently demonstrate the importance of thu
suggestion here made.
renew the Recommendation heretofore
made, that theLegislature provide for the erec
ton of suitable monuments at the graves o
General Harrison and General Hamer.
General Harrison has many titles to tht
grateful remembrance of the people of Ohle
He was one Of the pioneers Of the West,
soldier Of honorable fame i'll two wars agains
the savages, and in the war of 1912, Secretrl
and Acting Governor of the Northwest Ter
ritory before Ohio was organized, a law-make
of conspicuous usefulness at the State Capita
and at Washington, and was Chief Magistrate
of the Nation at the time of of his death. II
honor him is to honor all who were eminen
and useful in the early settlement of Ohio.
General Hamer served with distinction fou,
times in the General Assembly; was tht
Speaker of the House of Representatives; wa
six years a member of Congress from tn
Brown County District, and died in Mexico,il
: 1916, a volunteer from Ohio, in the service o
his country, with the rank of Brigadier Gen
' eral. AT the time of his death, the Genera
Assembly, with entire unanimity, "resolvec
D that the body of the deceased be brought iron
+ Mexico and inferred in the soil of Ohio, as tn
expense Of the State" Having undertaken, q
; the duty of the State, to give the remains @
0 Hamer fitting burial, the Legislature canno