The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-01-03
OHIO.
Meeting of General AsSembly..Gov
Noyes' Message.

Assembly to-day met AZ . P. n. GOV
Noyes transmitted his annual message t
the Assembly this evening. Itshows the
following facts, figures and recommends
tions:
The outstanding public debt Of Ohio or
November 10, 1879, was $685., 900; the
local indebtedness Of the State on the 1st
OF September, 1872, was as follows: net
debt Of counties, $3,75G,436 net debt OF
townships, including debts created by
boards Of education other than for sepa.
rate school districts, $4447, 239 10; net debts
OF cities, first and second class, $11 ,495,.
sol 04; net debt OF incorporated villages,
1916, 500 69; net debt school districts (spe.
clal) 81, ,274,723 II; total, $l7,690,547 90.
The amount OF reimbursable debt,
State and local, therefore is SEQ.
,174,0O4 81, TO which add the ire
ducible debt Of $4,023,475 03, and we
have the aggregate debt Of the State,
$50, ,197, 500 81. In this statement the
State debt Is reckoned to November Is,
1872, and the local Indebtedness 10 Septem.
Der I, 1872. To the local indebted.
ness above set forth Is to be added for
debts created in aid OF railroad enter.
prises under what is known as the Boesel
Law, up to January l, 1873, not less
than $4,000000 more. The receipts for the
fiscal year ending November 10, were
$4,757,707. The disbursements were So
05S,4 The Auditor oI State estimates
the the receipts for the current year from
all sources at $549G, ,006 90, leaving the
estimated deficit! November /, 1878,
$889, 9,927 A. Taxes levied in 1872,
collectable in 1872, were State taxes
81, ,350, ,729 29; county and local, $4,000.
600 70; delinquences and iorfeitures, $685..
275 81; total $23597664 "a. The taxes
levied in 1872; collectable in 1878, were
State taxes, $4 I414,557 25; county and 10.
cal, SIS, 1884, ,422 40; delinquencies and for
FIXTURES, 1851 ,002 20; total $23,S10075 07.
In relation to the local Indebtedness, the
Governor says this evil continues and
grows upon US and is not likely to be di-
minished until the remedy shall be found
in the positive prohibiting Of legal enact
ments, or in constitutional provisions ab-
solutely forbilding local and public debts
during the year. Two hundred and sew
enty.tive miles Of railroad have been
constructed and rails laid on 372 miles
OF additional, and charters have been
granted for the construction of 4, 900 miles
more. The Governor says the railroads
should be bnilt whenever advantages to
be derived therefrom oVerbalance the
cost, but caution may be necessary lest
some cities, towns and villages may bur-
den themselves with debt, for which there
will be no adequate return. Recommen.
ton is made for the appropriation to allow
q thorough examination OF oil railroad
bridges in the State.
The following isa general statement of
the State War account with the U. S.:
Total presented for payment, $3,198,-
0G8 70: total paid, 50 S26, PAT 04; awaiting
settlement, $117,747 "a; balance suspend.
ed and rejected $254,O71 81.
In discussing the question Of common
schools, the Governor says the necessity
for codifying and revising the school laws
oi the State has long been felt, and is now
most urgent. Public sentiment and prom.
iuent teachers Of Ohio seems TO have ap-
proved Of the bill reported by the House
Committee on Common Schools at the
session last winter. Attention Is especial.
ly invited to the subjects of normal in.
struCtion, county superintendency, town.
ship organization and modification OF dis.
tricts. The Governor suggests tho con.
solidation of the funds OF the Ohio and
Miami Universities 80 as 10 support one
school, so that the other could be made
State Normal School. He says that un.
less something is speedily done both UNI.
Versities must die. He also recommends
generous appropriations for the State Ag-
Ticultural College and all public, be-
nevolent and correctional institutions. |
he recommends the passage of a |
law which shall compel contractors
on the public works to live up to their
contracts, and that when the contractor
fails to use reasonable diligence that the |
work shall be done by the trustees of the |
public works, and any excess Of cost and |
over estimates charged TO the original
contractor. Radical changes are also re.
commended in the construction of cells in |
the Ohio Penitentiary, so as to give con.
victs more room and better air. Relative |
to the criminal law suggestion is made |
that the law he so changed as to provide |
that juries shall fix the grade Of crime,
making moro grades than exist at present, |
and that lees or no discretion be left with |
the courts as to sentence. During the |
year but twenty Convicts were pardoned |
from the PenitentiarY by the Governor. |
Recommendations are made that the time
for completing the geographical survey of
the State be extended to one year, and
that appropriation be made and action |
taken relative to the improvement of nav.
lgation on the Ohio River. Also, to
cooperate with Congress to make
the Centennial Celebration o success.
Attention Is called 10 the pro.
priety of SO amending the laws relative
to the listing OF property OF taxation as
to proVide'that merchants and manulac.
turers be taxed upon their sales rather
than upon the monthly average OF all
the merchandise owned and held by
them. Under the present laws private
bankers can do large business, and by
little managing only pay taxes on their
Office furniture.
Relative to insurance companies, the
Governor says that complaint is made
that the law now in force, passed March
10, 1859, creating and regulating the In.
surance Department, is unnecessarily
severe in its operation upon insurance
companies Of the State. Section 0
of the law makes it the duty
OF the superintendent in case the
net assets of any company are reduced
more than twenty per cent, to require of
the officers that they direct the stock.
holders to pay in the amount Of the do.
flciency within such period as he may
DESIGNATE in his reuuisition. Section II