The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-01-11
INDIANA.
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INp1ANAPoLIs, January 10.-Gov. Ba.
ker delivered bis last message 10 the Gen
eFal Assembly this afternoon. The for.
eign debt Of the State Is reported as fol-
lows: Amount Of 8 per cent State stock
under the adjustment of 1867, $32, 800 90;
amount Of 2i per cents $4,000 12; amount
Of war loan bonds, issued under legisla7
tion Of 1861, still outstanding, $l75,0S -.
to which must be added the amount Of
the old bonds issued prior to 1851, the
payment Of which Is provided for by act
approved December 70, 1879, and the in.
tercst accrued thereon, making a total OF
$5G2 900 on this score, and agrand total
OF $744,93 10. The domestic debt OF
the State consists of the non-ncgotiable
bonds OF tho State issued to its own
school fund, to the amount of $3,0O5,'
9OG 25. The interest OF this being
pledged 10 the schools it is really
no debt at all in the ordinary acceptance
of tho term, but bond that the State
shall nay so much into the school fund.
There is in the hands Of the Treasurer Of
the State and tho Agent Of the State the
sum Of $G07, ,743 81, and the uncOlleCted
proceeds Of the State tax for 1879 is esti.
mated ut $8500OO The estimated ex.
penses OF the present year are, for the
present session Of the General Assembly,
$780, 900, and for the ordinary expenses Of
the government, benevolent institutions,
relOrmatories, prisons, interest on the do
nestle debt and on the war loan bonds,
S7e5 1856. This is on tho ground that the
expenses Of these institutions will be the
same as in 1872. But there Is an impera'
tive demand for the increase Of the &C.
commodations Tor the insane, and he thinks
the levy for the years 1873 and 1874 for
State purposes should be Is cents on the
800, and also that the sale OF the revenue
Of 1878 will have 10 be anticipated Tor
the extra expenses on this account this
wear, He calls attention to the necessity
Of enlarging the duties and responstbili-
ties OF the Attorney General, and rccOm-
meuds that the law be changed accord
ingly and that that officer be compelled
to live at the capital, as the other State
officers, and keep an office. The necessi-
ty OF q bureau Of statistics and the estab-
lishment Of q school for the education Of
feeble.minded and idioic children is
pointed out and recommendations made
in regard 10 the same. The submission
OF an amendment to the constitution
torbidding the resumption Of the control
of the Wabash and Erie Canal with the
assumption OF its debt, and Of q vote in
regard to to the holding Of aconstitution.
al convention on the second Tuesday in
October, at which election, also, delegates
to said convention shall be elected to
meet, If the people decide to have such q
such convention held.
Liberal appropriations are recommend
ed for the State Geographical Depart
ment. flur. -I.EEsfge,.1
Tho Philadelphia Centennial Celebration
and the Washington Monument arc
commended to the consideration OF the
Legislature without recommendation.
The Joint resolution OF the Ohio Legisla-
ture and the letter of Gov. Hayes trans
hitting the same, complaining Of breach
OF faith on the part Of Indiana In regard
to contract to keep up the Wabash q
Erie canal, is presented with the recon-
mendation that the Legislature pass o
Joint resolution denying that such con-
tract ever existed between the two States.