The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-01-16
wisconsin STATE Matts,n.

MILWAUKEE, Jan. 15-The message O
Hon. VIM. r. Taylor, Reform Governor
Of Wisconsin, was delivered at Madison
Wis, at 2 O'clock p. NJ. to day. He first
refers 10 the great financial crisis, which
owing 10 the prudence and integrity ol
the people and the natural resources oI
the State, was, In O measure, averted
and confidence almost entirely restored
The financial condition OF the State is as
follows: Total receipts into the Treasury
from all sources, $l77, ,455, ,855; disburse-
ments, $l79 ,802, ,3l4; excess OF disburse-
ments over receipts during the year,
2,34G ,459, leaving In the Treasury to the
credit OF all funds $21 ,564, ,453; total re-
ceipts OF the general fund, 800 ,597, ,220;
disbursements, $119, ,198 ,601, an excess OF
50 600 .372 above the receipts. Deducting
from the excess OF expenditures the bal.
ance In the general fund at the commence.
ment Of the year makes the deficiency
So, ,692 $50, which Is in fact so much an
increase oil the public debt, for which he
findsano authority. He censures the past
practice of misappropriating the funds
set apart for charitable and educational
purposes, and says further loan of the
trust fund to the State must not be enter
tanned, and recommends such legislation
as shall rapidly repair the present def
cheney and prevent in the future the con-
tinuation Of these practices, which neces.
state This legislation. The legal debt Of
the State at the close of the fiscal year
was $2,252,057. BE then enumerates
the sources OF retrenchmcnt, and also
sources Of revenue, among others taxing
express and telegraph companies; recon.
mends all needful legislation to enhance
their usefulness; recommends the enact
ment OF law forbidding the acceptance
or use OF free passes or any other gilt or
Compensation by any State officer from
any railroad or public corporation, with
the abolition OF tree passes; he thinks the
session of the legislature can be shorten
ed thirty days; recommends q modifica-
tion Of the Graham liquor law, dispensing
with certain obnoxious clauses; recon-.
mends some legislation for the bet.
ter protection Of depositors in
banks, and the appointment of State in.
spector on cheap transportation by wa.
ter; refers to the fact that three.fitths OF
the boundary is washed away by nsviga.
BILE waters, and that Wisconsin contrib.
utes in the neighborhood Of eight million
dollars to the revenue Of the general gov.
ernment, for which a more liberal return
should be made in the way OF improve.
ment Of rivers and harbors. Fifty years
ago President Monroe recommended to
Congress the propriety Of improving the
navigation OF western rivers ior the pur.
pose Of facilitating intercourse between
the Atlantic and the western country.
The Government has hitherto failed 10
fulfil the measure of its obligation in this
particular. Congress has made large and
uniform concessions 10 special Industry,
and fostered 1t by eastern capital; and
these industries have been largely sus-
tanned by indirect taxation upon western
labor and the products Of our fertile SOIL
Considerable space is devoted to trans.
portation by land. he doubts the pro.
prietY Of appeals to the Federal Govern
ment, but there can be no doubt Of the
power and duty Of the State government
to legislate for the prevention Of the evil
OF extortlonsb by monopolies or to give sug.
gestions as to the best plan for regulating
railroad traffic, giving the railroad com.
panies full return tor running expenses
and repair Of roads, and fair interest on
the capital invested, which should be sui.
ficient to encourage further investment oI !
capital in this direction. All discrimins-
tons in rates among shippers should
be prohibited, and the classification Of
frelghts and rates Of fare should be sub.
ject 10 modification or revision by State
authority. All consultations or CON-
binatiops between companies owning par.
sllel lines Of railroad should be prohib.
ited. In conclusion, he refers to the pop.
ular complaint Of general corruption, and
alludes to the fact that Wisconsin was the
first State to commence the reform, and
that the action ofthe Reform party had not
only a local, but also national impor.
tance, .....