The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-01-14
DOOR COUNTY ADVOCATE.
SUPPLEMENT-.
GOVERNORS MESSAGE.

congratulate you that order and peace
reign throughout the length and breadth
of our State. Our material prosperity has
not fulfilled our anticipations. But let us
remember that we hear no burden Of
financial depression not common to all
the States and that the penalties of folly
are the foundation of wisdom.
You have been permitted to peaceably
assemble in our beautiful capitol, and to
organize the Legislature OF Wisconsin,
with none to dispute your authority or
question your choice. You are the judges
of the qualifications of members and from
your determination there is no appeal.
Under our State constitution and laws
the Executive Department may summon
the military forces of the State to enforce
your DEGREES. Under the national cOnsti-
tuition, the Federal government is bound
to guarantee our republican institutions
against invasion, and on the application
OF the Legislature, or of the Governor
when the Legislature cannot be convened
to protect us from domestic violence
Within the restrictions ] have named, all
the powers Of the State and Federal gov
ernments are the servants of the civil
authority and the right arm Of our power
But | know Of no principle of free gov
eminent by virtue OF which our State
may be assigned to a military department
and its laws subOrdinated to the will of
an officer Of the Federal army,
or by which its citizens may be
subjected to the decree of mil
itary commission, in a time Of peace.
Nor do / know of any rule of law nnder
which any portion OF the Federal army
may be thrust into your presence by the
Executive authority of the State of the
United States to revise your proceedings
and determine the validity of your organi-
ZatiOn by the unreasOning arbitration Of
the bayOnet and the sword. do not wish
to PREJUDICE the facts, but if authority ex-
lists in any branch of the Federal govern
ment for what appears to be assumed by
the recent proceedings in the State Of
Louisiana, and in the extraordinary pro.
pOsals of the Lieutenant General of the
United States army in his dispatches from
New Orleans, believe the time has come
for us all to bury partisan spirit in com
mon effort for the preservation of our con-
stitutional sovereignty ane the inherited
liberties of the American people.
Complete statistics furnished you the
able and conscientious reports of the
Treasurer and Secretary Of State, and by
representatives Of other state departments,
affirm the gratifying truth, that during the
past year all forms of state tax have been
promptly paid that our state debt, most.
ly due to the state ITSELF is of cOmpara-
tive insignitiCance in proportion to our
resources and population; that the cause
of popular education has rapidly pro-
crossed; that our Institutions of public
charity and beneVOlenCe have been con-
Quoted with marked efficiency and econo-
my; that our public lands have been
watChfully protected from encrOachme It;
that in nearly every department the ex-
penses Of the state have been considerably
reduced; that agricultural production has
been sufficient for the necessities Of the
year; that our business men have been
free from the more serious consequences
of financial depression, and that the bur
dens Of taxation for all state purposes is
both actually and relatively less than at
any previous period during many years.
GENERAL FUND-RECEIPTs AND DIsBURsE-
MENTs.
The total receipts of the general fund
during the fiscal year were $1,231, 158. A.
The total disbursements were 81 ,038, 703.-
"a. The deficiency in the general fund
at the commencement of the fiscal year
was $66, 923.80, and the excess Of total re-
celpts over total expenditures during the
year was 1892, 455.1O, thus leaving in the
treasury 10 the credit of the general fund,
on the 3Oth day of September, 1874, the
sum of 1925, 531,70
THE TRUST FUNDS
During the past fiscal year the total in
Nf t,u, fi1C
vided as follows: School, $50, 641 ga; Uni
versity, $4,313 So; Agricultural College,
$10,924 "a Normal School, $55, 1862 SO.
The total amounts belonging to the trust
funds at the close of the fiscal year were
S2,565822 rs; University, $220,833 06;
Agricultural College, 1896, 1874 or; Nor
NAL School, $973,906 a. The total dis
bursements of income for the year were
5000, 1875 70, divided as follows: Schools,
$186,@72 "a; University, $43,0S2 II; Ag-
ricultural College, $18,642 0S; Normal
Schools, $61, 1913 70.
GROSS RECEIPTS AND DISBURSEMENTS.
The total receipts into the treasury dur
ing the fiscal year, including all sources
of income, were $1,829,S574 3 The total
disbursements, for all purposes, were ST.
667 1867. The balance in the treasury
at the commencement of the fiscal year,
on account of all funds, was $215,64452
The excess of total receipts over total dis.
bursements during the year, was $780,
7O0.46, thus leaving in the treasury, to the
credit of all funds, on the 30th day of Sep
TENDER, 1874, the sum of $378,34498 A0
STATE TAXES.
For the year 1878, the State tax amount
ed to $671 ,582.38. For the year 1874, the
State tax levied and collected was $685.
6O6.35, or one and one-Quarter mills on the
of county taxes and less than one
quarter the average for town pur-
poses; while the aggregate taxation
dollar less than One-half the average for
of the people for all purp0ses-including
State, county, town, school, and road
taXes-average less than two and one
third per cent. on an assessed valuation
not exceeding One-half the actual cash
value of taxable property.
The detailed estimates of the expendi-
lures of the State government, submitted
to you by the Secretary of State, in ac-
cOrdanCe with law permit still further
reduction of the total State tax proper the
ensuing year, to the comparatively nomin-
al sum Oh ABOUT SoOU,OOU-an amount
deemed ample, with the receipts from
special sources, to cover the current ex-
penses of the State, including all the Or
binary expenses of the benevolent and
penal institutions. Extraordinary appro-
priatiOns for the construction OF new
buildings not already contemplated by
law, are not included in this estimate, but
these should not, and probably will not,
sensibly increase the rate of taxation.
FUTURE ECONOMY.
However gratifying these facts may be,
the representatives of the people are
thereby in no degree released from their