The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-01-21
GOVERNORS MESSAGE.
Legislative Suggestions on Elections,
Taxes and the Potter Law.
A Fair. Share of Prosperity Shown Up
for Wisconsin.

The following message was read by
Gov Taylor before the joint meeting of
the two bodies of the Legislature last
Thursday
Fezzoao Citizens of the Senate and As
sena6ly:
Thanking God for all his mercies, I
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 bear no burden
of financial depression not common to
folly are the foundation of wisdom.
LOUISIANA.
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 constitu-
ton and laws, the executive department
may summon the military forces of the
state to enforce your DEGREES. Under
national constitution, that federal gov
ernment is bound to guarantee our re-
publican institutions against invasion,
and on the application of the Legisla-
ture, or of the Governor when the Leg
islature cannot be convened, to protect
US from domestic violence. Within the
restriction I have named, all the powers
of the state and federal government are
the servants of the civil authority and
the right arm of our power. But I
know of no principle of free government
by virtue Of which our state may be as
signed to military department and It's
laws subordinated to the viii of an Of
ficer of the federal army, or by which its
citizens may be subjected to the DEGREES
of a military commission, in time of
peace. Nor do [ know of any rule of
law under which any portion of
the federal army may be thrust into your
presence by the executive authority of
the state or of the United States to re-
wise your proceedings and determine the
validity of your organization by the I'M
reasoning arbitration of the bayonet and
the sword. / do not wish to PREJUDICE
the facts, but if authority exists In any
branch of the federal government, for
what appears to be assumed by the re-
cent proceedings in the state of Louisi-
ana and in the extraordinary proposals
of the Lieutenant General of the United
States army in his dispatches from New
Orleans. [ believe the time has come
for all of us to bury partisan spirit, ina
common effort for the preservation of
our constitutional sovereignty and the
inherited liberties of the American peo-
pie.
Complete statistics furnished you in
the able and conscientious reports of the
Treasurer and Secretary of State, and
by representatives of other state depart
ments, affirm the gratifying truth that
during the past year all forms of state
tax have been promptly paid; that our
state debt, mostly due to the state itself,
ls of comparative insignifcance in pro-
| portion to our resources and population;
| that the cause of popular education has
rapidly progressed; that our institutions
| of public charity and benevolence have
been conducted with marked efficiency
and economy; that our public lands have
been watchfully protected from en-
croachment; that in nearly every depart
ment the expenses Of the state have
been considerably reduced; that agricul-
tural production has been sufficient for
the necessities OF the year; that our bus
mess men have been free from the most
serious consequences of financial de-
preston, and that the burden of taxa
tion for all state purposes is both actual
" and relatively less than at any pre-
vious period during many years.
GENERAL FUND-REoEIPTS AND DIsBURsE-
MENTS.
The total receipts of the general fund
during the fiscal year were 81, ,231, 15S,- :
a. The total disbursements were ST.
O3s, ,703.34. The deficiency in the gen
erai fund at the commencement of the
fiscal year was S66, 923 80, and the ex-
cess of total receipts over total expendi-
lures during the year was 1892, ,455. 10,
thus leaving in the treasury to the credit
of the general fund, on the 30th day of
September, 1874, the sum of $685.
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