The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-01-23
WISCO Il ST II.
Second Annual Message of
Gov. Taylor.
A Modification of the Potter Law
Recommended.
Recommendation for the STRENGTHENING
Of the Wisconsin Central Line.
Sunory other Recon- m enda ton
and Suggestions.

0fte oGSSCotiSStSs
Feli0tc Citizens of the Senate aud tSsentJlg:
haiking God for all his mercies I con
graduate YOU that order and peace reign
through 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 all the states, and that the penal
ties OF folly are the foundation of wisdom.
You have been permitted to peaceably As
semble IN cur beautiful capitol and to orgali-
ize The Legislature of Wisconsin, with none te
dispute your authority or question your choice.
You are the judges If the qualifications Of
members, and from your determination there
isno appeal. Under our state constitution and
laws, the executive department may summon
the military forces OF the state to enforce youT
DEGREES. Under the national constitution, the
federal government IL bound 10 guarantee our
Republican institutions against INVASION aud
on the application of the Legislature. or of the
Governor when the Legislature cannot be
convened to protect Us from domestic vio-
lence. Within the restrictions | have named,
all the powers OF the state and federal gov
eminent are the servants of the civil authority
and the right arm of our power. But / know
OF no principle of free government by virtue
Of which our state may be assigned to mill
tary department and its laws su5ortlinated
to the Will OF an officer of cke
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 NAV be thrust INTO
your presence by the executive authority OF
the state or Of the United States to revise
your proceedings and determine the validity of
your organization by the unreasonIng arbitra-
ton OF the bayOuet ana the sword / do not
wish TO PREJUDICE the facts but if authority
exists IN any branch OF the federal govern
ment for what appears 10 be assumed by the
IN rat a of / Eiop,
ana III the extraordinary proposals of the
acknowledgement of the United States army
in his dispatch from New Orleans. [ believe
the time has come for all of us To bury
partisan spirit, III a common effort for the pre-
serVation OF our constitutional sovereignty
and the inherited liberties of tie American
people
Complete statistics furnished YOU in the able
and conscientious reports Of the Treasurer
and Secretary of State, and by Representative
OF other state departments, affirm the gratifv-
ing 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 insiguifCsnCe III proportion
10 our resources and population that the
cause OF popular education has rapidly pro-
crossed that our institutions of public char
" and benevolence have been conducted with
marked efficiency and economy; that our pub
lie lands have been watchfuliy protected
against entertainments that in nearly every
department the expenses of the state have
been considerably reduced; that agricultural
production has been sufficient for the necessi-
ties of the year; that business men have
been free from the more serious consequences
OF financial depression and that the burden of
taxation for all state purposes is both actually
and relatively less than at any previous period
during many years.
GENERAL FUND-RECEIPTs AND Observation-Disclosures
The total receipts of the general fund dur
ing the fiscal year were II, 231 1874. TIE
deficiency IN the general fund fd' a 4' te cd1
mencement of the fiscal year was S66, 923. 50.
and the excess of total receipts over total ex-
pendltures during the year WIS S192. 455 10
tnus leaving III the treasury to the credit of
the general fund, on the 3Oth day of Septem-
Ter, 1874, the sum of S125 53170
THE TRUST FUNDS
During the past fiscal year the total increase
OF trust funds was @125. 942. 81, divided as fol-
lows: school, $50 641 81; University, 81, 3l3 68
Agricultural College, SO. 1924 "a: Normal
School, S55. So. The total amounts belong
ing to the trust funds at the close of the fiscal
year was S3,996, 596.23, divided as follows:
School, y, 565 go. &c; University. $500, 833 O6
Agricultural College, 1896, 13I OF; Normal
School, S937 oO6.34 The total disbursements
OF income for the year were S309 125 10 diyid-
Ell as follows: Schools, Sl86, 272 "a; University,
1852 Il; Agricultural College, SO, .OS:
Normal Schools, Sol, 1870.
GROSS RECEIPTS AND DISBURSEMENTS.
The total receipts into the treasury during
the fiscal year, including all sources of income
were 81, S29, S57 43 The total disbursements.
tor all purposes, were 81, 667. 1861 The bal
ance III the treasury at the commencement Of
the mccall wear, Oh account of all funds, was
;32l5 ,644.5 The excess of total receipts over
total dis bucse m ents during the year was S162..
700 10, thus leaving III the treasury, to the
credit of alifunds, on the 3Oth dav of Septem-
her, 1874. the sum of S37S. 344 9S
STATE TAXEs.
For the year 1878 the state tax amounted to
SOL, 5S2.36. For the year 1874 the state tax
Levied and collected was S526 606 So or one
and one quarter mills on the dollar: less than
one-halt the average of county taxes, and less
than one-quarter the average for town pur- /
poses; while the aggregate taxation of the
people for all purposes including state. coul- /
y. town, school and road taXes-ayeraged less !
than two and One-thIrd per cent. on an asses /
SEQ valuation not exceeding one-aalf the +
dal cash value of taxable property
The detailed estimates of the expenditures
of the state government, submitted to YOU by /
the Secretary of State, in accordance with law,
perml1 still further reduction Of the total T
state tax proper the ensuing year. to the NOM
NAL sum of about $500. 000-an amount deemed
ample, with the pts frGm special sources
10 cover the current expenses of the state, III
Guiding all the ordinary expenses of the be-
aeyoent and penal institutions. ExtIaorli-
nary appropriations for the construction of
new buildings not already contemplated bv
law, are not included i'll this estimate, but
these should not. and probably will not sensi-
bly, increase the rate of taxation.
FUTURE ECONOMY.
However gratifying these facts NAV be, the
of the people are thereby in
40 degree released from their obligation to
promote additional economy in public expendi- |
lures, to the trl extent permitted by pru-
lent regard Tor the public interests All eff
orts to this end viii receive the unreserved !
approval of the executive department Tie !
NIX OF state expenditures necessarily depend a
lpon Legislative discretion. The appropria-
IONS for the support of tie charitable and Pc G
lal institutions usually amount TO nearly or G
!uIte one-half of all the disbursements from
he general fund. Tie cost of tie machinery
II legislation itself often equals or exceeds i,
me tenth of all annual expenditure. Impor- h
ant reforms were Inaugurated at the session L
4 last winter, by which this last item of cost L
'as considerably reduced, and provision made !,
or equally important reductions III other de- !.
without any apparent detriment to :,
he public. service. l especially recommend a
you the merit Of brief and pertinent legisla- t
on only, aud upon such subjects only as nee r
ssarily clam your consideration, and CORE =
bonding brevlty IN the present session 4 :
gid adherence to those provisions of our con- v
tuition which limit your action to enact 5
ents OF general character, VIII facilitate e
lis purpose and command the undoubted sp- Y
'obation of the people. y
TIME OF PAYING TAXES a.
In my annual message. [ called the attention W
the legislature TO the eXpedlency of chang -
& the time for the payment Of taxes, and r,
so OF providing either fer the collection of 10
Ses semi-annually, or for an occasional de- III