The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1875-01-15

giving attention g the characteristic Of the
3elimate of ninnessta. II also
ventilating . and warming dwellings,,
also tbs suses 81 accident rom The use 81
refoseno and the metho sjpf pEeyention,e on-
oefnank which tbs report contains some val-
uAde statements and sugge lions. III Lle1n-y
bars have visited during theyear the differ
ent State Institutions and the result Of their
inspection Is stated In their report. ..f
:. The restrictions Of this occasion preclude
further detail Of the tlabors of these gentle
ss ar report to EG 3S.. con q:
State Is most fortunate in obtaining the SER
vices Of these scientific men in matters OF
very high public importance without more
cost than ia involved in the appropriation Of
~l,tO, and I recommend ito renewal at this
session. - - -. $50
~,%9sS L: -. INSANE ASYLUM. e,fS.i r -
The eighth annual report of the Board Of
Trustees and officers of the Minnesota Hos
pltal for the Insane, IL herewith transmitted.
The administration of this Institution
seems to have been efficient, and Is econom-
ios ;t AZ the nature Of its functions would pr:
The Trustees ask for an appropriation Of
~, 500, which it is estimated will complete
the building according to the original plan.
Ihey Also request an appropriation Of &, 500
70 furnish the portion SO to be completed,
and 900 for cars, machinery and fixtures
for all the buildings. ,'7-s
The Superintendent in his report to the
Board urges the importance of Lighting the
permAnenti hospital building with gas, has
ing his request upon the ground Of safety
70 ton this property which in is present cond,
e462, COZ, exclusive of furniture and library.
l do not understand that the expense is ill.,
cluded In the foregoing estimates by the
Trustees. The views Of the Superintendent
are extremely judici0us. The safety of this
property, tenanted a. it is by persons of dis
eased intellect, should not be imperilled By
the use Of portable lamps in which infam-
mable oil is used.
The Trustees recommend an appropriation
OF $87 500, for current expenses, being for
an average of 42l patients during the year
at q per week each. This estimate is less
by fifty cents per week for each patient than
the estimate Of last year. The reduction is
explained by the familiar fact that as the
number increases the cost of each dimin-
ishes.
SOLDIERS ORPHANS.
The Trustees of the Soldiers Orphans
Home submitted the accompanying report
showing the manner in which the sacred
duty Of the State to the children of those
who died for the nations life has been per-
formed. Eighteen thousand dollars win be
q reduction Of two thousand dollars from
the amount required during the year just
ended. The Trustees stat. that from obvi-
Gus causes this undertaking of the State
will be completed within four or five years,
during which time the expenses will annu-
ally decrease.
HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
The Historical Society is commended to
your liberal consideration. Il IS now in the
twenty-tifth year Of its existence. 1t has
been most successful in those important la
bora by which it has collected its library and
rescued from oblivion and fixed in en-
during form invaluable facts pertaining to a
generation now passing away, whose works
should not be left for comlnemoration to
those deeting sources Of information j"
whose disappearance perish utterly the me-
MORALS OF the pioneers.
LOGS AND LUMBER.
The reports Of the Surveyors General OF
the First and Second Districts present in
convincing form the great irpo-tspce Of "n-
lumber interests.
In the First, or Saltwater District, the
total amount Of logs scaled duri"s the se.-
son of 1874 was l89, 994 lag feet.
In the Second, or Minneapolis District. the
total amount Of logs scaled for that season
was 49,, 482, $40 feet, and the estimated guam
tity of logs sawed but not scaled in that Dis
trict is 1884 600 feet.
REPRESENTATION
The practice, OF postponing most Of the
the last few days of the session ought to be
abandoned. 70 say nothing Of the objec-
items to this manner Of doing business,
which inhere in the fact that under
such circumstances the Legislature is COM
PEELED to act hastily, without full discus
sion, and that the success of deserving meas
ures is often craftily implicated in measures
which ought not to succeed, the Governor
is entitled to sufficient time to consider tie
bills upon which he is to act. This he has
not under the practice which has hitherto
prevailed. The legislative work of sixty
days Is poured upon him during the last ten
days Of the session. 1t is his duty to con-
slider each measures duty which cannot
always be properly performed within such
narrow limits Of time. Many important
acts necessarily remain for his consideration
after the adjournment. In case of doubt, he
is deprived of the counsel Of the members,
and when those doubts result in disapprovaf
Of the measure, the people are deprived OF
the exercise Of that corrective power which
the Legislature possesses, where he is
deemed to have erred, as to the constitution
atty or expediency Of the bills.
STATE CENSUS
By section % of article of the Constitu
ton OF Minnesota, the Leg islature is required
to provide by law for the enumeration OF the
inhabitants Of the State in the middle year
OF each decade.
The object ofthis provision ofthe constitu-
ton is to ascertain the basis Oflegislative ap-
portionment which is required to be made
every five years on the basis of the United
States census and the State census alternately.
1msy be permitted to suggest for your
consideration whether this duty, for which
all the machinery Of census taking will be
requisite, does not with propriety invite us
to obtain at the same time by the same off,
GERS the leading industrial ana vital statistics.
The additional cost will be trifle, while
the result will demonstrate officially our mar
vel0us development since the census of 1870
was taken. and will thus enable us to pre-
sent in an authentic form to those contem-
plating emigration from other countries and
States the superior inducements of our own
State.
It will he an easy matter to prescribe in
the statute which YOU will pass on this sub
jeot, the form of the schedule into which the
desired information can be distributively
stated, and at the same time to fix the cost Of
the undertaking.
THR PENALTY FOR MURDER
By an act Of the Legislature approved
March s, 1868, the punishment for the crime
of murder was subversively changed. The.
penalty Of death was abolished as general
rule of the law. This abolition is subject, how
yer, to the exception that, in cases Of MUIR
der in the first degree, the jury may deter
mine by their verdict that the convict shall
suffer DEATH
Iregard the principle Of this innovation
as radically unsound. The punishment
which crime entails upon its perpetrator
should not be uncertain It should be ex-
plicitly declared by the statute, and not left