The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-01-12

lished, for q period not exceeding the unex-
PRED term for which he was elected. ..r-,
This amendment was adopted at the last
general election, and It will become your duty
to give by law such effect to- its provisions as
the public interests may seem to require. '''}
cept Ramsey and uennepin require ct present
any legislation under this amendment. Each
of these counties has q court of common pleas
for which there is one judge in -Hennepip
county and two judges in Ramsey county "A
statute which. will transfer these Judges to the
district court will simplify records, systemise
the judicial system Of those counties, and ma
terially diminish the expense OF the courts.
~, EDUCATIONAL ! ..it'
If the Legislature was directed to the unsatis-
factory provision OF the constitutions relative to
the investment of the school fund.
An amendment was adopted at the last cleo
ton by which the Legislature is directed to
make suitable laws for the investment OF the
principal and interest of this fund in bonds Of
the United States or of this State, or OF such
other State as the Legislature may from time
to time direct.
An amendment to the constitution was
adopted at the last election by which the Leg
lslature is empowered TO provide by law that
any woman Of the age of twenty -one years and
upwards may vote at any election held for the
upon any measure relating to schools, and
may also provide that any such woman may
be eligible to hold any Office pertaining solely
to the management ofschools.
It will be observed that this amendment
does not OF itself confer this limited elective
franchise upon the women. It simply author
ICES the Legislature to grant it. am per-
to exercise the power thus conferred upon it.
1t is doubtless the intention of the people that
our schools and their administration shall be
subjected to the direct influence OF women who
by nature are the first teachers and the best.
Their discipline and tuition impaired before
the youth are subjected to the training OF
the schools, are at once the earliest and the
most permanent of all educational influences.
All that is acquired in those lnaturer years af-
ter the youth has graduated in that domestic
school where the loving teachings of his moth
er form his character and mind Tor all time,
is built upon the foundation which she has
constructed. TO say that, at the time her child
in which it is taught should be removed from
her direct influence and given over to the ex-
elusive control of men is to advocate q system
Of education in which the counsels, the expe-
rience, the intuitions which sometimes are
wiser than the wisdom of wisest men, shall be
entirely wanting.
have regretted in the administration of the
women to positions which will give them
voice in the management of some Of the State
institutions. They are needed in the institute
for the deaf, dumb and blind to guide their Sis
tiers through the labarynth OF darkened or dead
ened senses. They are needed in the hospital
tor the insane to. aid in the removal OF the
cloud OF delirium or delusion in which so
many women walk. They are needed at the
State reform school where little girls are to be
reclaimed by gentler means than man knows
from the paths of vice or temptation toward
which they have begun to stray. This subject
is earnestly commended to your dispassionate
and unprejudiced consideration.
ATTORNEY GENERALS REPORT
The report OF the Attorney General is SUBJ
statement OF the legal business transacted by
that officer during the year in the courts on be-
half OF the State. In cases where decisions
have been reached the points decided are sta
ted in this report
1t will be seen upon examination of this doc
ument that many questions Of great importance
have passed to adjudication, and it is gratlfy-
in? to note the promptitude and success with
which the rights of the public have been main
tanned.
Perhaps the most important OF these cues.
tons IS the one which involved the constitu-
tionality of the act OF 1873, entitled: San act
to establish fund for the foundation and
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supreme court has held the law valid. An ex-
animation of the law has convinced me that
some amendments will be required in order to
render more efficient the instrumentalities by
which the tax is to be collected.
ADJUTANT GENERALS OFFICE
The transactions in the Adjutant Generals
office are exhibited in the accompanying re-
ports. The most important function OF this Of
lice is the administration of the law of 1873, by
which it is made the duty of the Adjutant
General to act as claim agent for all persons
having claims against the United States for
pensions, bounty or back pay arising out Of
the late civil war, and to prosecute such de-
system was adopted in the State in 1866, and
since that time the Adjutant General has COL
lected $497 ,646.A OF these claims. The Office
has now in prosecution claims amounting to
about $4OO,O 900. This Office protects the SOL
der from the rapacity OF the claim agent, and
should be continued it for no other reason.
-~ INSURANCE.
The fourth annual report of the Insurance
Commissioner is herewith submitted. =,
1t appears from this report that the number
OF tire, marine and fire, and marine companies
authorized to transact business in this State on
the first day of May, 1875, was eighty. OF
this number two were Minnesota companies;
sixty seven were organized under the laws Of
other States of the Union; eleven were from
foreign countries. -
The aggregate assets of allthese I
~, companies is...:.. .......... $751;, o5o, l76 "a
Their aggregate reinsurance re-
~, serve IS. ..... ........... ao,so7 ,os7 81
Their aggregate surplus as to -
policy holders is. .:......:...: 48,72s,s2s 10
Aggregate premiums received
was 80. ::.... ........... Is, SIS, 1888 %
loEal losses PAID were 800. go. 25, 647 $3.50 Al
Their transactions in Minnesota for the wear
1874 give the following results:
Risks written 600: 49,. $3.50. 6o,s42, 209 90
fremlumS received 900. ..... $40 1877 81