The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-01-20

terms to those which have been found salts
factory in Massachusetts and Minnesota; tina
annual reports be required from officers ap
/ pointed by the state under official sanction
/ Containing full information OF all matters at
fectiag the public interests, so that if at any
time in the future further and more strin
| gent exercise of this reserved power should
| be necessary to prevent wrongs on the part Of
| those corporations, all facts necessary to q full
understanding Of the subject will be accessible
| to the legislature and the people.
| In determining how the agency shall be con-
stituted through which the state shall exercise
| its control over railroads. SIS in all other mat.
| tiers, economy is an object that should be
kept steadily IN view; and It is worthy Of your
consideration how this may be efficiently and
vigorously performed, with the least expense
| to the people of the state.
THE CENTENNIAL.
You Will recognize the Importance of pro.
Yiding for the adequate representation of Wis
eonsin at the Centennial Exposition which is
to take place at Philadelphia during the pres
emit year, both as matter OF state pride, and,
for more substantial considerations. The cc-
casion will afford an excellent opportunity to
DISPLAY the resources and products of the
state. and to attract hither capital and immi-
grafton. Nearly all of the states have appropri-
ated liberal sums for the purpose, and Wlscon-
sin should be credltably represented, or not at
all. submit to your generosity and patriot
ism to appropriate such an amount as shall
seem to YOU to be sufficient, to be placed in the
han Ids of the State Board Of Centennial Man.
ayers leaving it to them to determine how it
shall be expended.
SALARIES.
would call your attention to the present
provisions of law, under which it is possible
for many officers and employees of the state to
receive their salary in advance, and, in view
of the fact that Immediately after so receiv-
ing. designations and removals have occurred,
would recommend the passage of a law
making all salaries payable at the end of each
month Or quarter.
THE PROTECTION OF STATE LANDS.
It has become a serious matter to provide
for the protection against trespassers of the
school and university lands, and the tract
known as the st. Croix grant. A system
seems to have prevailed by which large dep
relations were committed, and the state was
left to secure redress by the collection OF
stumpage from trespassers. This system is
wrong in principle, and ruinous i'll practice.
In the nature OF things, the sums collected IN
the settlements with the trespassers must be
vastly less than the value of the timber
taken. II am correctly advised it has come
to be regarded as profitable business to strip
state lands OF their timber and then effect q
settlement. Whatever power rests IN the
Governor to reform this practice will be vigor-
ouslv exercised, and if it shall appear that fur
ther legislation is necessary to secure that re-
suit cannot urge too strongly upon you the
duty of providing it. The only true policy in
dealing with this subject is to prevent dep
relations, and in this work urgently solicit
your cooperation.
fish PROPAGATION.
The artificial propagation of fish is becom-
ing one of the leading industries of the coun-
try. The legislature of 1874 authorized the
governor to appoint three commissioners to
superintend the Matching and distribution of
the fry of spawn donated by the United States
to the state. The commissioners were ap-
pointed and entered upon the discharge Of
their trust The sum Of $4,000 was appro-
priated to the commissioners to be expended
as therein provided. Herewith transmit their
second annual report, giving detailed state
ment of their operations for the past year.
Measures designed to increase the food re-
source s of the people are entitled to your care
full consideration. The appropriation of last
year was inadequate to the wants OF the COM
missioners in the matter of state Matching
house With the facilities of such an estab-
lishment, the money expended will go much
further and yield more satisfactory results. /
therefore recommend that you give the sub.
iacta careful examination and such aid as in