Litchfield enquirer., 1878-01-17

SE.te by the teachers in our common schools, perhaps more deserving than any other. The S<zrs Normal School is recruiting their ranks stthe rate of more than forty per year. This institution ought, in my judgment, to be liber- ally sustained
 The report of the State Board of Education viii furnish you with more detailed and con- p~ehenSive information in regard to this inter- esE. 90 vital to the success and perpetuity of free institutions.
 THE INSANE POOR.
 An Act waspaSsed by the last Assembly creating Board of Trustees for the purchase ozceEaain lands and buildings in Mansfield, fw the establishment of hospital for the in-l szzepoW. The trustees, finding the appropri- szioa inadequate, and fearing also that the ii: sle was not wholly clear. wisely concluded to tskr nOde6nite action. This Assembly will, the<ekor. be brought to a review of the subject. In ny judgment, the buildings are unfit the socz<i0a ineligible, and the project a mere Ezkezhifk
 Ihe State istheowner of farm of 2S9 acres al MiadIetOwn, on which the Connecticut Hos FSfal is located admirably situated for access CSzvelieace. health, and every other purpose, wSEh abundant wafer supplies stored upin res ezvaSrx and made ready for use. I recommend Ehe erection on this farm. al the proper time, oF a seFzrzte hospital, andinexpensive style in co1sSrzcsiO1- In this way all the insane poor beEcfclzxieS the State can be brought un- dc- one administration be apportioned btween rAe two hospitals as their different necessities z91 cOudifi0ns require and be provided for hes.eT and more cheaply than in any other way.
 There are now in the Connecticut Hospital fw1y-0ne private patients. Every bed in the EmsEz1zrs0a hms Cost the State about $l ,5O0 These paaSeu1s are there at little more than TAe @ee cos of support They are, in, my S13g1eu1 iufroders On the rights of the poor sz3 tAe charity of the State. Whether they sAvusd no be made to give place to poor and 1eedv applicants, who are suffering in the 6els Of Or alms-houses, is a question which, l Ey jadgneaa requires attention n
 ThGe fs zn abuse connected with commit wt=ss to this institution which demands re- &rzz h has been the habit of some of the sD~Ix and cities to cause their insane poor to Se EEess-Ee1 tO the minor courts for intoXica- sssz- vagrz1cy, or other trivial offence, and be- aag ~cTz5f1ed on the ground of insanity. thrust zEsSa t5e hospital by criminal process This is q FpEverSSon Of the law. l recommend that no ca1zslDc1i foC ;he cause aforesaid be entitled % Frecr3eDce. unless made by the Superior Cgzrr- and thai in all such cases the expense E szrpKs be cHzrgeable as in case of commit @<M hw ja1ges of probate unless the Comp uuls< sal give an order for support by the SSz-S- as in case of State pauper.
 T&e G0ve3o- Is required by a private act gszzaed In ISS9 tO transfer insane convicts in the Ssmae prison on request of the wardeqtothe Ea& CcmmscficU Hospital This, so long as rAS hu&rSszl Is OveTCTowded, isa rank injustice @ the bc2cSc5zries of the State. have, there Eare vsz1ured sO decline to make such trans ssxx Fpc0SE.le1d a repeal of this act AS ~A.. k y4,-o oI,Fsx rvl-r1 pending applications for admission. l rVramle1i thai all cOavicts already transfer resA totheh0sTsital beremanded So soon asprop- sE prgTISS0a can be made at the prison for that P-pese- Besides may there not be some Ggzks whesher the criminal insane and the in- uz1rrz1 oughs to he herded together in this in- seiGzziBa. Let us not degrade the noble hospi- ral7f5ra which the State extends to it's smitten and doubsv bereft children of misfortune and wzms
 SoEDTEEs OF THE LATE WAR.
 Cutl the last session of the legislature any snhxheT ot the late war, in service on the quota of this Stale. Was entitled, if needing surgical Ssd Or uscdiC2l attendance. no matter for what czuse. to hospital treatment at the expense of the Stzte- This charity, for want of proper power in the Executive to guard its admins tr1tSoa- had come 10 be grossly abused. The
 
 ShsEIfle@ contracted in the service limited the sppKupri2iiOn to a per capita of S5 per week, and. al the suggestion of the Executive, au- thorIEed hIm tO employ a surgeon to make Esoz1Aly examinations and reports of the con- shfi0a Of the benefciaries in charge. Under this hw tine number of State patients in the hnapi1als has been reduced from 210 to g, and tho expense to the State from $11 ,830. 58 per quarter tO 6. .3s83l
 III s. I.n te10w the actual expense of support. If this beso. the State should withdraw it's benefici- aries t0 increase the rate, and not trespass on r<Ivzte charity to support a public one.
 May 1t not be worth while, also, to consider whether the law of the last session should not he enlarged in its acOpe; or whether at least so1e OthI provision than the aims-house Sh0ald Dos be made by tue State for such of its soldiers. honOFably discharged, as, without their own fault. have, by old age, accident, or disease not contracted in the service, been re- dssced to penury and want X man who has Paf his life at the hazard of war and his child Ten of CTphange for the honor of the State, has himself & title to honor. If he comes to waat hy misfortune, is the poor-hOuse quite a decent mode ef reFliting his merit! but the gtHcstioa-
 STATE PRISON.
 
 al the present time is 266 The expenditures made in repairs and improvements during the past two years is $4O. 900. The income of the prison for the past year is S25, 056. 56; eX- penses. $9S. .0sS 6S; deficiency, $3 025. 12. There Is nO adequate provision in the institu- ttoa for the care of insane convicts. re- commend that such provision be made. It can easily be done, and with trifiing expense.
 Disorders of a most serious character have lately occurred in the institution. The Legis- lafure should inquire whether these disorders are attributable to any officers now in charge, ox to unavoidable causes, or the fault of the law regulating the prison. l advise the pass age of an set punishing escapes from prison and a repeal of that which limits the force in charge to twelve men. So long as this last statue remains in force, the State cannot be wholly without blame if insecurity and disord- CT exist An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure in any system of lave.
 STATE BOUNDARIES.
 The boundaries of the State. both on the south and west are, and for a long time have been, unsettled. This state of things has led, in many instances. to controversies of private right and conflicts of civil and criminal turis- dictiOn. with no common arbiter for their set clement. The State appropriated in 1876 the sum of q, 600 in aid of private litigation in rA1tc u1 ANtW luNOiNiHS NlucStIOu of our boundary lines through Long Island sound Similar action was taken. I am ad- vised. by the State of New York. This suit has never been brought to trial, and, if it had been, w0ald have contributed nothing to the settlement of the question. Attempts have been made at different times to adjust these controversies by public negotiation All such attempts have hitherto proved unsuccessful, beg to suggest whether it is not best, in the interests of peace and good neighborhood, to take some effectual measures at once for the settlement of these questions, and thus to have done with dispute which, so long as it is un- adjusted, will prove a source of mischief and m-blood between the people of two sister States, long and intimately connected in commercial and social relations
 Tine Governor of the State of New York has recommended to the Legislature of the State the appointment of Commissioners to treat for the settlement of the boundary line through Long Island Sound I recommend the an-