The Russellville Democrat., 1879-04-10


 The following are the objections of the Governor to the proposed measure:
 EXECUTIVE OFFICE,
 LITTLE RocK, March 3l, 1S79.} To the Secretary of State;
 l file herewith, in your office, an act of tue General Assembly, enti- tied "An act of Incorporation and Organization of Hospital for the Insane" together with my objections thereto; which are as follows:
 - In my message to the General As Ye{nblv I took occasion to call par tIcular attention to the necessity existing for the erection of an asy- lum for the Insane; and to quote, in support of this appeal, the language of my predecessor, that ''no class of suffering humanity has so large a claim upon the support of the com munity, as this, and no charitable institution is as much needed as one for the proper treatment of these persons" I added: "Every dictate of humanity requires that something should be done in this matter; and the subject is referred to the Gener- al Assembly with the confident hope that ways and means may be deyis- ed for the erection of an asylum within the next two years"
 1t is because the bill before me, in my judgment, makes no efficient pro- vision for the erection of an asylum, and because I can but believe that it's adoption as law will operate to ward the final defeat, so far as this generation is concerned, of any eff cient provision for that purpose, that l find myself compelled to dlsap prove it. I regard it as better that the care of the insane by the State should be deferred for another two years, than that the institution should be rendered permanently use less, by it's assignment to an improp- CT location, and unfit premises, with unsafe organization, and insufficient appropriation for expense. It was my hope and expectation that either by a sufficient levy of tax-which the people would have sanctioned,- or upon long credit, the amount nee essary for the construction of a proper asylum, might have been pro- vided. Neither of these alternatives, one or the other of which appears to have been indispensable, seems to have been attempted.
 It was stated, in the recommends ton upon this subject, that the trus- tees estimated $l50,000 in current money, as the sum required for the erection of suitable building. The bill appropriates $4o,oo0; which, if permitted to be expended, will, under the levy of tax made, have to be issued in Auditors warrants or State scrip; the market value of which, must, by this very issue, be reduced to about so cents on the dollar, and which, therefore, could realize only some $32,000, in currency. A fit asylum for lunatics is, of necessity. a costly structure. It must, in order to be useful, be strong, fre-proof, heated by means of pipes, abundant ly supplied in the same manner, with water, hot and cold, and fur nished with hundred <ences for the care and her
 tunate inmates. s ready made,
 purchased,
 structed
 The p.vposed location IS m nl- derness, remote from indispensable conveniences. No price is fixed, in the bill, for the land. The State had already expended $16,0O0 in payment for other land for the same purpose. And finally it is pro vided that the superintendent, who is to be "a skillful physian, of un.