Morning journal and courier., 1880-01-08

ana Hon. William T. Minor the commission CTS on the part of this State
 The resolution under which these commis sioners were appointed provides that they shall make their report to the General Assembly. I am informed that they are prepared so to re- port, and am also informed that the joint commission has unanimously agreed upon the ! entire boundary line between the two States defining accurately the limits of this state up. on the west and south.
 I am not officially advised as ts the details I of the agreement, but know that the commis- | sioners of both States have examined the mat ter in difference with great care and industry The well known character of the commission CTS for learning and integrity gives to their | action the force of judicial determination ! It may, in some particulars, not be precisely | as we would like, but think the State is pledged to abide by the result. recommend that the agreement be ratified by the General Assembly.
 ! OYSTER COMMISSION.
 The immense tract of valuable oyster ground l on the southerly boundaries of the State, | which are at present unused, and which it was believed could be so disposed of as to bring a large sum into the treasury of the State, in duced the last Legislature to provide for a commission of three persons to prepare plan for the gradual disposal of such grounds. Up- on this commission appointed Hon. Robert Colt of New London, Hon. Henry B. Graves of Litchfeld, and Charles W. Bell, Esq. of Nor walk. They have attended to the duty with which they were charged, and will report to you the plan which they have agreed upon, | and which, Ihave no doubt, will be accepta- ble to you, and of great value to the State. STATE PRISON
 The whole number of persons confined at the State Thsre had been .eved during the year aio a an dis charged 137. The income from the Prison has been of the prisoners, the salaries of all the officers with the incidental expen.es, and leave balance of drawn from the stats Treasury, on account of the Prison, the sum of s5, which has been expend ed for repars and for other purposes not mentioned ! above.
 The new direction of the Prison ordered by the Leaislsture went into operation the first April !nese Directors have brought great inte gence to have displayed the Utmost and pubie aen spii Alter careful inquiry, they chose warden, an U have faithfully seconded the efforts of the Directors The result has been successful almost beyond expecta structure built before any of the modern imnrops ments in prison buildings came into use might we'll be msdel In cleanliness heslthfulness good order all the oficers in the obedience. cheelfuness indus era feeling of saisfsctlon security and pride w6ich comes from doing and doing we the workwhich it is set to do, the State Prison ef Connecticut is now passed by no institution of similar kind America For few years past m. classes of workingmen have contended that the system contract labor in at the State Prison justy affected them They applied to the General Assembly 1879 for some le
 slaton. Such action had that commission con sistng of not than five persons WAS authorized to he appointed by the Governor, nty 1t should beo inquire into the feasibility of abolshn the sys- tenn of contract labor at the Prison and to devise plan for the employment of the prisoners other than by contract and to inquire further what kinds of employment could bs successfully carrie on in the Prison with the least conflict established n Des NeS % %ooa of hssP Edmund Tweedy of Danbury, Jeremiah Tierney of port will be laid before you at early day This is an important matter, involving the hand the interests of many workfngmen, aud the other pos sbly requiring entire change cement of prisoners. trust you viii be able to devise some ized remunerative way without unjustiy bearing upon the labor of honest men.
 special law, passed in 1869, provides that the Gov ernor, in certain shall issue order to take person confined in the State Prison, who shall bec,me insane, to the General Hospital at Middletown Dur ing the last summer the warden of the Prison reported to me that two or three conyiets We're insane and the Hospital. One of these a confined in the. to murder sVerybody eise Ths fe of ny nepsa % inn in his power safe for instant At the of any one At the Hospital his presence would en- dang-r the lives of many Under these circumstances
 The Hespftal is overerowtlsd and is oaiged to re of persons who are not criminal. Besides i. is question of doubt whether the criminal tion with the innocent. l recommend the rope Il of this act, and that some special provision insane convicts.
 THE INDECENT INSANE
 The special report made to the last Legislature upon il- sane poor of this State will come before you with the unfinished business of last year.
 The Connecticut Hospital for the Inane at Mid To- town has, during the year. had total number of GA patients. On the 1st day of December there O. three themselves paupers whose expenses are pal by relatives living out of the Sate The report above mentioned showed that there in the Stats about 400 poor insane persons who were out If tn Hospital who were in almshouses supported ese- the erection at Midsietown upon ths farm owued bv the Stats of separate building inexpensive style could be cared for believe this i. much the mos economical method that be adopted for the care ing hospisa treatment. repeat that do not see why the poor insane who are out of hospitals mt enti tied to your attention fully as thoss who do see how you ba consistent If you refuse at
 moderate expense to provide for the former x le at Ths fact that ali times the past three years ap. twoto three months until their could be reached simply because at all times the hospital dapger spsey a posbe pn 10 of f1pbsa provision for this dependent class.
 WOMAN SUFFRAGE.
 In the com nunicatton had the honor to make to the last General Assembly recommended that the right of voting be exended to womsn as far as it recomms sndaton. It seems to me that os sic and wis SIs do both and dictate that espeeay @ At the very least they ought to be allowed voice in all and sehooI district is fao general why not permit them to vote special tees on the question of license oc no license or others of similar nature?
 The State of Massachusetts has recently passed law permitting all women who Io.sess the required quail fcations of residence and education, have paid of school committees" Six other States have grant ing to the right of suffrage, wholly limited Any such enactment in this State, it should work badly, might be repealed by Legislature consisting only of men cleo ed solely by male Suffrage.
 It has just been decided by very signlicant me- orty in the State that voting is great educator and that is worth while to incur an annual expense of hundred thousand dollsrs that the Of the State have opportunity to take part in the great educational process If this sort of education very valuable for does not savoc good deal of narrowness-might not say cowardice-not to permit women 10 share to some little extent in it?
 TAXATION OF PROPERTY OF MARRIED WOMEN.
 call your attention again to the taxation of the separate property of married women. Alt such prop passed in 1s77 and in 1s7s, is as much out of the the control of the husband as though marriage existed ton in the list of the husband, and make the tax thereon debt against hin, is plain patton of the such property be get in list against the married man herself An act making this provision has ouce twice passed branch of the Assembly and has failed of becoming law, mainly the cain that it would add to the iabors of assessors. There be lie ssrvsnt. hardly t to be wise that illogical cumbersome and inequitable statute shall remain in force simply to accommodate them.
 DIvoRcEs
 The number of divorces granted i the state for the year ending January 1879, was 4o! This is less son who is at all familiar with the business of our es of  these, believed, been obtained by parties coluding with one another. With view to putting a stop to this vicious practice, recommend that law be passed requiring the States Attorney in each ty to defend against every uncontested petition for divorce unless he shall be satisfied, upon exami- nation of the case, that it rests just and legal grounds.
 Whatever theory may have to the indissoubili ty of the marriage relation, all agree that the State sufficient interest in it's permanspcy not to permit married parties to be separated upon any sud- den caprice, and much more that they shall not se- divorce by practising deceit upon the courts
 CORPORATIONS.
 The subject Of corporations, especially joint stock corporations, and corporation laws will be brought to your attention by the report of the Special Commits sion authorized by the Legislature of 1879 10 revise these laws. Upon. this Commission appointed John s. Beach of New Haven, William c. CrumP of New London, Samuel Fessenden of Stamford, Henry 5. Barbour of Hartford, and Frederick c. Webster of LitchiAld These gentlemen have given ths matter of corporation laws great atention and will report at an early day. The subject of corporations and the laws under which they be organized and by which they ought to be governed is Of great importance, and have no doubts win receive very careful attention at your hands, s4s It question worthy of serious inquiry by the
 people of this Stats whether the indefinite multiplying of corporations is not evil rather than good. The spirit Of the in Connecticut as applied to property nnuaIitv of among all c1tzenE