The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1880-01-09
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is a well written document and there
are many good suggestions in il. II
Is very evident that neither he nor his
Secretary Of State, who uses eve"
with a capital "W," wrote il, and we
are at loss to know who did. The
paper begins with the usual congrat-
ulatory remarks to the Legislature
about the peace and plenty that every
where abounds, and actually goes so
for as TO say that our laws are re-
spected and enforced. The latter
statement bears the oder Of its own
falsity. In discussing the finances Of
the State, he produces the balance
sheet Of the Auditor to show that
there will be an estimated deficit on
the first Of October. 1880, of $685.
9l2 80; to meet which he recommends
an increase Of 3 cents on the 500 in
taxes, and the issuance Of $500, 900
worth Of bonds, with interest payable
semi-annually at 6 per cent, redeem
able at the pleasure Of the Commits
sioners ofthe Sinking Fund. Taking
into consideration the frauds practised
on the State in the way of witness
claims, and claims for transporting
prisons from one county 10 another
and TO the penitentiary, he suggests
that Commonwealth witnesses re-
ceive no pay for their attendance upon
either the examining Court or the
Court Of final trial, excep: in cases
where witnesses are required from one
county to another, and that an exam
lining Court be allowed not more than
81 in any case for its services. In
regard to transporting prisoners, he
recommended that no compensation
be allowed except eight cents a mile
for the Sheriff and six cents each for
the guard and prisoners, the same
amount to be paid for conveying luna
tics. In the case of pro tenn Judges
and Commonwealth Attorneys, he
says, the law ought to fix their com
pensation atsl0 for the former per day |
and IS for the latter. He wants all the
Common Pleas and Criminal Courts
abolished, because they are an unnec-
essary expense of $4,000 per annum. |
Our charitable institutions cost over
5000, 000yearly, and the appropriations |
for them being based ON war prices, he |
thinks, that ten per cent. at least
might be deducted for the present APP
preparations. On the Black Hole of
Calcutta, as he terms the Peniten.
tiary, he expatiates at considerable
length and shows the institution up in
its blacklist and most horrible light.
He is for thorough change in the
present barbarous plan. and for the
of every vestige Of the
leasing system, and for the building
Of an another Peniten.iary remote
from the present and the adoption of
the Warden plan. Three hundred
convicts are enough for any one Pen
itentiary, and reformatory for young
criminals he regards as absolutely nee
assary. He very properly recon-
mends that the law establishing grand
larceny be changed from $40 to $50.
The theft of sums under that to be
punished in county iails and work
houses. The passage of law giving
he consent of the State to the FEEDER
II Government acquiring title to
ands, upon which to erect locks and
lams, with the necessary buildings,
Ipon the rivers Of the State is also
recommended, as under the existing ,
avs it cannot do so without the con-
ent of the Legislature. He wants c
Monuments raised, at the expense of '
he State, TO the eight physicians who
ost their lives battling with the yellow
ever at Hickman and a Legislature
'rovision for the more efficient organ. {
zation of the State Guards. He has 4
good word to say of the manage J
nent Of the several charitable institu-
ions and thinks the Agricultural Blu
eau should be sustained with liberal :
preparation. Other subjects of
minor importance are touched upon, a
nd the whole makes up one of the Il
lost credible messages that we have {
sad for long time. a
BLACKBURN is the most inveterate al
'ker in the world. When the North. al
m papers were pouring hot shot into
i'm for his alleged attempt to intro W
uce yellow fever and smallpox in ), y
he Federal army by means ofinfected 90
othing, the C0uTier-JouRal explain eu
that he never seriously contem- in
ated the act, but that the story DO
ost probably originated in an effort ot
the Doctor TO beat Dick Winter
nth in getting off the biggest yarn,
ID TO sustain his reputation as a Joker.
his message, which was delivered Ri
the Legislature last week, he sus- for
ms that reputation by saying that
eet peace reigns over our entire hs,
ate and the laws are every where -,
spected within its borders. Was
ere ever such a Joke, not TO say ...
lful misstatement of facts The ~
lth of the business is that there 'lY
ver were a time In Last fillv vaars hei