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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-01-19


The disbursements from this fund, for the
same period, including, as will be seen, not only
the payments for current expenses proper, but
the interest on the states "war debt" its con-
tributions to the university, to the school fund
income, for free high schools, and for the sup
port of industrial schools, the hospitals for the
insane, and the institutions for the education of
the blind and the deaf and dumb, have been as
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-01-19

Compared with the expenditures of the pre-
ceding fiscal year, there is an increase of $1A,-
703.01: but of this sum 1000 were paid to
Milwaukee county on account Of the construc-
ton of its insane asylum; and an excess of
$40, 1858 was paid on account of appropria-
tons to hospitals, benevolent and educational
institutions SO that only Sc, 917.33 remains to
be charged to current state expenses proper,
and is more than accounted for In the increase
of legislative expenses.
The condition of the several educational
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-01-19
STATE AFFAIRS.
Fourth Annual Message of Gov. VIM
e. Smith.
Delivered to the Legislature, Thursdar
January 13, 1881.

Felloao Citizens of the Senate and Assembly:
The past year has been fruitful in abundant
harvests; and every form of industry has yield
ed remanerative returns. Public order has
been maintained without interruption, in all
parts of the state, and there has not been, IN
any locality, even the fear of tumult. The va
r1ous edu cational benevolent and penal insti-
tutlons of the state were never in better condi-
ton, or more adequately prepared to meet the
public necessities and expectations; and, what
ever criticisms may have been made upon
methods and details of management, no sug-
gestlon has come to my knowledge of anything
affecting the integrity or the purity of motives
of any officer connected with their management
Complying with the command of the consti-
tuition, which requires the governor to 'fcommu-
mcate to the legislature, at every session, the
condition of the state and recommend such
matters to them for their consideration as he
may deem expedient," have followed nv Gus
tom of previous years, and invite your attention
to a statement of the facts and the figures
which exhibit the condition of the state, and
with but little elaboration, argument or COM
ment, suggest the more important matters
which demand your consideration.
PUBLIC FINANCES
The receipts into the state treasury for
the fiscal year ending September SO,
1880, from all sources, 81 IA, 719 0S
Balance September 30, 1879. ........ $50, 824 60
Total. ,333, 543 60
The disbursements during the same
period for all purposes were. s1,s72 ia es
Balance september ~, 1880. 461 1893 IL
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-01-19


The fiscal transactions and condition of the
state, apart from its duties and responsibilities
as trustee and custodian of the various educa-
tional and other funds before named, are ex-
hibited in one account. All the revenues of
the state, whether derived from taxes, licenses
paid by railroad compani and other corpora
tons and peddlers, or fro1ns fees and sales of
laws and reports, are charged in the first in
stance to the
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-01-19

dian commission rejected-ages LOG, nays 119.
The bill was then passed. Adjourned.
WEDNESDAY, January 12.-The morning hour was
dispensed with, and the house went into committee
Of the whole on the FINDING bill, debate on the
pending amendment being limited loy vote of 139
to ~ to thirty minutes. The time for debate having
expired, the question REQUIRED Woods amend
ment fixing the rate of interest upon bonds and GER
tificates at per cent. Agreed to-132 to 92-tbe
body of the Democrats voting in the affirmative and
the majority of the Republicans in the negative
The second branch of Woods amendment, arranging
rates notes at per cent, also agreed with
out division Sanford offered an amendments pro-
vidng that before any of the bonds notes author
lied by the act issued shall be the duty Of the
secretary of the treasury to pay the bonds
ing during the year 1881 all the silver dollars of
4I2H grains, and all the gold over and above $780,
600 900 now held in the treasury for redemption pur
poses Adopted-yeas SO, nays 25-the Republicans
refusing to vote, desiring to SO load down the bill
that substitute offered by them would be adopted
Mcmillan offered an amendment making the bonds
authorized subject to taxation. AT first the Repub-
hcans showed disposition to refrain from voting,
and some few even voted in favor of the amend
1nent, in order to attach it to the bill, but finally
they, in body, voted against it, and it rejected
yeas 81, nays SO. Randall offered an amendment
making the substantial part of the section read:
The secretary Of the treasury is hereby authorized
to issue bonds in an amount of not exceeding $780,
000 which shall bear interest at the rate of per
cent per annum, redeemabe at the pleasure of the
United States after - years; the bonds shall be,
etc Calkins wished to amend Randall's amend.
ment by fixing the rate of interest at 80 per cent
but the chair ruled that it was not in order Wood
then moved that the committee rise in order to eua
BILE the members to carefully examine the Randall
which motion was agreed to and the
house adjourned.
TUESDAY, January 13.-Colerick, from the COM
mittee on elections, presented minority report de-
clarihg neither j. G. Holmes w. f. Sapp had
been legally elected from the Eighth congressional
district of Iowa. lso minority report in the case of
Wilson vs. Carpenter, from the Ninth congressional
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-06-23

THE California Supreme Court
has decided that certificates of stock
can not be taxed to their holders
when the state assesses and taxes
the property of the corporation.
While this ruling is sound in law
and justice, it wipes out a large
amount of increased taxation which
it was supposed the new constitu-
ton would impose upon personal
property. The California constitu-
ton of 1879 requires "bonds, stocks,
dues, etc." to be taxed in proper
ton to their "value." 1t also re-
quires, in the case of railroads for
instance, that the franchise railway,
road-bed, rails and rolling stock" of
n rosd shall be divided up among
the counties aud taxed in
each. But the court decides
that when this has been done
all the property represented by the
shares has been taxed at once, and
the constitution does not authorize
double taxation. The same reason
ing is applied to all corporate prop
erty which is taxed directly to the
corporation, relieving shareholders
from any tax except that pai1 by the
company, which, rs the court Justly
says, els substantially the same thing
as ii paid from the pockets of indi-
vidual stockholders" The law 10
Texas is quite similar to this Cali
fornia law, but no appeal, as yet, has
been made here against this double
system of taxation ,r..
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-06-23
What is the World Coming To.

The Public Record thus concludes
an able article on this question (:
But what are we-that is, our race
| coming tor How arc things to be a
hundred or two years from now?
What will be the opportunities of
the great multitude for earning a
subsistence and living happy, con-
tented and self-respecting lives !?
Less than century ago American
millionaires were scarce. There
were no monOpolies. There was no
great individual accumulation of
wealth among us as there is now, but
there was general diffusion of COM
petence If not of abundance, and
pauperism was not a conspicuous
element in our social system. In
stead of almost all the great indus
tries of the country being massed as
they now are in comparatively few
hands they were distributed broad
cast among the people. Instead Of
immense factories and mills of one
kind or another, nearly every cot
tage in the land had its spinning
wheel and loom, and every little vii
lage had its shoemakers, its tailors,
its carpenters, its blacksmiths, and
its busy and thriving mechanics of
every sort. The wholesale plan of
production, by which capital, rein.
forced by machinery, has taken
charge of good part of the work of
the country, almost wholly displaces
all this now. Our protective tariffs
have. to a great extent, essentially
changed the condition and relations
of the workingman. Is this change
for the better or for the worse?
Only here and there, except as til
Ter of land, can he be his own master
and work for himself, selling the
products of his soil and eating the
bread of independence. We seem
to be approaching state of things
in which the man who would have
been a self-sustainiDg artisan must
be wage-worker. The time may
come when he must hire out or starve
and-die. He must then be wheel
in a machine, or rather q single cog
upon q wheel. He will then become
utterly dependent upon an employ
er. He will have no sure guarantee
of the means of living. Almost
everything except agriculture has
already become consolidated in COM
paratlvely few centres, around one
or the other of which we must all
revolve. This centralizing tendency
is growing every day. Protection
to American industry is mighty
genie, raised by our own incanta-
tions, and refusing to retire to the
bottle from which we called it. 1t
holds us by the throat. Are our
children doomed to be its future
slaves, more helpless even than we
ourselves 2 These are momentous
questions. The attention of phllan-
thropists and statesmen can not be
too soon directed to their consider
ation.v ~
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-06-23

THE other day we were telling OF
a suit against the Southern Pacific
railway, instituted by the managers
of the Texas Il Pacific to restrain
the former from using its line, pass
ing over any portion of the reserva-
ton made for the t. & p. through
the country west of the Rio Grande.
A petition has also been forwarded
to Secretary Kirkwood, asking that
The land reserved for the II. Il p. be
opened for settlement. BY the terms
of the grant, the road was to be COM
pleted and in running order in ten
years from March 2, 1871. The desig-
mated period has expired, and the
road is neither completed nor begun
west of the Rio Graude. Yet the
company holds by virtue of the
grant the nominal title to 100000
acres Of land along the proposed
route. As set forth in the petition
referred to the average railroad
grant per mile is 25, 900 acres, covering
belt eighty miles wide in the terri
tories and forty miles wide in Cali
fornia, and having length of nearly
600 miles in the former and 200 in
the latter. Not all of this land is
included in the grant, but the road
has alternate sections in it, some of
which have been located, and the
whole tract is withdrawn from set
Element. The petitioners are mostly
residents of New Mexico and Ari-
iona. They allege that the grant
has lapsed by virtue .of the failure of
the railroad company to fulfill its
conditions. The road has not been
built, and never will be, as the neces-
sity for it has been supplied by the
Southern Pacific. which has been
pushed across thecontinent without
subsidy of any kind. IL Is therefore
proposed that the lapsed lands be
restored to the public domain, and
be thrown open, for settlement
under the presumption and home
stead acts. 4...
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-06-23

IN CONSIDERING the case of bond
holders against the city of Memphis,
the supreme court OF Tennessee de-
cidcd: That the new corporations
liable for the debts of the old that
upon the evil death of corpora
ton its real estate does not revert to
the original owners, and the debts
due to and from it are not extin-
guished, and it. personal property
does not vest IN, the state; that the
community of the two corporations
MS to debts and rights has never
been doubted; that the change of
charter IS no change of name, nor in-
crease or diminution of territory or
population, nor change of govern
ment, nor all of these causes COM
bined will destroy the identity of
the municipal corporation; that
property held by the corporation for
public use, is held as trustee and
can not be subjected to the claims of
creditors; that the only means at
the disposal OF the corporation for
the payment of debt consists. ordi-
narily, of the taxes it is authorized
to raise; that the legislature can
not abridge the rights of the credi-
tor, and that it is violation of the
creditors contract and obnoxious to
the constitution of the United States,
that the new corporation is identi-
cal with the old in all its essential
qualities; that the legislature can
not violate the claimants contract,
either by reducing the claim to the
pro rata which might be received
under the receivers bill, or by com
polling the creditor TO go against
any person except his debtor that a
legislative provision for not paying
any debt created by said extinct cor
poration, and providing that taxes
collected under the act shall never
be used for the payment ofits debts;
is unconstitutional and void. The
court declined to give any opinion
as TO whether the legislature can
withhold the taxing power as against
debts previously contracted that it
may he that the creditor cannot col
iect his debt, but he ought to be able
to reduce his contract to Judgment;
that suit pending against the old
corporation may BIO revived against
the new and prosecuted TO judg-
ment.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-06-23


SENATOR THURMAN, when he left
the Senate, wrote to his SON that he
would never again accept a public
position. He allowed himself TO be
made member of the international
monetary commission, and therefore
the Democrats of Ohio think he has
placed himself in position where
he cannot refuse to become their
randidste' for governor for the cleo
lion that is to be held this fall. There
would be much probability of their
success with Thurman as leader, and
when tho nomination is presented to
him ora silver platter, marked unan-
imous and without opposition, nc
viii be very apt to do as other men
do on such occssions-accept and
feel very happy about it. f "Afia
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-06-23

III is estimated that the deficiency
in the wheat crop. of this country,
compared with the crop oflast year,
will be between 100000 900 and 20O.-
100000 bushels. Last year vast
deal of wheat. was exported, but
this shortage in crop will arrest
shipments abroad, and the balance
IN trade maysnot, during the next
twelve months, flood the country
with foreign specie. 1t will have o
bad effect in more ways than one,
and will probably stop some of the
wild speculation that is now going
on in financial circles. With the
grain crop'so greatly reduced, there
must be less carrying trade, and this
must have its reflex upon the rail
road stoek'speculators. This failure
is no great calamity in country
whose crop is so great, but it will
have its effect on the country at
large. Texas, however, will not be
affected in the least. We are in the
midst Of boom that nothing will
obstruct for years to come. The
building of 5000 miles ofrailway in
three years in Texas will distribute
here SlOo,OOO, 1000, and increased popu-
lation and industry must add $780,
100000 to the wealth of the state.
So Texas while the cash balance
grows higher and higher in the
treasury vaults is above and beyond
any shortage in crops.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-06-23

TnE Pope's opinion as to Irish
affairs, has more effect in their set.
lement than would apowerful army
backed by all the wealth of England.
The conrrc of Archbishop Croke
was disapproved by his Highness,
and atraightway the prelate begins to
roiraee his steps. and ParnelI
becomes more lambIike, and is going
20 place no more obstacles in the
way ofthe passage Of the land bill,
II all organized faiths were as DOW.
erfnI.as Catholicism, and their influ.
ence we're always exercised for good
there would be no more revolution.
and no more bloodshed. and tn.
millennium might be inaugurated.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-06-23

THERE is great dissatisfaction
among certain European classes as
to the Introduction of supplies and
goods from America. In. Spain,
Germany, Austria, Italy and other
countries there is a renewed discus
sion of the policy of imposing dis
eliminating duties on much that is
introduced from the United States.
Mr.. Kasson, late minister to Austria,
in a communication printed in the
last number of the commercial re-
ports issued by the state depart
ment, refers tothe growing impor-
lance of this subject. He says :
"These fears particularly apply to
the agriculture of America. The
taxation of real estate here is very
burdensome. In America it is light.
Rents must here in large regions be
paid to landlords. In America the
farmer is usually free from rent
charges. Here lands have been
highly paid for; there they were
bought comparatively cheap. These
considerations are pressed upon the
governments. 1t is more than pos
siblo that they will lead to palpable
injustice and inequality towards the
United States in the near future.
Hence the question whether Con-
gress ought not to arm the execu-
tive with the power to impose tenn
porarily q per centage of discrim-
mating duties on the products of
the soil and of the industry of those
nations which apply discriminating
duties or regulations against the
products of the soil or industry of
The United States. Some two years
ago i mad the honor to advise you
that the condition of public senti-
ment in this country and on this con-
tinent generally gave serious cause
for alarm TO American interests.
beg now in view of the partial resli-
cation of those fears to renew that
declaration and to. direct attention
to remedial and precautionary meas
uresS .-.....T -sO
Mr.. Kasson, who is member-elect
of the next house of representatives,
will be in position next winter to
bring the above suggestion to the
attention of Congress.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-06-23

The uses to which paper is APP
piled are multifarious. For the new
observatory at West Point paper
dome, thirty feet in diameter and
weighing about two tons, is in the
course of construction. 1t will
weigh only one-tenth as much as a
copper dome of equal size.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-06-23

EDWARD ATKINSON has been try
ing to make it appear that manufact-
ure of cotton in the South eau never
be made profitable, because opera
tives can not stick 20 work in cotton
mills, in this climate, the year round.
Mr.. Atkinson has been telling several
things on the South, tinctured with
willful falsehood, and when-he sand
this hetold what he knew, perfectly
well, TO be untrue. He has pretend
ed to post himself on the South and
its conditions, ana he made this
statement in face of the fact that a
number of mills have been run in
Georgia and South Carolina for the
last ten or fifteen years with perfect
success as manufactures, and with
great profit to owners. Take the
case of the Eagle & Phoenix mills;
of Columbus, Ga. 1t is stated by
authority that they have never stop
ped a day since they were started
except on account of high water in
time of freshets, and always have
applications ahead for work, every
applicant being a native of Georgia.
No southern mill has negro opera
tive, and the great majority of the
operatives are natives of that part of
the country in which mills are To-
Gated. Regarding cotton manufac-
ture in the South,a correspondent of
the New York Tribune, says:
"Three thousand millions ofdollars
were swept away by the emancipa-
ton of the slaves, but the sons of for
mer planters are the most energetic
and progressive workers in the south
to-day. AS fast as they accumulate
money they invest it in cotton manu-
featuring. The surplus profits of the
farmers and planters, which for
merly went for the purchase of land
and negroes, are now rapidly tending
to manufacturing enterprises. The
lack OF capital alone is the explana-
ton of the apparent slow growth of
cotton manufacturing. Can any one
seriously assert that Georgia mills
which have an advantage ofone and
nine-tenths. cents per pound in the
cost of raw material over their
northeastern competitors-which for
a mill of 1000 looms amounts to over
8 per cent. of the entire capital, or.
$l20,099 ner annum-can not sell
goods to Mexico and the southwest
ern states cheaper than can the mills
a thousand miles from the cotton
fields and thousand miles further
distant from the western market ?"
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-06-23
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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-06-23

A SCHOOL has been established at
Hartford, Connecticut, by the
Chinese for the introduction of forty
youthful celestials in,the construc-
tion and operation of Geographic
lines.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-06-23

FRANcIs EPPEs, the last of the
grandsons of Thos. jefferson, died
May S0th, on his orange estate near
Orlando, Fla, after a lingering i'll.
ness, at the age of eighty-one years
Mr.. Eppes was the son of the late
Hon. john Wayles Eppes, a member
ofcongress during Jefierson's admin
istration, and sometime chairman Of
the finance committee, and Maria
Jefferson, the presidents youngest
daughter. s.... ..i
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-06-23

TINS week the President will re-
receive the verdict in the Whitaker
case. 1t is thought half dozen
coats of whitewash may make Re-
publicans unanimous in declaring
that the young man could not have
cut his own cars.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-06-23

MACHINES are gradually pushing
aside manual labor. An apparatus
for backing boots has been intro
duced in some. of the New York
hotels, and great are the lamen-
tations of the @shine 'em" boys in
the streets. o.