The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1882-01-21

estimate of the expenditures to be defraved
from the treasury during the year beginning
January /, 1885,
EXPENDITURES.
Salaries and permanent appropriations. 1927 73O so
Legislative expenses. ............... $3.50 90
Interest on state indebtedness. ..... 1874 5sS &c
Charitable and penal institutions. 235 900 90
Clerks and employees. ............... $4,000 90
miscellaneous ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 262, 900 90
Total expenditures. 81 O47, O6s So
REVENUES.
Licenses and fees ........... 1862, 700 90
IaHes authorized by laW.-........... 234, 1863 sc
Total revenues. ................... s797O6s Sc
This estimate shows that it will be necessary
for this legislature to provide the sum of $780,
600, and [ would recommend that the amount
Is reasonable and proper.
CONTINGENT FUND
The balance to the credit of the governors
contingent fund on January l. 1882 was
$61006, and the expenditures from this fund
during the year were 81, 31348 Inview of the
condition of this fund at the present time and
the possible demands upon it the present wear.
l recommend that the sum of two thousand
dollars be appropriated thereto at this session.
CHARITABLE AND PENAL INSTITUTIONS.
At the last session of the legislature. a law
was passed abolishing the several boards having
control of the different state institutions. and
substituting therefor single board of five
members, designated as the estate Board of
Supervision" In conformity to that law, NV
predecessor appointed as such board George
w. Burchard, James BintGff, Charles Luling
Lewis A. Proctor and Charles d. Parker. This
board entered upon the discharge of its duties
on the 9TH day of June, 1881. Its first annual
report covers period from that date to Deem
Der 1, 1881, by which it appears that the ex-
penseS of the institutions have been greatly re-
duced, without impairing the efficiency of the
institutions.
The amounts turned over to the board of
supervision on their assuming control, for the
several institutions. were as follows:
For state hospltai LOT insane S41 ,099 II
For northern hospital for insane. .... As 446 "a
For industrial school for boys. 49, 242 sc
For institute for education OF blind. 1872 rs
For institute for deaf and dumb ., 1901 "a
For detailed information relative to the man
agement and financial condition of each of the
institutions, you are respectfully referred to
the hrst report OF the board of supervision,
which will be before you in printed form. From
q statement furnished by the president of said
board it Is found that a deficit exists in the
current expense funds Of the several institr-
tons under their control, aggregating S55, 944,-
80, divided among different institutions as
follows:
State hospital for insane January l. 1892 Cos 50
Northern hospital for insane, Januaty l,
Institute for deaf and dumb, March ST. ii'''' 20
State prison, March 81, 1882 1909 1909 90
Total. s55. 944 90
In these items are included the amounts
probably necessary to meet demands to the
close of the appropriation year, March 81, for
the Institute for Deaf and Dumb and State
Prison, and to pay for cargo Of coal not vet
delivered to the Northern Hospital for Insane
L would recommend that appropriations to
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session as practicable.
The board makes a detailed statement of
their estimates for the current expenses of the
several institutions under their charge, for the
next year, and which shows that there is to be
supplied by appropriation for The several in
sututlOns, as follows:
For state hospital for insane $40, O19 70
For northern hospital for insane. go. 81 500 80
For industrial school for boys.......... 32987 81
For institution for education of deaf and
DUMP ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 81. 900 90
For institution for education of blind. 1850 90
or state prison ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. $4,000 90
STATE BOARD OF CHARITIES AND REFORM.
The powers of this board now embraced gem
era supervision over all the charitable penal and
reformatory institutions in Wisconsin, both
public and private, except the SIX state institu-
| tons, The Legislature of last winter took away
| from this board their general supervision over
| the state institutions, and gave them increased
| work IN some other directions, the chief of
| which Is In relation to the care of the chronic
| insane by counties under chapter 233 of the
! laws OF 1881. Under this law the board has
| power 70 control the treatment by counties of
! their chronic insane, Dyregulating the distribu-
| ton OF the state appropriation, and by their
! power to take the insane away from counties
where they are not properly cared for.
| The report OF the board will contain many de-
| tails of interest relating to the management of
| the institutions under their care. The board
| ask that the general power of visiting and re-
| porting upon the six state institutions be re
! stored to them.
CHRONIC INSANE.
desire TO call your attention to the large in
| crease IN the number of mcurable insane
| These unfortunate beings should command our
| warmest sympathy and humanity demands
| that adequate provision be made for their
| wants. Our insane asylums have b2en obliged
| to return many of this unfortunate class to the
counties whence they came to make room for
| other patients; and theceunty authorities being
unable to suitably provide for them, are obliged
| to keep them III the poor-houses and jails.
| The subject of at once providing for this class
| so they can receive proper care and treatment
! should engage your earliest and most careful
| attention.
EDUCATION.
| am pleased to be able to say to you that the
! educational interests OF the state are quietly
! but steadily progressing, and although the
! VI IS somewhat less tlan
for the last year, vet the public schools are in
very satisfactory condition. The attendance
has not been so large for the past year on ac-
! count of the unfayoTable weather and the pre-
| yalency of contagious diseases in very many
| localities. The percentage of attendance of
| children at all the schools Of the state for the
year 1879 was $685. for the year 1890, 69. Oh:
and for the year 1884, 652. The number of
children of school age III the state in 1880 was
483, 229, and III 1881 was 1885, 142, an increase
of 1913. The total valuation of school prop
.erty II the state, being the school houses
| school house sites, apparatus and libraries, is
| 80, 543, 049.61. The total amount expended for
school purposes IN the state during the yesr was
S2.3O2, O38.34 or S6.97 for each person attend
| ing school. The amount expended for each
pupil in 1880 was 1924, and in 1879 was S7.44.
The number of appeals before the superin-
tendent have been less than last year and is a
gratifying indication Of that humane and friend
ly spirit of the people which insures good gov
| eminent.
The common schools of this state are sur
passed by the schools of but very few states in
the Union, and this good condition is, in great
measure, due to the commendable and able
manner in which the superintendent of public
| instruction and their assistants have for many
! Years performed their arduous and important
| duties. Every superintendent of public instruc-
ton for many Years has recommended that the
adoption of the township system of school gov
eminent be made compulsory.
FINES AND PENALTIES.
Section 2 of article of our state constitu-
uon provides, among other things, that /" the
clear proceeds of ali fines collected in the
several counties for any breach of the penal
laws shall be set apart as a separate fund to be
| called school fund - and section 71S of the