Morning journal and courier., 1883-01-04

ticut is the first State which has disposed of bonds at so low a rate of interest. The bonds due January 1, 1883, amounting to $967, 1000, have been paid by the proceeds Of
 the sale and by draft upon the treasury.
 The amount of the funded debt, January
 l, 1883, was $4, 59O, 500. The act of 1882,
 to which have alluded, provides for the further issue of bonds to meet the payment
 of bonds falling due January l: 1884. The report further shows that the income of the fiscal year ending November 30, 1882, was $1, ,720, ,43S. 21, and the expenditures Sl, 646,- 432 S5. The balance on hand, including surplus of $74, ,OO5.36, was $1, 192, S97.9l. On January l, 1883, the balance on hand was $825, ,S97.90
 STATE EXPENDITURES.
 The protest, so lately and so decisively uttered by the people against extravaganza in national expenditures, deserves to be heed ed by us A comparison of the past with the present State expenditures will convince you that they are increasing in far greater ratio than our business or population, and can but impress upon you the necessity of favor ing their reduction in every possible and prop CT way.
 HUMANE AND OTHER INSTITUTIONS
 The largest item in the list of expendi- lures is as it should be, for charitable, hu- mane and reformatory purposes. It amounts to over $276,O It includes the cost for the care of 380 boys in the Reform school; 183 girls in the Industrial school; 1,079 in sane persons in the hospital at Middletown, 28 in tho retreat at Hartford, 24 in hospitals outside the State; 57 imbeciles in the school at Lakeville 146 sick and wounded soldiers in hospitals 100 soldiers children in different towns IS blind persons at Boston; 51 deaf and dumb at Hartford, and 241 paupers at Tariffville. The people are able and willing to continue their generous support to the CLok ko rubi ah belong, but rightfully require that watohful- ness be continually exercised over their in ternal management and care taken to avoid other than necessary and specific appropria- tions in their favor. Moneys given to sup port such institutions should be treated sacred fund.- and religiously guarded against the growing evil of extravaganza.
 I understand that no unusual appropriation will be asked for any of these institutions, except $50, ,0O0 for the construction of two cottages at the Reform school, required for the extension of new system of care and reformation already entered upon, and es- teemed by officers and trustees of great ad- vantage to the school as a reformatory.
 As the reports of these institutions con- taining itemized statements of their condition and explanations of their wants, printed for the information of the General Assembly, I do not deem it necessary to refer to them in detail
 THE BOARD OF CHARITIES.
 While the Board of Charities deserves the most grateful recognition for it's benevolent services, it cannot be expected to exercise the efficient supervision over our charitable, and penal institutions that other States secure by the employment of a whose whole attention is given, under the direction of competent l board, to the discharge of the same duties as | the law imposes upon our Board of Charities. It is estimated by the commission appointed l to ascertain the number of neglected, mis- l used and dependent children in the State, | and to report some plan to properly care for l hem, that 5000 come within the scope of | heir inquiry. It is to be hoped that by your legislation something will be done to save these unfortunates from the associations r of the poorhouse, and the temptations to which poverty and neglect now expose them. Many of the boys released from the State Reform school, upon attaining creditable positions by good conduct in the institution, nave no homes or means to support them elves, and the same is true to some extent ,f girls discharged from the Industrial school tt Middletown
 In other States, boards of charities, aided, IS I have said, by competent superintendents, Ire able to provide, in many cases, homes for neglected children in private families, and employment for inmates of their several in titutions who have proved themselves worthy of recommendation, thereby saving he State the expense of their continued upport and administering charity in the | most practical way by helping its subjects to provide for themselves
 T, The cost of our State benefciaries is so arge, and the cost of their care so great, that t may be we'll for you to consider the adop- ion of system that has proved in other States wise and economical.