Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-01-18

North Missouri Railroad bonds. 100000 90
st. Louis i Iron Mountain Rail
Cairo SfFulton Railroad bonds,... 26I 900 on
| Platte County Railroad bOnds..... 500, 900 90
Consultation bonds. 2,6IO,060 90
! state bonds proper. $4,000 90
! State funding bonds. 9SS,000 90
State Bank stock refunding bonds $1,000 90
| Penitentiary indemnity bOndS.... 10000 90
| State University bonds. .........-. 100000 90
| Northwestern Iunatic Asylum
Missouri 6 per cent. consolidated '' w
+ School FUND.-. .................. $4,000 90
I Missouri 6 per cent. consolidated ..i.s.
| : certificate of indebtedness (Sem-
mary Fund. ...................... l22,0Oo 90
Total .Sl39I9,0O0 10
j Deducting the certificates of Indebtedness
held in trust for Ithe school and seminary
! funds the aggregate bonded indebtedness
January l. 1883, is $40 a4S. O0O not including the
Hannibal 80 st..Joseph Railroad bonds.
| OF this debt 81 600 State bonds proper ma
| trire in 1888 and none in 1884. 80 - -
In addition to State bonds purchased, the
| Fund Commissioners also purchased in 1881
| bond No, L244 OF, the Hannibal Il ST. Joseph
/ Railroad series. leaving the amount OF Hanni-
bal & ST. Joseph bonds outstanding $685.
| 600.
think the receipts of the revenue levied
upon LIBERALIZATION of 1881 and 1882 will be
ample to meet the demands of the State un-
It'll tifeGeneral Assembly shall again convene
| in 1884. This is gratifying to those interested
I in its financial condition. Since this Admin
| istratiOn WAS inauyurated the expenditures
i have been at the minimum The necessary
costs and expenses Of the Thirty first General
| sion, SIS, 800 81; total, Sl41.27s.25
| r. .... PROPERTY ASSESSMENT.
| On the subject of property assessment the
Governor says:
Considering the amount and excellent char
acter of the work done, we can say that it was
money wei spent. which has and will rebound
| with this subject, 1 call your attention to the
necessity for making the office of County
| Assessor more desirable to our best business
men than it is now. 1t is, in my estimation
! the most important in the list of county
offices. Upon the action of the Assessor, who
| is often wholly incompetent, is asccrta1ned
| the taxable wealth of "A county; and by aggre
| eating the counties, the wealth of the State
| outside of the cities. If proper assessments
| were made there would be a sufficient in
| crease in the aggregate valuation to pay the
| public debt of the State within ten years.
| There is a serious wrong in the unequal and
! kinds of property. and the soonerit is correct
ed the better it will be for the State and the
I people. There is an evil somewheres either
| in the system or in the way the duties of the
at an early day. The wisdom of this body
will suggest a remedy. otherwise, the
revenue law fully meets the necessity of its
| existence. 1T"
| THE PENITENTIARY. .~ 'ft"r
| y The daily average Of convicts in the Peni
! Tertiary in 1881 was 1, POS, in 1882 it was
1918. The expenses of the Penitentiary
in 1881 were sr11. 161 = the receipts for labor
| $112, 423, showing an excess of 81 ,2G2 in
favor of receipts. This is Independent of
4 the loss by fire in May, 1881. In 1882 the
receipts of the Penitentiary were $112,550,
and the cost of maintenance $102,0S0. The
message says:
| There are at present seventy five persons
| in prison sentenced to term OF life scrvitllde
| of the Penitentiary shows that no prisoner
| has lived TO complete a term of fourt :en
] years, would it not be wise to so amend the
| law as to have no sentence extend beyond
! twenty years, and giving the convict the adj
| vantage of the three fourths rule, as it now
| exists, an incentive to good Dehavior2 This
'rue, if restored, should apply to those pris
oners heretofore sent for over twenty years.
| Such o change in the law. as above indicated,
/ be fulfilled except by death, and would give
some hope of relief to those men who are now
/ entirely without hope, and without an inccnt-
| i've to good behavior. A1nan'S hope and life
| should not be obIterated and destroyed by
prison life. Punish him, but do not degrade
him forever by defamation OF law that alnan
| who enters prison should leave all hope be-
| hind, should be forever viewed as an enemy
| of his race, without being given an OpDOr-
tunity to reraee his fallen steps on to become
| free man auain. The presumption is that
| all men sent to the Penitentary are bad men,
| This is not true: many of them are bad-very
| bad men--but there are some within those
! darkpned wallis who have been trained in the
way they should go, who have occupied hon-s
orable positions i'll life and filled the measure
| of good citizenship until ut some impassioned'
I
| committed, the law violated and they are
| sentenced to long term in prison should
| not such men have achance for reformation
and restoration to the better walks of life? as
| On the subject of pardons: - -,..~.
| / have pardoned fifty four men and women
convicted of various feonies within the LAST
two years upon my own motion, upon the
| recommendation of the citizens, and Oft en- the
! Judges and Prosecuting attorneys of tile.
| counties from which they we're sentenced
\ and upon the written requests the Surgeon.
| and Board OF Inspectors OF tho prison I
| tentiary within the same length of time than
| any OF my predecessors, excep; ing one, with
| in the last decade. l recommend the erection
| of chapel and library, and as soon As the
| chapel is completed the employment of
\ permanent chaplain to daily look after the
spiritual and moral condition OF the prison
| erS.H SIS
| - l-gt RAILROADS. =
Under this heading the message recapitu.
lates the salient features of the recently
published report of the Railroad Commits
sioners. On the subject OF the consolda.
ton of parallel or competing lines it says:
| Section II of Article II of the Constitution
| forbids the consolidation of parallel or COM
peting lines OF railroads within this State,
! This section was not inserted in the Constr
tuition for the purpose of afrayiny the police
I power of the State against the roads, but to
! prevent their franchises and privileges from
being used against the interests of the peo-
press pre- ant those S who invoked p" them into
existance. I do not know that such
consultations as are prohibited by
! the Constitution have taken pace. 1t is
! worthy of the consideration of the proper
! TRIBUNAL and should receive judicial investi
CATION. The Constitution declares that the
! question shall be decided by a jury, upon
! proper issues made ingthe courts. The Hber
! ties of no people are safe who suffer heir
| laws or ganlc acts to be violated by any in
dividual or combination of individuals. If
one or more corporations have disregarded
this section of the law, they should be dealt
( with in the manner prescribed by the law.
lEg .UEE COMMON SCHOOLS --.. .f
l. On the subject of common schools the fol-
Ilowfdg details are given:& : - as
On the lst of January, IsS5. closes the official
, career of Hon. L. ID. shannon, as Superin-
tendent of the Public school system of the
state. He has filed the Office or tlielast eight
| years with ability, wisdom and efficiency. To
no one who has occupied that office does
Missouri and the cause or education owe more
! for the simplicity and exceilencv of the
| school law and the good resnlts flowing from
its management than to DR.. Shannon. He
has done his duty well and his deeds will fol-
low him. refer the General Assembly to his