Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1885-01-15

on tho waste and extravaganza
OF others. aud prohibit the
possibility OF combinations by members
Of the boards Of state institutions.
The appropriations asked for tho
asylums ut Kalamazoo and Pontiac are
necessary and should be granted.
In view OF the fact that the asylums
ct Kalamazoo and Pontiac are already
more than full. and patients are being
refused admission every day, 1t Is OF
the utmost importance that there be not
q days unnecessary delay in the CON-
pletion of the Northern asylum &C rrav-
erso City and the governor recommends
that the appropriation asked for by this
institution be made ut the earliest pos
sible moment.
IMBECILEs AND IpIoTs.
Michigan has made no provision for
this class of her dependent population,
and Gov. Begole hopes the Legislature
will provide for the care of this unfor-
tunate class in a state institution, there
by providing for the mental improve
ment of the predetermined and against
the disintegration of families to whom
the care of such members might be too
great n burden.
Gov. Begole recommends that ar APP
preparation of 81 900 be made for ex
tension of the jackson Prison grounds
and that the Jackson Prison and lonia
Reformatory be placed under one
board, in order to separate hardened
FROM youthful offenders. He also
thinks that the present contra, 1t system
should be abolished, the articles manu-
featured sold at the market price, and
earnings appropriated to maintain
those dependent on the prisoner. He
does mot think the question Of max
ing our prisons pay their own expenses
should be chief consideration in their
management" He also recommends
that measures be taken TO prevent
the illegal fees now charged for
the conveyance of prisoners under SEN
tence to Jackson aud Ionia. He thinks
the best plan would be to charge such
expenses to the county and not to the
state, as thereby more careful scruti-
ny would be made Of them.
He advises the abolition of the Swamp
Land Commissionership as we'll as that
of Commissioner of immigration, and
at the same time speaks highly of the
Labor Bureaus work.
The Commissioner of Mineral Stats
tics is looked upon as an officer alike
useless and expensive, and urges that
instead Commissioner of Mines be
created.
He believes that members of the
Legislature should be elected for four
years -one-half every two years. Gov.
Begole asserts that the salaries of state
officers are disgracefully small, and
that poor men are thus practically pro-
hibited from accepting offices.
He begs for the creation of Pardon
Board, and adds that "while Board
may do wrong as welt as a Governor,
politicians and political papers hard W
for something 10 find fault with will
not be so likely to ascribe each pardon
or Communication 10 total depravity on
the part of the pardoning power. Il"
After consideration the Governor thinks
that the Supreme Court-with an extra
clerk. to be known as pardon clerk,
and whose duties should be prescribed
by the Court--would make an excellent
board of pardons, probably as satisfas-
tory TO the people as any that could be
named. On their recommendation only
should pardons be signed and issued by
the Governor.
He recommends that election boards
shall be composed of men of the differ
ent political parties, and that the
ballots be destroyed Immediately
after the count DO adopted.
Further on the Governor taxes the Leg
islature with refusing to submit pro-
hibitory amendment; but re-urges the
same. Then he asks for an investigation
of the charges made that some state
officials are dishonest in the matter of
paying soldiers bounties. The Freund-
Palmer war claim business is re.explain-
ed in like manner as it was done last
summer.
Gov. Begole urges Legislators to pre-
vent the spread of contagious diseases
amongst cattle, and takes up the cholera
threat, praying for prompt action that
will prevent its becoming epidemic in
this fair state.
In closing, the Governor speaks
OF the kindly relations that have existed
between himself and the other depart
ments, and he begs that initiate wisdom
may rest with the new administration.