The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1885-05-05
The Committee Pay Their Re
spects to Sedalia.
A Meeting Held at Sichers
Hotel Last Night.
What Walker Says the State
Wants.
Who Was There and What Was
Done.

Last evenings train brought to seialia
from Moberly j. NJ. Seiberi, state tressur-
err: John Walker, state auditor, and ID. w.
Marin sduke, warceu of the Missouri state
peniter tiary who, with B. q. Boone, at'or-
ney-generaI, const tute the committee for
Locating q branch peniteniiary. Mr.. Boone,
however, had gore rome wi h the expecta-
ton of M eting the r.si Of the comm ttee at
this point last night, and 10 company with
them going over the ground IN Sedalia to-
day. Owing to the heavy rain, however,
the Or gramn.e was changed and the COM
mittee decided to proceed this morning 10
Leavenworth, Kansas, and examine the
Zen tlntiary at ,hst point with a view
of gaining such information as might
he useful to them in deciding up the
final iocs ton snd construction Of the new
institution.
MEETING WAS HELD
at Sicher's no el par ors at $50 last night,
at which the commi zee and number OF
Sc Italians were present The meeting or
gauizei by selecting r. I. Genry chair
man. Auditor Walker addressed t7ose
lresent saying that CIV .ng to the feet that
the sla'e had found itself usable 10 fur
nish employment for more than 500 Of tie
1000 conyicts nos in jefferson City, and
that he enforced idleness Of these 500 con-
yicts was entailing a heavy expense upon
the tax PAYERS. The ct ,te officials had
laid the mater before the legislature,
which BODY in Its wisdom has seen fit TO
% SIS a bill authorizing the construction OF
a branch nit -ntisry at some desirable
point in the state 10 be selected by the
committee and had appropriated the sum
of S250,000 to begin its construction with.
THE COMMITTEE
i'm pursuance of its instructions were now
on a tour of insp ciion with view to Sc
lecting the mos; d sirable point to De found.
They had visited Louisiana, Hannibal and
Moberly and were now, by insitation, I'm
SedalIa. At Louisinaa they had found
many of the most indispensable requisites
of good water, cual, wood, stone ard brick
CLAW and BEAUTIFUL and healthy location
ard Haunibrl end Moberly had equal adj
yantages. The COMMITTEES had met with
C rdial reception everywhere and We're
much edited and instruct d as 10 the vast
resources of every part of the stste visited
tor almost any kind OF industrial undertak-
irg or investment Ii had been their inten-
tion tomorrow to examine Sedalia and ss
cert ain her inducem, nts and advantages IS
To natural n sources and requirements, as
from hsr ce5t.sl location AID numerous
railway connections she
POSSESSED SUPERIOR ADVANTAGES
in tha at direction, and il her other resour-
ces were equal to those oil other Joints, Sc
dslla would undoubtedly be the best point.
Owing to the heavy rsiu, however, the
committee after con ultatiun had decided
it would be bes; 20 go TO Leavenworth.
Kansas, and view the penitentiary there,
End theme. visit Kansas City, ST. Joseph,
Cape GIardeau and Fredericktown, Of er
which they would return TO Sedalis, and
go over the ground at their leisure some
time a week hence. 1t wss the des re OF
the committee TO avoid the
mistake made in othsr states
IF locating their branch peinitentiares at
poinlsoffering only limited advantages and
to conserve the general welfare and in
terest of the people Of Missouri by placing
their branch penitenuaIy al the most de-
sirable and convenient point, possessing
ell the varied requirements and advan-
tages incident to so lsrge and
IMPORTANT AN INSTITUTION
among which were abundance of good
water, access 4bility Of coal, woSd, iron.
s. one cl VS. and other natural resources.
The state would be at an expense OF $780,
900 or more in the construction and ar
rangement of this institution. Once located
it could not b. removed. Its buildings
would be of the most permanent aud abso-
lutely fire proof character, and its expendi-
lures for square labor would be about $50
600 per snnum. 1t WIS therefore, necessary
that il should be placed where employment
conld be had for Its inmates, and where
men could be found who would furnish
that employment. Hence, a guarantee
would be required that emp oyment would
be furnished for at least 400 men as 8
necessary CT ntingen, to its location. Mr..
w alker then proceeded 10 give
DESCRIPTION
Of the manner of leasing aud working con-
yict labor, and the various industries In
which it was found mot profitable TO en-
ploy them. At the close OF his remarks a
Dumber of questions were asked him and
by him for those present, snd on
motion of J. n. Daily it was decided 10
axe The matter under advisemeni and be
prepared to report TO the committee when
hey should next visit Sedslia.
Mr.. Walker stated the committee ex-
oectad TO complete its tour by the 18th of
May, when they would return to Jefferson |
City, where they would receive plans,
pecimens and propositions from the yari-
,ns competing points, and about the LIST Of
June the final location would be decided |
lpon and work on the construction of the |
and walls begun. After short
lisultory discussion, the meeting adj
burned.