, 1889-11-28

you should also enact legislation which
will cfYectually protect the individual
against every probable aggression on the
part OF corporations. You arc specially
to pass laws establishing reas-
enable maximum rates Of charge for the
Of passengers and freight,
and to correct abuses and prevent dis
and extortion In the rates of
freight and passenger tariffs ON the DIFF
ferent railroads and other common car
riers In the state and to enforce such
laws by adequate penalties" You also
have power to establish railroad and
commission.
REYoRNATorY INSTITUTIONS
There is one duty indirectly i'm
posed upon you by the constitu-
tion to which I desire to direct
your attention. You should without
delay enact legislation look
ing to tho establishment Of a reiorma-
tory institution for dcpraved and vicious
youths. The fact thut no institution Of
this kind exists has been u
reproach to our commonwealth
Youthful offenders must either be con.
fined In the penitentiary, with hardened
or permitted to BIO at large.
Against the former Of these alternatives,
Judges and jurics are disinclined, and
suVn oHchuers urc uSuuiiy ue'hisscu
with roprinland, or confined for short
period In u county Jail, no matter how
serious the ofiense may have been.
The effect of such leniency Is bad, both
upon those to whom II Is extended and
upon their friends and companionsi
Further than this, there is to be found
In all our largo cities a class of young
boys who defy parental authority and
have little regard for the rights OF prop
t.t, ,t.,.l H.,
police courts, and have no fear Of arrest,
as 1t Is too frequently followed by re-
lease, with no further punishment than
reprinnnd. 1t Is most pernicious to
permit such youths to grow to man hood
In vice and ignorance without AN effort
to reclaim them. An institution In
which such efforts would be made is Inn
poratively needed, and the first legisla-
ture Of the new state should not ad-
journ without enacting necessary legis-
lation for its establish ment.
HARRoR COMMISSION.
The duty is imposed upon you by ar
commission to locate and establish
harbor lines In navigable waters In front
of tho cities In the state and to provide
By general laws for the leasing of the
right to build wharves, docks and other
structures within the harbor lines that
may bc established. This Is a very i'm
portant subject Bnd should receive your
early attention. ANY legislation assert
i've of the rights OF the state to the areas
carrying out the declaration In article
II Of the constitution and will facili-
tate an early settlement by judicial tri-
bunals of the onhicting claims to what
are designated in the article as tide
lands"
THE BOARD OF HEALrH.
Article II provides for the organza-
tion of a state board Of health and bu-
reau OF vital statistics, with such powers
as you may direct, and for the enact
nent of laws regulating the practice of
amedicine and the sale OF drugs and med
icines. The benefits arising from laws
enacted In other states, of the character
here indicated, have been so apparent
that need only direct your attention to
the subject.
AFFAIRS OF STATE.
There will be laid before you the re-
spective reports of the late territorial
treasurer, territorial auditor and other
officers having charge of different de-
pnrtments under the late territorial gov
ernment. From these you will ascer-
tain the condition of the affairs of state,
and he enabled TO take such action upon
yeu may deem necessary and proper.
STATE LANDS.
The general government welcomes us
into the Union with muniiicent endow-
ments of lands to be applied TO educa-
tional purposes and the establishment
and maintenance OF charitable, penal,
and reformatory institutions, and for
public buildings at the state capital. In
addition 10 sections is and So, which,
under certain restrictions and limitations,
are granted for the support of common
schools In the state, there are further
grants as follows;
For erecting public buildings at the
capital, for legislative, executive and
judiciary purposes, 132, 600 acres.
For the establishment and maintcn.
ancc of q scientific school, 100, 900 acres.
For state normal schools, 100, 900 acres
For state. charitable educational, ,pena
and refornatory institutions, 200, ,00C
acres.
The lands granted for other than edu
cational purposes can be disposed OF by
the legislature in such manner as it may
deem most conducive to the interests O
the state, tho only Limitation imposed
by tho general government being tha
they saall be held, appropriated and dis
posed of exclusively for the purpose:
mentioned.
The general government mas ODilHateC
itself TO pay to the state per centum o
the next proceeds of the sales of public
lands lying within the state which shal
be sold by the United States subsequent
to our admission as state. This Is u
constitute a permanent fund, the inter
est of which only can be expended fol
| the support OF common schools. The
revenue TO be derived from this source
will be annually augmented, and will
continue so long as sales of public
lands In the state are made by tn,
| United States. The state will also be
entitled to that portion of the seventy
two sections granted by act of congress
July II, 1854, Tor uni
yersity, which IL has not received
CONCLUSION.
| The last years of the commonwealth
under territorial government have beer
years of prosperity. The population o
Washington has Increased at marvel
GUS rate, and the development Of III
resources has gone forward without in
terruption. With careful legislation anc
with efficient and systematic efforts to
wards the development of our great re
sources, the prosperity with which W.
are at present best should continue In
definitely. The possibilities OF our com
monwealth are grcat, and we may, will
confidence, assert that there are thost
now living who will see Washington
one of the most populous and wealthy
and in every way -one of the most i'm
portant states of the great Union ir
which II has just been admitted. Under
such favorable auspices, ana with such
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