, 1890-01-17

Is ADVISED.
PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
I'VE take great pride in our public
schools and in our school system. We
have provided literally for their support,
and it is no doubt that the wish OF our
PEG pie is that we should maintain a high
standard of efficiency. Complaints. how
ever, have been frequently made of ex-
travagance in some cases and of lax OBJ
ervance of the law in others. The school
trustees of the several districts do not,
all of them, adhere to the letter of spirit
OF the law. The treasures of the board
In many instances do not publish and file
statements as required; and the informa-
ton, which should be forthcoming and
easily obtained, seems, in many districts
inaccessible. In some districts schools are
maintained with far less than the re-
CURED number of scholars, and cases
have been reported where schools had
but from one to three scholars through
out the entire term, after The first few
days, during which the children are said
to have been borrowed to make up the
necessary quota for opening a school.
with all respect to our system and with
every desire to be generous in our pro
vision tor educating the young, there
should be greater care exercised in pro-
tectlng the interests of the public and in
e%xpending the school money. While
every child in Wyoming should receive
an education, it can hardly be expected
that a teacher should be employed at pub.
lie expense to teach only one or two
scholars.
The importance of these suggestions
is rendered apparent when we remember
that the amount of money collected by
taxation for educational purposes during
the last year reaches the enormous sum of
over $3.50, 000."
BOUNTY ON WILD ANIMALS.
Numerous communications have
reached the executive office recommend
ing the passage of a law providing that
bounties be paid for the destruction OF
wild animals, especially wolves, coyotes,
mountain lions and other wild animals
dangerous to live stock. The live srock
commissioners recommend the re enact
ment of the bounty laws which were re-
pea!ed In 1888, in so far as thev refer to
the destruction of large animals. 1t is
claimed that since the repeal of these
laws the territory is again becoming
overrun with these ravenous pests, and
farmers n stock ralsers sustaIns great
loss from the destruction of colts, calves,
and sheep"
GAME.
THE present law is practically of no
avail in preventing the wanton destruc.
ton OF game. The executive has been in
correspondence with the authorities of
the state of Colorado and other adjoining
states and territories with a view to secur.
ing uniform legislation on this subject,
and preventing, if possible, the killing of
game near the line of one commonwealth
and taking the dead ANIMALS across the
line into another state or territory to avoid
the penalties imposed by law"
BUFFALO.
IAN appeal has reached the executive
office from the superintendent of the yell
lowstone National park, stating that leg
islative action is desired to aid in preser-
vation of the buffalo. The small herds of
buffalo in the park cannot be confined to
the limits of that reservation and often
wander outside where they become an
object OF prey for the hunter. l recon
mend an enactment prohibiting the Kill
ling of any buffalo within the territory"
LEGISLATURE IN 1891.
"The law providing for the election OF
members of the legislature some fourteen
months before the meeting of the as
sembly has been open to several obiec.
tions. In the last session of congress our
delegate succeeded in securing the passage
of a law permitting the present assembly
TO provide that each subsequent legisla
lature shall convene on a fixed day in the
month of January each year following the
years in which is held a general election
tor a delegate in congress, members of the
legislature and other officers so that by
cooperation on you part, the legislature
elected in November next, may convene
in the following January. If it is desirable
to take advantage of this statute and pro-
vide TOR the meeting of the next session in
1891, it will be necessary 10 fix the term
of service of all territorial officers by max
ing their next term either one year or
three years, and make appropriations &C
cordingly."
PAY OF COUNT OFFICERS.
There has been much said and consid-
cradle done in the preceding legislative
assemblies with reference to the salaries
and fees OF county officers. The dele
gates in the late convention considered the
matter SO important and the demands of
tina people so pressing, that they pursued
the somewhat unusual course of limiting
the salaries in the constitution. If it be
true, and | believe it is, that the tax
payers of the territory demanded of the
convention that this should receive their
attention, 1t must be true, that they will
expect from the legislature the fullest in
vestigation on the subject. We must not
be unmindtul of their desires s; and. while
providing reasonable compensation for
every officer employed in the public ser.
vice, the amount paid should, in some de-
gree correspond with the amount paid for
similar services rendered to private indi
viduals."
NEW COUNTIES.
1T is not only necessary to reduce the
expense of some, or all of the counties at
present organized, but it is very essen.
tlal with reference to proposed new coun.
ties. The last legislative assembly pro-
vided for the formation of Natrona coun-
ty and prescribed its boundaries. 1t can
not be denied that the boundaries of this
county are reasonably practicable, that
the country embraced within its lines is
more than sufficient in area and in nat
ural for a successful county,
that the present facilities afforded its PEG.
pie are insufficient and inco~nvenient.
The present indebtedness of Carbon