Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-01-17
AS was anticipated the governor sen

AS was anticipated the governor sent
in another veto m~essage-the deaf
asylum bill. The governors objec-
tions are fully set forth in the veto as fol-
lows:
lfully appreciate and recognize the claims
upon the state of that class of our children
whom the creator, in his inscrutable wis
dom, has seen fit to deprive OF one of the
great blessings of life, ana the care and
education Of whom is contemplated by
this bill. The primary purpose of the
bill is to provide for the proper education
of the deaf mutes of our state. How can
this best be accomplished? 1t would seem
that the educational welfare of these chill
dren would in no way suffer if the state
would provide for their education and care
at the Sioux Fal s school for the present,
but rather the advantages thus furnished
would be superior to those which it will
be possible 10 furnish under the provisions
of this bill. From the report of the super
intendent of the Sioux Falls leaf mute
school, North Dakota now has in attend
whom are over IL years of age. This school
was started in 1880. There has been ex-
pended in buildings, workshops, apparatus
n all the appliances necessary to equip a
first class school of this character, upwards
Of S50,000, all of which is under the super
VlSlOH anu cdlH VI dll elllclelI SupellnCenu-
ent and corps Of instructors. In con-
nection with this school Is an industrial de-
partment furnished with shops, tools and
machinery. in which the students are
taught various trades such as printing, cab
met making, carpentry, etc, all of which is
essential and important in order that they
may be self-suppcrting after leaving school.
1t is therefore evident that these pupils
who are in attendance at the school in
+ South Dakota, provided with these excel
lent facilities, have advantages which
must be far superior to the facilities,
which can be furnished by the lin
tied appropriation provided for in this
of South Dakota, and also from the super
intendent of the Sioux Falls Deaf Mute
school, that they will have ample accom-
modations for the care and instruction Of
twenty pupils from North Dakota for the
next two years and will care for them at
a cost per annum Of not to exceed $3.50 per
capita. 1t will hardly be claimed that equal
facilities can be furnished at the anne or
even a much larger cost per capita, by the
establishment of the school proposed. BY
the report Of the state board of corrections
and charities of the state of Minnesota, we
In schools for deaf mutes for the year end
ing July |, 1887, was $339,16, and for 1888,
$S42 95. This amount represents the actual
) cost for the maintenance and education OF
each pupil, exclusive of any expense for
buildings. apparatus, etc., and in a school
whose average number Of pupils in attend
ance is 116. 1t must therefore be apparent
that it will be impossible to furnish any
thing like the advantages which are now
enjoyed by the pupils at Sioux Falls for
the amount of the appropriation provided
should their number reach twenty or even
Tess, for it must be admitted that the cost
per capita will be largely in xcess
even under the most favOrably
BILE circumstances, of that in
.Oh established schools with a large at
tendance. The present school year at
Sioux Falls will close in June and the next
school year will begin about September 15,
1890. AS the proposed law would not take
effect until July l, provisions would neces-
sarily have to be made for North DakOta's
pupils until the close of the present school
year. The next school year not commence
ing until September 18th, it will be seen
that only a few months OF the next school
next legislature, when, should the plan of
prove unsatisfactory, or the improved con-
dition of our finances justify sucn an ap-
preparation as will enable the state to es-
n tabliSh such a school as our needs demand,
we will be called upon to pay for only a
few months more schooling at Sioux Falls
than we would if this bill should become a
law. There is no doubt that our state will
have to soon make provision for the in
structiOn, within our " borders, Of our
deaf mutes, but / believe it to be the better
policy, under the existing conditions, that
v 1t be deferred for the present. Respectfully,
JOHN MILLER Governor.