Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-01-09
STONES MESSAGE.
THE GOVERNOR OF MISSOURI
TO THE LEGISLATURE.
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biennial message of Governor Stone
was presented to both houses of the
legislature when they met yesterday.
The major portion of the message
S devoted to state finances and state
Institutions. In opening, the governor
reviews the laws in regard to raising
:evenue for the state and declares
hat the interest found for the past
.wo years amounted to 81, 955, SOS. Ga,
while the revenue fund aggregated
s4,0S4,6s1.46. He places the actual
ordinary expenses of the state gov
.rnment during the past IT,. ears at
| =, %, z90. He estimates the .evenue
fund of the next two years at S4, ,2O6,-
300 and the current expenses, includ-
ing the public school moneys, at
| s3,754, $50.
The governor re commends an in
crease of SIT, 900 in the National guard
appropriation, making it $50, 900, and
pays high compliment to the militia
If the state.
The governor calls for an in
crease of $4,000 in the geological
survey appropriation, of $500 per
year for an inspector of mineral
mines, and for $4,000 more for the
schools and S55, 700 for the eleemosyn-
ary institutions.
The bonds retired during the two
(ears aggregated $664,O 900, leaving a
balance of $3.50 53s. 4S to meet matur-
ing bonds. The interest fund for the
next two years is placed at So, 060, 600
and the interest accruing at $780, 955.
The bonded debt of the state now
| Df A.
per cent and S5,Os6, 900 az per cent
| bonds. He estimates that with the
present provisions continued the en-
| tire debt will be eXtinguiShed in five
years.
The governor devotes considerable
space to high praise of the public
school system of the state. During
1894 $7,417,O4 was devoted to the
common and high schools, while the
available permanent school funds are
the largest of any state in the union.
| The normal schools are strongly in
iorsed and $29, 600 is recommended for
the Kirksville, $50, 900 for the War
rensburg and $4,000 for the Cape Cir
ardeau normal schools Good words
are spoken for Lincoln institute for
girls and boys. and $50. 900 asked for
new building, with $780, 900 for other
expenses.
| The governor declares that he pro-
poses to treat of the matters of GRIM
inal costs, election laws, inspe ction,
trusts and corporations and revenue
avs in separate messages to the leg
slature in the near future.
The governor refers to the financial
troubles of the past two years and
their attendant controversies between
labor and capital which caused con-
dicts in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana
Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Colorado, Ala
bama and other states, and dwells
upon the fact that 'Coxeyism'' took
no hold in the state, and that the
miners of Missouri, during the great
mining strike, maintained their repu-
tation as lawabiding citizens.
The governor calls for legislation
TO make the university what it should
be, appeals to the young men to rally
| around it, build it and make it the
equal of any in the country. He de-
clares that liberality is absolutely
essential to the institutions growth
and advises the setting aside of sum
each year to make an additional en-
dowment of 81 600 600.
The governor calls for $4,000 for
the purpose of advertising the state
| and securing immigrants, and advises
an appropriation of SO, 500 for statue
of Thomas ii. Benton to be placed in
| the national statuary hall.
The governor discusses the elee-
mosynary institutions of the state at
some length and recommends appro-
priations as follows: For the Fulton
asylum for the insane, S55, 900; for the
St Joseph for the insane, .s41, 500; for
| the Nevada asylum for the insane,
SCI, ZOO, including $4,000 to replace
rotten stone; for the Fulton asylum
for the deaf and dumb. STA, 800; for
| the st. Louis school for the blind,
$50, 800; for the Boonville reform
school for boys, S44, 600, with earnest
recommendations for stringent legis-
lation to prevent the sending of boys
under 18 years of age to the peniten-
tiary, so as to avoid the payments by
the counties of the expense of their
maintenance; and 500, 900 for the Chill
liche industrial home for girls, in
cluding S25, 900 for a new cottage.
The effects of the panic upon the
receipts of the penitentiary are dis
cussed, and praise awarded to Warden
Pace for his excellent management.
The recent improvements at the
penitentiary are noted and recon-
mendations of 500, 900 for new cell
building. S25, 600 for extending the
factories. S25, 900 for hospital, laun-
dry and storeroum, and $50, 600 for
maintaining the institution made
The pardons of the past two years
aggregated 107 and the communications
thirty-four. The establishment of a
board of pardons is earnestly advised
to relieve the governor from the
pressure of friends of conyicts and to
insure prompt action on meritorious
cases.
! The message concludes as follows:
"The work you have come to do is
interesting and important. Possibly
some new legislation along lines not
hitherto attempted in this state can
be entered upon with profit, but l
question whether our code cannot be
most improved and the public inter-
ests best advanced by careful amend
ments designed to cure defects in the
laws already upon the statute books. -
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