Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-01-17
GOVERNORS MESSAGE
RETIRING EXECUTIVE TO THE
LEGISLATURE.
rho Liquor -Over-Crowdcd In
stltutions---Care OF Epileptlcs---Non-
Resident Insanc---Pardons.

rho Liquor QUESTION: ver-Crowdcd In
stitutions---Care of Epileptics--Non-
Resident Insanc---Pardons.
Governor Jackson delivered to the leg.
islattre today his biennial message. In
ct he defends the mulct law, rs opposed
to O. board OF control for state inStttu-
tiors, favors a visiting committee for
county and City prisons, refers to over
crowded institutions, asks for the esitab-
Eshment OF q board OF pardons. fayor-s
the erection OF a state reforTna itory, stlg4
rests that the doors of the institution
for the feeble minded be opened to all
eyes, urges greater hberality toward
the State university, and discusses
1owa's semi centenmial
Governor Jackson In opening his mes
cage pays a compliment to the state
officers whose reports are spoken of as
contatning the record of duties faith
fully performed and rejecting credit on
THE state. The population OF She state
from the census OF 1895 Is placed at
2,058, 1S9 OF which there is a self-sus-
tanning population of 1.159,S60, Upon
o!ety end the rlnintenpnce and proper
care OF 1.-The dependent classes.
AmoE,g these Glasses are men TONED
the different state institutions, with the
population of each, and THE government
Of all OF them Is commented on In
highly favorable terms
1T has been proposed to change this
present form OF government for that
Of single board of control believe
the proposition Ito be astnst the best IN
terests OF these institutions. It would
be an experiment fraught with INJURY
ito the state Ito place ten millions OF
property with a million and half a1l-
nual expenditures thereon, in the hands
Of three or five persons, who, from the
very nature of things, have never hal
experience in the control of other than
small properties or the handling OF
other than small amounts of money. A
board possessed of the highest ability
to govern the State university ds liable
to have THE least ability in managing
the state penitentiaries or the hospitals
for the insane.
Under the present management the
state institutions of Iowa are recedy-
ting the highest business ability attain
able and ait nominal cost.
They are governed not only by the
application of good business principles,
but by that which IS equally as valu
able, the application of the principles
OF sympathy and love dictated by able
and representa- tive men and women who
are members of the governing board.
and who are giving their best energies.
their best abilities to THE state.
1t is shown in the fulflImenit of its
duties the executive council becomes
familiar with the necessities of the state
fnsi5ltr tons, and is able to intelligently
Judge Of the amounts which the general
assembly should appropriate for their
support.
II would recommend that the execu
tive council be required by law to visas
each state institution at least once dur
ing the Biennial period, and, jointly,
with the governing board, 20 inlve'stsss,ts
the financial conditions, consEder the
appropriations to he asked for, and that
the executive council be further re-
uusred to report to the general assem-
bly,, making recommendation for the
npportionment of appropriations TO
each institution. This reconmenda1tion
Ia not made with the view of dispensing
wsth the visiting committee of the gen
eral assembly, which is so we'll calcu-
lated TO bring the law-makers of the
state in closer sympathy with the aims,
de sires and necessities OF the various
institutions"
Commenting on the wealth and pro-
pressiyeness Of the state, her freedom
from the demoraliZing and embarrass-
Ing influe1ces of a great city, the gov
ernor calls the aistenlGon of the leg'isla-
lUr0 no 3tSle 5lllilltSs~i-N.S Ai-SN'' ~ eA-S
state Instructors
5"Our institutions OF learning are un-
ablu ITO meet THE demand. Our hospitals
tor the iEchne are crowded, ara a large
humber of inmates are sleeping on tenn
porary cots, while many cases that give
hcp,sful evidence of final restoration 10
reason under the proper medical treat
ment of a state INSTITUTION, are sent
back to the county poor houses, where,
without medical attendance, they are
consigned ,to q hopeless existence. The
Institution for feeble-1n'inded is doing Its
rrealt work under unfavorable circum-
frances owing ITO Its very crowded con-
dation. The soldiers home has been
obliged to close dts doors to over three
hundred needy and worthy applicants
huring the last three months. In Short.
not one of our great institutions is able
10 meet its Immediate and growing de-
nlands."
An increasing population necessitates
the expenditure of more money IN car
rying on the business OF the state ana
collections OF revenue from taXation
have been hard. In many cases millions
of dollars worth of property rs so as,
sessed that the state secures from u
practically nothing.
IT am not in favor OF raising the In
creased revenue which the requirements
of the state demand by increasing tne
burden of any taxation on any properly
that is now paying its due proportion OF
public expenses, but am in favor of
law that will put upon the assessment
rolls hundreds of millions OF property
that in the past has escaped paying It's
lust share of taxation. 1t is a notorious
fact that for all these years under our Pc
culiar law millions of dollars Of personal
and other property has eyaded tina q ses
or, thereby depriymg the state OF a. l,sint-
full revenue and unjus,tly distributing the
burden of Taxation This situatic1 is not