Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-01-18
GOVERNORS MESSAGE
Governor Urges Liberal Treat
ment of Educational
Institutions.
State Board of Control Is Strongly
Commercials Opposed to
Prize Fights.

otate bOdrd OF JOnIf0l Is SIfOn2ly
Commended-Is Opposed to
Prize Fights.
DIES MONIES, Jan. l0.-The govern
oy's message was read to both houses
fthe legislature yesterday. 1t follows:
To the Senate and House Of Represen-
tatives OF Iowa:
In obedience to
Iowa's constitutional re-
Present quirement, 1 have
prosrar;.v the pleasure of
submitting to your
honorable body the following state
ments concerning the condition OF the
state, together with some Recommended
lions for legislative consideration.
Never in our history has labor found
more ready employment or more lib
eral remunreation: never has agricul-
ture generally been more prosperous
or yielded better returns: never has
business been more universally active
or reasonable profits for invested cap
tai more secure: and never were the
finances of the state in a more salts
factory condition than at the present
hour.
At the beginning OF the last fiscal
term, there were unpaid warrants out
standing to the amount of SAT, SCOTS.
At the same time there was cash in the
treasury S36.672.9s leaving the net in
the outstanding warrants, the sum of
1858, SSi.S4 was drawing interest. the
accrued amount of which at that time
Increased this Indebtedness by an I'M
ascertained sum. Moreover. there re-
manned OF special appropriations made
by the Twenty-s,Xth aud former gen.
erai assemblies the following amount,
against which warrants had not yet
been drawn: sS0S, 4S7.61. There was,
therefore. to be paid out OF the reve-
- Ify~rr ka-
265.3S besides the interest on the out
standing warrants. in addition TO the
ordinary expenses OF the biennial period
and the extraordinary expenditures
that the Twenty-seventh general as
sembly might authorize.
1t is gratifying to
Condition know that the iu-
ofthe dicious provisions
Treasury made by, the
Twenty-seventh general assemblies.
for the increase of public reve-
nues on the one hand. and the reduc-
tion Of expenditures on the other, en-
abled the state to meet all its obliga-
lions, past and current, and to accu-
mulate in the treasury, at the end OF
the fiscal term under review, surplus
of $414294 over and above all out
standing warrants, subject, however, to
the vet unexpended appropriations OF
the Twenty-seventh and earlier gerer-
al assemblies. OF these, less than 5000,
eg0 remained undrawp at the end Of
the fiscal term. With these amounts
all expended, there will remain fully
S22a000 to meet the expenditures OF the
current term.
The receipts OF general rev.
enues during the fiscal
term from July l, 1897, to
July 1, 1899 aggregated. .$5,s7s. 4os.29
The treasury balance July
!, 1897, was...... ........-. S8.6T2.ss
Total revenues for the
term.......... ......... ..$Sllb.OI6.zs
Against this sum-
warrantS were
drawn during
the term. ..a, 1885, 9i.sa
Deduct all out
standing war
ranteSat the end
of the term. "a, 1876. 494.es
Warrants paid during the
term. ..'s-...... 4,loo, iSo.Jo
Add amount of outstanding
term. -. .......... 44T.5oo.T
Interest thereon paid........ 5T,7S6.57
Treasury cash June 80 1892. 445. 002.37
Total. .. ..... .....s5.116. O7s.25
At the close of business on December
80. 1899, the treasury showed as fol-
lows:
General reyenue......... ....S 566,9IO.33
Outstanding warrants at
that date. ........ 29,7lO.36
Net surplus. ...... ..-.S 5S7, 259.97
On December II, 1897, the
outstanding warrants ag-
Rregated -. ...,.. 49,. 57a, ses. On
Cash In treasury. ...... 10S,645.47
Leaving a net indebted
ness. ...... ..........s 4fl'32o.oS
The treasury is thus In better condi-
tion than 1t was two years ago by ST.
00S, 5S050.
The surplus OF s537, 25997, shown
above. Is subject to reduction by the
special appropriations yet undrawn Of
past general assemblies. amounting to
less than 100000
The auditor OF
A Million state estimates the
Dollars receipts for the
Av.u.his current term at 81
1900: and the ex-
-penditures. without any special appro-
priations made by the Twenty-eighth
general assembly, at S3.577, 423; giving
surplus of receipts for the current
term Of $986.7T7. Adding to this sum
the balance OF 500 900 cash in the treas
ary at the end of the fiscal term in
excess of outstanding demands and I'M
drawn appropriations. gives fully ST.
100000, which this general assembly
can safely appropriate for special pur-
Doses. The above estimate assumes