The Lamar register., 1903-01-21

tionery supplies be created. providing
for the appointment of practical and
competent printer who shall be under
bond, with salary commensurate
with the importance of the office, con-
fldent in the belief that saving of
many times the salary and expense
Of the office would result.
my personal and intimate knowI-
edge Of the affairs and present condi-
, tions at the state penitentiary impel
me to suggest possible remedy for
the evil of keeping the convicts there
confined in enforced idleness.
"State canal No. ! Is an enterprise
upon which the state has already ex-
pended more than $4,000 in cash
and labor, which sum of money repre-
sents an actual loss to the state and
will SO continue unless some plan can
be devised to complete the canal to
the Arkansas river and utilize it for
the purpose of irrigating the more
than 10000 acres of school and other
lands which lie under it.
Work upon this canal was suspend
ed many years ago for the reason that
its completion as an irrigating canal.
simply. would result in no benefit to
the state, as all the waters flowing in
the Arkansas river during the irrigat-
ing season were subject to prior appro-
priations.
my recommendations is that the ca
nal be completed to its intake at the
Arkansas river, and that 1t be made
the feeder to a chain of reservoirs ex-
tending from the Grand Canon of the
Arkansas river to terminus at the
Fountain river, and which might, l
have no doubt would, be ultimately
extended to the eastern boundaries of
our state.
1.-The labor necessary for the com
pletion of the canal, and the construc-
tion of the reservoirs, cou.d be sup
piled from the convicts in the State
Penitentiary, thus affording steady
and healthful employment to these
unfortunate beings, and ultimately
furnishing the state with n site for the
establishment Of convict farm.
where the labor of the convict could
nent, and eventually TIE State Peni-
tentiary might become self-sustain-
ing"
1t is the opinion of Governor Pea
body that under the present law the
State Board of Arbitration does not
accomplish enough goou to warrant
the expense OF sustaining it.
He recommends that the military
poll tax be abolished and the National
Guard supported in some other man
ner.
He thinks that inasmuch as more
than one-third of the amount of the
military fund is expended for armory
rent that the governor should be au-
thoriZed, upon .ie recommendation OF
the military board, to purchase or con-
III. L., for. tnu
and arsenals.
He expresses doubts as to the desir-
ability of erecting permanent build
ing at St. Louis as recommended by
the worlds fair commission.
He advocates the licensing of resi-
dent and nonresident hunters OF game
and fish.
"The County Judges Association.
composed of all the county judges of
the state, with painstaking care and
much labor, have prepared and will
submit to this assembly a bill for an
act to regulate the treatment and con-
troll of delinquent children which
commend to your serious considera-
tion.
81 believe that no bill which you
may be called upon to consider Will
be of greater Importance than this,
oOOA
suits which will be accomplished un-
der it will be far reaching.
II believe that revision OF all the
statutes of tEis state would be advis-
able. as this work has not been under
taken by the state since the publica-
tion of the revised statutes of 1883"
The governor advises the abolish
ment of the Court of Appeals and an
increase in the number of justices of
the Supreme Court as recommended
by the State bar Association. He is
also of the opinion that reduction of
the number of District Courts Is desir-
able from every point of view.
Recent events seem to Justify the
conclusion that radical changes are
necessary in our registration and cleo
tion laws, If we intend to preserve "a
form of government "of the people.
by the people and for the people"
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