The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-09-05

ations for the Vicksburg and Ander
sonVille monuments and the Lew Wal
lace statue are unexpended. and will
lapse.
State Of Unfinished Buildings.
Many of these buildings are we'll
under way. The walls of some are
up. Some are ready for roofing.
Roofs are on others. but the interiors
are unfinished. Those who hold con-
buildings have proceeded in good
faith, believing the appropriation
made could be had. They can not
proceed with the buildings without
payment until the regular session Of
the next general assembly in January.
That will come in mid-winter. l can
not consent that hundreds of thous-
ands of dollars of valuable buildings
shall stand in their present unfinish-
ed condition until next year. There
is ample money in the treasury to
meet all these obligations, there being
at the present time SS96.1SO.76 avail
able, with the November revenues yet
to be received.
by recent legislation the Girls
school and the Women's prison were
separated, the school removed to
site near Clermont and the Women's
prison remodeled and a portion of the
building converted into a workhouse
for women. The cost of the admin
istration of the separate institutions
has been, of necessity, greater than
the administration of the single insti-
tuition. The appropriation made for
the maintenance of each has been
wholly insufficient to meet the new
conditions
Drain on Emergency Fund.
II have paid out Of the governors
emergency contingent fund for the
maintenance of the Girls School, up
to August I, SS,94445. August and
September bills for maintenance are
yet to be met. Up to September 1.
have paid out of the governors emer-
gency contingent fund for maintenance
of the Women's Prison, $3,2S6.5S, with
September bills for maintenance still
to be met.
The appropriation made for the
Boys school was last year insufficient
and is again insufficient this year
Bills for maintenance for August are
submitted to me unpaid aggregating
S3,153.65, with September bills for
maintenance still to be met The ext
gencies of the other institutions have.
from time to time, drawn on the emer-
gency contingent fund during the fis-
cal year until it is now practically ex-
hausted. The maintenance appropri-
atoms for these Institutions which be-
come available on October /, can not
be used under the law to meet unpaid
accounts of such institutions for the
present fiscal year.
There has not been extravaganza in
the management of these three institu-
tions- The year has been a hard on
in all the institutions Provisions
have been high. In most cases unus-
ually so. Gardens upon which some
of them depend very largely for sus-
tenance during the summer, because Of
the intense and long-continud drought,
have been wholly inadequate to meet
their needs. The inmates must be fed.
Menace of Night Riders.
In the early spring numerous raids
were made in the part of the state bor-
dering upon the Ohio river by so-called
| Night Riders. resulting in the destruc-
| ton of a number of tobacco beds where
young plants were being grown pre-
paratory to transplanting in the fields.
and many threatening letters written
warning tobacco growers of personal
violence and burning of property. |
have done what I could, under the linn
tied authority conferred upon the gov