The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-01-20

am also pleased to advise you that
except as hereinafter specifically stat
ed no deficiencies exist in any arprO.
priation. and no request is made %
you for any further or additional ap.
prOpriatiJns TO any of the offices OF
departments OF state government.
Recommended ions.
To the following subjects only !
now submit recommendation for
your considerations
School for the Blind.
Due to an error. no doubt in en-.
/ rolling, the appropriation bill at the
| last session of the legislature for ap.
/ propriation then made to maintain
the school for the blinl for this yea
and next year, was. In the opinion OF
the Attorney General rendered inval.
~, and ] therefore ask you to re-en-
act such appropriation bill validating
the appropriations then intended to be
made. This will not increase the cost
OF state government this year. as the
amount OF this appropriation was in.
cluded in the total cost OF state gov.
ernment heretofore made and was for
the sum OF twenty thousand dollars
for each year.
New Appropriations
] ask for new appropriations from
the general revenues OF the state as
/ follows: In order to aid our Attor.
ney General in employing an assistant
counsel whom he deemed necessary,
aud in which concurred. for the de.
fcnsc of the state in the two cent
fare and freight rate cases. ! set
aside two thousand dollars from this
year and three thousand dollars from
next years appropriation made for
me to be used in special inves,iga.
tions. employment of counsel. etc. I
did this because ! believed the inter
est of the state could best he served
by my turning this fund in to aid
the Attorney General. and ! am sure
he expended 1t wisely. and | now ask
that you appropriate similar amounts
to reimburse the fund from which the
same was taken.
Military Expenses.
The state militia incurred an unus-
ually expense, but in my Judgment a
necessary expense, in suppressing riot
Ing and other various conduct in Ok.
mulgee and Mcintosh counties known
for which bills were incurred amount
ing to six thousand three hundred
eighty dollars aud ninety.seven cents,
and ! ask that you appropriate an
amount Of money necessary TO lilui.
date said bills.
IL Will he observed that the two
new appropriations herein asked to be
paid out of the tax funds OF the
state amount to less than twelve
thousand dollars, and am satisfied
that surplus balances in other appro-
priations made by you at your last
session for the current year will be
so much greater than these two items
as to keep the total expense of said
government well within the total ap.
preparation for the years business.
Insane Institutions.
The State of Oklahoma now has
substantially 1900 insane patients
under its care. About 575 are kept at
Fort Supply Asylum. and about CPS
are still kept under the provisions of
tho Oklahoma Territory contract It
the private institution at Norman. As
TO the condition and conduct of both
these institutions. / hand you here.
our State Charities Commissioner.
Miss Kate Barnard You will find she
has carefully and fully analyzed the
subject, and commend these reports
TO your careful consideration.
II is true that Oklahoma is a new
state and its institutions must neces-
sarily be of a character less comfort
able, less complete, and less attrac-
tive to the patients and the public,
and yet believe there are many OF
her recommendations that We can en-.
courage and adopt 10 the great bene-
fit OF the service. | especially call
you attention to he fact that the
most serious complaints set forth are
such as the legislature can remedy.
as they require greater expenditures
o. money than you have given the
board appropriations TO meet.
| have further to recommend for
your present consideration the fol.
lowing:
That you amend the law so that
each county that commits a patient TO
the care OF the state asylum shall be
charged with such quarterly payment
in advance as will defray at least 20
state furnishing the institution and
paying for its administration is sub
stantially 30 per cent OF the entire
cost
Futher, that your law contain such
provisions that the person legally re-
sponsible for the support of the pa.
tient, II possessed of an estate greater
than the exemptions provided by law,
shall, by the county court so commit.
ting the patient, charge such person
with the payment to the county of a
sum equal to the amount that the
county is required to pay the state.
And further, that If there be no per.
son legally responsible for the sup.
port of the patient either as parent
or next OF kin, that such patient is
possessed of an ample estate of his
own, that the amount which the coun-
~ is required to pay the state shall be
gim hursp1 from tho aGtata of Suph