Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1913-01-16
GOV. HADLEYS
LAST MESSAGE
WORK OF HIS TERM OF
OFFICE.
DISCUSSES STATE FINANCES
Urges Fair Industrial conditons-lm
portance Of Good Roads-Aeri-
culture and Farm Credits
Initiative and Referendum,

jefferson City. Mo.-Gov. Hadley's
message to the 47th General Assembly
was received at the opening session
Wednesday. The governor, in part,
said:
/ feel that l can with entire fairness
congratulate the people of Missouri
upon the condition of their public ser
vice, aud also upon the absence of any
substantial differences of opinion be
tween the various political parties
upon public questions which have
heretofore been the subject of active
political controversy and division.
The various state educational, elee.
mosynary, penal and reformatory in.
stitutions have been well conducted;
substantial additions and new build
ings have, in many cases, been con
structed; marked improvement in
the physical condition of all has been
/ effected; modern and more scientific
methods of management have, in
many instances, been established and
the money appropriated by the state
/ for the maintenance of these institu-
/ tons has been honestly and wisely
| expended.
/ A matter of first concern in the CON
| duct of public affairs 10 the condition
! of the states finances. When | took
the oath of office as governor on the
| 18th of January, 1909, serious, If not
an alarming, financial situation con
/ fronted the people of this state. Dur
ing the biennial period that closed on
the first of January, 1909, the appro-
priations amounted to $10,441, 625.SS,
while the revenues available for that
period amounted to only $8,191, 254.O7.
This left appropriations to the amount
of $2,230,371.S1 that were outstanding
and unpaid. After a careful investiga'
ton of all of these excuses of appro-
priation the forty-tifth general assem-
bly, found it necessary to reappropri'
ate approximately $1,0o0,OOO of the ap-
preparations made and unpaid during
the preceding biennial period, making
the appropriations for the biennial
period ending January /, 1911, $40,
231 ,930.15.
AS it was estimated that the reve
nues available for the payment o.
these appropriations would not amour
to exceed $S,7O0,00O, it became neces
sary for additional funds to be pro
yided, or else the state would be con
fronted with a condition of insolvency
/ urged upon the forty-fifth general
assembly the enactment of = number
of revenue measures, only one oil
] rn1 ~
a bill changing the system OF inspec
tom of petroleum by abolishing the
various coal oil inspectors throughout
the state, creating the office OF state
coal oil inspector and increasing inc
fees for the inspection OF the refined
products of petroleum. This resulted
in the addition of approximately 5000
600 each biennial period of the states
finances.
In addition to these new sources OF
of revenue, the condition of the state
treasury was relieved by a number
of unexpected reincorporation fees o.
large corporate interests and by the
$3.50. 900 fine imposed in the STANDARD
Oil litigation. With this addition o.
approximately $1.0OOOO0 Of revenue
each biennial period and the anuua
, increase in the assessed value Of Tho
real and personal property subject Il
the general property tax togetheI
= with the practice of economy in al
I the departments OF state and the stat'
Y institutions, all appropriations mad'
durlng the last four years that were
necessary for the conduct OF ?ubl'
4 affairs have been met, and surpIu
of $500, 900 is now to be found IN M
/ state treasury.
, Much can be done towards bring
! :ng about fairer industrial con
a Gitions, which, Of necessity, ahec
the condition of society as
, whole Scientific Investigations, a
a well as humanitarian impulses, dc
mand that the states power shout
a he exercised to the fullest extent L
!. prevent child labor and labor OF won
, en- under such conditions as VIII III
i pair health and individual ehicienc
a and result in weakened bodies an
n mind.
q Another law tending to the estat
Nshment of a larger measure OF sc
, cial and Industrial justice, concernln
q which all political parties are nov
happily agreed, is a workmen's con
a pensation law.
+ We now impose a tax upon colla'
p. eraI inheritances, which goes not u
the general revenue fund, but IN
state university. In my opinion, III
nroceeds from this fund should b
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