The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-01-08
RETIRING GOVERNOR DISCUSSES NUMBER
Of IMPORTANT AFFAIRS N HIS MESSAGE.

NSSst WsSAb SAONtlluB U0SN va ku0 lI1GSAs
tuition but the blue sky; and no au.
thority exists to examine or prevsn,
the sale Of worthless stock until some
dissatiSaed creditor makes applicA.
ton. and II may be then toe late. The
corporation laws should be amended
so MS to protect innocent purchasere
and prevent the sale OF worthless
~dehtedness: and the state examiner
should be authorized to examine such
corporation and report f~avorably be-
fore IL il allowed to sell any stock.
Legislative Appropriations.
While practicins economy along ev-
cry possible line you should be as lib
eral with the state institutions as the
revenues of the state warrant. The
agricultural college. university. state
normal schools. the school OF science.
the school Of forestry. the school for
the deaf, and the normal and indus
trial school are all doing good work:
and in the consideration Of what Is
necessary for any Of these institutions
I am sure you will be governed by
high motives to act for and In behalf
of the entire state and not in the in
terests Of any particular institution or
any particular locality.
We are obliged to provide literally
for the penal and charitable institu-
tions Of the state. This institution is
densely crowded and insanity seems
alarmingly on the increase. 1t will he
necessary to construct some new
buildings at the asylum to provide ac-
commodations for the increase in pop
ulation. But one asylum Is provided
for by the constitution. which is 10
Gated at jamestown. and which has
now a population Of over 500 inmates.
IL Snfrht Ia nail Far N,nyN 70 cAnQ1AnP
the advisability Of amending the con-
stitution by providing for another asy-
lum in some other locality.
The institution for the feeble mind
ed at Grafton will probably not re-
quire any new improvements. except
a farm house and the purchase Of
more land. There is no reason, how
ever, why the counties should not be
made responsible for the maintenance
of the inmates the same as they are
made responsible for the maintenance
Of the insane al the state hospital at
Jamestown; and I recommend that the
law making counties liable for the
maintenance Of the insane be made
feeble minded institution.
The school for the deaf at Devils
Lake has no building for industrial
education. Only two trades are being
taught the students, printing and car
pentry. For this purpose the rooms
w the boiler house are used. The
superintendent recommends a new
building, to be devoted exclusively to
industrial education, and expects to
put in tailoring and shoe.making.
Common humanity demands the best
possible equipment for the deaf and
dumb men or women who must event.
ually go u and battle with the world
under this handicap; and I recon-
mend the institution and the recon-
mendattons OF the superintendent to
consideration.
The last legislative assembly estab-
lished a tuberculosis sa%nitariun at
and l invite your inspection of the
same and recommend such additional
improvements as may be necessary.
The last assembly also appropriated
$4,000 for repairs to the capitol. and
the building is now in a fair state
of repair. New Offices have been pro-
vided for the tax commission and the
board Of control, and an additional
room has been provided for the state
historian and the reference library.
The usual appropriation for capitol
maintenance IL insufficient under pres
ent conditions. The cost of everything
has increased and / naddition to this
the omce expenses of the adjutant
the board of control and tho tax com.
mission have been an added drain on
the general fund for capitol mainte-
nance, while the appropriation for
this purpose has remained the same.
I recommend an increase In the ap-
preparation for capitol maintenance.
Under section 1868 Of the revised
codes of 1906 the sum Of $50. 900 was
appropriated from the capitol build
ing fund to build the present street
a line. The capitol building fund
is a fund created from the sale OF pub
lie lands granted to the state by Sec
ton 12 Of the Enabling act, for the
purpose Of erecting public buildings
at the capitol. for Legislative, execu-
tive and judicial purposes; and . 6
ton II Of the Enabling act granted
to the state fifty thousand acres for
public buildings at the capitol. The
appropriation Of this money from this
fund for the purpose Of building a
street car line was a diversion OF this
fund through which we might lose
the entire grant Of land. and the state
10 in duty bound to return to this
fund. by a direct appropriation, the
$4,000 80 misappropriated. This sub
ject Is discussed at length in the veto
message found on page $40 Of the ses-
sion laws Of 1911.
Glandesy.
Under the law passed by the LEXIS.
lature in 1907. indemnifying owners
for horses killed by order Of the state