Year: 1859

ties should be diverted into it. He de-
clarcs that he approved the bill giving
to the counties the proceeds of the
ninth and tenth class me, chant and the
liquor licenses. with great reluctance,
and that he finally did so through ig-
norance.


Making wagcrs is not one of our
addictions, nevertheless we will wager
our last years copy of the comic alma
nae against the manuscript of that same
old stump speech of John B. Weller,
that this is the first instance during the
whole Of his long public life in which he
ever sought to escape blunder on the
plea of ignorance; 'dry'-like "the King
of France having marched up hill and
down again"-tired-in short any other
excuse than that of ignorance. But
why was the Governor ignorant of the
financial resources of the State 7 The
reports of her financial officers we're, or
could have been, before him. They not
only show the amount of revenue collcc-
ted for each year but the sources from
whence derived. The late Controller
from data in his office estimated to
within few thousand dollars the re-
ceipts into the Treasury for the last fis-
cal year. Why did not the Governor
consult that officer as to the effect on
the receipts into the Treasury likely to
result from the law he was about to
approved All necessary information
on this subject could have been much
more conveniently obtained than the
knowledge that the Indebtedness of the
respective counties at that time amount.
cd to some three millions of dollars. -
The Governor urges as reason why
the revenue derived from licenses named
should return to the Treasury, that the
interest on the funded debt that fell due
on the 1st of January, inst, could not
have been paid had it hot been that
power was granted to borrow from the
General Fund, the interest amounting
at the above date s147,13s Is whilst
the amount in the fund for its liquidation
was only Ss5,55o %.


Tho Governor has made the great
financial discovery that whilst the state
in the course of year will lose eighty
tn, u,and dollars. the counties will only
gain the "meagre" sum of thirty thou
sand by the transfer of the license tax


All of the Governors suggestions of
amendment TO the Revenue law that pos
sess any especial merit have heretofore
with greater clearness of statement been
made by his predecessor and the late
Controller. He concurs gener ally with
the Controller that the Revenue law is
defective and requires general revision
1t is supposed to be upwards of con-
siderable distance from the Fourth Of
July to the Falls of St. Anthony-the
question is, how can this distance be
shortened


REPORTS OF oFFIcERs-SEcRETRA OF


STATE.


The above is rather a singular head
ing for chapter, after having noticed
the reports of the Treasurer and Con-
troller.


The report of this officer is said to
show that We have been having great
many more of the copies of the Journals
Of the Legislature printed than were
needed. The present state printer, we
believe, is the first one that ever had the
journals ready for distribution prior to
the succeeding fall election. Let them
be sent to the respective counties, and
notice given that they are ready for
distribution and our word for it OUR peo-
pie will not only take, but read them too


Jno, O'Meara unfortunately publishes
no political paper, and is too attentive to
his own business and the duties of his
office to be of much service politically
anyhow, and withall is too manly to
whine much if few thousand are taken
from the profits of his office. BY the
way, we are on the lookout for the re-
port of the secretary. We shall expect
to see in it that he has found that the
stamp clerk he employs at salary of
two thousand four hundred dollars per
annum is q supernumary-the labor in
that department not amounting to one
weeks work for the entire year.


Like the Governor with his message,
we find this article growing on our hands
and pass on to the


STATE REGISTRAR.