The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, January 3, 1895, Page 2

4 al if 1 a a Sn a WARDEN PACE. sary labor for the state at the prison. Believing that the contract system full allowance is made for the neces ,an average thirty-four females per day since the coutract has been in force. This is fully up tu the san His First Biennial Report to the jis the only plan by whici the con guine expectatious,showing that the Board of Luspectors e of the commendations He the fmprovement of the Prope the Prison. On the 3lst of December Colouel} State's rty James L. Pace, warden of the peni | tentiary, will submit bis first biennial! | Keport to the state board of prison | inspectors. Among other things, Warden Pace will say: “I believe that the people of Mis qouri, understanding that the great @st financial panic of the age began shortly after the state administration at present in power was inaugurated» qnd at a time when the contracts with all the contractors doirg busi dess in the state’s prison were about €o expire, will give their approval to fhe management and give us credit for having done the best that it was possible to do in renewing contracts td in the handling of other matters of a financial character connected with the affairs of the prison. If so. I shall be content, and, under more favorable circumstances, hope that the next two years will show more frvorable results. “The Missouri state penitentiary being one of the largest penab insti €utions in the world, I consider it well worthy the careful attention aud consideration of our representa tives in the legislature of this great @tate, believing that proper attention will not only give comfort to the u.fortunate people confined therein, but much reformation may be brought about. “I have considered at all times end take occasion to say here that the governor and the board of in gpectors have approved of my views in this direction, that it is not econ omy to allow the property of the @tate at the prison to become dilapi dated. Hence with the approval ot the board of inspectors, I have made repairs on the buildings" already constructed by putting substantia! roofing on the hospital, female de partment, Straus’ shop building, the barn and all the warehouses, besides numerous other repairs ou the bos pital and other buildings. “Finding the boilers worn out iv maost of the factories and state build- ings, we have erected during the last year and half an immense power houseand placed therein four boilers of 375 horse power each. This plant ig now in successful operation and is furnishing steam power for all the factories and state buildings con nected with the prison, and has sul- &cient power to run as many more To this power plant we have built, #t a emall cost, a switch from the main line of the Missouri Pacific wailroad and are enabled to unload coal where it is used without extra handling. I feel assured that the amount saved in fuel alone by the concentration of power will in a short time pay the whole cost of the ylant. And in this connection I de tre to say that, by the expenditure of $5,000 for a new cynamo, we ‘could furnish, without extra cost, electric lighting for the state capitol and all other state buildings, there hy saving to the state in a very short time the cost of the dynamo. I would, therefore, be glad to see the incoming legislature make an inves- tigation of this proposition. “There were in the penitentiary December 31, 1892)1,644 males and forty-five females; December 21,1894, 7,129 males and sixty-two females, an increase of 29 per cent in two years. The cause for this increase it is not my purpose to discuss, but in view of the crowded conditicn of the prison, on account of lack of cell room, I deem it advisable for the iegislature to make an appropriation for the erection of at least one com modious cell building. The cash eutlay for this building would only be for the iron, wood, lime and glass, as the state, by the purchase of the forty acre tract on the east side of the prison, has room for the exten- sion of a splendid rock quarry, sak ready opened,.and an -inexhaustible supply of brick clay, with plenty of idle men to do the work. “By reference to ethibit J of my report, it will be seen that there are only 1,030 convicts contracted for, leaving several hundred idle, after a Suggestions and Re | Will Make for|8Upport of the penitentiary, I bave employment and waking them bet Whipping Abandoned at } | ' | victs can be worked successfully and female departinent is nearly, a great burden of taxatiou kept off | the shoulders of the people for the not imprudent to call your attention to the | deemed it necessities of jincreased working room, as all of the factories and buildings ure filled | by the contracts now in force By) j | providing more shop room, we would at any time be able to make new! pecenracts when opportunity offered | | | to fill the additional shops I would | recommend that another story be} built upon each of the factory build-| the stockade. The actual | eash outlay would not exceed $25,-| 000 and would make room for the working of 250 men “The expenses for subsistence are | always greatly increased by the high price of potatoes late in the winter, spring and early summer months. There is ample room for the build ing of a large house, 180 feet long and 60 feet wide, where the old frame carpenter shop now stands. This could be built three stories high, with one and a half story be low the surface, and put to use for the following purposes, at a great advantage to the state, in my judg- ment: The basement for storage of potatoes aud other vegetables when they are cheap iu the fall:the second stery for a laundry and bath rooms for the convicts,which would greatly add to the health of the prison, and the third story could be utilized for carpenter, tin, cooper aud broom ings in shops for the state. “In the management and discip line of convicts I have been ably as- sisted by all of the officers and em- ployes of the penitertiary. While occasional violation of the rules oc- cur, I believe that, taking everything into consideration, the discipline has been all that could have been expect- ed. The modes of punishment have been greatly modified during my aministration. and [ find that good order and discipline can be maintain ed without restoring the practice of whipping convicts, and we have abandoned that cruel and barbous practice. made many improvements on the hospital building for the betterment of the condition of the sick and for the convenience of the prison physician and his assistants in the treatment of the patients. The sewerage sys- tem of the prison bas been locked after and much work was done in that direction, but for the good of the general health ot the prison, as well as to purify the hospital build- ing, more and larger sewerage will have to be coustructed. The cash cost of this will not be large, as the prison can supply everything but the pipe There have been confined in the hospital during my term daily average of ten insane convicts While I cannot expect them to be sent to any of the various insane) asylums of the state, there to be mingled with unfortunate and inno cent people, yet I think it would be agreat benefit to them, and a still greater benefit to the sick convicts to have them separated, and in thie connection beg leave to suggest that the house on the grounds recently bought by the state, adjoining the prison, could be made at a small cost a convenient and comfortable place for the insane convicts. “Dr. G H. Williams, the prison physician, who has at all times been patient and attentive to the sick, will lay before you a more extended report of the hospital, etc. “The spiritual welfare of the con- victs bas been watched oyer faith- fully and devotedly by the prison chaplain, Rev. W. W. Warren, and the management are under obliga- tions to Father Simon Orf of St. Peter's church, Jefferson City for the frequent visits he has made to the prison and his appeals to the convicts to be at all times strictly obedient and orderly. Rev. Warren will make you his report as to the library etc , connected with the chap “During my term we haye el. “In June, 1893, I made a contract with the Jefferson Shee Company if pot quite, self sustaining. besides giving the women steady, light and bLealthy ter contented thinif they were idle. “Early in 1893 outlay of $1,500 : we builtata cash modern s! j house, with scales, refrigerator aud all convieut aud necessary appli ances for killing, renderiug and preservation of meat This bas been | one of the most successful improve- | ments ever made at the prison, giv ing the convicts at all seasons of the year fresh and wholesome meat. “Ove sixth of the prisoners now) contined here were under 20 years of a,ze wheu sentenced, between 20 aud 25, making oue half | of the total prisou population under jage of 25. Believing that mauy of these boys and girls, especially un not der the age of 20 years, were hirdeued in crime at the time of their | geutence and that coming iuto con- tact with older has a tendency to corrupt rather han to reform, I believe tata liber- al statute should be enacted allow ing the trial judge discretion as to whether young crimmiuals should be | sent here or to the reform schools of the state. I believe that the re sult would the saviug of a majority of them, besides being of incalcul able benefit to the state and country. “TI can see no reason why ap priation sufficient to pay the officers and euployes should not be mad: when the other bills ire passed by the general assembly Shoul | this be arisiu; an appropriation done, the surplus of run sing expenses would necessa- rily at all times be in the state treas- ury, ax our deposits of earning are made monthly.” The finaneial report of Warden Pace will show that on account of the hard and the unsettled state of financial affairs all over the country that the earnings of the prison for 1893 and 1894 are $10,000 less than for the years of 181 aud 1802 Yet with an average of more convicts than is the preceding two years the cost to the state for maintenance been only about $26,000. times has Honesty, perseverance and skill cannot im prove Dr 'Sawyer’s Cure, becanse it fully cures in ion, biliousness and kidney dif- | fieulty id by HL Tucker. Imperial Missouri. Colouel Wm. F. Switzler, in a esnt address, said: “The aquisition of the Louisiana Territory,which consisted of $1,800,- 000 square miles, now covered by twelve states and two territories, was the largest amount of land ever acquired in the bistory of civiliza- tion without antecedent war. “The Territory of Missouri was or ganized by act of Congress on June 4, 1812, and Wm. Clark became gov ernor. corres and a A council of nine, ponding with the senate, house of representatives, consisting of thirteen members were appointed and the whole Territory of Missouri was divided iuto five counties. “The first session of the State legislature was held in St. Louis, December 7, 1813, at the house of Joseph Robideau. “The speaker maintained that Missouri was admitted into the Union, not in 1820, as some histor ians assert, but on August 10, 1821. He also denied that the State was admitted under the Clay compro- mise, which had for oue of its pro-| visions the 36 degree 30 minute ter- | ritorial line. “One of the main causes of the great fight over the admission of} Missouri was oue of the phases of August 13, 1890, empowering bim | the slavery question—a provision in | the constitution prohibiting the im- migration of free negroes and mu- lattoes,a provision which the people | afterwards pledged themselves not to enforce. “The first two United States sen- ators from Missouri were chosen at | asession of the territorial legislature, | | which met in the Missouri hotel, | Denmark, France and many other | use of such articles of diet that the Morgan and Main Streets, St. Louis, ; on September 19, 1820. David Bar- ton was chosen unanimously as one! of the two. The contest for the rughter | « 2 | hardened criminals | from @arnings over the cost | 200 16- after night the jezisiature sat in the dining rou of the old Misscuri bo te: without being able to elect the secoud senator. Finally Barton was asked which oue of caudidates he would prefer as a colleague He was at first ve ne ry reluctant to bis preference he favored Be t neither L if Daniel RB after > but finally stated that contest Was so l i¢as vor Benton covered thal | County, ils, of Pike s County was named, could be induced to ws for Beutoa, be {elected by a majority of one whom Ralls (Beaton) would a, | was lying ulin «room on the second | notel in whieb the | legislature was In session, | story of tbe same and was | jexpected to die at any moment. The aud when the two bodies were in joint session joclock in the morning, Ralls was carried down secoud story, in his bed, by four the roll was call ed voted for andelected Benton. | The next day Ralls died osagroes, and when Catarrh Cannot be Cured with LOCAL APPLIC. an INS, as they cannot rea re dis- ease. Catarrh is i or r cons tution- al disease, and in orderto cure it must take internal remedies. Catarrh Cure is taken interually cts directly on the blood and surtaces. Hall’s quack medicine. one ot the best physici try ior Years and Is a regu’ar prescr tion. 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