seph, Mo. Phil. Koppin, Jr., superintendent of the carp ponds in Forest Park, reports having supplied 451 private ponds with thirty carp each since the first day of November, 1884, to date; also 341 "spawners" and ten thousand small carp to the public waters, as follows: Creve Coeur Lake, St. Louis county-spawners, 82; small carp, 1,000.

Meramec river, at Pacific, Franklin county-spawners, 30; small carp, 1,000.

1.000.

Gasconado river, Gasconade county-spawners, 30; small carp,

Missouri river, at Jefferson City, Cole county-spawners, 30; small carp, 1,000.

Osage river, Osage county-spawners, 30; small carp, 1,000.
Mr. Tracy, St. Louis-spawners, 6.

W. A Long, Mound City-spawners, 6.

H. H. Bodeman, St. Louis-spawners, 18.

Big river. St. Francois county-spawners, 30; small carp, 1.000. Black river, Butler county-spawners, 30; small carp, 2,000. Chariton river, Chariton county-small carp, 2,000.

1. Studi, Creve Coeur Lake, St. Louis county-spawners, 15. Leaving on hand of small carp about 50,000, and spawners, 500. Reserving for 1885 as spawners, 450.

Retaining for this year's spawn, 300.

The spawners will average 6 to 10 pounds in weight.

The commission report 80,000 young carp on hand, which would have been distributed in the public waters before now, had sufficient means been provided. The only means now used are tubs and cans, which renders the process of removal slow, awkward and expensive. The commission will ask of this body an increase of appropriation to justify the commencement of the propagation of native fish, especially black bass, croppy, pike and perch-commonly called jack salmon-to open other ponds for propagation and to enlarge the old ones. It requires a series of years to accomplish this work. Satisfactory results have been attained in other States engaged in such propagation. As one of the commission will say: "The great drawback to our operations is the hesitating manner in which past legislatures have granted our small appropriations. It is impossible for us to plan our work in advance for the next year without knowing we shall obtain money to execute such plans. Should we make expenditures beyond the amount of money on hand, expecting new appropriations for the next two years, and the Legislature should fail to make such appropriation, the

commission would have to make good the deficiency from their now private purses. Of course we take such risks."

This appeal should receive your kindly consideration.

CHARITIES AND CORRECTIONS.

The subject of prison management is engaging the attention and ability of the ablest prison managers and philanthropists of America. Annually a convention of that character is held in one or the other of the States. It met last October in St. Louis, and was largely attended by delegates from a large number of States. This State was very ably represented in the convention by some of its foremost men and women, and at their own expense. The subject is so important, involving in fact one of the most intricate as well as dangerous problems of the age, that the leading nations of the world have determined to hold an international convention at Rome, Italy, within the coming year, Missouri should be represented in that body by at least two repsesenta tives, to be appointed by the Governor, and an appropriation should be made to pay their reasonable expenses. The adjacent States have taken steps in that direction.

BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS.

Under an act of the Legislature, approved March 23, 1883, establishing a Bureau of Labor Statistics, I appointed Hon. Henry A. Newman as commissioner of the bureau, and directed him to locate his office at Jefferson City. During the two years since his appointment he has succeeded in gathering and collecting much information which must neceessarily be of great value to your honorable body and to the public at large. His annual report, which has just been submitted to me, and which will be laid before you, is replete with valuable statistics, gathered from every department of industry. The Bureau of Labor Statistics may be made, and should become, a valuable adjunct, in the efforts now engaging the attention of our wisest statesmen to discover the proper relations of labor and capital-those two great coadjutors of national existence. Its utility having been demonstrated, the Legis. lature should consider the matter with great care, and assist the bureau with such appropriations as may be needed to render it efficient and valuable. Your attention is called to Commissioner Newman's report, in which many questions of vital moment to the laboring classes are intelligently discussed.

REGISTER OF LANDS.

The duties of this office have been performed by the Register and his accomplished chief clerk, with commendable industry, promptness and good judgment. The tables given show some of the important work performed in that office, in the interest of the counties and State.

ABSTRACT OF BUSINESS, OFFICE REGISTER OF LANDS, FOR 1881 AND 1882.

TOWNSHIP SCHOOL LAND.

No. of acres sold and patented

Cash received for same. . . .

26,541.07 $60,620.04

SWAMP AND OVERFLOWED LANDS.

No. of acres selected, approved and patented to the State.... 4,924.48

BUSINESS, OFFICE REGISTER OF LANDS, 1883 AND 1884.

TOWNSHIP SCHOOL LAND.

No. of acres sold and patented, 1883 and 1884

'Cash received for same.....

SWAMP AND OVERFLOWED LANDS.

26,942.73 $75,295.93

No. of acres selected, approved and patented to the State.. 35,762.49 No. of acres approved but not yet patented...

2,498.13

In making the selections of the swamp and overflowed lands and proving up the swamp land indemnity claims, the Register of Lands

visited twenty-one counties. In connection with Capt. Louis Bergau U. S. Special Agent, he made a personal examination in the field of each tract of land for which indemnity was claimed. In performing this work, including four trips to the U. S. Land Office at Springfield, Mo., and two to the Land Office at Ironton, Mo, locating indemnity certificates for the various counties, and also 1,002 acres for the State under the provisions of the internal improvement grant, the Register was employed about one-half of each month during the past two years, and traveled from 30,000 to 35,000 miles.

A large amount of swamp and overflowed land, selected and reported to the General Land Office prior to March 3, 1857, which was confirmed to the State by the act of Congress, approved March 3, 1857, has been disposed of by the United States since that date, and for which the State is entitled to indemnity. Under existing laws the right to idemnity is limited to March 3, 1857. A bill is now pending before Congress, which has been recommended by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, giving all the States indemnity for all swamp land sold by the United States since March 3, 1857. Including these lands, as near as can be approximated, there is still due the State on unsettled indemnity claims about $55,000 cash indemnity, and 25,000 acres of land indemnity.

INEBRIATE ASYLUM.

There is a strong feeling favorable to temperance prevailing over this State. The operation of the Downing law has been successful during the last year, and will be more satisfactory when certain amendments are made to it. It is believed by many that if an inebriate asylum is established, its work, in conjunction with the good results from the Downing law, will decrease intemperance largely, and will also decrease the cause of much of the crime and insanity now found in every county. Scientists assert that 25 per cent. of insanity is caused. by the habitual use of intoxicants. I think this Assembly should provide an inebriate asylum at some point in the State.

CONCLUSION.

Having completed my official term at a most auspicious time, when peace and good government prevail in every part of the State; when we enjoy an immunity from lawlessness beyond that of other States; when the local police affairs of every county and village, and even of the great city of St. Louis, were never in a condition more profoundly satisfactory to the people; when the schools and credit of the State

suffer nothing in comparison with those of the foremost of the States, I can lay aside the habiliments of office with that pride which animates a soldier who has never deserted his post or flag until victory has crowned his devotion to duty. To all the unjust criticisms which have. been aimed at me, I point to the Missouri of to day as my only answer. Bishop Robertson spoke truthfully of Missouri in his recent address. before the State Episcopal Convention, held in the city of St. Louis, when he said:

"Even at the risk of repeating what I have said before, but with an emphasis justified by a longer familiarity, which only deepens in me a sense of the truth and significance of it, I am amazed and overwhelmed by the extent and rapidity with which the State is filling up with the best class of people. Hundreds of miles of range to which I was once accustomed in many parts of the State are now all fenced up and under cultivation. Indeed there is almost no land which is at all valuable that is not enclosed. Villages have become cities with all the comforts and appliances of modern life. All parts of the State show prosperity; but perhaps it is of the western counties that the statement is more emphatically true."

I am now conscious of having committed many errors, which I deeply regret. They were the results of mistaken conceptions of duty. It has been my earnest desire to do my whole duty to the State, and in so far as it lay in my power to give to its confiding people the most desirable of all earthly blessings-good government. If that has been done, I am content.

Adopting the words of one of the wisest Presidents this country has ever bad, permit me to say:

As the time draws nigh when I am to retire from the public service, I cannot refrain from expressing to the members of the National (State) Legislature with whom I have been brought into personal and official intercourse, my sincere appreciation of their unfailing courtesy and of their harmonious co operation with the executive so many measures calculated to promote the best interests of the Nation, (State) and to my fellow.citizens generally, I acknowledge a deep sense of obligation for the support which they have accorded me, in my administration of the Executive Department of this Government." THOS. T. CRITTENDEN.

JANUARY 7, 1885.

Which was ordered read, and pending the reading thereof, Senator Downing offered the following resolution, which was read and adopted: Resolved, That the message of His Excellency, the Governor, be laid on the table, and five thousand copies thereof be printed, one