A MESSAGE FROM THE GOVERNOR
was announced by the Executive Messenger, as follows:
To the General Assembly of the State of Indiana:
The day before yesterday several gentlemen who were appointed for the purpose by the Board of Trade of Indianapolis appeared before the State Relief Committee to represent the urgent necessity that the General Assembly shall pass the pending bill for the further appropriation for the relief of the sufferers from the floods. I annex to this communication the report of their statements. I am satisfied the present appropriation is insufficient, and that a larger appropriation should be made. The present appropriation has thus far been used merely for the purchasing of food, clothing and medicines for the sufferers. When the flood shall have subsided the suffering from injuries to property by persons in very reduced circumstances, especially in towns that have been wholly or in great part submerged, will be found to be so great that it will be manifest that some aid should be given to such persons to render their homes habitable. If the General Assembly shall desire that part of any appropriation be applied in that manner it should be provided in the Pending bill.
ALBERT G. PORTER
It was referred to the Committee on Finance.
