"resolved that
the body of the deceased be brought from Mexico and interred in the
soil of Ohio, at the expense of the State." Having undertaken, as
the duty of the State, to give the remains of General Hamer a
fitting burial, the legislature can not regard that duty as
completely performed until an appropriate monument has been built
at his grave.

Since the adoption of the present constitution the governor's
duties have compelled him to reside at the capital. If any change
is made in respect to the powers and duties of the executive in the
revision about to be made of the constitution, the change, it is
probable, will increase rather than diminish his duties. The
evident impropriety of subjecting each new incumbent of the office
to the inconvenience and expense of procuring and furnishing a
suitable residence for the short period of a governor's term of
office has led, in many States, to the purchase of a governor's
mansion. Three of the States adjoining Ohio have adopted this
course. It can not be doubted that Ohio will, at no distant day,
follow their example. The rapid increase in the value of real
estate in Columbus in consequence of its present growth and its
promise of continued prosperity in the future gives force to the
suggestion that if the State is to purchase a governor's residence
at all it would be well to do it promptly.

The importance of wise legislation on the subject of railroads, in
a State having the geographical position which belongs to Ohio, can
not be over-estimated. The greater part of the trade and travel
between the commercial and manufacturing States of the East and the
agricultural States of the West, and of the business of the
continental railways which connect the Atlantic and Pacific oceans,
passes over the railroads of this State. Fourteen years ago,
Governor Chase, speaking of the railroads of Ohio, said: "This vast
interest, affecting vitally so many other interests, has grown
suddenly to its present dimensions without system, without general
organization, and, in some important respects, without
responsibility." Then the railroads of the State carried annually
about a million of passengers, and their gross receipts were about
six millions of dollars a year. Last year they carried twelve
millions of