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Show Published Every Saturday BY QOODWIN8 WEEKLY PUBLISHING COh INC. nr. p.; GALLAGHER, Editor. JAMES P. CASEY .Business Manager SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: . 15 pt Including postage in the United 8tates, Canada and Mexico $2.50 per year, P11.S0 for six months. Subscriptions to all foreign countries, within the Postal jj Pinion, $4.50 per year. . . ' . . 8lngle copies, 10 cents. Payment should be made by Check, Money Order or Registered Letter, payable to The Citizen. Address all communications to The Citizen. Entered as second-clas- s matter, June 21, 1919, at the Postofflce at Salt Lake City, Utah, under the Act of March 3, .1879. 8alt Lake City, Utah. Ness Bldg. Phone Wasatch 5409. 311-12-- 13 V X "V ! V A DEFICITS SHOW HOW STATE WAS PL UNDERED ' what extent the Democrats had, plundered the state while .f show with the figures available iiv: office The Citizen attempted-twhen the campaign' was in progress. The public was amazed. Democratic partisans were frankly skeptical. The true situation was worse 11 than the Republican speakers and The Citizen suspected. Ton The gravity of the task before the present administration is revealed in the statement made by Mark Tuttle, the new state auditor, last week- on the occasion of the completion of the budget. The final total of deficits which must be included in the budget discloses that it will be necessary to appropriate $806,990.36 for the te sole purpose of making up the deficits of the various state institutions, state boards and state offices. The situation is all the more astonishing in view of the fact that the Democrats had a budget system about which they were accustomed to boast. While that system was functioning the heads of the various departments of state managed to spend $800,000 more than had been allotted to them. If the Democratic record is a sample of what the people may expect from a budget system a bandit system fjSjj might have saved the state money, but there is good hope, that a iljjjf budget system in competent hands will be a real safeguard against ;!!$ extravagance. Sjjj!; Governor Mabey has presented to the consideration of the lcgis-jijl- S laturc an act to create a budget and finance commissioner. We be-lieve it urgent that the legislature should pass the measure. When the budget was adopted for the 1919-2- 0 biennium the vari-- !' ous officials prepared estimates of the amounts necessary to main- tain their departments. After approval by the budget commissioner these amounts were appropriated. 1 he amazing extent to which the is revealed in departments overstepped the bounds allotted to them the following table of deficits prepared by the auditor : $174,671.00 fl University of Utah 167,104.14 Agricultural College' .. 13,047.61 Branch Agricultural College 33,022.83 State School for the Deaf and Blind 52,350.00 State Industrial School 75,000.00 State Mental Hospital 35,000.00 Utah State Prison 18,000.00 Utah State Fair Association , ) o - 4.000.- 00 ... Crops and Pests Commission District Attorneys Expense Extradition of Fugutives' from Justice Reporter of Decisions . Board of Equalization Insurance Commission Ii v e 1.500.00 3.000.- 00 . 217.00. 7.900.00 2.000.- 00 t o c 1. B oa r cl 5,000.00 10,000.00 Irrigation Contingent Attorney Generals Deputies 4.675.00 10,000.00 15,000.00 7,500.00 2,000.00 800.00 100,000.00 Capitol Maintenance. Interest on Temporary Loans a 1 o n ti 1 ua rd !: Industrial Commission Board of Health War Fund for Building U. of U. and A. C Some of these deficits were authorized by the board of examiners in accordance with a loose and wholly fallacious budget system. In other cases the expenditure was made arbitrarily without the slightest authority. If the letter of the law were enforced the officials or boards could be compelled to make restitution, for they, are guilty of a misdemeanor and liable on their official bonds. Before the present administration can expend a cent on its own operations it must provide the means of paying the enormous deficits left by the last administration. It will, of course, be impossible to make good these deficits in their entirety during the next two years. The burden upon the taxpayers, if this were attempted, would be crushing even though the most rigid economy were practiced in every department. The public must not lose sight of the fact that although the money represented by these deficits was expended during the biennium of. 1919-2the legislature now in session must provide the funds wherewith to pay the loans. The new administration must maintain itself as well as pay the bad debts of the old. administration. It must meet all the deficits and, in addition, certain balances in appropriations passed for specific obligations as yet unfulfilled. 'Hie grand total will be just about $1,000,000. As soon as the legislature adjourns the banks which have made the loans to carry these deficits will present the loans for payment 8.000.00 and this will impose a tremendous burden on the general fund, al- , 1 3j el HU f f -- Bank Commissioner ... .State Land Board Printing of Assessment Rolls Publishing Delinquent Tax List Printing Taxpayers Statements 0, 51,500.00 1,006.30 1.345.00 - 52.50 I ready woefully depleted. In addition to the figures furnished by Auditor Tuttle other figures, of a comparative nature, show how expenditures increased by leaps and bounds under the Democratic administration as com- |