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Show SWINGS VETO AX TO 1 T DEFICIT Idaho Governor Cuts Right and Left to Keep Within With-in Income. STATEMENT IS ISSUED Analysis of Appropriations and Reductions Is Made Public. Epc-lal to The Tribune. ROIKR. Malio, March 23. Sufficient time having elapsed sin tie the fourteenth Idaho legislature adjourned for an analysis analy-sis to bo made of the action of that as-rnhly, as-rnhly, it Ik found that $4,1fi2.SD4.51 Is the, grand total it authorized appropriated, appropri-ated, a puffk-lent. amount, to force a deficit in the state treasury had not the governor struck riht and left with his veto ax. He pruned out $4?.2S2.0S from the appropriations, scaling those for state Institutions havilv nnd trimming down the appropriations for state departments. ( invernur A lrxa rider has issued a. sta tenant te-nant in which lie claims that on retiring from office in 1 1 J f he will leave in The treasury a balance n! ..Sm"i.oOO with which to start the now administration. Tho total appropriation of the legislature, legisla-ture, -as red u red h y the veto po w e r of the governor and which does not include the $l,000,ori(l Kood road bond issue nor over $r00,ofo which hud to he appropriated appropri-ated to offset federal income of state institutions, stands at $2,600,000. which Is S.ViO.fHiO more tfiun the total appropriations appropria-tions made two years ago. As Appropriations Stood. When the appropriations for the various vari-ous state institutions and departments left the legislature they stood before the governor as follows: Educational institutions.. 504,562. 00 Charitable and penal institutions in-stitutions nfi4,70.pij Kxecut ive depart n tents . . 594,4 72 . 73 Supreme a nd district. courts 216.800.00 ' Legislative departments . Sn.000.00 Highways and bridges J SO. 000. 00 Kelief measures 7S,Oo7 . 64 Continuing appropria I ions. . 1 to.uOO. 00 Oeneral miscellaneous . . . ;!43,702.12 Grand total $4,162,394.51 The contingent appropriations amount to $95,000, which the governor, in a statement state-ment issued for publication today, adds the vetoed items of J422.2fl2.9S. making a total of $517.2S2.9S. Subtracting- the latter lat-ter total from the total appropriations authorized au-thorized by the legislature, or $4,162.-394.51, $4,162.-394.51, and" there is left net appropriations amounting to J3. 645,1 11 .53. Biennial Disbursements. The biennial disbursements for 1917-191S 1917-191S amount to $:, 645,1 11 .5:1, made up of the following items: State departments, $750.0iiO; educational, penal and charitable institutions, SI.OOVjCu; - unexpended appropriations. ap-propriations. $75,000; amount to be taken from the surplus in the treasury, $75,-111.53: $75,-111.53: tax levy for 1917, $900,000; tax levy fur I01S, JSIS.OOO. The income to the several slate institutions is made up of moneys from numerous funds of an endowment en-dowment nature and federal donations. In order that a complete check can be kept on all funds received from 1 he arious sources of revenue of state departments de-partments and state institutions, the legislature leg-islature inaugurated a new plan of accounting, ac-counting, by which these funds are diverted di-verted into and through the state treasury treas-ury before they are recorded, and account ac-count will be kept over the check on them. This is a new departure and goes into effect for the first time in this state. As the state institutions alone receive close ti 51,000.000. the importance of thia check is appreciated. Heretofore the state institutions have placed their own check on this money, and while no dishonesty dis-honesty is charged, It is claimed that the method has been unbusinesslike and the people have never definitely known how much money was received or where it went. Says People Should 'Know. In bis statement Governor Alexander holds t'.ie peoplo have a right to know. He says: The actual cost of sta te government govern-ment is little known to the average taxpayer. All he knows is the amount of taxes which he pays, but that is only a part of the cost of the state government: there are other sources of income that he knows or hears nothing about, which are used up. and he is not put in posessiou of the facts to figure them out. "What is actually actual-ly paid in taxes is only alout one-half one-half of what it costs to run the state government. Taking into consideration tho growth of the state from 1914 to date and the probable growth of the state for the next two years, which will probably amount to loo.OOO more people, peo-ple, or an increase of nearly 25 per cent in population, and the excessive increase in prices of all commodities that are used in the departments of stn t e government, it is possible, to a certain extent to condone, for the Increased In-creased a ppmpriat ions for the bien-nium. bien-nium. 1917-191$. Little Salary Increase. These has been but very, lit tie Increase In-crease In salaries except in minor positions. po-sitions. The cot of materials which are vised extensively in certain departments de-partments will make the increased appropriation about normal with the preceding ear. and the sta te of Idaho will be fortunate at the end of this hiennium to be able to say, with all the liberal expenditures for edu- car!or1, rhari taM2 and penal inetltu-t inetltu-t j t j :-; and the cxienshe in'ernal ini-prof-menta made throughout the I st;itc. t i i : i T. it et has a surplus of ;i 1 half million dollars- and over, which will kp it continual! r on a sound j c:,,-ii i.a:s and from which no departure depar-ture Mionld be made. 1 1 wi li he the e ndea "or of the e -1 ecinivp depart m1 m to see. tiia t tl. I most rigid oi'Onomv is pricticvl in every dotiartnicnt and as lare a surplus sur-plus be ma i ut -dined in the vs rious dena ri merits y possible, taking info coiiMdrn t ion efficiency wliich is so nitn-h fje.-ired. The a griculr.ural in LereMfl of t stMfe have bem takn rav of us nver before, trie ed neat inna I insiiLu-tionr insiiLu-tionr ar: sharing in the liberal appro-priation. appro-priation. and a greater programme- "f internal improvements has hern laid down t h,-i n ever before undertaken in this sra'e. Makes Savage Cuts. I n pruning the ma in educational insti -t u I ion a pprupnat iotiM the governor cut $2tiS.ii(s0 uji of the bills. Th appiopria-Tions appiopria-Tions now stand for tiic net two vears. 19 17 - lit I s, as follows: .State board of cduciifion. ?l7,nnn: rnivcrsitv of Idaho, malntrnancp. $70 2,otj'L 'niversity of Idaho, buildings, $112,000: wistuii Normal Nor-mal school, maintenance. $194,700; Jjowis-i Jjowis-i on Normal. building.-. $55,000 ; Albion Normal school, maintenance, $179,000; Albion Al-bion Normal, buildings, $'15,000: Ida ho '1 .--! in ical institute, maintenance. S16S.170; Idaho Technical institute, buildings, $6,000; Industrial Training school, maintenance. main-tenance. $147, p 10; Industrial Training school, buildings, S15.00O; Deaf and Blind school, maintenance. $76,onn. |
