The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1885-03-19
Total normal school appropriation 1923, $50
FEARED DEFICTENCY

FEARED 4 DEFICIENCY.
The item appropriating. sac, 900 for an
for normal home at the Winona school are
disapproved with the following comment:
II tho resources Of the treasury would admit
Of II. would be glad to approve THESE items,
measured by the appropriation made, the neces-
Tho item Of $4,000 for the complexion Of :
partially constructed building at St. Cloud is
approved Is IN the interests OF economy.
The act appropriating money for the state
reform school was approved as to the items
OF $4,000 for insurance and 81 900 for i'm
provements and repairs, but disapproved as
to tho item of $4,000 for an additional
building for the boys department., with tho
following tndorsement:
I deem It my duty to seek to limit the obligs-
ton OF the treasury to it's probable resources. I
regret that In tho discharge Of that duty am
compelled to deprive this most deserving insti-
tuition Of present means for increasing its use
fulness.
The act to appropriate 81 900 for an en-
oampment OF veteran soldiers Is disapproved,
% follows:
would not DO available In the even: Of its be-
coming law: IL PROVIDES TOR an encampmens
Of veteran soldiers during the summer of 1885
about $s4. 900 in excess Of the probable reve-
nues OF the state PAYMENTS for the necessary
expenses Of tho departments and the public in
tent, have to be deferred until the resources Of
1886 become available. The treasury could
not. therefore, meet this appropriation II sp-
proved.
THE REVENUES AND EXPEND1TUREa
To his disapproval Of these items of tho
appropriation bills the governor adds:
The following is an estimate carefully made
tho state for the fiscal years 1885. 1886 and
1887: also statement of tho appropriations.
standing and otherwise. made Tor the same
years:
Revenues. $50. M .,9 LIS
Appropriations. l.sAs.7 100 1,s7l.e5s 1925, l45
penetenoy....: 81: os! 's.455 ;s1,e.;
The above does not take into account tho cx-
penses incident to tho legislative session Of
Unless tho revenues exceed tho estimate: the
legislature Of 1887 will have to suspend the
rules OF the treasury.
Beside tho appropriation bills. the follow
e1nor's reasons for his action:
ExEMPTlNo CHURCH PARsoNAGEs
Al act to amend section s. chapter IL. General
Statutes 1878. relating to property exempt from
Tho object Of this act is to exempt church
parsonages from taxation. II it was purely a
te Of ito eonss%
tionaltty has recently been passed upon ad-
versely by the supreme court Of this state.
communication from the attorney general Is ap-
pended citing the decision referred to and other
authorities
THE ONLY ST. PAUL. VETO
st. Paul had but ono veto to meet; but this
Will prove good deal OF q disappointment
to Senator Gil6llan, who worked hard, as
sisted by W. II. Grant, the attorney, to secure
the passage of the matter.
1t is House File No. 435, and entitled An act
granting certain lands (meaninR tow heads in
the Mississippi and swamp land and meandered
lakes In West St. PAUL TO the city of St. Paul. IN
sld OF certain improvements (the improvements
bankments across the river) In noting the dis
approval. the governor SAYS: This bill is objcc-
tionable because of the limitations imposed nv
the constitutional amendment of 1881, WING
Appropriated all swamp lands then belonging to
tho state, or that might hereafter accrue to the
state. 'one-half to the common school fund. and
stitut1ons Of the state
The point raised by the governor was the
subject Of learned and lengthy discussion in
the judiciary committee of the senate. who
were divided on the subject, but a majority
agreed to q favorable recommendation.
MAJ. w. H. D1KEs CLAIMS.
An act providing for the adjus TIM ent Of certain
alleged claims Of w. H. Dixie against the state
under the act providing for the adjustment OF
proved Nov. 4. 1884 This bill is more objcc-
ttonable than straightforward appropriation to
Mr.: Dixie Of hxed sum of money would have
payment. The evil Of this will only begin
with it. This bill calls that an alleged claim
AGAINST the state which was never before
alleged or dreamed to be q claim ug ,inst the
state. The claim was and is 4 claim against
one Of the old land grant railroad companies of
1859. In the adjustment Of the Minnesota
a sum from the bondholders for division
among certain kinds Of creditors of those
raj ,aiiroe d.. compani:s: It is alleged that
and by an error of tho commission cot nothing
The state did not pay the others anything, and
owed then or htn nothing. Its commission
acted anmmari1v \ 6iRtrihnfA
of money of certain private parties to other pri-
vate parties. The commission may have made
When has . claim been made before that the
state should pay . litigant in any OF her courts
the money which he alleged tho court should
in being presented to tho state for payment;
there are thousands. perhaps hundreds Of thou
sands more OF the same kind think we
ought not to admit the shadow Of an Obligation
on t part Of tho state for the payment Of any
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