St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-03-01
How the House Can Save the
State Over Ten Million
Dollars,
And Prevent the Raising Of
the Tax Thpee-Tenths Of
q Mill.
Salaries and State Institu.
tions Eat Up the Needed
Moneys.
Representative Young Will
Score With a Sleeping Car
Income Tax Bill.

The house has now before it the fol-
lowing propositions:
To forfeit the land grant of the Du-
luth & Winnipeg railroad to the state
school fund, value S9,O00.pO0.
70 refuse all special appropriations
for new state institution buildings this
year. saving S1,00O,000.
To divert the fees of the oil INSPECTORS
Office into the state treasury, saving to
the state $4,000 per year.
To tax sleeping car and Pullman COM
panies Z per cent on their gross earn
ings.
To tax new interpretations made.
To refuse all increases OF salaries and
all extraordinary appropriations de-
These propositions involve the saving
to the school fund of the state of S4,-
100000; to the state institutions of ST.
100000, both derivaDle from the Duluth
d Winnipeg grant; also an increase of
the states income of over 100000, and
the looping off of nearly million and
half dollars now asked for by inter
ests which can just as we'll do without
them for two years.
Profit to the state by land grant. $4,000, 900
Profits by appropriations killed. 100000
spector, new corporate taxes,
etc ..,.................... $4,000
Total profit SIC, $50, coo
Spacious arguments may humbug the
house into believing that this is not the
case, but the truth remains-the house
has it now within its power to present
to the treasury, directly and Indirectly,
the above sum of money, and without
orin cir o1n vi oil MT Of
state. Still further saving may be had
by close scrutiny of the following APP
prOpriatlOns now before the house COM
mlttee on appropriations:
Agricultural school and depart
ment of law and medicine in
state university ................ $40, 900 90
For repairs in state library. 1,2O0 90
For public highway in Stearns and.
Morrison counties. ....... 49,. 500 90
To reimburse Company f, Of the
First Minnesota national guards.
1856. -. ........... ........... 1880 90
Ter for goods furnished ID eXter-
minating grasshoppers ...-.. 1,7G4 43
For the school of agriculture. -. 50,t 90 90
For bridge in Morrison county,. 5000 90
For state reform school 49,. .....105, 600 90
For relief of persons who lost
crop by hail in Brown county. 5000 90
To pay the expense of raising
water in Lakes Crystal and Lily,
Blue Earth county,. %. -. 5000 90
To reimburse Otter Tail county
for money expended in destroy
ing graSshoppers 49,. ....,..... 17,I5S 90
To com plete and furnish reform
school at ST. cloud. -. 49,. 10000 90
For necessary buildings, and fur
nishing the same, for the Min
nesota soldiers home. 100, 600 90
In addition to the above about $500, 900
is asked for roads and bridges in differ
ent portions of the state, represented by
bills now before the road and bridge
committee. The general appropriation
bill, not yet presented, will amount to
more than all of the above.
Of the above amounts, that asked for
by the agricultural school and the state
university are useless, eternal droppings
into we'll that will never fill up. This
$4,000 can be denied without injury to
any interest. The bill for repairs to the
state library has already been with
drawn. The $4,000 for the school of
agriculture is also humbug, and not
necessity. Why the state reformatory
at st. Cloud should ask for $4,000 to
complete the structure with, when there
are 200 empty cells in the state prison,
is hard to understand. And the 100000
for the soldiers home is not crying
need. The whole state would be better
benefited by looping off these bills and
granting the 100000 road and bridge
how flooded a legislature can be with
nonsensical and eXtravagant appropria-
the compiled list of those of the legisla-
ture of 1887 can we'll show. The princi-
pal appropriations made that year were
fellows.