St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-03-01
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 S9,000.QO0.
70 refuse all special appropriations
for new state institution buildings this
year. saving S1,0O0,000.
To divert the fees of the oilinspector's
office into the state treasury, saving to
the state $4,000 per year.
To tax sleeping car and Pullman COM
panieS Z per cent Oh their gross earn
ings.
To tax new interpretations made.
To refuse all increases of salaries and
all extraordinary appropriations de-
manded by state officials this year.
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
Il Winnipeg grant; also an increase of
the states income of over $500, 900, 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. 100000
Profits by appropriations killed. 1,5OO,OOO
Profits derived from oil IN
spector, new corporate taxes,
etc ...,.................... $4,000
Total profit, SIC, $50, 900
Specious 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 aud Indirectly,
the above sum of money, and without
crippling single vital interest of the
state. Still further saving may be had
by close scrutiny of the following APP
prOpriatlonS now before the house COM
mittee on appropriations:
Agricultural school and depart
ment of law and medicine in
state university. ............... $40, 600 90
For repairs in state library. l,20O 90
For public highway in Stearns and
Morrison counties. -. 500 90
To reimburse Company +, of the
First Minnesota national guards,
for property destroyed by fire in
To reimburse Noyes Bros. & Cut O0 ~
Ter for goods furnished III exter-
minating grasshoppers ...-..... 1.764 43
Forthe school of agriculture. =. 5Ot 90
For bridge in Morrison county,. 5000 90
For state reform school los, 900 90
For relief Of persons who lost
crop by hail in Brown county. 5000 90
To pay the expense of raising
Blue Earth county -: =. -. 5000 90
To reimburse Otter Tail county
for money expended in destroy
ing grasshoppers ...:.:....:.... 17,75s 90
To com plete and furnish reform
school at St. cloud..... =: 80. 10000 90
For necessary buildings, and fur
nishing the same, for the Min
nesota soldiers home me........... 100, 900 90
In addition to the above about $500, 600
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 well 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 a
necessity. Why the state reformatory
complete the structure with, when there
is hard to understand. And the 100000
need. The whole state would be better
benefited by Topping off these bills and
granting the 100000 road and bridge
fund than by the reverse. AS to Just
how flooded 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
&c foIIOwS.