Omaha daily bee., 1889-05-23

expenses OF tho legislature, $50, 600, making
grand total of 2,5SS, SfS. The two houses
made reduction OF about 100000 in the
bills, and the newspaper men, consequently,
gave IL out that they would not much, il
any, exceed q, 900, 900 In the aggregate.
The statement made by Senator Raymond
was accepted by senator's and ali concerneds
as full and correct ana IL was used by everys
body as basis In computing the appropriate
tions. The discrepancy between II and tho
estimate of THE BEE carly in the session was
explained with the assertions that some OF
the Appropriation bills had been drawn for
smaller sums than those named In the ro.
ports to the governor. The bill for the state
university was mentioned as au example, put
IL seems TO have been an exception and can
bo accounted for by General McBride's
hostility TO the regents. The approprias
tions were scattered through two %
three dozen bills with many hundred items,
making verihcation laborous task, aud
Senator Raymond's report was accepted on
all hands as correct IL is we'll known that
tho reductions amounted to about $500, 900, so
that the bills must have aggregated about
three millions, as estimated in The BEE. In
the chaotic state Of affairs at the time 1t IS
not strange that Senator Raymoud's clerk
should have missed an item or two, but IL IS
little singular that he should have been
short IN his computation to tho amount OF
800 000
In this connection It will be Of interest to
classify the appropriations and make COM
parison with two years ago, particularly as
some papers have given currency to the state
mont that the appropriations exceed those OF
the preceding legislature. The latter
amounted to 2,722, SO as against 81, $780,
32S.SS this year. The appropriations arc
classified as follows;
Miscellaneous claims. 9 5s,O57 13 3 8s,49s OF
Legislative expenses. $4,000 20 10000 %
Judiciary Inc. state
Executive department l4i,6S2 90 lS0,2sA 90
Construction and i'm
prevents. Ss-Igi 10 8lb,2f0 10
lncidentals. $3.50 ...... 1,3lS,VS w 1,33,4sS Ia
Total. .. ~ sg6 50 s2,3sU.32s ss
The last item includes institutions, school
land expenses, capitol expenses, revenue
books, state printing. county treasurers' fee,
ETC." These figures are suggestive. Tho
most notable part is the reduction in the con.
structive account of over half million.
There is an advance in all other depart.
ments, but the state and the states business
are moving The increase of $T5, 900 in ''in.
cidentals," which includes the maintenance
Of state institutions, is small when one con-
siders the increase in their number and
wants. The state board has been visiting
the institutlong and putting their affairs on
a footing with their allowances. There has
been some fear that the Beatrice institute
for feeble-minded children will run short Of
funds for the last three or four months Of
the biennial period, but member of the
board says 1t has been managed on an ex-
travagant scale heretofore. At the Lincoln
hospital for insane the board have directed
the discharge of certain help that will reduce
the expense account by about S275 per month.
The other institutions are supposed to have
allowances large enough to pull through
without serious Inconvenience IL their mana.
gers will use reasonable economy.