Morning journal and courier., 1891-06-16
NO APPROPRIATIONS YET.

The Senators Met at Hartford But
Fail to Make Any ApproPriations-
Referred to Committee # Meet
Again June ga word About the
Exhausted Appropriations.
HARTFORD, June 15.-The senators met
at the capitol to-day and discussed in eau
Gus the appropriations, but postponed &C.
ton it is understood until June 30.
80. The Senate.
The senate met at 1: 15 p. m. and 1mme-
diately took recess until $3.50 O'Clock,
while the democratic senators held eau
Gus.
When the senate again convened Senator
Clark of the Twenty-frst moved that
house bill 1856. concerning payments by
the state in the absence of any legislation
making specific appropriations, be taken
from the table. This bill empowers the
comptroller to draw his order as the treas
urer in payment of all just claims against
| the state.
Senator Thayer (dem.) moved that the
matter be referred to the senate COMMITTEES
on appropriations, while Senator Clark
(rep.) moved that it be put on its motion.
Senator Clarks motion was lost, and an
aye and nay vote taken on Senator Thayer's
motion, which was passed by vote of IL
in favor and against.
Senator Pierce (dem.) of the Fourth in
| troduced a resolution appointing Senators
Fox, Holden and Pierce a committee to
confer with the president pro tenn as to
| calling the senate together any time after
| five days. The motion was passed, yna1
The senate then adjourned until Mon
day, June 80, at 80 o'clock.
THE EXHAUSTED APPROPRIATIONS.
The following from the treasursr's Office
shows the list of dependencies upon state
appropriations, now exhausted:
Salaries of various state officers from one to
Common pleas court, Hartford county.
Common pleas court, Litchfeld county.
| Superior court, Litchfeld county.
Hospitals at Hartford, New Haven and Bridge
State prison
State experiment station
State house and grounds.
Printing and calculating public laws docu-
ments, etc.
Criminal court of common pleas, New Haven
| county.
Surrender of oyster grounds:
Temporary homes for dependent and neglected
children
Superior court, Fairfield county
| Court common pleas Fairfield county
Court common pleas, New London county.
Normal schools at New Britain and Whitman
tic.
Common schools
Storrs agricultural school,
Board of prisoners in jail
| Salaries of sheriffS.
| Connecticut Industrial School for Girls
The Hartford Times, remarking on the
subject of meeting the exigency in ques-
ton, says:
Now, how does the case stand? The
public statutes provide that certain sala-
ries shall be paid; that certain sums shall
be paid to institutions and objects named.
1t is claimed that penalties are imposed
upon public officers who contract public
debts or pay out public money, in excess
of the appropriations.
But there are now no appropriations
no law making special appropriations, and
the state officials may rely upon the pub
lie acts providing for salaries and pay
ments to public institutions. We do not
doubt this may be done, lawfully and
justly. The courts would sustain it, for
it is not in the public interests that the
wheels of government shall be stopped.
The proper officials may pay all that is
provided for by the public statutes.
There are no appropriation bills in their
way.
Penalties are only provided, in the words
of the law, whenever any specific appro-
priations of money may have been made
by the general assembly," etc.
Besides, the house before it's late recess,
passed an act providing that
In the absence of any legislation by the general
assembly, making specific appropriations Tor any
} purpose provided for by the general statutes
the comptroller is authorized to draw his order
on the treasurer of the state in payment of any
and all just claims against the state. The treas
| urer is authorized, empowered and directed to
pay such orders out of any funds in the treasury
The provisions of the general statutes sus
pended until the next session Of the general as
sembly. The act to take effect July l, 1894.
Should the senate pass this act, there
would be no embarrassment whatever in
the matter Of public payments.