Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-15
MORE MONEY TO USE.
The Legislatures Generosity Will As
sist the Quaker City
TO MAKE UP BARDSLEY'S THEFTS.
Allegheny County Will Get an Additional
p a.. $265,0OO for Schools.
THE INCREASE FOR OTHER COUNTIES

! ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPATcH1
HARRISBURG, June 14.-In view of the
wholesale robbery perpetrated by City
Treasurer Bardsley, the financial legislation
] of the recent session of the State Assembly
will be of great assistance to Philadelphia
in getting it out of its present trouble. The
Legislature in increasing the school appro-
priation frem s., ,O00, 900 to s., ,0O0, 900 year;
in adding mill to the personal property
tax and providing that three-fourths of it
shall be given to the counties, and in rails
ing the retail liquor license fees in cities of
the first and second classes from $500 to
81 900, and providing that all the revenues
from this source be paid into the treasures
of those municipalities, has been particu-
larly generous to Philadelphia. The city's
increased revenues which will proceed from
the laws enumerated will approximate
50, 600, 600 annually.
The newly imposed liquor license fees
and the change in their distribution will
add to the funds of Philadelphia between
$500, 900 and 5000, ,O00 Unless the number
of licensed places should undergo diminu-
tion, the increase in the amount required to
be paid on personal property and the change
in its assignment will give the city between
$500, 900 and $500, 900 additional revenues,
and the increase in the amount of the school
appropriation will contribute about $500, 900
more to the city's exchequer than the old
appropriation allowed.
More Money for Allegheny County.
The increased school appropriation will
give Allegheny county added funds amount
ing to about $265, ,O0O the new retail liquor
law nearly $500, 900 and the increased tax on
personal property about $50, 900, making an
aggregate increase in the three items of
1851 1000.
There are nearly 1900 school districts in
the State, none of which have received their
appropriations except Philadelphia, whose
school year ends on the 31st of December,
while all the rest terminate their year on
the first Monday of June. Between 200 and
300 of the school districts have submitted
the necessary documents to the Department
of Public Instruction to secure the amounts
due them, but owing to the complications
which the appointment of Prof Snyder as
Superintendent of Public Instruction have
introduced, none of these have been paid.
The required warrants on the treasury have
not been made out by Prof. Waller, and if
they were presented to the State Treasurer
for payment they would not be honored, be-
cause of the legal dispute as to the right of
the incumbent to perform the duties Of the
Office he holds.
The School Districts Must Wait.
There are due the various school districts
nearly 81, SOC, 900, in addition to the amounts
owing the county school superintendents for
the last quarter, aggregating about $50, 900.
None of these, moneys will be paid out
until the present controversy is settled by
judicial opinion from the highest court, or
an amicable agreement is reached to treat
the acts of the acting superintendent as
legal, pending the proceedings to oust him
from his office.
There are in the general fund of the State
Treasury nearly $4,000, 900, and owing to
the losses to which the State Treasury has
been subjected in the collapse to two bank
ing institutions, in which State moneys
were deposited, and the financial unrest
which City Treasurer Bardsley's rascality
has produced, the yearly liquidation of the
States Indebtedness for the maintenance of
the public schools would be very acceptable
to MIR Boyer, who has had quite enough of
the power which enables him to. select the
banks in which to deposit the public mon
eys.
The appropriation under the bill allowing
the schools of Pennsylvania $5,000,000 a
year, instead of 81, 900, 900 as now, is not
payable until the first Monday in June,
1892. Then each district will be entitled to
50 80 tor every 81 paid to it at present.
The appropriations to the schools are made
according to the number of taxables in each
district, and the rate distributable is
81 SO $40 for every taxable. The rate per
taxable when the S. 900, 900 are paid out to
the school districts will be s. 45A. The
following figures show the difference be-
tween the amounts to which the various
counties are now entitled for school pur-
poses and to which they will be entitled
under the new law: