New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-05-23
HOW MONEY WAS SPENT.
TIE EXTRAVAGANZA OF THE DEMOCRATIC
LEGISLATURE.
GOVERNOR FLOWERS INCONSISTENT COURSE
LARGE AEMo2Y APPROPRIATIONS
ANOTHER NORMAL SCHOOL.


PROM TIE REGULAR COfREsi ONllBNI OF I'VE ih'"o'e
Albany. MAY 22.-Ncithcr the taxpayers nor inc
Democratic party will be pleased with the acuoh Oh
the Democratic Legislature IT, Increasing the appro
pratlons from sl4.364,004 IT. 1892 to Sio.oo'a'o
I'm 1893 an increase OF IS 04 3j4, nearly S4OOo,-
OUU Nor vii, the state inX-rate of lbs mihs ioon
we'll when contascd with the tax rate Of i-?i' when'
with Il Republican senate 10 keep down the Dis
against the state. the tlyrate was OILY l J5 hiih'
The lowest taxrate In thr;ysix years.
How did the Democratic Legislature c'n'H'e u
.o up this II 100000 OF appropriations IN r.
ply that 1t lad liberal spirit owing to It's leaders
being Tammany Hail men. speaker ,ulzer III the
Assembly. and senator Cantor IN the Senate, bo'h Oh
ranmany Hall. controlled the Finance Committees
OF the Legislature. Accustomed TO tie lavish appro
prations OF the Board OF Estimate and App0ronn'nt
of York. to expanding 10 ,000.0Cr yearly IN Ne"
York city, they were not In mooa 10 SAVE 'o
money OF the State taxpayers: and the rui'i 'aA'
payer nay us well understood ut once thit WIN
ranlmany Hall IN control at Albany the day Oh
the strict economy OF tho Republican Legislatures Is
past a has come, when the hnhhcidi
ideas OF the men bred In the ward polite, OF New
York city, used 10 IN" MANY Offices and big apyrJ-
prations departments Of New York. are To guide
tho senate Finance Committee and the Committee Oh
Ways and Me: ns If the Assembly.
Mr. Hover also be charged justly with en-
rayaeanCc: for he was Whimsical In his distribution
for tho .onyca Eplcp'c Colony on the ground that
the STATE was creating too many state instIiu-
tions-a true staten n;-but he at once signed BILL
upp:JPLa1n; %!Op,N ior u horhhl school ~
Jamaica, In Queens County. Any educator would
have told the Governor that the state Is ovcrsup-
piled with normal schools, and no more are Leeded
There are normal school, now at New-Paltz, Albany.
iiati.bush, Oneorta, O,w"Go lrrchpprt. l'iilai',
Ccrtlar1 an! lr,doria. These are anpe Tor the
,ius ion pf: hp ten, a. pf The .tale.
lie signed 4 large number Of bills appropnating
money 10 build canal bridges In cities. ihi' liz
did when importuned to do 80 b. the senator's ana
A,sembymcn. But after the Legislature had ad
loarncd h. discovered TIE new principe mat the
citi", ought to build their own canal bridges, ana
vetoed several such measures that were In his hand'
Mr. Flower cApr.ss"d himself early H. tue seStcn
Of the Legislature as opposed Il the ere tcn OF any
more arrhorics but in the OF tie session he
.isncd bill appro ira'ine 30 900 for an armory 81
Clcns Falls, $4,000 Tor an armoiy nj AmstefAh
80. OoO for an armoly nj o ncllsyille, and $4,000
for an armcry Ut Niagara Falls There Ia Tl.e,oJo
aplr9prltcd for new arIioii',. when the Governor
firmly opposed to such appropriations AT
one tim in tic session.
Mr. Flower also signed bill appropra'ins Sj),oc0
for the purchase OF farm from Erie County, upon
which that county proposed to bulli an asylum ior
it, irdgcnt insane. The plea made by tn county
was that tlc State act having been passed, requiring
he transfer Of all the county INDECENT Insane TO the
state hospitals, the farm useless and the county
,noull h. compensated by the state for it, outgp.
he coun'y Of oneida V MAILING the same pie, PR
,iadcd Mr. Flower sign act approprlating TlOi,
C.l ior Ill, purchase OF the alnshouse In which It's
INDECENT insane had been imprisoned But Mr.
Flower then became frightened by the fac. that most
Of The other counties of the state made similar re
quest, for the STATE 10 buy their aimshouses; AMI
he storny vetoed bills for the purchase of the aims
houses of Ulster and Orange counties, and a general
ilu for tie compensation Of counties which had eX-
pended money in building INDECENT Insane wards in
their alu>houscs.
Furthermore Mr. Flower suggested that the canal
bridge acts should be put In one act hut no sooner
had he sencd the bill which has the deusve title To
increase the locla,e OF the canals and approp ians
$40 900, than he began sgnins other canal bridge
items.
The taxpayer Will naturally h. DESTROYS OF sur
,yrg the appropriations made by th" Legislature In
detail ana Learn In what way that body DESIRED Their
money to be expended Here axe the appropriations
made by the Legislature IN detail: