The morning call., 1894-12-17
HALF A MILLION AHEAD.
Coyote Scalps Consumed Con-
siderable Money.
COST OF INDIGENTs INCREASING.
On the Whole the Controller Thinks
the Government Is Ex-
traYagant.

SACRAMENTO, Dec 1O'-SGdlc SOutIOlleT
Colean's biennial report will be issued in
few DAYS. II is a very long document,
and contains not only an extended state
ment Of the financial condition OF tie
State, but also a number of important
sugges tons.
In the outset Mr.. Colgan says: 81 would
here suggest, as a new departure. that the
present law be so amended as TO require
the Controller to make an annual report
to the Governor of the condition OF the
States finances and giving such other in
formation as may be of value to the people
| of the State at the time"
The receipts for the two fiscal years
were ST.. 5s3, 493 and expenditures $1Z07S,-
CAT; excess of receipts over expenditures,
1904 $40.
For the Iorty-fourth fiscal year the tax
levy for school purposes was S1.966, ia.
The actual amount collected from property
tax was 81, 1851 an excess of $149, TAI
For the forty-fifth fiscal year there was
levied for school purposes S2,057279.
There was collected S2,201,144, of which
$72. 75S was for hack railroad taxes for the
years 1880 to 1885. inclusive.
The receipts from other sources amount
to $3.50. 316. These amounts. together with
the balance from the forty-fourth fiscal
year, aggregate So. 361, 697.
The amount necessary to be raised for
school purposes for the next two fiscal
years is 81, 390,91
The total securities held In trust for the
school fund amount to So, 633. 400.
The receipts of the sinking and interest
fund have been 1854, $50 and the disburse
ments $472,S23
State schocl-and fund receipts have
been S840,927. and the disbursements
| 1904, 12S
| Total bonds held in trust for the support
of the university S937,50
Receipts of the State University fund
S233, 971, disbursements 1888. 734.
! Receipts of the San Francisco depot
| sinking fund S23. 1856
Receipts of the Whittier Reform School
fund $51.978. disbursements S42,957.
| The funded debt of the State held in
trust for the University and schools funds
amounts to So. 282. 500.
The Controller refers to the act passed
by the last Legislature establishing tax
on each 500 on the market value of COL
lateral lnheritances for the benefit of the
school fund. and says that while the re-
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that in time it will prove fruitful source
of revenue for the common schools.
! Referring to the result in the case of
Sawyer VS.. Colgan, in which the plaintiff
was awarded judgment on Indian war
bonds. the Controller states that under
the decision of the court the State may be
called upon at any time to pay the sumo of
S69,571, which should be provided for
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cumuated claims for coyote scalps are
paid the State will have expended over
100000 in getting rid of these pests.
Scalps have been struggled in from adj
Joining States and Territories, and there
seems to be no effectual way to guard
against it. He recommends the repeal of
| the act.
Attention is called to "the alarming in
crease in the cost to the Slate of caring
for aged persons in INDECENT circum-
Stances
The expenditures on this account since
1884 amount to 81. 542, 500.
The Controller calls attention to the fact
that the S2988 insurance commissioner
fees due from j. n. E. Wilson has not
been paid and that suit was therefore
begun and is now pending.
The last Legislature failed to make an
appropriation to pay the rent of an office
for the Commissioner of the Bureau of
Labor Statistics 10 San Francisco for the
last two fiscal years, and the Legislature
should provide therefor. he expressed
satisfaction with the operation of the law
providing for semi-annual tax payments.
A material saving to the State has been
effected by the repeal of the laws granting
commissions 10 county officials for the
assessment and collection of State taxes.
Says the Controller: "Ths estimated
amount of expenditures for the ensuing
two fiscal years ending June 80. 1897. is
S11, 436 9S4, an increase over the estimate
for the forty-fitth and forty-sixth fiscal
years If S1,66l, $780,
added to these amounts are the sums
expended for new buildings and improve
ments, bringing the actual yearly ex-
penditures into the neighborhood of
$4,000 600.
compared with other States. of even
far greater population this amount Is
simply enormous. There is no good reason
for such extravaganza.
''The items for care of orphans and aged
indigents have gradually crept up until
they aggregate S750.00o annually.
"The amounts estima ted for aid 10 the
State and district agricultural societies are
the same as were appropriated by the last
Legislature.
THE amounts estimated for the support
of prisons, asyIums, ETC., are furnished by
the executive officers of those institutions
in response TO requests for the lowest pos
sible figure an economical administration
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