Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-01-31
AN IMPORTANT STATE PAPER.

| AN IMPORTANT STATE PAPER.
The Biennial Report of State Auditor Sci
bert Ready for the Public-A Complete
Financial Exhibit of the Workings of the
State Department..
The biennial report of State Auditor
James M. Seibert is out of the hands OF
the public printer and ready for dis
tribution to the members of the Thirty
eighth general assembly and to the
public. This is the most important OF
| all state papers, as it is complete
financial exhibit of the workings OF
the state government.
The subject of criminal costs is dis
cassed and attention IS called to the
fact that the unpaid bills of 1894. now
1885, so. which, with the 1925, 900 estl-
mated for payment of bills in 1866.
make total of S642, 426. so to be pro-
vided for by this legislature. This item
of public expenditure. he says, has
been about equal to 10 cents per capita
of the population during the past fifty
years, and suggests, very pointedly.
that if the laws were SO amended as to
bring about the more speedy trial of
persons charged with crime. limiting
continuances and changes of venue, the
effect would be very material reduc-
ton of this expenditure. He does not
believe that the fees of the officers
charged with the enforcement of the
criminal code can be safely reduced,
since they are already lower than are
allowed for similar services in civil
cases.
The balance in the treasury on jan
uary 1, 1898. was 1862, 277.4S; the re-
ceipts from all sources into all the
funds in 1898 81 were S., 9ss, $50. IA; the
disbursements for all purposes, $780,
COS. 10; and the balance on January l,
1895. was s719. 725.43. 1t is worthy of
notice that only S., $40, 955.S4 of the
$6,93S, 1856. Is came in from collectors of
the revenue for taxes and licenses, and
that the balance of $1,394, 400. 80 was
derived from foreign insurance COM
panies, incorporation tax, interest on
state deposits, earnings of the convicts
in the penitentiary, and from moneys
collected by the treasurers of the elee
mosynary institutions, etc.
The receipts into the revenue fund in
1s93-93 were 81 ,O34, 6s1. 40, and the dis
bursements were as follows:
Expenses, state government, 1893. 81 357 617 81
Expenses state government 1894 .2S3 Al
support of public schools, 1893. 610.9o2 10
Support of public schools, 1884,. 6I7,O77 IS
Partial support, Denitentiary. 1888. 1-2i7 SO
Eleemosynary Institutions, 1873. 1920 80
The state interest fund received ST.
955, s6s64, which was used as follows:
Interest on bonded debt S5I3075 81
Interest on school and seminary GER
Transfer to sinking fund ........... s9I es3 IS
The disbursements from the sinking
fund were for purchase of $50, 900 of
unmatured 6 per cent. bonds, redemp-
ton of Sa14, 900 of 81 per cent. option
bonds, and the payment at maturity
of S414, 1000 of per cent. bonds.
The state debt on January is given
as follows:
Six per cent bonds. ........S $4,000 90
Three and one-half per cent option
School certificates, $4,000 90
Seminary certificates. ............ 1,198, 1853 %
In 1894 the sum of Sc, 424, 1856. IS was
expended for support of the public
schools, derived from the following
sources:
Interest on capital school funds 517.s5l q
State school moneys. ............... W,176 %
Direct taxes in districts .533 $50 90
In 1894 the 5,257 dramshops in the
state yielded the following license tax:
For the state 3is,54s 81
For Ines ine cou na ns 1sss saS g q
The bonded debt of the municipal
governments ON July 1, 1894, was as
follows:
Counties. -......................& 9,s31 .116 90
Cities. 2542o,634 IS
ss7.5:5.s5o IS
Add state bonded debt. ............ 6,0I6,O00 90
State certificates. ABS. 1853 %
Total bonded debt 81 $50, 3OS IS
It appears that the total amount of
taxes and licenses collected from the
people of the state, as shown by the
annual settlement of the collectors in
March. 1894, was as follows:
SIate taxes so0S' tSS VI
county revenue. ................-. o55S,6O6 a
Roads and bridges. ............. -. 332.868 0s
Township roads and bridges. ,935 A
Township taxes ............. 212,O61 81
Interest on local bonds ...... 5ls,5a5 ii
Payment of bonds. H8.702 Is
Total. SIG. 1886, 2s1 IS
Auditor SelDert, IN commenting on
this aforementioned table, saws in his
report: 81 am decidedly of the opinion
that the amount of state and municipal
taxes now collected from the people is
ample for public uses and should not.
under any circumstances, be increased.
It is needless to say that this can only
be accomplished by limiting the ex-
penditures to the present revenues.
Our taxable wealth is steadily increas-
ing, and, when possible, the rate of
levy should be cut down"
State Gleanings.
The Presbyterian church at Men,
phis, Scotland county, was ruined by
fire.
Henry Krog, aged 6s, died at Wash
ington.
Pattonsburg rejoices over new
opera house.
There is great deal of sickness in
the vicinity of CORN.
Sedalia will sprinkle her streets in
summer.
CORN merchants have ''chipped in
and hired a night watch.
The sale of cigarettes to small boys
is being fought at Sedalia.