The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-01-17

State Reformatory-
;, improvements. 800. $500 90
State Capitol Building
Machinery, repairs and
improvements. il. ..... 10000 90
Supreme Court
New law books and book
Civil Courts of Appeals
Furniture and books. =. 5000 90
Department Agriculture,
Insurance, Statistics
and History
Furniture and books for
library. :. :. $50. $500 90
General Land Office
Repairs and improve
ments. $500. 4,oOO w
Miscellaneous
Monument to heroes of
the Alamo. l4,ooo w
of Houston. :. 49,. 5000 90
Election booths under
Australian law. 80. 1000 90
The state bonds redeemed 24S,700 90
Bounty paid for the de-
struction of wild animals $4,000 90
For relief of Cisco cyclone
sufferers. lO,OUU w
case. =. :. 80. $3.50. 5000 90
Codifying the laws. 80. 1900 90
Publishing constitutional
amendments. :. 49,. .... 21,eOO 90
Refunded to purchasers of
public domain under the
act of 1888. =. 1872. 10000 90
Expenses of presidential
electors. -. -. .... 1880 90
Total. .... -. 81 ,167, 1893 50
In addition to the foregoing, there has
been appropriated in the last four years,
for purposes not before on the appropria-
ton bills, the following amounts out of
state revenue:
Support and maintenance
Southwest Texas Lunatic
Asylum. =. 3. ........ $15S,050 90
Support and maintenance
medical branch. :. 80. 10S,900 90
Support and maintenance
Confederate home. E. 10000 90
Railway commission. 80. 16S,900 90
Educational department, out
of state revenue. :. -. 1920 90
Sam Houston Normal
school, out of state rev.
enuc. -, 49,. -. 49,. $4,000 90
Prairie View Normal
school, out of state rev.
enue. =. -. ...... 49,. 25,5OO 90
Total. E. -. -. -. -. 1923, 16O 90
The item of Confederate home appro-
lpriations has been paid out of office fees
of the several departments, which other
wise would have been paid to the state
revenue fund, and the amounts were,
therefore, the same as paid out of that
fund. The last legislature made all the
expenses of the educational department
and the Sam Houston normal, Prairie
View normal and medical branch of the
State Unvers ~ payable out IF the state
revenue. The total amounts of extraor-
binary expenses in building and improv-
ing public buildings and other expenses
paid out of revenue during the four years,
amount to $1,S91, 1889.
THE FIGURES ANALYZED.
Analysed, the foregoing statement
sho rs that tn. expenditures exceeded til
receipts for the four years ending Aug.
III, 1894, by $1,015, 17S.S1. Deducting
| the balance of $61S, 622.66, general rev
enue ON hand Aug. 81, 1890, and since
then paid out, the deficiency left at the
beginning of the present fiscal year, Sept.
/, 1894, was $435,000. This amount at
that time was represented by registered
| treasury warrants.
Had not the extraordinary appropra-
tons of $1,S91, 1880 for debt payments
and for public buildings improvements
and their maintenance, as shown by the
foregoing statement, been made by the
Legislature, the receipts for the four years
would have exceeded the expenses by
$S75, S54.7S.
| 1t must be borne in mind also that while
these extraordinary appropriations were
being made the Legislature reduced the
tax rate the first year from 20 cents to
16 2-3 cents, and each of the succeeding
years to ID cents on the 500 valuation
of property This reduction of taxes
for the four years aggregated $1,3OJ, 600
net. Had not this reduction been made,
the revenues on hand and collected during
! that period could have borne
the expenses and left a balance
in the treasury of $4,000. This
| balance would have been amply suffi
Gent to operate the government without
any past or prospective deficiency. Th,
fault, after all, lies in the ill-conceived an(
unnecessary reduction of taxes.
After presenting the conditio of tn,
government for the four years ended Au
gust 81, 1919, now present to your hon
orable bodies the following table, show
ing the financial status in aggregates, be
ginning on the day qualified as cover
nor. on January 20, 1891, and ending las
Friday, the 4th instant, the latest periot
convenient for this message:
DEBIT.
To revenue hauance on
hand Jan. 20, 1891. ... $1071 500 "a