The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-12-18
IT SHOWS BIG SHORTAGE
STATE TREASURER HODGES RE-
 PORT SUBMITTED.

Expenses Exceed Receipts by Half a Mill ion-Amounts Paid by the Railroad and Insurance mpanies-Revenues Must be Increased or State Tax Will be Again Necessary.
 State Treasurer Hodge has submit- ted his annual report of the condition of the finances of the state to Governor | Coffin. It shows that last year the eX- penses exceeded the receipts by $527,- 433O9.
 The receipts on civil list account dur | ing the year were $2117, ,S19.27, which | added to the balance on hand, October 1 1, 1895, $51S, ,754.49, made the total cash | $2, ,636, 57376 The disbursements on this account were $2,345, ,S39.91, leaving bal. ance in the treasury to the credit of civil list, October 1, 1896, of $290, 733.S5, or $22S, 020.64 less than year ago.
 The items of receipts and disburse- ments were as follows:
 eceipts-Commission of phar- macy, H,937,25; commissioners of shell fisheries, 0,136,25 railroad commits sioners, salaries, etc., 1,2S4,53; bank commissioners, salaries etc. $6,229.74; | tax on telegraph and telephone com panies, $10. 533 391; military communication tax, $147, ,016.60; avails of courts and bonds, $2O, 573.O5; tax on savings banks, $340, 404S1; tax on mutual insurance companies, $273, ,049.09; tax on non-resi- dent stock, $102, 64O87; corporate fran 1 ahi Toxy tiNrn secretary, $535 50; fees from secretary of state, $2,14735; miscellaneous, $5.543,- S6; national aid to state homes. $33,972,- S6; tax on express companies, 80, 72250; tax on Consolidated Rolling Stock com pany, $1174S; tax on Greenwich Loan, Trust and Deposit company $500; tax on Meriden Trust and Safe Deposit company, $$250; tax on railroads, steam, $756, ,066.12; tax on railroads, street $106, ,37312; commissioner of in surance, $6S, ,344,79; tax on investments, 4S576,77; tax on investment compa- nIes, $26; collateral inheritance tax. $135 S36. 50; interest, s24,474.31; total, $2,- 17S19.27
 Disbursements civil list orders, $1,- S9,494,39; registered orders, 34S,91S,- 5l; interest on state bonds, S104, TOO; interest on Agricultural college fund in treasury, $225,76 interest on town deposit fund in treasury $31142; inter- est on principal of school fund in treas ury, $401.43; interest on interest of school fund in treasury s1,7Ss.4O; total, $2, 345 S39. 91
 The general and special accounts shrank nearly 00000 or exactly S299,- 412.45 during the year, as follows: Bal ance to the credit of all accounts. Oc- tober 1, 1895, s779.9S0 0.20; receipts from all sources, 2,4S2 157S7; total, $3.262. .13S, 07. The payments for all purposes were s27s1, ,57o.32; leaving a balance to the credit on all general and special accounts of S4S0 5675S.
 The net state debt is $2, 949, ,466.15, be- ing the funded debt s3, ,240, 200, less cash in the treasury to the credit of the civil list fund of S290 733,S5,
 Of the funded debt $200 is still due on bonds not presented for payment upon which interest ceased October 1, 1895. These bonds were issued in 1865 and not being registered bonds their present ownership cannot be traced The other issues with date of redemp- llOil anu dAC bl lIllGltSl arc Jdludt l. 1903, 31a per cent. $1, 800, 900; October 1, 1910, 3 Der cent, s1,740 900.
 Treasurer Hodge states that the re- suit of the suit by Yale university to prevent him paying the amount an nually received from the United States for educational purposes and the inter est of the Agricultural college fund to Storrs' Agricultural college, was that 'the state was compelled to pay the enormous sum of $154 ,6044 as dam ages to Yale university, and costs and expenses, amounting to nearly, if not quite, $10,000 more, beside indireet sums not ascertainable"
 Commenting on taxes of non-resident stock, MT. Hodge says: Suits brought by the last treasurer to collect certain amounts claimed as due the state by reason of undervaluations of the stocF of several corporations in 1891 and 1892 or during the so-called deadlock, have been reported as in the courts for sev eral years past. One of these suits ha. been decided against the state. and a' all are on the same footing I have de cided to withdraw the others Some companies paid the sums assessed again them under protest, but with cut suit, and I recommend that legisla ton for the repayment of such sums bt enacted al an early day by the genera assembly, as matter of justice''
 RECEIPTS FROM RAILROADS.
 He reports taxes received from stean and street railroads. as follows:
 B. X N Y. Air Line E. R., New Haven ..:..;-. ...:....,, ,....S 10, ll42 Colchester Railway. New Haven. 250Ot Danbury X Norwalk K. R., New Haven ..... ................. 7,o721 ) Hartford and Conn. Western R.
 R.. Hartford. " ............. 6,5S4 Q Housatonic k. R, of New Haven g, S37 O' Meriden. Waterbury X Conn. ltiv-
 CT R. R., Boston. ...........l..., Sl29. Naugatuck R. R. New Haven ... 23. T57 6 New England k. R., B0ston,.... 97,2S2 &
 Haven ........ ,.+.,.',... ..-... 13,3Sl, 8 New Haven and Northampton |, company, New Haven, ......... 15,131. O. ' New London Northern R. H., New : London ......,..............,. 1S.399.3
 ford R R.. New Haven ..... 4SG. .3S1 |
 Norwich ......,...t.......,..... 4o,325 | Rockville R. k, Rockville. ...... 575.S Shepaug. Litchfeld and Northern
 R. R., New Haven ............ JSS.0 Shore Line Railway. New Haven. 47O9.O South Manchester R. R, South = Manchester ................... 201.9
 Total from steam roads. ...... s75G OG6. 1
 FROM STREET RAILWAYS.
 Bridgeport Traction Bridgeport $ 16714-3 Bristol and Plainville Tramway