The record-union., 1897-02-24
CONCERNING THE TAX LEVY
The Talk Of a Sixty Cent Rate is With
out Foundation.
Honey Enough i'm the Treasury to
Run the State Until
Next Year.

Hon. L. H Brown, Secretary of State,
Is of the opinion that there is no reason
for the Legislature or the people to be
alarmed as to the condition of the
State funds, for there should be enough
In the State Treasury to run the gov
ernment until the 1st of January next.
When the tax levy is arranged for all
the appropriations that have been
passed by the Legislature and are
pending in the Governors office await
ing his action are taken into considera-
tion, and then the whole amount IS
levied
This was the case when the Leglsla-
ture was about to adjourn two years
ago, and there were then appropriation
bills calling for 81 ,523, 40 81 awaiting
Governor Budd's sanction, all of which
were vetoed.
AS the amount had been included in
the tax levy this amount should be IN
the State Treasury for the legislators to
use in appropriations, and in addition
to that sum there has been paid into
the State Treasury $210,000 from rail-
road taxes which had not been counted
on when the tax levy was made.
This should leave the amount of sur
plus in the treasury at this time 81
733, 40 81. The talk of a siXty-cent
tax levy, therefore, is in the opinion of
the Secretary of State absurd
Following are the amounts that were
called for by the different bills: Coyote
scalp law. $2T5,000; Jordan claim,
$4,000; Mariposa road into Yosemite
Valley, $4,000; Affiliated Colleges
(only one-half of the S230,O00 appro-
priated has been used as yet and the
remainder lapsed). $4,000; county
agricultural societies, $50, 300; Normal
Schools at Chico and Los Angeles. So
600; administration building at Ukiah
Insane Asylum, S147, $50; trade build
ing for Whittier Reform School, S63,-
100; system Of ventilation for the Nor
NAL School at Los Angeles S6,oD;
ventilation of the State Capitol, SO
600; claim of A McGinnis, $1,000;
claim of Julius A Hut. $1,000; claim
of Major Pico, SSH u; claim of
Louisa Rienzi, $1,000; Commission for
Uniform Legislation. 81 900; claim OF
Marin County for prosecuting prisoners
at San Quentin. So, $50 90; construction
of a cement floor at the State Normal
School at Chico, $4,000; claim of E. J.
Card 81 800: additional building al
Preston School of Industry, $4,000;
claim of Mrs Wing, 50, 900; new build
ing for Women's Relief Corps at Ever
green. $4,000; new building for the
California Home for the Feeble Minded
$4,000: claim of Tay & Co, S4uW;
claim of Philip Bauer, S1,JOO; repairs
at Agnews. $1,000; State Board of HoT-
ticulture. 10000: support of soldiers
widows and orphans at Evergreen
81 coo: furnishing and maintenance OF
Normal School at San Diego, S2oOOo;
hospital building at the Deaf, Dumb
and Blind Asylum Berkeley, S2oon;
purchase Of land adjacent to Folsom
Prison 5000: building and equipment
for the Southern California Insane Asy-
lum, $213000: additional building for
the Woman's Relief Corps. $1,000;
lighting Normal School grounds at San
Jose, 5000; transportation Of insane
persons. 81 27S S6, and claim Of John
G PeIton. $4,000.
Evidently those san Francisco edit
ors who have been predicting a tax
levy Of 80 cents or upward do not uH-
Gerstand what they have been writing
about.