The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1897-07-01

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| Pen. revolving fund, ................. S.l26 40
Militia fund ......,.............. .... 1885 a.
| Tide land fund ............ ..... .... 29,i0i q
Library fund Observation-Disclosures. 1889 g5
Fish fund ........ ..... .............. los 81
Total Observation-Disclosures. $D7 ,473 os
| 1871
General fund ......... ...,...... 5 ,is2 81
| Pen. revolving fund ...... ..... 2i5s 20
Militia fund. Observation-Disclosures. 4lN5 Is
| Library fund ......... ........ .. s3i 9j
Grain inspection fund ..... .......... lisa ~
| Normal school fund ............ ... ,236 10
Fish hatchery fund .......... ........ Az %
| soldiers home, U. :. fund ......... 1909 a.
Total ....... .............$ g976I -
| Net saving ...... S107 700 .
This comparison is not exactly fair
examplication of republican and popu-
listic expenditures, because the republic
cans made their expenses heavier than
usual during the month OF April, 1895.
The appropriation for 1898 % lapsed April
/, 1895, but all of April is allowed in
which to file vouchers for indebtedness
incurred during the preceding fiscal term.
So, rather than let any considerable
amount of their old appropriation revert
to the treasury in April, 1898, the repub-
lican officials purchased large quantities
of everything they thought the state
needed. such as the finest Of oak iurni-
ture and the best OF Brussels carpet, post
dated the vouchers and filed them before
the end of April. By such methods the
amount drawn from the general fund in
April, 1895, was sl73. 1885,, and from
other funds correspondIngly.
The average expenditure from the gen.
eral fund each month under republican
rule was about $73 900, and the average
from all funds together about $4,000.
IL is the calculation of the new state
officials that the total expenses for the
next two years will be $500 a day less
than Tor the preceding two years. The
saving 30 far has been accomplished by
the scaling down OF salaries, the elimina-
ton OF unnecessary sources OF expense
and by securing reasonable prices in con-
tracts to furnish the several state lnstltu-
tions with supplies. When the peniten-
tiary, the two asylums, the soldiers
home aud the reform school were man
aged by local boards OF trustees some Of
those boards often let contracts to favor
| ties at exorbitsnt prices. and purchased
lavishly. Now that several boards are
displaced by single board Of control
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placed by business methods. Contracts
are awarded to the lowest bidders, and
only such supplies are purchased as are
actually needed.
With such policy the administration
has restored the finances Of the state to
healthy condition. All through Gov
ernor McGraw's term the state indebted
ness piled up at the rate OF 5000 day
above the revenues. That enormous
burden has reached its greatest magnl-
tude, and has begun to shrink. The eX'
penses are now within the revenues, and
there is a surplus to pay of Outstanding
warrants faster than new ones are issued.
The restored credit Of the state Is MT
tingly illustrated in the demand for
warrants. When Governor McGraw LETT
the executive chair state warrants were
drug upon the market at 90 to .95. They
now are snapped up eagerly at premium
OF to = per cent.
Rossland and the Kootenai country
are now only nineteen hours distant from
Yakima according to the time table OF
the Northern Pacific. This popular road