The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-02-10
THE STATE EXPENDITURES
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consist of eight members not more than
Two of whom shall be appointed from
any one county that the appointing
power be vested in the governor and
that the governor have power to remove
any of said trustees for cause.
The state allows three dollars $4,000
week for the support of each boy
committed to the school. But we have
no hesitation in saying that two dol
lars and seventy-five cents per capita
per week is all that is required to run
tho institution.
The report states that Fitch's home
Tor soldiers at Noroton, under the man
agement of the soldiers hospital board,
is conducted on strictly business princi-
pies and in thoroughly efficient man
ner.
1t Is also reported that large saw
Ing can be made if law be passed re-
curing all institutions supported by
the state to file with the comptroller
annually detailed estimate of the
amount of supplies needed by each in
stitution for the coming year, and that
the comptroller be authorized and di-
rected to advertise for proposals for fur
nishing the same.
The provision for the care of state
paupers is characterized as being as in
expensive as any system that could be
devised. No reason is seen for change
In the amount appropriated to the state
board of charities.
EDUCATIONAL, ETC.
Concerning educational affairs, the
members of the committee report that
they believe that it would be economy
for the state to close one Of the state
normal schools until the other two are
filled to their capacity. This would tend
to Increase the number of those gradu-
at1ng, and while saving the expense of
one school to the state, would not affect
the efficiency OF the others, so that the
object of their establishment would be
better attained.
1t is recommended that the salary of
the secretary of the state board Of edu-
cation should be fixed at $4,000 per
year. 1t is recommended that no change
be made in regard to the school fund
No changes are recommended in the ap-
preparations for agricultural affairs. In
regard to Storrs Agricultural college,
the committee recommends that law
be passed making an annual appropri-
alton not exceeding ten thousand dol
lars $4,000.
GOVERNORS GUARD.
The expense of maintaining the Gov
ernor's Guard, two companies of foot
and two of horse, has averaged nine
thousand two hundred and ten dollars
($9,21O per year for the last ten years.
These companies are on an entirely diff
ferent footing from the National Guard
and Naval Militia, having been organ
lied under special charters, granted by
the state. They are under the direct
orders of the governor and responsible
only to him.. 1t may not be wise to do
away with the appropriation for these
companies, as they have had long and
honorable existence; commencing be-
fore the Revolution, when the state was
a colony, and continuing down to the
present. The committee however, see
no other reason why the appropriation
for their support should not cease and
the amount be saved to the state.
DECEASED SOLDIERS.
The amount paid by the state for the
burial of deceased soldiers, and also for
markers or headstones at their graves,
is covered by this account. The vete-
and infirn, the years of many of them
are nearly spent consequently this
account is liable to increase within the
next few years.
SOLDIERS CHILDREN.
The statutes provide that each child
under fourteen years of age, whose
father was soldier and died by reason
of wounds or disease contracted in the
service, shall receive one dollar and
fifty cents week.
This law has been upon the statute
book from 1875 down to the present
time without amendment, and as the
account must soon disappear from the
comptroller's books, we recomend no
change.
EXPENSES OF THE GENERAL
ASSEMBLY.
There have been six sessions of the
general assembly since the adoption of
biennial sessions in 1887, the detailed
expenses of which are shown in the ia
BILE in the appendix. The following sum-
mary shows the length and expenses of
these sessions.
SUMMARY OF EXPENSES OF THE
GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
1856 to 1897 Inclusive
Session Length of
of Session. Amounts
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