Omaha daily bee., 1899-02-15
REPORT APPROPRIATION BILL
Table Showing Amounts Proposed to
BE Appropriated and Compare
son with 1897 Session.

son with ISD1 session.
LINCOLN, Feb. 14.-Cspecial Telegram.)
The general appropriation bill was intro
duced in the house this morning. The
amounts appropriated, together with a COM
parison with the appropriations made by
the 1897 session, are as follows:
1899 1897.
Governors Office .............S $500 5 SlCO
Adiutant general .,........... l25,35 81, 900
Commissioner of labor ...... 1000 $50
Secretary of state ............ 2,2O0 $500
Audltor ..'..,.....,.,.,.,....... 5,3yO GUS
Treasurer ...... ...... ........ 1900 1900
state superintendent public
At3StS1S igstFSstso general % - sSS s5SS lls3 5.5s3
Commissioners of public lands
and buildings .......,....... 1900 $50
Board of Public Lands and 1880
and Funds .................... $500 1000
Board of Purchase and Sup
plies .......... ............... 300 400
Banking department 49,. 49,. 200 200
State library .................. $50 $500
Supreme court ................ 1900 1S3O5
Board of Transportation..... 200 $50
State Board of Irrgation.... 290O 400
, Normal school at Peru....... 10S50 9Si2
State pententiary ............ 1880 63,lOO
State university .............. 6O5OO 555OO
Hospital for insane at Nor .o,,-,
folk NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. III, $50 SOSI0
Hastings ...,.......... .,.... 1920 1i6125
Industrial school at Kearney 723O0 g. $50
Girls industrial school at % ana
-'StiT50 Dumb at Omaha .....,... Inv 3l79o SlsiO
Institute for Feeble Minded
Youths, Beatrice ............ 05O 63SOO
/ Institute for Blind, Nebraska
Industrial home. Milford..... 1i20O 147OO
'Sp9 COIN .... ~ r.'e''utss ..,., "a. @ 5000 965OO
Grand Island ................ 766oO 66, ,I5o
Soldiers and Sailors Home ,,-, o0oo
Hospital for insane. Lincoln. 1O6iOO 1lO,5O0
Fish commission ............. 44OO lLoO
State Historical society .... 5000 35OO
Board of Health ............. 2Vo .::.':;; 80
Miscellaneous .......... ...... 6ooVo loooVO
The university appropriation given does
not include $93,5O0 for new buildings, S32,-
600 for books and $4,000 for the Morril
fund.
The printing of supreme court reports
and the S15, 900 for wolf scalps is included
/ in the miscellaneous item.
In the governors Office there is an in
crease over 1897 of $4OO in the furniture and
repairs reduction by striking out the $1,000
house rent and the S400 contingent fund.
! In the national guard item under the head
adjutant generaF the increase is largely from
the 6,697 to replace the equipment of
the guardian amount that will eventually
be refunded by the general government.
In the auditors office there is an increase
of $500 for expenses of county treasurer ex-
amners, reduction of $500 in postage, $iOO
| in printing, telegraph, etc, and the extra
help item of $700 is stricken out.
The increase of $1,000 in the treasurer S
Office is for new burglar proof safe.
In the superintendent's office the main de-
crease is that of $500 in the item for pub
fishing school laws and furnishing school
supplies.
! The Board of Public Lands and Buildings
gets a large increase, of which $1,000 is for
! fuel and lights, $500 water supply, and $4,000
for care and repair of capitol buildings and
grounds. go.
The state library gets an increase of 81, 600
taken from the sale of court reports for the
purchase of other books.
The large decrease noted in the supreme
court department is because the item for
the publication of the new supreme court
reports is transferred to the miscellaneous
f, items.
The Irrigation Board gets an increase of
5000 for postage and telegraph, etc, and 5000
for field help.
For the Normal school the increase is be-
cause of a new standpipe and furniture for
the chapel provided for amounting to $4,000
with a reduction of 81, ,000 in the item of fuel
and lights.
The reduction for the penitentiary Is $780,
900 in the maintenance item.
The increase in the university appropria-
tion is explained to be because of the in
crease of 400 in the attendance. There is
also a further appropriation of S93,5OO from
the temporary university fund for new
buildings and permanent improvements, $32.-
600 from the cash fund for special school.
and books. and $4,000 from the Morril funC
for special purposes.
At Norfolk there is an increase of 5,00(
in employees wages, $4,000 in board ant
clothing, $1,000 n fuel and lights, and S12, 500
in furniture and bedding.
At Hastings the increase is in the main
tenance and fuel and light funds, with
81, 800 increase in employees wages.
At Kearney the increase Is that of Sc, ,40(
in the employees fund.
The Omaha Institute for the Deaf ant
Dumb gets an increase of $500 in the fue
and light fund, $1,000 in board and cloth
ing, $3.50 in furniture and bedding, 81, ,OOl
in supplies for industries and $4OO in books
and stationery.
The Girls Industrial Home at MILFORD
gets decrease of $4,000 in the item of feet
and board for live stock.
The Home for the Friendless gets nothinl
for fuel and lights, living expenses, furnitur,
and bedding, or Improvements, the items al
lowed being $4,000 for employees wages ant
$1,000 for expenses and general repairs.
The Grand Island Soldiers Home gets al
increase of $4,000 in employees wages anC
$4,000 for repairs to steam plant 81, 900 70
drugs and instruments and $500 for paint
ing and repairs, but the item of stock feet
is omitted.
Notes from Sidney.
SIDNEY, Neb., Feb. 14.-(Special Dur
ing the cold snap the Warren Live Stoc
company of Cheyenne sent rush orders 70
all the baled hay in the Lodge Pole vale
and vicinity of this city. A number G
cars of hay and alfalfa were immediatel
loaded and top notch figures realized.