Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-10-10
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senators and representatives plunge
ahead and get the state more and more
in debt by running UP the expense ac-
counts regardless of the wishes of the
people and sound business policy? No!
AS soon as they met in extra session
they began to reduce expenses and cut
out some expenditures entirely. They
reduced the salaries of their own en-
ployes in the house and senate. The
salaries of officers, clerks and employees
in the state institutions and about the
capitol We're reduced and systematized.
The cost of printing and binding was
materially reduced. These reductions
meant savings netting over 100000.
THE members of the next general as
sembly-in which again the republican
party had a large working majority
icontinued in 1898 the economical course
followed by the preceding assembly.
Various expenses We're reduced and the
general appropriations We're kept down
within narrow limits. The greatest
achievement of the last assembly. how
ever, in the way of providing for the
more economical and efficient admins
tration of our state affairs was the pas
sage of the act creating the board oil
control for state institutions. This act
gave distinction to the Iowa assembly
far beyond the borders OF our state
And rightly So
Treasurer Herriott presented tabu-
lated statement showing the cost OF
sustaining the state institutions under
fthe trustee system and under the state
board of control. The exhibit shows .
decrease in cost for each class of insti-
buttons from 81 to 42.2 per cent under
the economical management of the
board of control. This showing. how
ever. does not tell the whole story. Last
January there was paid out of the
treasury sl2l.oOo for the Cherokee hos
lpital on contracts entered in 1897 by the
old commission. The board of control
had nothing to do With the expense eN-
#cept TO order the contracts TO be paid.
IN is therefore properly ehargeable to
the disbursements under the trustees.
/ Transferring this amount, then. the cost
of the Institutions of Iowa fell off from
si,561 ,ssl.17 during the last year under
the boards of trustees, to 1886. $500 un-
der the board OF control, or a decrease
4of 1913 per cent, or S6eS,oo6.13. But this
is not adj The board of control had a
credit balance on the books of the
q treasury on July |, last, OF Sli5-ooo.
which they had not drawn and which
Irepresents practically the saving real
lied IN the purchase OF goods anu sup
plies for the institutions.
AZ The treasurer shows that the lesisla-
ture OF 1896 reduced the interest paid
ION state Warrants from . to per cent
and in some cases in the sale of en-
i doised warrants to bidders ii was re-
sduced to per cent, thus saving nearly
4 $4,000. In his closing statement Treas.
q uref ffeftio'l SHOWS the reduction u
taxes:
Many OF YOU VIII remember the eN
itrayagant predictions about the in
fcreasing Indebtedness of the state mad,
by our democratic friends last year
one prominent democratic papel
prephesied that the state would have
70 levy a tax of IS mills in 1899 in or.
der to get the state out of debt, more
than double the levy of that date Z
substantial auietus TO that prophec,
WAS given in the payment OF the entir'
utive council this last summer aid no
appear to think such increased lev,
Necessary Last year the levy VAS 3.
mills This wear in was made 4 Mis-