Daily Kennebec journal., 1901-03-07

us a detailed statement of the appro-
priationS which we had already passed
and of those which are now pending
This You have on your tables and il
is House document No. 234. From
these two documents. gentlemen, some
very important compilations can be
made. We have in them an estimate
of the receipts for the next two years
and of the expenditures which we are
in a fair way to make. Now | wish to
call your attention to some Of these
figures. 1t appears from House docu-
ment No. 23i that we have already ap-
propriated at the top of page ,. $3.911,
50371.
Now this includes. as you will oh
serve, regular appropriations to be add
ed and which must be made, inClud-
ing the pay roll and expenses of the
LEGISLATURE sl22 900. and the regular
appropriations for 1902, which have not
vet been made, but which must be
made. 1t also includes the resolves
approved ~ to February -. and in
cludes. the first item, the appropria-
| ton bill which we have just passed to
be engrossed, this morning. Now the
sum total Of those items, every dollar
! OF Nnltn we must app 'i'I ldtt, -
/ S3g17 900 Following we find an itemiz-
ed statement of appropriations which
are pending. Adding them, we find
! $791 900 more pending. nearly $Soo.ooo
! Now | am not able to state accurately
| how many of those pending approprla-
| tions are absolutely necessary. ! have
gone over them hastily. and my best
\ Judgment is that about $i0o,o0 of theS"
pending appropriations are thoS" which
we must make. There can be no queS-
tion but that the regular appropria-
( tion for carrying on the machinery oi
thn state We are obliged to make
/ We know that in this appropriation
bill which we passed. this morning
tbc Senate have been for week
with that bill. and have failed to find
! spot where they could cut it down
ionc dollar We have not found a place.
evidently.
Most of those appropriations are
made in accordance with existing laws
to pay the expenses necessary under
existing law. and if those appropria-
tions are to be cut down our laws must
he changed 1t seems to have been
settled by the action Of the Senate, yes
terday. and by the action Of the House.
this morning. that those approprla
,ions cannot be reduced. Upon the
Same ground we may assume that the
CONCENTRATIONS for 1902. a regular ap-
nropriation which is referred to as one
of these items reckOned into the $500, :
ooO cannot be reduced Then. gentle
mon. we have these figures, and | beg
~ call your careful attention to them.
Adding to the $',9l1,503 which We have
n,sscd and which We must pass. Sfo."F
which | think it probable will be neceS-
sarv for these pending appropriations
and YOU have q total Of $4.3l1.5B.'l whici
is the total amount of what this lc@i''
Iature is going to be obliged TO appro
nriate If we cut off at the present mo-
ment every dollar which is not absoluteil
necessary.
Now gentlemen. ] wish to cal! your n
tention to the sources from which We art
to obtain the revenue to meet these ap
propria tons. We are face to face VIII
q problem and we cannot avoid the re
snonsibility. | say to YOU, and every ma
of you knows it. the eyes OF the peopi
of this State throughout itS length an.
breadth are upon Us at the present tim