Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-03-10
FOR SOLDIERS HONE
Appropriation Bill Carries Sum
S2.1OO More Than Asked for
Soldiers Home.
1t Is Proposed to Spend $4,000
for a Hospital for
Women.
Question of Providing Money for
All the Appropriations
Serious One.
Special to Times-Republican.

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bill of the state board of control for
the state institution as it has left the
hands of the house appropriations
committee, after six weeks of delib-
Grafton and discussion, carries an ap-
preparation S2,100 larger for the Sol
diers' Home than that which was ask
ed for by the state board in the BIZ
ennial report. The Soldiers Homo
i schedule was considerably changed but
on the whole enlarged. The board
Sked for $4,000 for a woman's hos
pital. When the bills went in it had
been decided that more should be ask
ed for, and the committee decided that
| $4,000 was about right. The bill does
not refer to it as womans hospital,
for in the estimation of members of the
appropriations committee the hospital
room should be enlarged for all pur-
poses so that larger number of the
unfortunate old soldiers of the state
could be cared for in their declining
days at the home. I'VE found on in
vestigation," said Chairman Hughes
that there is constantly growing
/ "
seek the comforts of the Home when
they become ill. If they know that in
illness the state has provided q fine hos.
pital for them where they may receive
the best of care it will go a long way
toward making the old soldiers feel
that Iowa has done her duty" While
the hospital item has been enlarged,
! the committee cut out the item OF $6.oOo
for a quartermasters building. and
| 81, 100 for an additional gate house and
gates and entrances. The committee
members say these things can wait
awhile The committee has included
an addition of $4,000 for steam con-
nections thru a tunnel between the
power house and the hospital. The
| total of the appropriation for the
Soldiers Home is $4,000.
The house appropriations committee
| finished it's work on the omnibus bill
Saturday evening. The committee has
DR. ~ a great deal of work on the bill
1 Every item has been considered in
detail and there are a great many OF
| these items The board of control was
called before the committee a great
many times for consultation. Officers
lof the various institutions We're before
the committee also, and on several oc-
casions delegations of citizens came to
speak of their views. One matter
about which there was much doubt in
the minds of the committee was in re-
gard to the land purchases proposed
The bill carries items aggregating
$144,000 for purchase of additional
land at the state institutions. This is
| at the insane hospitals, reform schools
and the institutions for feeble minded
| 1t has been demonstrated, thanks to
John Cownie, the farmer member OF
the board, that the state can carry on
farming operations at these institu-
tions to good advantage, for much OF
the labor can be formed by the states
wards who would otherwise be idle and
helpless The state gets something out
of the wards and the labor is also OF
| good to the patients. A good deal OF
jibng and sneering has been indulged
lin because of Cownie's penchant for
buying fine stock and good implements
and the right kind of seed, but 1t has
been pretty well demonstrated that it
pays the state, just as it pays indi-
viduals, to engage in good farming, II
4 at ALL So the committee has put its
approval on the plan to greatly enlarge
state farms. The committee set down
on the proposition to spend $4,000 for
| a deep we'll at Independence. The
state is buying It's water of the 1nde-
pendence water company and the con-
tract Is not bad one. Besides, no.
body could tell what a we'll would cost
! Sc oil toy hoy
bored The committee approved the
appropriation for a new wall around
the penitentiary at Fort Madison, but
not the money for new solitary. The
total of the bill is S731, ,577.50.
| Where will the money come from for
all these expenditures? That is q
question nobody has yet answered to
satisfaction The estimates show that
the $S60,OO0 for the use of the board
of control is about all that the state
has for distribution aside from the
fixed appropriations This takes up
all that will come from the various
revenue sources of the state. 1--WE
ought to have a half million more,
says Chairman Garst, and the rev.
enue should be raised to $1,S00,000 to
meet all the legitimate requirements
This could be done with less than a
3-mill levy, or say 81 mills on the
dollar But the trouble is that an in
lcrease of the levy would not have its
effect until near the close of the per-
| iod for which we are making approp-
riations. We need the money now, not
| two years hence. We are up against
| the real thing in the matter of state
/ finances and the problem is one hare!
/ to face" Mr.. Garst, of the senate APP
preparations committee, has said that
he would be in favor of giving the
iboard of control substantially all that
lis asked for before giving to any other
cause. Mr.. Hughes, in the north end
| of the house, is of the same opinion
But what is needed right now is a
| financier who will show how the state
of Iowa can get the money that is ac-
tually necessary for immediate use and
not injure any interest or cause any i'll
| feelings.
The senate showed it's respect for
1.-THE opinions of Ex-Governor William
Larrabee the other day when it passed
unanimously the resolution which was
introduced by Senator Trewin at the
lreouest of the ex-governor relating to