New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-03-28
STATES EXPENSES LOWER.
AND LEGISLATIVE APPROPRIATIONS WERE
100000 LESS THAN LAST YEAR.
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Albany March Ex-Governor OdelI said tonight:
Il an much pleased with the result Of the session
Probably result OF the session or the
legislature has pleased the Governor so much as the
low State tax. Two years Of effort on Mr. Odes
mart TO reduce direct State taxation and increase
Indirect taxation IS expressed in that tax rate. In
the first message he addressed TO legislature
that Of Isol-he recommended the consolidation Of
various bureaus in order reduce the cost OF their
maintenance the State referred 10 the increased
cost Of the judiciary and Of the State printing, and
finally said
The subject Of taxation IS one that Is Of most
Importance 10 the people 81 the State at large The
attempt from time time TO shift the responsibility
from one Class Of ProPerty to the Other With put
IN tha real estate throughout the commonwealth
does fulfil the requirements 81 the constituency
pleasure be anticipation TO the day when the State
az New-York would no longer find II necessary TO
levy direct State tax for State purposes.
The Governor suggested an increase Of the taxa
ton OF trust companies, savings banks and insur-
ance companies. This recommendation was adopted
by the legislature and already the trust companies
and savings banks have paid into the State treasury
S21o-32 -, and the insurance companies It is be-
MeveG. will pay into the State treasury in June
seoaoo That would bring the income from these
new indirect taxation laws to 100000.
CIT DOWN STATE EXPENSES
While thus supporting a policy of increasing the
indirect State taxation Governor Odeu also cut
down the expenses o. the State. and succeeded by
these methods in reducing the State taxation
from Eo"4153 81 in 1900 to IS S24906 81 in 1901 Then
the Governor resolved if possible to bring about a
Still further decrease Of State taxation and said IN
his annual message 10 the legislature this year:
A careful study Of the expenditures Of the last
e-9e-rercies leads TO the beIief fbs 500 on 5 Iii
he annie for the coming ,-esr ~ iii 80 " ~
possible the lowest direct tax in the history OF
He then suggested that the financial control OF
the State hospitals for the insane upon which
s5ern00 annually is expended. be put in charge Of
the State Commission in LInacv. and that tho caro-
Of the charitable institutions Of the State be put
IN the hands OF the State Board OF Charities.
The Governors recommendation has been adopted
with respect to the State hospitals for Insane
as has later one favored by him that the 1nan-,
oal affairs Of the charitable institutions be put in
Gaze Of = fiscal officer.
Owing. however. TO an increase IN the number
Of the insane and Of the number Of inmates OF the
charitable institutions. and also by Of the>
necessity or The wisdom Of making some other ap-
preparations, it has been found impossible to limit
the total amount OF the appropriations 10 2000oool
TOTAL APPROPRIATIONS COMPARED.
Senator HgEins, the chairman Of the Senate
Finance Committee. said tonight that.
pared with the appropria tons of year ago those
Of this by the legislature would he follows:
1901 s22 so7 SOS :.
Decrease slooo237 IL
Senator Higgins. upon submitting the State Tax
Rate bill 20 the Senate to-day said:
desire say that this IS tho lowest lax rate in
the legislature are 100000 less than last year,
and would have shown even larger decrease ex-
Cept for increase in the number OF inmates OF
the State Institutions.
Atterwsrd Senator Higgins said:
We have six hundred more insane patients and
about thousand more inmates in the charitaole
institutions. The ordinary housing Of the wards OF
the STATE costs $50 q patient and their NAN.
renance $3.50 a year. We have also appropriated
last !
also that there viii be a reasonably goa
surplus At he termination Of the fiscal year end
ing October I. 1919
Republican members Of the legislature are point
ing out tonight that despite great and necessary
increase Of the States expenses in consequence Of
its assumption of the OF INDECENT insane and
re @ % HT os de Ibs state tax has heen
nearly abolished They contrast the tax levy Of
S74sTl ! the present year. with the levy OF So
.1sla20 S in 1875 when Roswell P Flower. Demo-
crat. was Governor Despite the great increase in
he states expenses in various directions. there
RS bee- steady decrease of the amount levied
for the support OF. the State government
FALLING FOR FOUR YEARS
The states expenses have been reduced in various
departments and then the indirect taxes have been
increased. Steadily for four years the States tax
levy has been decreased, as the following table
OF the levies Of the two years Of the admins
-ration ~ Governor Roosevelt and the succeeding
Two years Of the administration Of Governor Odell
shows
leJ........ l07o4l53 90 1tl2........... 7iSo1l Il
only for the existence Of the constitutional pro-
vision requiring the imposition Of tax 10 pay the
interest on the canal debt and TO make an annual
contribution 70 the canal debt sinking fund there
would be no direct State tax this year. senator
lo- rbst II ever after this the tax rate Is put up
fgn 10