The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-06-15
JENNINGS USED VETO
AND HIT THE LEGISLATURES APP
PREPARATIONS HARD.
VIOLATED THE CONSTITUTION.
ITEMS AGGREGATING $265, s05 ARE
TURNED DOWN.

Educational Institutions of Florida
Suffer Most Severely by the Course
of the Recommendations Had Pro-
vision Made for the Erection of
Buildings or for other Improve
ments-This Was What the Gov
ernOr Regarded as Unconstitu-
tiOnaI.
Tallahassee, Fla, June 14.-At
O'Clock last night Gov. Jennings. after
putting in a week of close study on
the general appropriations bill, and
the bill for the assessment and col
lection of taxes, finished his labors.
The latter receives his veto, because,
while there are many features that he
approves, there is one that he cannot
approve, and, under the constitution,
to disapprove one part is in effect to
disapprove the bill in its entirety The
objectionable feature referred to is
that relating to the assessment Of
railroads and similar property.
In regard to the appropriations bill.
the Governor had his pruning knife
whetted to a keen edge, and cut out
everything that was not for salaries
of state officers and for current ex-
penses. The cuts are as follows:
For printing Supreme Court reports,
$1,000; for rewards for, and expenses
of capturing fugitives from justice. ST.
900; for printing delinquent tax list,
$4,000; for interest on state bonds,
$4,000; for jurors and witnesses be-
fore grand juries, $4,000.
The colleges were hit hard by the
Governor, and there will be a general
howl go up from these institutions all
over the state. The Senate allowed
them nearly $63OOOO, which the House
trimmed down to 100000, and now the
Governor has sliced still more off the
allowance. The cuts are as follows
The State Normal College at De
Funiak Springs was allowed $5O,275.
From this the Governor clipped off
1913 500, leaving $16,775.
The East Florida Seminary at
Gainesville had its appropriation sliced
from $4,000 to $4,000, a loss of s4O.-
900.
The Florida State College. located at
Tallahassee, came in for a slash
amounting to $21, $40. leaving s55, 65175.
which is $4,000 more than the total
appropriations for this institute during
the past ten years.
From $2S,125 allowed the South Flor
ida Military Institute at Barlow the
Governor pruned $21, 900, leaving just
$7,125 for current expenses.
Because the st. Petersburg Normal
School is not a state institution, 1t
was decapitated to the tune of $4,000.
The Florida School foB the Deaf and
Blind, which was allowed $25.375 by the
original bill, is mourning loss of $751;
1875, and must rest contented with $27.-
375. No cuts were made in the appro-
priations for the Juvenile Reform
School at Mariana, the Colored Nor
NAL College at Tallahassee and the Ag-
ricultural College at Lake City.
A recapitulation shows that the Gov
ernor, by his constitutional preroga-
tive, reduced the appropriations just
S265 S65. OF this amount the colleges
lose S1Ss, 1865, reducing their appropria-
lions from $40 900 to 1921, 900.
The Governor has signed the act al
lowing S. l. Walls and the estate of w.
K. Beard $4,000 in settlement for their
services in collecting the Indian War
claims from the general government.