The Columbus journal., 1904-10-05

! &1lUB Uuuot q NoO 10W WuOAAy IL
adequate to the needs OF . CROWN
state.
First. Extraordinary expenses frou
1901 70 1908 slons moro than explain
increase Ut $535. 729.49.
Here are the items:
For rebuilding and reiurnishing tn
state penitentisry. which wss burne,
February %. 1901, slls. o 100. Fcl
volt bonnties. partly accumulated
under fusion administration. 90, 600.
90.
Deficiency from fusion sdministra
ton, which . republican Legislature
had 70 make good in order to preserv,
the states credit. els2. 735. 81.
For return Of First Nebr. Regimen,
from San Francisco. az 1907 u.
For addition to Hastings asylum
the inmates having increased from
5le in 1897 to 1913 January l. 1904
o., coo. 90.
Sok eoAH1' UOkoObG1C SOO1U OV1ADt0 ~ AOA1'
| efs and their sssistants. tS9. 500. 90.
For Psn-Americ.n Exposition. Buff
do, 90. OOO. %.
For permaueint location OF Nebraska
state fair, SS5. 600. 90.
Total extra Ordinary expenses. $685..
lOs. 90.
Il will be seen from the above fig.
ures. which r taken from the aud.
itor's books. thst the extraordinary
and uasuai expenses alone. over goo.
600 OF which was for fusion deficien.
cies. more than accounts for the total
iacHease Of state debt during the re.
publican sdministrstions which are
nader confederation.
BY way of moro complete explans-
tion of some OF the items entering
into the unusual expenses il is proper
70 state tbat the wolf bounties had
beea ACCOMPLISHING for years, under q
law which made their payment obi
9ssory. A fusion legislature failed to
make Sufficient appropriated for the
psynaent Of these claims, in IA effort
70 make . grandstaEd exhibition OF
eoonomy. A republicans ieiRslsture
made provision for the payment of tho
accErsea debt and the repealed the
laW.
The item representing deficiency
from fusion administration" is the
accumulation Of deficiencies from the
several departments and state intsitu-
tions during the fusion regiment. 1t
WAS . desperate effort to make . record
for economy. Appropriation were
made which we're entirely inadequate
for the maintenance Of tho institu-
lions and hence Indebtedness was in
Cured which later had to be made
good.
In regard 70 the unusual stem OF 81.
pense for the supreme court commits
siOa il is proper to state that ON April
II. 1901. here were lGOO cases awaiting
Indication in the supreme court. Be-
tween that date and January 1, 1903,
lO.S new cases were fled. making q
of 26sS cases 20 b considered in
lees than two years. Three supreme
judges could not possibly do the work.
Relief Was necessary and all political
parties SO agreed. This conditiou of
affairs accounts for the existence Of
the commission and the expense Incl
dent thereto.
Second. There 10 still another ex.
OF the etste debt. The re-
publican legislature. of 1908, proud of
The University Of Nebraska and it's
excellent work in behalf OF the sons
Md daughters Of Nebraska farmers.
raised the misery fusionist appropri.
Ition OF t252, 200 made in 1897. to
s'79. 800 an increase of $751;. 600 nearly
squal to the entire increase in the
state debt form 1901 to 1903.
Now we ask the editor of the Y;ele.
'ram, did the republican legislature
was' that e52s, 900 which it paid in
'rier that your son and thousands Of
'fher Nebraska boys might have edu-
'atlonal facilities in q own great
tate equal 70 those offered in eastern
Institutions: Are you not proud of
'earing your portion Of . state debt
Incurred for the sole purpose OF en-.
bling your son together with other
'oung men and young women Of Ne.
'raska. to start out in the battle Hof
lie without the handicap Of an in.
erlor education: Platte county tax.
ayers your burdens of state taxes has
zen Increased BY enough to q your
of this University appropriation.
10 more. IL this extrsvsgauce: II SO.
hat will Won call the appropriations
made BY this same "'extrnyaeant"
epublicsn legislature to pay fusion
amounting to $500, 600
'hich is nearly half the Increase in
he state debt:
1t Is true. the state debt has iucraas-
q because OF . detective revenue law.
but that increase under republican
administrations 10 represented by new
.hools and, additions to our state in
kitutions.
1t is equally true that Platte county
'as powerless under the same defec-
We revenue law in 1903 to pay the
ounty's expenses and - . result
LATTE comfy taxpayers are paying :
or cent interest on $4,000 worth of
'arrants. But that increase in Platte
'u1ty's expenses is not represented by
new court house nor. by any other
improvements that will. explain the