The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-12-25
EASTHAvEN'S
APPROPRIATION
ASKED FOR BY DR.. SAMUEL E.
SMITH
MAY NOT BE GRANTED
Estimated Receipts of 1905 Were
$2,971, ,157-Other Figures
Given.
MAY NOT Be GRANTED

DR.. Samuel E. Smith, superinten-
dent of the Eastern Indiana Hospi-
tai for the Insane at Easthaven. in
his annual report to the State ask
ed that the sum Of 100000 be appro-
priated by the legislature for the
maintainence and improvement OF
the hospital in the year 1905. Ow-
ing to the financial condition of the
State treasury, til doubtful if this
amount will. ne appropriated.
This condition has come about
partly as result of drawing on the
general fund for the payment OF the
State debt and of the large specific
appropriations of the last General
Assembly. The condition is such
that the members Of the legislative
committee, which is dealing with the
requests for specific appropriations
from all the State institutions, are
already saying that the State can
not afford to enlarge the insane hos
pitfalls and also to establish a new
State farm and hospital for epilep
tics, which are now in the insane
hospitals Or are poorly provided for
in the jails and poor farms of the
State. H..
IF all of the appropriations au-
thorized by the last General AS
sembly were to be drawn on to- the
full before October 81, 1905, it has
been estimated that the State would
either have to ask for advance pay
ments from county treasurers or
borrow to the extent of more than
$35O,OOO. In this estimate $12O,0OO
has been counted in as the probable
expense of the next General Assem-
bly,, the appropriation for which will
be one Of the first acts of the session.
The State institutions are asking
of the legislative committee specific
appropriations amounting to more
than two million dollars. It is seen
that the committee has a great deal
of trimming to do to make ends
meet, inasmuch as the estimated sum
for specifics, over and above neces-
sary running expenses, is only about
one million dollars for the next two
years.
In addition to the big specific ap-
preparations by the last General AS
sembly, given in the following table
there is an appropriation of a little
more than 100000 for the public
account system in the State prison,
little of which has been drawn on,
but all of which could be drawn ON
Some Big Appropriations of 1908.
Central Insane Hospital IS $4,000
Northern Insane Hospital 25,900
Eastern Insane Hospital :. 10000
Southern Insane Hospital. q, 400
School for Feeble Minded
Youth ............ .... 1895
School for the Blind ..... Al, 400
School for the Deaf ...... 250,900
Soldiers and Sailors Or
phans' Home .......... a, ,445
Purdue University ....... 1891
State University ......... 34,452
State Normal ............ 10000
State Prison ............ 1890
Indiana Reformatory -. 15,51C
Idustrial Scr for Girls. 152,20C
State Printing lreau 80. 152,20t
st. Louis Expo Non 800. 15o,oOt
$1,11o,33t
The total valuation in 1904 OF
property for taxation in Indiana Is
81 ,54S, ,S61 ,729. The total of the
mortgage deductions is 40,591,121
leaving the net valuation on which
taxes for 1905 will be collected o1
1903, ,270,002.
Estimated Receipts of 1905 Are
S2,971 ,157.
In the following table is an esti
mate of receipts to come into the
Al