The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-01
HOW is THIS?
Last Legislature Spent Nearly
H,alfMiIlion More.
Increase Over Previous One Is
S4S4,444.
AD SOME BIG EXTRAS
This Also Was True of Session
Of 1908.
Economy Talk Served for Cam
paign Purposes.
Official Statement just Issued
by State Auditor.

The legislature of 1905 appropriated
s5,811,477; the legislature of 1903,
which was called wildly extrava-
! giant, including the special session.
appropriated S5,327034.
The list of appropriations made by
the late legislature as tabulated in the
state auditors office show that the
legislature of 1905 appropriated s484,-
444 more than the legislature of 1903,'
and this, too, Notwithstanding the last
legislature was elected on the issue
that the legislature of 1903 was ex-
trayagant and the promise that the
session Of 1905 would be more eco
nOmical.
These figures for 1903, also, include
not only the regular session but also
the special session called to relieve
the flood situation in the summer of
1903. Not counting that, the ex-
penditures for 1905 were $4,000
more than those of the session of 1908.
About the time the late legislature
adjourned the statement was made
that the recent session had appro-
priated about $500, 600 less than the
previous session. AS this was about
100000 OF, somebody either pre-
varicated or was badly mistaken. The
statement is said to have come from
the chairmen of the ways and means
committees, J. 3. Creech in the house
and Senator H. b. Miller in the senate.
There were some extraordinary ap-
prOpriations made by the last legis-
lature, chief of which was the oil re-
dnery, amounting to $4,000. The
total of the extra appropriations for
1905 amounted to $557,645. On the
other hand, the session of 1903 had
some extraordinary appropriations
which the legislature OF 1905 did not
have to deal VITA amounting to
$232.175, not counting the building Of
the new Parsons asYluna,
Each legislature generally has some
new institution to inaugurate, which
previous legislatures have not had to
deal with. That of 1889 had the bind
ing tWine plant to establish, that CT
1903 the Parsons asylum, for which
100000 was spent for new buildings
alone, and the last legislature had the
oil refinery and the state printing
plant. The legislature two years ago
had to appropriate 800, 600 for the
Worlds fair and reapprOpr1ated S4S,-
600 for the same purpose. 1t also ap-
propriated $4,000 for Industrial train
ing in the public schools which was
never used and which the last legis-
lature did not touch
The last legislature gave the state in
stitutions $1O5,000 more than the one
preceding it. This increase went to the
educational institutions, and the hos
Ditals for the insane were largely cut
given an increase OF S172, 900, the state
normal S43 600, and the agricultural col
lege $50 900. Other increases made by
the last legislature were: Fort Hays
Normal, $4,000: Hutchinson reformatOry,
$4,000; reform school, $1,000; girls in
dustriaI school, $55, 600: Pittsburg man
ual training school, $4,000; and the
Oufndaro coIored school, S13,0 ,000-
The increases made by the last legis-
lature were Parsons asylum, S87, 600;
Topeka asylum, S53 900; Osawatomie
asylum, $4,000; blind school, $1,000;
Fort Hays experiment station S12 900;
penitentiary, $50 600; lmbecile school,
81. 600; orphans home, $4,000; old SOL
diers' home $4,000; deaf and dumb
school, SOS, 900.
Besides this the building of the Par
sons asylum saved the state 900 for
keeping the destitute insane.
In the state departments the following
were some of the increases made: Gov
ernOr, $4,000; attorney general. $4,000;
auditor 2.4O0; bank commissioner, So
200; board of control over board of
charities. $54O0; railroad commission
ers, $4,000; printing, $12,00Oi state treas
urer, $1,000
The increase in the printing appro-
priations is one Of the surprises. one
of the issues in the boss buster cam
paign was the cutting down of the
state printing expenses, and for that
purpose the state printing plant was
established. Yet the legislature OF 1903
appropriated P4oSsVUu LOE pruning While
that Of 1905 appropriated $201. $50. ex-
elusive of the state printing plant
Each of these appropriations included
S65,000 for q deficiency. The printing
board last year announced with a flour
fish Of trumpets that It would allow nc
deficiency FOR the present legisIatu tc
make ZIP but it turned up just the same.
The recent legislature, relying on
the statement that the appropriations
less than
made provision for raising less taxes
by S250,0OO than during the last BIZ
ennium. The legislature of 1903 au-
fhorized the raising OF not more thar
SA,5O0,000, while the recent legisla.
ture authorized not more than S4,250,-
600.
The question is now raised il there
viii not be a big deficit. Part of the
oil refinery bonds viii not be raised by
taxation during the coming biennium
but the auditors Office figures that il
viii take S316,443 more to run the
state during the coming two year,
than it did during the last two Their
the legislature cut of the possibility
of raising as much by S250,0OO, 81
the auditors office figures that ther.
ay be a deficit of s56O,0O0 in tn,
next two years.
Tt is possible that the extra state ia,
which State Treasurer Kelly hat
raised in 1903 viii come in handy il
heading off this deficit. Kelly vii
have had this money in the stat
treasury for two years and as he vii
no longer be able to draw interest OF
1T under the new state law it viii b
of no further use to him.
1T viii be remembered that Morton
Albaugh~ cOntended that Kelly hai
planned to raise about half a milliol
dollars more than was necessary il