The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-02-28
City N eWs
CRISIS AVERIED BY
A LEGAL RULING
INSTITUTIONS WILL GET ALONG
UNTIL REGULAR SESSION.
Standing Appropriation for Current
Fiscal Year Is Held to Be Still Avail
able, and Special Appropriations Com
ing in Next August Will Tide State
Thru--No Extra Session. 81

There will be no extra session Of the
legislature. State officers have all |
agreed on a method of pulling the ten
institutions thru whose standing appro |
priations were repealed by the code.
Messrs. Jelley and Simpson Of the at
torney generals department gave legal
sanction to the scheme favored by Gov |
ernor johnson and State Auditor liver,
son. They hold that the standing APP
preparations for the current fiscal year |
became available to the credit of the
institutions Aug. /, and can be drawn |
at any time. The 100000 of standing |
appropriations for the year beginning |
next August is cut out by the code, but |
the institutions will pull thru theknext |
tions made by the last legislature. The
regular session next winter will speedily |
correct the situation.
The board of control has prepared a
statement, showing that the special
maintenance appropriations have hard
ly been touched vet. They have bal |
anee Of 1891 so9s 81 to the credit Of the
until July 81 is only $46l ,235.44, which
will leave balance Of $4,000 to ap.
ply on the next year. Special appropri-
ations amounting to $643,000 will be-
come available Aug. 1. Receipts from
institutions are estimated at $44,ll0,
making a total of 1917 ,177.40. EST
mated cost of running the institutions
for the next four months is $435, $40,
leaving 1881, 467.40 to provide for in
crease in cost of maintenance, unexpect-
ed outlay and for December expenses.
State Auditor Iverson and State Treas
urer Block checked over these figures
and found them all right. Governor
johnson was informed that the situa- !
ton can be met, and at once declared
~ ofhor ny
there would be no extra session.
Omitted on Purpose.
Standing appropriations were pur-
posely omitted from the code. accord
ing to Judge Daniel Fish, chairman Of
the revision commission, with the un-
derstanding that the institutions would
be cared for entirely in tho regular bl-
ennial omnibus bill. Judge Fish says:
"All the institutions as to which the
standing appropriations are said to be,
omitted from the revised laws are under
| the management of the board of con-
trail. That board is required by the act
creating it to submit to the legislature
biennial estimates of appropriations
| necessary or proper to be made for the
support of said several institutions, and
| for extraordinary and special expehdi-
lures for buildings and other improve
ments.' This plainly contemplates BIZ
ennial provision for these institutions,
according to their current needs, and
the abolition OF permanent apPropr1a-
tions. which are an admitted evil
Accordingly, all such appropria-
lions for them were cut out, and it was
intended to take care Of the board of
control institutions in the general ap-
preparation bill. I spent two or three
! afternoons with Senator Brewer of the
senate committee, checking over the
| standing appropriations to make sure
that none were improperly omitted. If
the large sums actually set apart for
these Institutions in the general bill
(more than $95S,O00 for the five insane
hospitals, for example,), were not
enough to carry them for the two years
ending July, 1907, it is due to some !; &C
cident sor inadvertence not chargeable
to the revisors. -..---. .,s---J.a