Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-03-27
Appropriations Committee Com
PEELED to Defer Improvements
at State Institutions
THE MONEY WON'T GO AROUND
Either Many Needed Buildings Will
Not Be Erected or State Levy Must
Be worcestershire Former Likely to
Be the ResuIt-soldiers' Home Likely
to Fare Well.
IBy Ora williams.l

SpCSldl w
Des Moines, March 27.-Buildings
and improvements that are actually
and badly needed at state institutions
must wait and be delayed because OF
the fact that the state hasn't enough
money to erect them without increas-
ing. the tax levy. superintendent of
state Institutions asked in the aggre-
gate s2,o00,0 900 appropriations for i'm
provements and the erection of new
the most part everything asked for
was actually needed. The board of
control in its report to the legislature
cut this in two and asked for less than
half, knowing that they could not get
all that they needed The house COM
mittee on appropriations has made it's
report, and the things asked for by the
board of control have been again cut in
two in the middle to make the appro-
priations fit the available cash belong
ing to the state. So that something
less than one-fourth of the things ac-
tually needed at the state institutions
will be secured if the house committee
appropriation bill is passed. The SEN
ate committee, it is understood, is a lit
tie more liberal with the state institu-
3tions and not quite so liberal with the
educational institutions, out in any
event the state institutions will not
get more than about one-fifth of the
things that the state superintendents
| fhi,,1y thoy should have II &c nVphoh1n
that the school for the feeble minded
at Glenwood and the Mitchellyille In
dustrial School will suffer the most.
There are Over 100 feeble minded chill
dren for whom admittance at Glen
wood has been asked, but which cannot
be admitted because there is no place
to put them. For years Glenwood has
been asking for new buildings. The
board of control asked for $40, 900 for
a water supply and the house commit
tee recommended $4,000. The board
asked for a cottage for boys to cost
s35, 900 and for a custodial building for
boys to cost $4,000, and got neither,
so that the crowded condition must
still prevail and the waiting list will
probably grow larger instead of small
er. Minor appropriations asked for
Glenwood were cut in the middle.
At the Mitchellville Industrial School
for Girls the cottages We're built with
the expectation that the families would
consist of about thirty-five, but they
are now crowded to fifty-five in each
family, which taxes the capacity of the
cottages. Here the board of control
asked for an administration building to
cost $4,000 and $500 to equip it. This
would have relieved the crowded con-
dition, but the appropriation commit
tee couldn't find the funds for making
the appropriations.
For the college for the blind at Vim
ton $4,000 was asked for a music hall
and gymnasium which was refused.
The school for the leaf was taken care
Of with al appropriation of $4,000 for
a boiler house, machine shop, laundry
and the like, which was the amount
asked for. Eldora asked for $4,000 for
a hospital and got $1,000 recommended
by the committee and asked for $4,000
for a blacksmith shop and got $4,000.
Mt. Pleasant asked for 100000 for a
woman's intirmary which has been re-
fused. independence asked for $780,
900 for a hospital which was refused.
Clarinda, asked for $4,000 for a wom-
ans cottage, which was refused, and
$4,000 for a sewer and tunnel, which
was refused. Cherokee asked for
$125, 900 for an in1rmary which was
refused.
The buildings sked for by the board
of control are not such that the state
can appropriate a smaller amount than
asked. 1t is either a case of build the
building or not build 1t, and as the
state has not the money it seems to
be no build. The Soldiers Home at
Marshalltown perhaps served better
than any others and yet 1t did not get
SIC, 900 for a quartermasters store room
which 1t is claimed is very much need
ed, tho it did get SIS, 900 for a wom-
ans dormatory and 10000 for a hos
pital building.
To sum UP there are 100000 worth
of buildings of which the board of con-
troll and the committees that visited
the institutions say the institutions are
in pressing need and for which the
legislature finds 1t has not one cent to
| appropriate. These are as follows: AT
| Glenwood, cottage for boys, $4,000,
and custodial cottage. $4,000; Mitchell-
vile. administration building, $4,000:
yinton, music building, $4,000; Mt.
Pleasant infrmary, 100000: I%ndepend-
ence. hospital, 800, 900: Clarinda, cot
tage for women, $4,000; Cherokee, in
Urinary, s125,oo0.