Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1906-04-11
Appropriations Committee in
State Legislature Made Its
Report This Morning.
TOTAL $4,524,S26.57
Addition to the Railway RefOrmatory
Is Provided for As Is New Nor
NAL School, to BE Erected i'm Nor
thern Part of the State-Commit-
tee Explains Where the Taxpayers
Money Is Going i'm Communication.
special to the EVENING NEWS.

Special to the EVENING NEWS:
TRENTON, Apr. 1.-THE joint
appropriations committee of the SEN
ate and house this morning introduce
ed in the legislature the general and
supplemental appropriations bills.
The general appropriation bill is
$4,524,S2 81. Last year this bill
amounted to $4,3O1, ,733.5 81. The in
crease is $223,093.
The increase in the supplemental
bill is $26,4l5. 50. The supplement
tai bill this year aggregates 81, ,101,-
942 03. The supplemental bill of
last year totaled $1,075,5 526 81. The
increase in both bills over last year
is $249,50S. 80
Among the important increases
provided for are the following: For
the new automobile department. $10,-
500; for additional judges to the cir
cult court, $11, ,666 S. for public
roads, $136,041 (this amount in
cludes $4,000 for an automobile for
the state department of public
roads) for the Passaic river flood
commission, $4,000; for salaries for
six months for five new inspectors for
the tenement house supervision de-
partment, S2,500; for new laundry
and bakery at Morris Plains hospital, |
$31, 500; for the county boards of
equalization of taxes created under
the Avis law of this session, $4,000 |
Provision is also made for the ex-
penditure of $4,000 to pay the ex-
penses for the entire national guards |
encampment at Sea Girt this sum-
mer.
Other important expenditures are
mentioned in a statement presented
by the committee to the senate today.
The statement in part is as follows:
Committees Statement.
State House, Trenton, n. j., Apr. II.
The joint committee on appropria-
ton of the session of 1906 having
completed their duties and reported
by annual and supplemental bills to
the legislature, deem is wise, because
of the fact of the many items in the
bills make them difficult of quick
and careful examination, to make a
statement explaining the general pro-
visions of the bills and the character
of the work accomplished by the COM
mittee.
The two bills contain appropria-
tions about 900 in excess of the
amount appropriated by similar bills
passed by the legislature of 1905. !
The increase in the bills has been
kept at this low figure despite the
fact that the committee have made |
provisions for several matters of i'm
portance which have been pending
before the legislature for several
years.
These extraordinary appropriations
include the following items: 100000
for the building of new wing at the
state reformatory at Railway. An in
crease at this institution necessitat-
ed this addition. There are now
more than one hundred and fifty in
mates sleeping in the corridors with
out cells; $4,000 for a new wing 1t
the Soldiers Home at Vineland,
which sum was authorized by an act
of the present session. $4,000 to
provide for a suitable representation
at the jamestown Exposition; $685.
600 for a new building at the state
home for boys, needed enlargement
of this institution; 100000 for a
new wing at the state house, needed
because of the necessary increase in
the working force of the state depart
ments $4,000 as the first install
ment for the purchase of site and
erection of an armory for the Essex
troop; $4,000 for repairs at the
Morris Plains hospital for the insane;
500, 900 for the erection of dwell
ing for the principal keeper and resi-
dent physician of the state prison;
! $20,0 900 for the erection of gallery
in the Trenton armory and several
other items of equal importance,
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