Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-05-30
DEMANDS ON STATE TREASURY.
Appropriations Asked For Will Aggre-
gate Over $5,50O,0o0.

gate over So,oUO,oOO.
While the claims committee has
been diligently at work seeking to adj
just the many demands upon the state
treasury to the revenues present and
prospective, the legislature still has
much to do before the appropriation
bills are disposed of. But a few OF
the bills carrying charges against the
state have been up for action, and
Chairman Burns and Ainsworth have
much to do in their committee room
before the record will be completed.
There have been so many unusual de-
mands this session, and the work OF
legislation has been so greatly inter-
fered with, that the balance OF the
session must be devoted to the consld-
GRAFTON of the appropriation measures.
The list of appropriations is large
and includes many items requiring
consideration. The sO-called tempo
rary appropriations asked for by the
senate, actual, and estimated when
possible, carry a total of S4,5O2,23f,
while the appropriations of the assem-
bly, increase the total to $5,Oo5, 400.
To this amount must be added the So
called fixed or standard appropriations
which the legislature must bi-annually
make provision for, estimated at $172,-
100. but not including the bills which
carry sums not easily ascertainable
aH.I contingent. The assembly list in
creases this amount to approximately
S35O,0OO.
Some of the larger amounts asked
for include:
Vicksburg National Military park. $100,O0U
New wing for historical library: SO,OV
State university, buildings, equip 400 600
ment' new wOman's building. 4O0,ODo
Wisconsin home for feeble-minded 9O,UN
la C,r0sse normal school .. 100000
state mining school at Platteville 10000
Charitable and penal institutions
maintenance and additions (Which
with current expenses. brings
the total asked for up to APP on
prOXimately 81, 800, 900 ........... o24,32l
Milwaukee normal school addi-
Devils lake mark " 10000
Binding twine plant at state prison 5O0,00C
Stata Fair grounds .. 81, SOC
Medical school at university. 50,9U
University extension ............-. 4O,oOO
These figures only represent part
of the work cut out for the claims
committee. for there are at least 290
bills still pending which in some way
carry state aid for one project or an
other.
Many of the bills relating to uni
versity appropriations are still pend
ing. and the claims committee has al
ready given consideration to the cost
of improvements and additions de-
manded. At these hearings figures
have been presented which have es-
caped general attention in the press of
other legislative matters. Recently
Attorney Fred NJ. Minor presented an
argument before the claims commit
tee in reference to bill pending
which contains concrete citations
showing the increasing cost of the
university He showed that for pc
riOd OF eight years, from 1899 to 1906.
inclusive, the university had received
from public revenues the sum of So
514.O59.64; the seven normal schools
for the same period $2,553, 41O.94 and
the charitable and penal institutions
of the state $6,1S1 ,595. Attorney Mi
nor made comparisons covering the
university as we'll as the normal
schools of the state and furnished data
sufficient. which, if based upon facts
and figures ascertained, make sur
prising showing The presentation
was made before the committee on
claims. and members generally have
had no opportunity of examining the
report submitted. There is scarcely a
detail of the institution that has not
been gone into with view OF ~hGTIng
the cost per capita to the state. The
figures were presented IN opposition
to giving the university the power to
establish a new school of medicine
asked for in one of the appropriation
bills. 1t is believed by members who
have examined the brief filed by At
tornev Minor that it will have cOnsid-
cradle influence in cutting down the
amounts asked for by the university
unless error can be shown. In his ar
gument he contends for the better
safeguarding of the public moneys
used by the university and the limit
inc of its field of educational effort to
the colleges now existing without ere
ating new avenues for the use of mon
ey of the state.-W.