The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-08-13
NOTES FROM
THE CAPITOL
Lirnation of Expenditures
Under Appropriations
By Legislature.
Four Important Vacancie.
for Governor to Fill
When He Returns.
SOME DATA WHICH SHOW THE
PROSPERITY ATTAINABLE BY
TOBACCO IN FLORIDA PEN
SIONS AND STATE FINANCES.
BY jefferson Bell.

Tallahassee, August 12.-Attorney
General Ellis has given an opinion at
the request of Comptroller Groom
upon the construction of Chapter 5000
which provides that no legislative ap-
preparations out Of the general reve-
nue. fund, except salaries Of public
officers and current expenses Of the
state and expenses of schools, shall
be paid or contracted for without
first ascertaining from the board OF
state institutions that the funds neces-
sary to meet such payments will be
available when due.
Mr. Ellis defines current expenses
as applied in the acts as "the usual,
ordinary, or running, expenses Of the
state expenses which are fixed, not
in amount but in character"
Such expenses as the expense Of
maintaining the various departments
of the government, collection CT reve-
nue., maintenance of the hospital for
the insane, maintenance of the free
school system, expenses of the state
troops, will have the right of way
over che expenses classed by Mr.,4 Ell
lis as expenses not current, butAeX-
traordinary, unusual, such as the
erection of buildings, the purcha:se OF
building sites, appropriations fort the
governors mansion, for loo ( in
Hicpochee canal, for reprirting the
supreme court reports, for the CbbckO-
manga monument, for the relRsf oil
Daniel Campbell, and other tru stees,
aid to the Tampa and DePdnia1l
Springs fairs.
Commenting upon the act. Mr. Ell
lis said that the necessity for> care
full prudent arrangement of the gen
eral revenue fund became apparent
to tn legislature. It was evident that
the fund was insufficient to meerN the
appropriations made from it in 'Sex-
cess Of the current expenses of the
state.
Important Vacancies.
Governor Broward is expected back
this week from his. summer vacation
Mrs. Broward and the children are
now at one of the North Carolina
mountain resorts. During the COVER
por's absence from the state, four i'm.
portant Offices have become vacant
from death. The county treasurer Of
Santa Rosa county, the clerk of tn >
court of Gadsden county, the sheriff
of Bradford and the county Judge d I
Clay county, have all died within tn e
month. Another vacancy to be file
when the governor returns is that Of
county treasurer. Of Clay county, to {
treasurer Of that county Having bee n
removed from Office on account of, a
shortage of about $4,000.
An election has been called in
Bradford county to elect sheriff ana
T. r. Canty has been appointed clerk
of the court in Gadsden county.
Continued Rains
The continued rains. in this section
have been source of loss and
trouble to the tobacco planters The
crop is housed but such excessive
moisture has seriously affected the
curing. In many OF Thea barns it has,
been necessary to keep a "smudge''
going day and night to >dry the air in
the barns and prevent mildew and
mold
Tobacco planting in Leon county
may now be said to have passed the
experimental stage, andi another year
will see a large acreage
l heard yesterday of lone Gadsden
county planter who has already de-
livered thirty thousand dollars worth
of tobacco from a forty-acre tract