Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-01-29

Total. j. 81, ,962,525
With the exception Of the college
for the blind at Vinton and the Sol
diers' home, the requests of the State
Normal are the most modest in the
list. The Normal asks for $4,000 for
the library fund, $4,000 for the IL
brarian's salary and $4,000 for paving
and sidewalks.
Ali the appropriations listed above
are known as extra appropriations
and are in addition to the regular an
nual support funds of the institutions
which are perpetual and are not made
each session. The appropriations for
the State university and the State
Agricultural college are the larges:
asked. The Agricultural college asks
for an increase of $47,50O annually to
it's support fund and asks that the col
lege extension appropriation of $751;
900 be made annual. making an in
crease for the biennial period of
$125.000. In special appropriations it
asks for the following: Completion of
heating plant and tunnels, 100000;
improving water system, $4,000; new
engineering shop, $4,000; remodeling
old engineering hall, $4,000; general
engineering laboratory, building $780,
900; dairy and poultry farm equip
ment. $4,000; addition to Margaret
Hall, $45,000; purchase of pure bred
stock, $4,000; walks and grades $1O,-
900; furnishing hall of agriculture
$30,0O0; summer school of 1908, $5,-
900.
The requests of the State university
are increase in support fund for bien-
nial period, s145,000; woman's building
$125, 900; land 100000; land for woln-
ans building, $4,000; general equip
ment and supplies, $4,000; equipment
new science hall, wing of hospital and
steam laboratories $45,000; paving and
sidewalks $4,000; Improvement and
stokers $4,000.
The State Fair is asking for $4,000
for swine pavilion and sheds that will
cover three acres; $4,000 for a steel
ampitheatre; $4,000 for land and
$4,000 for moving the race track.
The biggest requests on the part of
the board of control are for an mfr
mary for Cherokee, s125.0O0; cell
house and hunks for Fort Madison,
fs90.000; infirmary for independence
SIZE, 1000; cottage for women at Clar-
india $4,000; women's infrmary at
Mt. Pleasant s65,O0O; custodial hall at
Glenwood, 100000; quartermaster's
building at Marshalltown $4,000.
In addition to all these requests for
appropriations there are any number
OF requests for small appropriations
| that will be made with the introduc-
ton of bills for monuments for former
public officials. for the expositions at
jamestown and Seattle, for roster of
soldiers, for the completion of the
historical building. the erection of an
executive mansion. publishing of var
! ious documents, additional for the ar
chives department and for a perma-
nent appropriation for the custodian
| of the archives. All of these will
mount up many thousands of dollars
This year. as every year. the question
with the appropriations committees of
both houses is. what to eliminate. In
the governors message to the legis-
lature he estimated $917, ,52o AZ
as the amount available for special
appropriations. 1t is probable that
the ways and means committees will
/ be able to find little more than this
and may be able to make it as much
as $1.0O0,000 but even that amount
will not half meet the demands OF the
bills that will be introduced,