The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-02-09
One Third OF This Sum Has A.
ready Been Granted by
SOI0ns.
PASS BIG BUDGET BILL
General Appropriation Measure Passed
by House 10 increase Of Twenty
Per Cont Over That Granted
by Last Legislature.

SALEM. ore. Feb. S."~Thc HOUSE
yesterday boosted the general appro'
prta,ion bill Some $4,000 over that
given by tho last legislature FOR the
maintenance of state institutions, and
without exception granted the in
craaaca In salaries. Increase In Office
force and all the other things institu-
ton Auprrintcudenls are usually after.
The few members who stood through
IL all for economy did not deny that
perhaps the majority OF the budget
increases were needed. and that the
extra money could be used. but that
every Institution In the state and cF.
cry other agency for decades from
this session should get all II needed
nna had wanted Of the Legislature,
without cent OF the demand being
scaled, this was what worried the eco"
nomic members. and what they fear
will worry the taxpayers when they
face the blggeat burden ever placed
on their shoulders by n Legislature.
This appropriation bill includes none
oi the appropriations for educational
institutions, which will demand some
thing like n quarter OF million more
this yenr. II does not touch the special
appropriations for the institutions
which will add more than another
quarter million to the budget: II does
not include the several dozen special
commission Jobs and new officials pro-
posed by the various bills, and will
probably be leas than n third of the
total amount appropriated by the leg
islature TO cover the coming biennial
period. The total amount appropriat- T.
cd by the House yesterday was about
Sl,250000 an Increase OF about 10 per
cent over the budget for the preceding
two years.
A comparison OF the present budget
and the former one shows an Increase
I'm the salary list Of from 20 to 80
per cent as well as general increase
In the number OF employees allowed the
various state officials.
What the few fnr-sighted members
In the House see in the general appro-
priatIon bill passed yesterday that
alarms them ls the precedent II sets
for all the other big, special, extra ana
unusual appropriations that are com
ing m. There was 100000 set aside
Yesterday afternoon for the purchase
or the oregon CITY locks, there are
the big educational special appropria-
tions that will be four and five times
those granted these institutions oe-
fore, institutions that do not care fof
n single state patient and that are no'
charitable institutions strictly MS IN
mates are charged In proportion tc
their means, there Is the new schoo
for the feeble minded looming up WITT
a S125,OOO bill tackled to the hem OF
its garment. Besides the legislature
has boosted the salary Of every mem
ber from $l20 to $400 and voted fre'
passes to all.
"There has to be an end somewhere
but I don't see where II Is going Il
be-" said Farrell, of Multnomah, yes
terday evening, Farrell being one o
the half dozen members of the Hous
who endeavored to cut down some o
the extra appropriations.
ut looks like $4,OOO,OOO anyhow thi
session. Some Of us were pledged t
economy and retrenchment; II a boos
of about 40 per cent in the entire stat
budget Is economy why we are shin