The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-10
National Guard Receives In.
crease of Sl4,7O0 for
Next Year.
.S17z,525 ADDITIONAL
FOR INSANE HOSPITALS
State Prison Gets $4,000 More
Than Last Year--Contingent
Funds of $25O,OO0.
IFrom a stan cOrrespOndent.l

TRENTON, April 10.-Notwithstand-
ing the numerous attempts by the
LEGISLATURE to raid the State treasury.
the appropriations committee has heed
ed the warnings of Governor Fort ms
State Treasurer Voorhees,, and has
drafted the regular and suppiementaf
appropriation bills. so that the net In
crease oyer the bills of last year is only
S78, 9S5.40.
Had not the depleted condition OF the
states strong box caused considerable
worriment to the administration lead
ers, thereby causing the sounding of a
general alarm on State finances, the
probabilities are that the bills this year
would have considerably exceeded those
of 1907.
The regular appropriation bill for n
fiscal year, as old yesterday in THE
EVENING STAR, beginning Novem
Der l next, carries $4,52S,27 4.90. e
crease from that of last year of $780,
1927. The appropriations in the sup
Elemental bill for The balance of this
fiscal year up to october 81, total $780,
060.22. Last years bill carried s622,-
942.6 5, so the increase this year is $685.
117.57. The net increase, therefore. is
$7S, 9S5. 40, as stated.
An examination of the regular bill
shows many interesting items. In most
of the ordinary State departments the
increases this year are very slight and
some of them show appropriations the
same as for last year
The regular appropriation this year
for the National Guard, including the
Naval Reserve, is $202, 070, an increase
over 1907 of $14, 100.
Both the State insane hospital ap-
propriations show increases. The ap-
preparation for the Trenton Hospital Is
$209, 200, an increase of $146, 1875, of which
500, 900 is for improvements to the out
of-date buildings. The Morris Plains
apl opriation is 1921, 1925, an increase of
$26, 400.
The total appropriation this year for
the State prison rs $3.50, $50, or $42, 900
more than for last year. Included in
the regular appropriation for the prison
is money for the maintenance of the
new electrocution plant and $1,000 for
the maintenance of the keeper AND resi-
dent physician in addition to their
salaries.
The sum set aside for State aid in
building public roads is the same as
, for last year. $500, 900.
The Governors emergency funds this
year is made $4,000, instead of $40, 900,
as in ear past.
Some of the other appropriations are
as follows;
Railway Reformatory, 1854, 500.
State Village for E~pileptics. $127, 800.
Sanitarium for tuberculosis Dis
eases, s72.5oo.
Board of Railroad Commissioners.
$50, 200.
Expenses of the pending ~Frelinghuy-
sen law requiring the State TO furnish
automobile tags, $4,000.
Some appropriations contingent upon
the passage of pending laws are made
as follows:
Monument or the battlefield at Salem
Church, Va. and a tablet al Spottsyl-
vania, $1,000.
Removal of the New Jersey building
from the jamestown Exposition grounds
to the State Home for Girls in this city,
SIS 900.
Purchase of additional land in the
rear of the State House, $780, 200, and
for the improvement of these grounds.
$25, 006.
Department of public reports. $1,000.
Department of accounts, $500.
Civil service, $685. 900.
Public Utilities Commission, 6 5000.
Inland waterways and the retirement
of certain judicial officers, 800, 333. SO.