The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-28
FISCAL JOKER NOW APPEARS Where Will State Get
 the Monsys PRocLAMAI0NS COST $l8,417 Printing Allowance Is Knocked into
 Cooked Hat. To Asvertiss Election on-Constitutionai Anendments Costs Nearly as Much as stase Apprepristes for
 Two Year..
PRocIAMAIIoNs COST sfs,417

verbosity costs.
 yerbosity costs more than our legis- lators believed.
 Otherwise they would have made special appropriation for publishing tne Governors proclamations-
 Governor Conner issued yesterday nis three proclamations as to the proposed arnendments to the State Constitution of 1901. They are to be voted on at the general election next November.
 It will cost the State approximately s1s.<z7 to inform the votez,s of Alabama lerally that the election wfli be held This may be big sum and 1t may not. However if one believes that procIama- lions like those of yesterday do not cost money, let that one get micro scope and when the newspapers pre- sent their bills for the jobs take q Iook at the State printing appropfia1ion oh S1O. 900 annually.
 But the microscope will fan to ma tf,e residue The matter may pc fe- farres 10 the State Text Book Com rriseion for the accommodations or some arithmetical authority wnAcn can SUD sfsrsrence which will be sufficient to nav several other printing pilis that ,,sv ha showed at the face or Secretary .,s state Frank N Julian la the course of twelve months.
 So. if the microscopist naiis ana se tne mathematician falls down.. wna. ls ret m h,,t for the state to do ita printing on
 Thsra are three proclamPtions of the r.1yernor containing 3.3lI (esfimated) words. one calls for an. eiecIion .o vote for or against the constitutlohass as amendment as to biennial sessions . oa sha T,egisiature. The second IS on tns ,rorosed change In the methods or snyn.jnr new counties. The third Is 10 Aetsrn,ine whether the 5tilte may ap- .xsavrtata the net proceeds of the state ronviet hire to the building, improve ment or repairs of good ro ads:
 Chief Clerk Cy B. Browil, Q. srSsv sae Ssvv .s sstin1ate the probable cost to the state of publishing the prociamatiohs as required by law. They are 70 pc srtnteS once a week in at. least one pa per in every county for asght consecu- tive weeks.
 nrr prown multiplied 8 31l words by afsa cents. this being j-he statutory srira for such publications running ssght times. This showeai an expendi- s,sHa of s2si in each cd'unty For .ne nnh1icatfon. Multiply this by the SIX ty-sevsn counties of the l5sa.s s 4na +ho sn. sns Result gives the total cosst iVr Ste en Ths states apprcpriarion of sioooe say- tha current fiscal year TOT the states printing, procla nations. etc.' Sss hssn practically exhslusted. There- Fore none of the Hercsulean voncneE cvaatad vesterday by the Governor gan kn Sa Sarrafnrnodated out of this year f,,nd Only s1o,o00 will be available i2r tsa tvveIve months after September sV' IsoR. And 1t is puzzling the state Au- dItcr and the Secretary or state az - sghetaer it is more impor tant 10 pay tne st,,neudous advertising k,iil staIteo yesss tsrdav than the regular printing ano sHvertfisnx cost of the State. Tn tne rsst the normal expenses Of the stA.e rv fhle account have eeten up the an anal allowance of the code.
 Yt looks as if the publishing bills q .he cnr,nty papers will have to go over ,,nttI another session of the Legfsia- t,,re. There is no fund of any other character out of whicla such expense c1lIId be drawn. The Legislature n subnnitting the propoHed amendments to the electors. made the extensive ad' vertisernent mandatory on the Cover rror. The proclamations have been is- a,lad and the orders for their publica' tion are being given by the Governor tc fhe various selected pajpers inl the coun- tiee. But the Legislature seems tc have forgotten the already slender al Iowance for normal advertising ex' penses and appropria ted nothing TOT the extraordinary biEl that must nt presented by the newspapers after the eight weeks are up.
 The only thing to be done is to set what they can see But it makes room for a good mathematician somewhere And the job is crying