Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-04-01
ALMOST A MILLION
COMMITTEE FINISHES WORK or
APPoRTIoNING FUNDS.
VERY LARGE SUMS ARE NAMED
Estimates of Other Institutions Are
Also Reduced on Account Of
Lack of Money.

Des Neutrality-suspicious. which
total almost $1,000,000 are provided
for in bills which will be introduced
| by the appropriations committee of
| the senate as the result of the work
of that committee, the house commit
tee and the conference committee rep
resenting both, during the last sew
| eral weeks.
The appropriations are cut far be-
| low the askings for the educational
| institutions and for some of the in
| situations managed by the board of
control, but the bills as prepared for
introduction are the result of careful
J study of the needs of the schools and
| Of the board Several hearings have
been granted to the members of the
| board and to the representatives of
The three educational institutions.
| Where appropriations have been cut
the committees have tried to make
only such reductions as will have the
least bad effect.
Schools Get Large Sums.
The state university will receive
| $4,000 additional to it's present APP
preparations during the coming two
gears and in addition the bill calls
for $4,000 for special purposes and
an annual addition of $29,50O The ag-
ricultural college at Ames gets $4,000
extra during the coming two years,
together with $4,000 annually addi-
!ional to the present appropriation
state normal school will receive $751;
300 additional appropriation annual
ly and $4,000 for special purposes.
The board of control institutions
will receive a total of S515,700, &C
cording to the bill, and $4,000 of this
amount is to be used by the board of
control for the purchase of addition
81 lands for institutions as the board
sees fit.
The Iowa City bill contains the fol-
lowing provisions for additional
funds:
There is hereby appropriated out
Of any money in the state treasury
not otherwise appropriated, to the
state university, the sum of $4,000
annually hereafter, and the sum of
$4,000 annually for two years, for
additional support fund; the sum of
$500 annually hereafter for addition
al repair and contingent fund, and the
sum of $4,000 annually for two
years for library support"
State Normal
For the state normal school the bill
carries an annual addition Of $4,000
to the teachers fund and $4,000 for
the contingent and repair fund. The
special appropriations are as follows:
Support of library, 100000; librarians
salaries, $4,000; paving and improve
ments of grounds, $4,000; nurse and
hospital support, $4,000.
The following appropriations, in ad-
dition to the $4,000 for land, are pro-
vided for the board of control insti-
tutfons:
Soldiers home, Marshalltown- 900
Soldiers orphans home, Daven-
port ----- -------- 1850
School for the deaf, Council
Bluffs ------ --------- 5000
Institute for feeble minded,
Glenwood --- $1,000 $4,000
tuberculosis sanitarium. Oak
dale ------- $500
Industrial school, Eldora- 1890
Industrial school, Mitchellville- 1850
Hospital for insane, Mt. Pleasant
--- II 400
Hospital for insane, Independ
ence ----- --------- 1880
Hospital for insane, Clarinda- $4,000
Hospital for insane, Cherokee 1850
Penitentiary, Fort Madison $4,000
Reformatory, Anamosa ----- "a 400