The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-05-29
Governor Campbell Strikes Out
Numerous Items from Cen
craI Appropriation Bill
EXPECTS NO TAX INCREASE
Expresses BcleI 1t May BE- 0nI, Five
Gents Next Year-The Public
Debt Item Is Cut
Out

Austin, Texas, May 2a-Havuc
cut more than $1.7oo.0O0 ou of tue
general appropriation: having
promise of the University that $500
600 Of its appropriation will not be
used; having made a contract which
win obyiate the necessity of spend
ling $250,O0 for state water and
light plant, and having previously
vetoed a bill appropriating 100000
for tuberculosis sanitarium, Gov.
Campbell feels that the tax rate this
year will not be higher than that of
last year, 6Ac, and that next year
it may not be over sc.
The most notable yetoes in the
appropriation bill which he sent to
the secretary of state at 4:&O o'clock
yesterday afternoon, with a procla-
nation of twenty typewriter pages,
are those which cancel all the APP
preparations for scholarships at the
state normal schools, the sum ag-
gregating $4,000, and those cam
ceiling all appropriations TO" new
buildings at the Agricultural and
Mechanical College, amounting to
$4,000. among them the item of
100000 for new dormitory, to be
known as "Willacy Hall, in honor
.of Senator Willacy, chairman of the
senate committee on approp iaucns.
As TO the Agricultural ant Me
chanical College, its available fund
is a negl' gible quantity, aud it has
had to look Up to the legislature for
practically al of its support. Never
theless, the constitution contains an
Inhibition against appropriations for
buildings at that institution. The
college according to the constitu-
ton, is a branch of the University,
and seemingly when the constitution
was framed ii was considered that
the college would share in tn avail
able funds of the University. But
the college was years ago granted
troll, and with the assistance of the
legislature, las been padding its
own canoe.
The governor vetoes the item of
$1,06S,900 for the payment of pub
lie debts, he cuts the appropriations
for new buildings of asylums quite
sharply, and took big slices out of
the controllers land and health de-
partments, among other things ve-
toing the item of 100000 to build
a detention hospital at Galveston.
This item was to come out of the
special quarantine fee fund The
disapproval of it means that the
money will remain in the treasury
until another legislature assemblies.
Because, of the provision which
makes any item appropriated for the
first year available for disburse-
ment in either year, GOV, Campbell
cut many second year allowances,
saying that the allowances for the
first year were sufficient for both
years.
The items stricken from the gem
eral appropriation bill by the COVER
nor total $1,703,0S4, or nearly 20
per cent OF the bill, Add to that
100000 which the University re-
gents agree not to use, and which
Gov Campbell treats as vetoed, the
aggregate of the vetoed items is
1903 ,0S4, Add to that the 500
900 for a tuberculosis sanitarium
which the governor previously We
toed, and $250,000 for n water and
light plant, which he approved, but
will not use; the total deductions
from appropriations are $2,253,OS4.