Gilpin observer., 1909-05-27
LITTLE CHANCE FOR PAYMENT
OF THOSE IN THIRD AND
FOURTH CLASSES.
INCOME IS UNCERTAIN
POSSIBLE SHORTAGE IN EDUCA.
TiONAI BILLS AND HIGHWAY
BILL is HELPLESS.

Denver-The Republican asserts
that according to the final classified
tion of the appropriation bills of the
Seventeenth General Assembly, that
body will go down in history as the
most expensive Legislature in the his
tory of the state. The article goes on
to say:
Governor Shafroth has made his fl
nal classification. But the fourth and
fifth class appropriations will not re-
ceive cent of money, and the third
class will be about $4,000 short.
Yet Governor Shafroth hopes to pay
the first three classes and raised the
estimate of the treasurer of the esti-
mated incomes $12O,00O on the inheri-
tance tax. Even were that added in
come to flow into the Golfers of the
state, it would still leave the third
class appropriations shy of $76,5S1.
But it is by no means certain that the
state will receive this income from the
inheritance tax. The Republican ad-
ministration received the tax from the
Stratton estate too late to do any
good. The Republican Legislature ap-
propriated $1,000,000 less than the
Democratic Seventeenth, yet it fell
short of paying it's appropriations
$4,000. But only on all classes, while
the appropriations of the Seventeenth
will not allow three of the five classes
to be paid. The original estimate for
the Inheritance tax income was $780,
900, to which Governor Shafroth added
$4,000. Yet if the estate of General
Palmer is not settled in the near fu-
ture, the income can do no good in
paying appropriations. and the gov
ernor's estimate cannot be reached
with this estates tax.
According to the figures now in the
hands of the state officers the first
class appropriations amount to S1,409,-
531, including the campaign election
expense bill of $65,449.25, drawn by
the governor himself, and $65,000 ap-
propriated for various investigations.
The appropriations in the second
class amount to $SS4,5 The total of
the two amount to $2,294,079. The to-
tai estimated revenues for current ex-
pense appropriations are $3,196,00O,
from which $30S,0O0 must be taken, be-
cause it belongs to regular funds, such
as the internal improvement fund and
the forestry reserve fund, given by the
government Neither of these funds
can be touched for anything else. This
leaves S2,SSS,O00 for the current ex-
penses and other legislative appropri-
atoms. The total of the bills of the
first and second classes taken from
the amount just given leaves s593,921
to be applied on the payment OF bills
in the third class, known as the educa-
tional bills. But the third class appro-
priations amount to $79O,452, leaving
deficiency in the educational bills of
S196,531.
The last of the educational bills
signed was the Boulder appropriation
for new buildings, amounting to $176,-
900. The Greeley Normal bill for a
practice school there will also fail to
receive some of it's appropriation, pro-
vided the estimated revenues come up
fully to the estimate. The bills in the
fourth class. which will be left out al
together, include the $4,000 highway
commission bill, the $4,000 Pueblo
State Fair appropriation, the 100000
bill for the further protection of game
by placing bounties on savage animals,
all the fish hatchery bills, the travel
ing library bill, the $4,000 for district
and county fairs, and the $4,000 ap-
preparation to protect the waters of
the Rio Grande.
The fifth class bills include the re-
lief bill, the $4,000 Colfax viaduct
bill, the appropriation of $4,000 for the
Trans Mississippi congress, and the
100000 Western Federation Of
Miners bill, which, 1t is said, may yet
find way, instead of all barriers and
classifications. The fourth class ap-
preparations amount to s252, 300, while
the fifth class bills run up to $l40,173.
Besides the appropriations from the
general revenues the Legislature made
the following appropriations from
other funds: Military fund, $500;
capitol building fund, s224,23G; sur
plus. $1,502, and internal Improvement
fund, s171,GS0
G. S. Billheimer, state secretary of