The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-08-09
STATE TAX
 OR DEFICIT Revenues of Commonwealth Millions Less Than Ap-
 propriations Made NEW DEATH TAX
 DROP IN BUCKET Will Increase Income but $25O, 900 and $3,0O0,0 ,0O0
 Is Needed Bond Issue Proceeds May Be Used to Meet Run
 ming Expenses

Be Used to Meet Run
 ming Expenses
 Special to the F'armer)
 Hartford, Aug. 9.-The State of Con- necticut will run from s2,o0o.0o0 to ss'- 0eo, 600 behind during the next two years as a result of the freedom with which appropriations have been made by the present Legislature. Not only that, but only one method of increas- ing the revenues of the State has as yet been authorized. The increased inheritance tax will bring in about double the revenue averaged from the present tax, which is around $260.oO0. The present tax of 1-2 and per cent. has figured as high as $450,000 in a sim gle year not long since, but the aver age is nowhere near this; perhaps the new rate of 1 and 5 per cent. may bring in more than a half million in some single year, but hardly on the average.
 Meantime, the State tax of 1-2 mill on the grand lists of 1909 and 1910 is hanging fire at the foot of the calen- dar in the Senate and has, to keep 1t company, the new personal tax desired by Commissioner Corbin, which has passed the House and will, If It De- comes a law. produce a revenue per haps $200,000 larger annually than the total amount collected now on poll and military taxes. The latter would mean an increase in State revenues, but the State tax is intended merely to offset the drain on the treasury to be caused by the redemption of $800. 900 or $500 900 worth of State bonds next year. It is possible, however. that ii the State tax escapes the wetghty op- position to 1t that exists, and passes at all it may be increased to per cent. in view of the financial outlook before the State.
 To begin with the present Legisla- ture started it's session with g. treasury deficiency of close to $S0o00o owing to the fact that State Treasurer Patten didn't issue any of the $6,500,0o bond issue authorized by the Assembly of 1907 to pay for good roads, the new State armory and arsenal and the new State library and Supreme court build ing. This has been more than offset by the repeal of the former bond Jaw and it's replacement by one providing for $7.ooo, 900 of bonds, q half million of the proceeds of which is to simply be placed in the treasury to the credit of running expenses. Only a million of these bonds has thus far been is- sued.
 Aside from this deficit, the Legisla- ture also faced the fact that soon the running expenses of the two new buil6 ings and the interest on the big bond thousands year and that the appro- prfations for the completion of the buildings would not be sufficient with in from &3o0.o00 to $4oo,000. This, extra State expenses which have been provided for during the session. Near ay every State department has asked larger appropriations for its running expenses and where these could not be shown to be warranted, the officials have played politics until in most cases they got them. The salaries Of the adjutant general and his staff and the commissioner and his deputy. the commissioner on domestic animals, the bank commissioners, the State Hbrar- ian and others have been raised; in factory inspectors office, though the subject oK much criticism, have been authorized; the administrative ex- penses of the State Highway depart there is to be an assistant attorney general at a salary of $s.ooo a year.
 Less calls on the State treasury from officials outside of purely State offic- ials than in some sessions have been the rule, but there have been increases in court and other expenses authorized to some extent It was supposed that the State was to get rid of the building and loan commissioner, but the pros poets for the abolition of this salary of $2,500 and other expenses of the office seem not as good now. The office of school fund commissioner has been abolished, but this seems little or no saving to the State, for Deputy Treas urer Marsh merely adds the duties and emoluments of the office to his other responsibilities.
 Early in the session the ultimatum s'No armories" went forth, but armor- ies have been authorized at Stamford and Torrington, and the Danielson arnory is to be purchased at a com bined cost of about $150,000. More than $1CO.OOO of hospital appropria tions outside the regular biennial appropria- tions for running expenses have been made. The two insane hospitals, the Connecticut Agricultural College and the State Normal schools account for considerably ever a half a million more of new expenses, to say nothing of in- creased Appropriations for running ex- penses.
 Added to this are the extraordinary projects: which are less expensive than well up towards a million dollars. Chief of these in expense is the new State reformatory at a cost of $400,- 900 and the expenses of the commis- sion. Then there is the anti-tuber- culosis crusade, at cost of $175,o00 homes, $75,0O0 for running expenses for two years at the expense of the com mission. Two trade schools will cost $50 1000. State epileptic colony s25. 900. monument to General Sedgwick S25,- 900, new building for the Mystic Despite an effort to keep expenses down this Legislature will be known as very liberal in it's appropriations.
 NEW BRITAIN BOY DROWNED.
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