The Springdale news., 1909-05-25
DONAGHEY USES AK ON
 APPROPRIATION BILLS.
Will EndeavOr to Conduct Affairs
 on Cash Basis.

.stth'N aN3&hf AhA nj .'ta Fs Governor Donaghey, Auditor lobe and State Treasurer Yates held long conference in the gov ernor's office this morning, going over the various appropriation bills passed by the last legislature with q view of cutting down the amounts wherever pruning can be done. As stated in these dis patches the governor has decided to reduce the appropriations sev- eral hundred thousand dollars in order to meet the states militia bill and the appropriation for the various state charitable institu- tions will be reduced consider ably. As the governor has found way in which to reduce the appropriations in the blind school, insane asylum and deaf mute institute without erippling the institutions at all. The militia bill carries an appropria- tion of S25, 900, half of which amount will be eliminated by the governor. Under the law the governor can veto any particular item i'll the appropriation bills and leave intact what lie eonsid- CTS necessary. It is possible that tue governor may cut the militia bill so as To eliminate the salar- les of all the officers, with the exception of the clerk, filled by r.. E. Jett. and tie rent of the armory. It is practically settled that nothing will be done for some time to come in the erection of the four agricultural schools. tuberculosis Sanitarium and in- sane asylum annex authorized by the last legislature. This will mean a saving to the state of S390, 900, as that amount was ap- propriated by the legislature to put into effect the institutions mentioned. Governor Douaghey says he proposes to handle the appropriation bills just as good business man would would man. age his private affairs. ID other words, he proposes to keep a good cash balance on hand in the state treasury so long as he is governor of the state.
 Gov. Donaghey this afternoon prepared list of appropriations made by the last legislature which are still awaiting his ap- proyal. This list contains bills to which the governor must apply the pruning knife in order to con- form with the states income for the next two years. Gov. Don- aghey says he has decided to eliminate items amounting 10 nearly S30o,00O. The other ap- propriation bills passed by the legislature were signed by the governor before final adjourn ment.
 The bills from which the gov ernor will make the quarter of million reductions are as fol- lows:Dear mute institute, $1s2,- l22; agricultural bill, Sl54, 900; militia, 525, 500: Confederate home, 500, ,279; insane asylum, S40S, 529.85; branch normal at Pine Bluff. S19, 800; state normal, S96, 900; state reform school, S35, ,205; penitentiary, sS45, ,sS0; blind school, Sl0S, 220. Total Sl ,062, BPS. 3s.
 Little Rock. Ark, May 2O.-- Governor Donag hey and the State Board of Charitable Institutions this afternoon agreed upon a cut of $40, 900 on four bills carrying the biennial appropriations for the maintenance of the Arkansas School for the Blind, the State Hospital for Nervous Diseases and the Deaf-Mute Institute, and the bill appropriating S200,OO0 for the establishment of new insane asylum.
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