Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1909-12-22
DEMOCRATIC
MANAGEMENT
State of Colorado is Running
Way Behind in Its Ex-
penSes
LARGE DEFICIT PREDICTED
Legislature Appropriated $3,-
100000. Income Only
$1,250,000.

Denver. Colo, Dec. % Results of
the record-breaking extravaganza OF
the last Democratic Legislature are
now beginning 10 he felt about the
state house. While several Of the exc
cutiye offices are pooh-bahing at the
administration bankruptcy ghost that
has been becoming more persistent in
appearance ever since the legislature
broke appropriation records, it is
noticeable that the financial report
made by Auditor Roady Kenehan and
Treasurer William j. Gallinger. the
men who have charge Of the money,
displays no such optimism, but calls
for a halt among the merry Demo
cratic spenders, if the administration
is to be perpetuated next year.
With only one year of the admins
tration gone and already a cry for
help going up from the men who hold
the states money bags, the warning
does not look as if the men at the
they think of those appropriations
that are yet to be paid.
Auditor Kenehan handed the finan-
! cial report to Governor John F. Shat
roth yesterday and Immediately the
governor and Secretary of State
! Pearce sat ~ and said that the treas
urer and auditor did not know what
they were talking about; that there
was plenty of money for Western
Federation of Miners, vote debts and
others of that stripe.
Huge Deficit is Staring Administra-
tion in the Face.
| The report states that the estimat-
ed revenues for the year 1909 We're
sl,314,S4S; that the collections were
S1,255,93 and that the deficit on the
estimated revenue Is $5S,917.
= The pinch comes because Auditor
Keneham does not believe in drawing
! warrants for money that is not in the
treasury He could draw warrants
and write on them, "To draw per
cent interest from date but this he
will not do, Hence the Home for
Neglected Children and the Gunnison
Normal are whistling in vain for per-
mission to start excavations. This
would mean that the auditor would
| have to draw warrants for them, and
, he will not because he does not see
| how they can get their money at the
present rate of collections.
In the first three classes of appro-
; priations the totals are $3,114,S12 90
: The disbursements to date have been
S1,2S3,970.22. The unpaid balances,
for the first three classes alone,
, amount to s1,S30,S4274, or the state
has yet the largest part of it's appro-
priations on the first three classes to
pay during the next year from the
, revenues of 1910. From the revenues
! of 1910 must come half the expenses
of the last legislature, for the ex-
penses were paid, half from the 1909
and half from the 1910 appropriations.
Had they all been paid from the 1909
:, collections, the state would not have
: had enough money on which to run
|, during the year. After next April the
present administration will receive
n nothing from the inheritance tax, for
j.. all estates have six months in which
), to settle before they can be forced to
: pay their taxes, and the money will
t not be received in time to do the ad-
r ministration any good,
n Fiscal Year Disbursements Have Far
S Exceeded Revenues.
e 1t will be noticed that the collec-
h tions received in the treasurer's Office
for the fiscal year ending December 1
were s1,255,931; that the disburse-
ments for the same period amounted
:. to S1,2S3,97022, or that the disburse-
ments already are almost 100000
e ahead of the receipts for 1909.
The total appropriations were $3,-
2,566.96; the total disbursements to
|. date are $1,2S3 ,97022. The unpaid bal
u ances are s2,22S,596.74.
The INCREASE over the disburse-
ments necessary, balance due on first
second and third class appropriations
/, is $546,S72.52. The future increase to
: cover amounts due on fourth and fifth
~ class appropriations is 1897 1854. The
Il balance due on 1909 and 1910 appro
; priations for which warrants have not
been drawn is S2,22S,596.74.
Shortage of Half Million Indicated fol
Next Year.
i. The estimated revenue for 1910 is
X $1,796, ,0SS43. The shortage on esti
II mated revenue for 1910 therefore i.
e $459.5oS.31. as+,..
e. The, warrants issued from Decem
Der 1908. to December 5, 1909, beins
$1.2S3.970.22. and the total collections
If being $1,255,931, the shortage on rev