Perth Amboy evening news., 1909-03-01
MAKE REPORT
ON FINANCES
Ioint Committee of the Leg
isIature Had Meeting in
New York Saturday.
ABOUT FINISHED LABORs

Trenton, March 1;-If unseen infu
enees do not again shunt it TO one side
the report of the Special Joint Finance
touches today, and be submitted to the
Legislature tonight or tomorrow.
At a secret meeting of the committee
held in the Offices Of Senator Joseph s.
Frelinghuysen in New York Saturday
the report was practically agreed upon,
and it is believed this final understand.
ing will not materially differ from a
rough draft which was prepared several
days ago.
The committee will not report affirma-
lively on Governor Fort proposal to
change the 1906 tax law by increasing
from half of one per cent to three
quarters of one per cent, the portion of
the tax upon main stem railroad proper
ty for general state uses. This fact,
said to be certainty, is regarded as q
victory for the Influences that have
been at work to prevent the carrying
out of tho governors recommendations.
Chief among those influences have been
the Junior Order Of American Mechan-
les as body, and former Governor r..
G. Stokes and Senators Joseph Freling-
huysen and Thomas j. Hillery as is
dividuals.
The report of the committee will en-
brace the proposition that about $780,
600 a year that is now appropriated
from the state fund to take care of GER
tain educational work shall be provid-
ed for out of the main stem railroad
tax. This includes about 100000 for
maintenance for the state normal school
at Trenton; something like $4,000 for
state students at Rutgers College; about
$50, 900 for the maintenance of the state
school for the deaf; from $4,000 to
$35 900 for the maintenance of the new
state normal school at Uontclair, and
about $4,000 a year for the mainten-
ance of the colored school at Borden
town. Also included are the salaries of
the twenty-one county superintendents
of schools, each of which is $4,000, or
$44, 900 in all.
There is another item, amounting to
upward of 100000, which is to be di-
verted for the present year only from
school purposes and turned into the
state fund. This is a portion of the
main stem tax for 1907 which, because
of litigation and delay over its collec-
tion, has never been included in the ap-
portionments made by the state to the
various school districts. The items
above mentioned win give the state sd-
ditional revenue for the present year OF
$780, 900. In addition, it is proposed to
amend this years appropriation bill by
cutting out items aggregating some
where between $150,000 and 100000.
The principal revenue from this source
will be the conversion to general state
funds of about $125,000 of automobile
license money that it was originally pro-
vided should be distributed among the
repair roads. Another pro-
posal in the report viii be to cut down
by $40, 900 the annual appropriation for
the Sea Girt encampment of the Ma
tional Guard. Still other proposals in
clude the consolidation Of the State La
bor Bureau and the Bureau of Labor
Statistics, and the saving thereby Of
the salaries of one commissioner and
one deputy, the reduction of the appro-
priation to the travelling Library COM
from $1,000 to $500, the cut
ling, down of the salaries Of the state
water supply board and clerk to the ex-
Tent OF $1,000 year, the abolishing OF
high school inspectors and the wiping
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